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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 110

Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney: Head Office, London; New Zealand Office, Reefton; Victor Hartog.

Where mines are situate: Westland Mining District.

Nominal capital: £250,000.

Amount of capital subscribed: £250,000.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: Nil.

Price paid to vendors of mines—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £200,000.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as £1 paid up: Nil.
(c.) In cash: Nil.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 250,000.

Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 32,548.

Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): £1.

Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): £1.

Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand Register): Nil.

Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same: Nil.

Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 132.

Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 207.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 27,096 oz. 18 dwt.; £114,444 15s. 5d. (includes £5,159 17s. 9d., proceeds concentrates sold).

Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 148,769 oz. 13 dwt.; £610,739 10s. 5d.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £77,489 19s. 7d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £439,201 5s. 5d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £11,199 6s.

Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: Nil.

Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil.

Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £474 13s. 8d.

Amount of such debts considered good: £474 13s. 8d.

Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £3,035 14s. 11d.

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I, Victor Hartog, of Reefton, Attorney of the Blackwater Mines (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 31st day of December, 1915 (being the date of the last balance-sheet); and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

V. HARTOG, Attorney.

Declared at Reefton this 20th day of September, 1916, before me—H. P. Lawry, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 22nd January, 1896.

Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.

Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney: Head Office, London; New Zealand Office, Reefton; Victor Hartog.

Where mines are situate: Westland Mining District.

Nominal capital: £250,000.

Amount of capital subscribed: £250,000.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: Nil.

Price paid to vendors of mines—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £17,378.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as £1 paid up: Nil.
(c.) In cash: £43,416 13s. 4d.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 250,000.

Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 57,990.

Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): £1.

Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): £1.

Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand Register): Nil.

Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same: Nil.

Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 191.

Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 105.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 10,250 oz.; £41,577 7s. (includes £867 4s. 6d., proceeds from concentrates sold).

Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £158,390 oz. 7 dwt.; £657,149 1s. 8d.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £38,464 10s. 5d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £836,888 17s. 9d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £12,398 10s. 6d.

Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £3,680 7s. 8d.

Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil.

Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £2,146 19s. 11d.

Amount of such debts considered good: £2,146 19s. 11d.

Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £1,341 8s. 5d.

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I, Victor Hartog, of Reefton, Attorney of the Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 31st day of December, 1915 (being the date of the last balance-sheet); and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

V. HARTOG, Attorney.

Declared at Reefton this 20th day of September, 1916, before me—H. P. Lawry, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and of the South Taranaki Bacon Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the South Taranaki Bacon Company (Limited) duly convened and held at the registered office of the company in London Street, Eltham, on Monday, 4th day of September, 1916, the resolution below mentioned was duly passed, and that at a subsequent extraordinary general meeting of the members of the said company also duly convened and held at the same place on Friday, 22nd September, 1916, the same resolution was duly confirmed as a special resolution:—

“That the company be wound up voluntarily with a view to the sale and disposal of its assets and undertaking by the Liquidators; and that JOHN LINDSAY WEIR and GEORGE FREDERICK TAYLOR be and they are hereby appointed Liquidators for the purpose of such winding-up.”

Dated at Eltham this 23rd day of September, 1916.

J. LINDSAY WEIR,
G. F. TAYLOR,

Liquidators of the South Taranaki Bacon Company (Limited).

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ELTHAM COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Eltham County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

“That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £250, authorized to be raised by the Eltham County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of completing the formation of Karewa Road from end of present formation eastward to Perry’s Homestead, a distance of 43 chains, more or less, the said Eltham County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three-eighths of one penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Karewa Road Special-rating Area, comprising Section 1, Block VIII, Section 4, Block VII, and Sections 9 and 10, Block XI, Omona Survey District respectively; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off.”

Certificate.

The foregoing resolution was duly passed at a properly convened special meeting of the Eltham County Council held on the 13th day of September, 1916.

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W. J. TRISTRAM, County Clerk.

TAUMARUNUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF TAUMARUNUI.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Taumarunui Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—