Mar. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 949

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no
cash has been paid : Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided : 152.
Number of shares allotted : 152.
Amount paid per share : £50.
Amount called up per share : £50.
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 : 13.
Present number of shareholders : 8.
Number of men employed by company : 2.
Quantity and value of gold produced during preceding year :
159 oz. 9 dwt. 18 gr. ; £615 8s. 11d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration :
16,222 oz. 15 dwt. 6 gr. ; £62,522 9s. 7d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations
since last statement : £424 12s. 2d.
Total expenditure since registration : £69,537 4s. 8d.
Total amount of dividends declared : £3,078.
Total amount of dividends paid : £3,078.
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 : £20 13s. 2d.
Amount of debts considered good : £20 13s. 2d.
Amount of debts owing by company : £807 5s. 10d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any) : Nil.

I, William Pyle, Legal Manager of the United M. and E. Water-race Company (Registered), do solemnly and sincerely
declare that this is a true and complete statement of the
affairs of the said company on the 31st December, 1915; and
I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing
the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the
Peace Act, 1908.

WILLIAM PYLE,
Legal Manager.
Declared at St. Bathans this 21st day of March, 1916,
before me--Wm. McConnochie, J.P.

THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1908.
IN pursuance of the provisions of the above-mentioned
Act, the body corporate called the Bay of Islands County
Council hereby gives notice that it intends to acquire for the
purposes of a road the lands respectively described in the
Schedule hereto, and to do all works and things incidental
thereto; and, for the purpose and object of so doing, the
lands described in the Schedule hereto are required and are
proposed to be taken in terms of the said Act; and that a plan
has been prepared and signed by Robert S. Finch, of Whangarei, Licensed Surveyor, showing such land, together with the
names of the owners and occupiers thereof so far as they can
be ascertained; and that a copy of such plan has been deposited in the office of the Bay of Islands County Council in
Albert Street, Kawakawa, and is there open for inspection;
and that all persons affected are hereby required to set forth
in writing any well-grounded objection to the execution of such
works or the taking of such lands, and to send such writing,
within forty days from the first publication of this notice,
to the Clerk, Bay of Islands County Council, Kawakawa.
Dated at Kawakawa this 24th day of March, 1916.

THE SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE areas:
6 acres 2 roods 15 perches, Section 7, Block II, Omapere
Survey District. Coloured pink on plan.
2 acres 2 roods 15 perches, O.L.C. 15, Omapere Survey
District. Coloured purple on plan.
All in the Auckland District.

H. C. BLUNDELL,
Clerk to Bay of Islands County Council.

In the matter of the MANIOTOTO FLOUR-MILLING COMPANY
(LIMITED).
An extraordinary general meeting of the members of
the above-named company duly convened and held
at Ranfurly on the twenty-first day of March, one thousand
nine hundred and sixteen, the following extraordinary resolution was duly passed:-
"That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this meeting
that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue
its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same,
and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily;
and that Mr. HUGH MITCHELL, of Dunedin, Accountant, be

and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such
winding-up."
Dated this twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine
hundred and sixteen.
A. B. ARMOUR,
Chairman.
Witness--T. B. McNeil, Solicitor, Naseby.
PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.
THE Palmerston North Borough Council at a special
meeting held 21st March, 1916, passed the following
resolution making a special rate:
In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that
behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Palmerston
North Borough Council hereby resolves as follows,
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking
fund and other charges on a loan of £5,350, authorized to be
raised by the Palmerston North Borough Council, under the
above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of being applied with
other moneys to pay off the loan of £6,000 raised for the
purpose of protecting the river-bank and widening and
deepening the Kawan Drain, the said Palmerston North
Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of
one-eighteenth of a penny in the pound upon the rateable
value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all the rateable property of the Borough of Palmerston North, comprising
the whole of the Borough of Palmerston North; and that such
special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first
day of June in each and every year during the currency of
the said loan, being a period of six years and one month or
thereabouts--that is to say, until the 20th day of August,
1922, or until the loan is fully paid off.
W. H. COLLINGWOOD,
Town Clerk.

OTANOMOMO RIVER BOARD.
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
Otanomomo River Board hereby resolves as follows:
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £700, authorized to be raised by the
Otanomomo River Board, under the above-mentioned Act,
for the purpose of draining the lands in the special-rating
area hereinafter defined, the said Board hereby makes and
levies a special rate proportioned as follows on all lands in
the said special-rating area--in Class (a), 3d. in the pound;
in Class (b), 4d. in the pound; and in Class (c), 3d. in the
pound, on the unimproved value of all rateable value of said
land, the boundaries of which special-rating area are as
follows : Towards the north by Shaw's Canal, Shaw's Lagoon,
and the protective bank extending from the lagoon to the
Clutha River, towards the east by the Clutha River to the
mouth of the Puerua Stream, towards the south by the
Puerua Stream to the western boundary of the Otanomomo
River District, and towards the west by the said western
boundary to Shaw's Canal, the said special-rating area being
the whole of the Otanomomo River District to the south of
the said canal, lagoon, and protective embankment.
And such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate
during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly
on the 1st day of the months of January and July in every
year, being a period of 36½ years, or until the loan is fully
paid off.
The common seal of the Otanomomo River Board is hereto
affixed this 22nd day of November, 1915.
F. PLEW,
Chairman.
W. PRENTICE,
Clerk.

BONANZA GOLD-MINING COMPANY (NO LIABILITY).
IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.
NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of the
above-named company will be held at the office of
the Liquidator, 31 Shortland Street, Auckland, on Thursday,
27th April, 1916, at 3 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of receiving the final statement of the Liquidator re the winding-up of the company.
HENRY J. LEE, Liquidator.
Auckland, 24th March, 1916.