Feb. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 609

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £2,750.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 6,500, at £1 each.
Number of shares allotted: 6,500.
Amount paid up per share: £1.
Amount called up per share: £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.
Number of shares forfeited: Nil.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 47.
Present number of shareholders: 59.
Number of men employed by company: 10.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 684 oz. 7 dwt. 19 gr.; £2,649 1s. 9d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: 684 oz. 7 dwt. 19 gr.; £2,649 1s. 9d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £4,005 10s. 6d.
Total expenditure since registration: £6,833 18s. 9d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £500.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, William Arthur Rundle, of Greymouth, the Secretary of Murray’s Freehold Gold-dredging Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at the present date; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

W. A. RUNDLE,
Secretary.

Declared at Greymouth this 9th day of February, 1916, before me—W. R. Kettle, J.P.
205

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: The Komata Reefs Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office in New Zealand: 16th October, 1900.
Whether in active operation or not: Not in active operation.
Where business is conducted: 60 Shortland Street, Auckland.
Name of attorneys: H. W. Hopkins and T. F. Wallace.
Where mine is situate: Komata.
Nominal capital: £40,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £40,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: Not known.
Price paid to vendors of mine: (a) in fully paid up shares, 7 shares; (b) in partly paid up shares credited as 4s. 3d. paid up, 399,993 shares; (c) in cash, £6,109 2s. 10d. (Capital reduced 15th December, 1914.)
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 800,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand register: 220,800.
Amount paid up per share (New Zealand register): 1s.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand register): 1s.
Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand register): Nil.
Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand register sold: Nil.
Number of shareholders on New Zealand register: 422.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 5.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: Gold, 287 oz.; £1,138 17s. 10d. Silver, 693 oz.; £55 9s. 1d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of company in New Zealand: Gold, 77,797 oz.; silver, 363,782 oz.; £372,312 14s. 5d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £1,010 0s. 2d.
Total expenditure since registration in New Zealand: £329,392 7s. 9d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £7,466 15s. 2d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £413 12s. 3d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: Nil.

I, Thomas Frederick Wallace, of Auckland, one of the attorneys of the Komata Reefs Gold-mining Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 30th day of June, 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.

T. F. WALLACE.

Declared at Auckland this 19th day of February, 1916, before me—Thornton Jackson, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
206

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, WELLINGTON DISTRICT.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of the Totara Leather Company (Limited), a company incorporated in England but carrying on business in New Zealand, and in the matter of a petition bearing date the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, presented to this Honourable Court by John Holt, of Hastings, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, Timber-merchant, and Robert Holt, of Napier, in the said provincial district, Timber-merchant, praying that the Totara Leather Company (Limited) may be wound up by this Honourable Court under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908.—Tuesday, the eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, before the Honourable Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice.

UPON reading the petition of John Holt, of Hastings, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, timber-merchant, and Robert Holt, of Napier, in the said Provincial district, timber-merchant, creditors of the above-named Totara Leather Company (Limited), which petition bears date the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and was presented to this Honourable Court on the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen; and upon reading the motion paper filed herein and the affidavits of the said John Holt and Robert Holt, verifying the said petition, and the affidavits of Edward Heathcote Williams, John Augustus Fraser, and Charles Christian Andrew Ibbetson, sworn and filed herein; and upon hearing Mr. Gray, K.C., of counsel for the petitioners, and with the consent of Edward Heathcote Williams, of Hastings, aforesaid, solicitor attorney in New Zealand for the said Totara Leather Company (Limited), as shown in the said affidavit of the said Edward Heathcote Williams, and the Court dispensing with the advertisement of the said petition:

It is ordered that the said Totara Leather Company (Limited) be wound up by this Court under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908, and that the petitioners’ costs of and incidental to the said petition be paid out of the assets of the said company.

By the Court.

JAMES JORDAN,
Deputy Registrar.
194

In the matter of R. D. Barford and Co. (Limited), (in Liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given that at a general meeting of R. D. Barford and Co. (Limited), duly convened and held on the sixteenth day of February, 1916, the subjoined resolutions were duly passed and confirmed, viz.:

1. That it is proved to the satisfaction of the company that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same.

2. That Henry Alexander Wunsch, of Palmerston North, settler, be appointed sole liquidator.

Dated this sixteenth day of February, 1916.

H. A. WUNSCH,
Liquidator.
195

NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908, and in the matter of the widening of Paynter’s Lane, and in the matter of parts Section 92 and Native Reserve No. 18, Fitzroy District, and part Section 54, Chilman Township.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of New Plymouth proposes to take 14 perches and 8·5 perches, parts of the above-mentioned Section No. 92, and 14·8 perches,