Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3057

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any):
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 2,800.
Number of shares allotted: 2,800.
Amount paid per share: £1.
Amount called up per share:
Number and amount of calls in arrear:
Number of shares forfeited: 535.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: 535;
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 9.
Present number of shareholders: 9.
Number of men employed by company: 2.
Quantity and value of gold produced since last statement: 63 oz. 14 dwt. 6 gr.; £245 15s. 7d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: 2,128 oz. 16 dwt. 17 gr.; £7,694 9s. 6d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £517 17s. 1d.
Total expenditure since registration: £9,000.
Total number of dividends declared: 1.
Total number of dividends paid: 2.
Total number of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand:
Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £419 12s. 1d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): £4.

I, John E. Simes, of Matakanui, the Secretary of the Mount Morgan Sluicing Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company on the 31st December, 1916; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

JOHN ERNEST SIMES.

Declared at Matakanui this 9th day of July, 1917, before me—T. Duggan, J.P.

474

NOTICE UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT.

IT is hereby notified that Mr. H. E. LONSDALE having purchased all the shares in Lonsdale Bros. & Co. (Ltd.) under deed of transfer registered 14th day of July, 1917, the business has ceased to be carried on as a company from that date, and will in future be carried on by the said H. E. LONSDALE under the name of “Lonsdale Bros. & Co.”

LONSDALE BROS. & Co. (LTD.).
Christchurch, 14th July, 1917.

469

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the North Taranaki Hunt Club at a meeting held on the twelfth day of July, 1917, at Motonui, with a recommendation by the Chairman of the Club, Mr. B. H. Chaney, that the same be passed at once with a view to their approval by the Governor-General, in pursuance of the Gaming Act, 1908, section 33.

Mr. B. H. Chaney, the Chairman of the Club and the Meeting, moved, and Mr. W. Hookham seconded, and it was resolved, that such regulations should be adopted, and that the Chairman be authorized to sign the same in authentication thereof.

The following are the regulations referred to:—

NORTH TARANAKI HUNT CLUB.
REGULATIONS.
(Under the Gaming Act, 1908.)

In pursuance and exercise of the powers in that behalf contained in section 33 of the Gaming Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities it enabling in that behalf, the North Taranaki Hunt Club, a racing club within the meaning of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said club”), doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the racecourse situate in the District of Taranaki, and known as the Taranaki Jockey Club’s Racecourse, while the said racecourse is used or occupied by the said club for race meetings:—

1. In these regulations the words “bookmaker,” “racing club,” and “race meeting” shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms by section 2 of the Gaming Act, 1908.

2. The following persons shall be and are hereby excluded from the racecourse above described while the same is used or occupied by the said club for a race meeting, namely:—
   (a.) Bookmakers.
   (b.) All persons under disqualification inflicted by any racing club in the Dominion of New Zealand, the Commonwealth of Australia, or elsewhere, if affiliated to the New Zealand Racing Conference.
   (c.) Common prostitutes, and persons who habitually consort with thieves or with persons who have no lawful visible means of support.

The foregoing regulations of the North Taranaki Hunt Club were made and passed by the members of the North Taranaki Hunt Club on the twelfth day of July, 1917, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

B. H. CHANEY, Chairman.
E. L. HUMPHRIES, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the North Taranaki Hunt Club are hereby approved this 19th day of July, 1917.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

470

APPROVAL OF TELEPHONE BY-LAWS OF WAIPARA COUNTY COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the Country Telephone-lines Act, 1912, I, Joseph George Ward, Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, hereby approve of the by-laws relating to country telephone-lines made by the Waipara County Council on the 30th day of June, 1917.

Dated this 24th day of July, 1917.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

471

TE PUKE LAND DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

THE resolution making a special rate of twopence (2d.) in the pound (£) on the unimproved value of the land in the special-rating area consisting of Section Thirty-seven (37) and Lot Three (3) of Section Thirty-six (36), Block Two (2), Maketu Survey District, and of Section Two (2) and Block Four (4), Te Tumu Survey District, was passed on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1917, and confirmed on the second day of June, 1917.

L. E. BAYLISS, Chairman.

472

A. & J. MCFARLANE (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of the members of A. & J. McFarlane (Limited) duly convened and held at Express Company Buildings, Dunedin, on the twelfth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, 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 Messrs. J. LOUDON, J. MCFARLANE, and C. TILBURN be and they are hereby appointed Liquidators for the purpose of such winding-up, and that the Liquidators remuneration is not to exceed 2½ per cent. on realization.”

Dated this twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

J. LOUDON, Chairman.

473

WESTERN TAIERI LAND DRAINAGE BOARD.
RESOLUTION MAKING A SPECIAL RATE.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that at a special meeting of the Western Taieri Land Drainage Board held in the Board’s office, Mosgiel, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of June, 1917, the following resolution was carried:—

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Taieri Land Drainage Act, 1910, the Taieri Land Drainage Act, 1912, the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916, the Land Drainage Act, 1908, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Western Taieri Land Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows,—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £850, authorized to be raised by the Western Taieri Land Drainage Board, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of repairing the damage caused by flood in June, 1916, the said Western Taieri Land Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate on