JULY 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2557

RECONSTRUCTION OF COMPANY.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY OF AUSTRALASIA (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia (Limited) is being reconstructed, and will voluntarily cease to do business in New Zealand on the first day of November, 1916.

DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY OF AUSTRALASIA (LIMITED),
By its Attorney,
J. B. BRINSDEN.

With reference to the above notice a new company called the “Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia (Limited)” has been incorporated, and will take over all the assets and liabilities of the old company. The new company proposes to carry on business in the Dominion of New Zealand at Number 95 Courtenay Place, in the City of Wellington, and at 116 Worcester Street, Christchurch.

Dated this 7th day of July, 1916.

DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY OF AUSTRALASIA (LIMITED),
By its Attorney,
J. B. BRINSDEN.

Witness—Leonard O. H. Tripp, Solicitor, Wellington. 459

DENNISTON CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY (LIMITED).
IN LIQUIDATION.

A GENERAL meeting of the members of the Denniston Co-operative Society (Limited), (in Liquidation) will be held at the Odd Fellows’ Hall, Denniston, on Thursday, 10th August, 1916, at 7.30 p.m.

BUSINESS.—To receive the Liquidator’s account of the winding-up; and to determine by extraordinary resolution the method of disposal of the books, papers, and documents of the society and of the Liquidator thereof.

A. W. MILLS,
Liquidator.

Westport, 19th July, 1916. 479

HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

NO. 11 SPECIAL-RATING AREA.—WAINUIOMATA BRIDGE.—RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE IN RESPECT OF 10 PER CENT. ADDITIONAL ON LOAN OF £500.

In the matter of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and its amendments, and regulations thereunder.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of fifty pounds (£50), ten pounds per centum on loan of five hundred pounds (£500), authorized to be raised by the Hutt County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of constructing and erecting a bridge across the Wainuiomata River on the Wainuiomata Road, the said Hutt County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one one-hundred-and-fortieth of a penny (1/140th) in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the No. 11 Special-rating Area (Wainuiomata Bridge) comprising the lands in the said special-rating area, being the several sections and blocks hereinafter enumerated, that is to say:—

Part Allotments 28, 27, 1, 2, 3, Allotments 4 to 36, of Section 21, and part Section 21 and Section 18, Block 14, Belmont S.D.; Sections 19, 7, 6, part Allotments 3, 2, 1, 27, 28, of Section 31, Sections 3, 2, 5, 18, 17, part Sections 25, 27, Harbour District, Sections 41, 4, N.R., 39, E.R., 1, 3, 40, N.R., 42, 4, 5, 43, Block 16, Belmont S.D.; Sections 44, 6, 62, 61, 7, 45, 46, 8, 60, 59, 9, 47, 48, part 49, 10, 58, 57, 56, 55, 11, 12, 13, parts 50, 51, Section 14, Block 1, Pencarrow S.D.; part Sections 77, 78, Block 4, Pencarrow S.D.; Allotments 1A, 1B, 3A, 3B No. 1, 4, 2A, 2B, 20, 3B No. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Parangarahu, Block 8, Pencarrow S.D.; Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Orongorongo, part Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Block B, Orongorongo, part Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Block A, Orongorongo, part Sections 2, 4, 5, Block A, Orongorongo, part Native Reserve, Orongorongo Block, Block 8, Pencarrow S.D.; Sections 83, 22, 21, 20, 19, 98, 52, 17, 18, 101, 75, 15, 16, 53, 54, Block 5, Pencarrow S.D.; Section 84, Block 2, Pencarrow S.D.; Sections 63, 64, 65, 97, 98, 95, 66, 74, 2, 26, 34, part 94, 35, 36, 69, 68, 67, 27, 79, 80, 8, 20, 81, 28, 29, 85, Block 17, Belmont S.D.; Sections 86, 87, 88, 30, 82, 31, 10, 90, 1, 2, 33, 32, 3, 91, 92, 4, part 5, 93, 71, 70, 37, Block 15, Belmont S.D.; Sections 72, 38, 73, part 5, Block 8, Rimutaka S.D.

And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the first day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being for a period of 36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Hutt was hereto affixed on the 11th July, 1916.

JOHN WAKEHAM.
MAURICE WELCH.

I hereby certify that the above resolution was passed by the Hutt County Council at a meeting duly convened for and held on the 11th July, 1916.

H. D. ATKINSON, Clerk. 480

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Talisman Consolidated (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 1904.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney: Karangahake and Auckland; Harry Stansfield.
Where mine is situate: Karangahake.
Nominal capital: £345,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £345,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand:
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 345,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register at 29th February, 1916: 266,922.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): Fully paid.
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 at 29th February, 1916: 1,365.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 270.
Quantity and value of gold and silver produced since last statement: 127,432 oz. 8 dwt.; £161,996 14s. 6d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand, to 29th February, 1916: 3,019,509 oz. 13 dwt.; £2,263,778 8s. 10d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £93,806 13s. 9d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £1,171,876 16s. 7d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £1,035,887 11s.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £2,939 18s. 1d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £50 6s. 1d.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: Nil:
Amount of such debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: Nil.

I, Harry Stansfield, of Karangahake, in New Zealand, the Attorney of the Talisman Consolidated (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 29th day of February, 1916 (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.

H. STANSFIELD,
Attorney.

Declared at Karangahake this 19th day of July, 1916, before me— 481