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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 150

ADVERTISEMENTS.

COMPANIES ACT 1908, SECTION 266.

NEW KOHINOOR GOLD-DREDGING COMPANY (LIMITED).

TAKE notice that the name of the above company will, at the expiration of three months from the date hereof, unless cause be shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register, and the company will be dissolved.
Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this 27th day of September, 1917.

J. MURRAY,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, carrying on business as General Merchants at Rakaia, under the style or firm of “Featherstone and Pye,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by JOHN PYE, who will continue to carry on the said business under the style or firm of “J. Pye and Co.”
Dated the 22nd day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

CHARLES EDWIN FEATHERSTONE.
JOHN PYE.

Witness to the signatures of Charles Edwin Featherstone and John Pye—A. J. Magson, J.P., Farmer, Rakaia.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of NEW ZEALAND RUBBER-AIR COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the creditors of the above-named company are required on or before the twelfth day of October, 1917, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to WILFRID STUART GODFREY, of 100 Hereford Street, Christchurch, the Liquidator of the said company; and, if so required by notice in writing from the said Liquidator, are personally or by their solicitors to come in and prove their said debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts or claims are proved.
Dated this twenty-seventh day of September, 1917.

GARRICK, COWLISHAW, ALPERS, AND NICHOLLS,
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Solicitors to the Liquidator of the Company.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Waihi Grand Junction Gold Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 22nd December, 1897.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Waihi and Auckland; Edwin Septimus King.
Where mine is situate: Waihi.
Nominal capital: £400,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £385,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: £40,494 14s.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: Nil.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as 15s. paid up: £112,500.
(c.) In cash: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 400,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 217,284.
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: 1,212.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 394.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced during the period since last statement: £222,736 1s. 1d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £1,459,589 18s. 1d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £139,077 13s. 11d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £1,383,279 9s. 9d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £101,966 11s.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £50.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £20.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £7 3s. 6d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £7 3s. 6d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £5,002 17s. 1d.

I, Edwin Septimus King, the Attorney of the Waihi Grand Junction Gold 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 31st December, 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.

E. S. KING.

Declared at Waihi this 27th day of September, 1917, before me—W. H. Toy, J.P.
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WELLINGTON DAIRY (LIMITED).
A PRIVATE COMPANY REGISTERED UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

AT a general meeting held on the 22nd day of August, 1917, the following resolution was passed, and the minute-book signed by all the shareholders in the company:—
“That the Wellington Dairy (Limited), having disposed of its business, be wound up voluntarily; and that Mr. ARTHUR JAMES PETHERICK, Public Accountant, of Wellington, be and is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of winding up the company.”

ARTHUR PETHERICK, Liquidator.
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MASTERTON COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 Masterton County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £1,100, authorized to be raised by the Masterton County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for constructing an additional reservoir and filter-bed, restoring the existing mains to their full delivering capacity, and paying off the outstanding liability amounting to £265 10s. 7d. on the original loan, all in connection with the Lansdowne High-pressure Water-supply, the said Masterton County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixth of a penny in the pound on the capital rateable value of the Lansdowne Water-supply District described in the special order made by the Masterton County Council on the 8th day of June, 1905, and confirmed on the 13th day of July following, constituting the said district, and in the special order made on the 16th day of May, and confirmed on the 13th day of June, 1911, enlarging the said district; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of February and the first day of August 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.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Masterton was hereto affixed at the office of and pursuant to a resolution of the Masterton County Council, in the presence of—

W. J. WELCH, Chairman.
F. G. MOORE, Clerk.

I certify the foregoing to be a true extract from the minutes of the proceedings at a duly convened and constituted meeting of the Masterton County Council held on the 11th day of September, 1917.

F. G. MOORE, County Clerk.
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In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the MANGAMAHU MOTOR COMPANY (LIMITED), in Liquidation.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of shareholders of the Mangamahu Motor Company (Limited) will be held at the offices of Messrs. Fairburn and Silk, 52 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, on Wednesday, 17th day of October, 1917, at 2.30 p.m.

BUSINESS.—To receive the Liquidator’s accounts and his report thereon.

E. M. SILK, Liquidator.

Wanganui, 27th September, 1917.
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