STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Five-mile Beach Gold-extraction Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 16th June, 1913.
Whether in active operation or not: Not in active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: 37 Panama Street, Wellington; Frederick Henry Irwin.
Nominal capital: £20,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £16,305.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £7,727 2s.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): No scrip issued.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £7,000 in fully-paid-up shares allotted to vendors; no scrip issued.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 20,000.
Number of shares allotted: 16,305.
Amount paid per share: £1, less calls in arrear.
Amount called up per share: £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: 41; £1,577 18s.
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: 60.
Present number of shareholders: 75.
Number of men employed by company: Nil.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: Nil.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: Nil.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £97 8s. 9d.
Total expenditure since registration: £6,203 12s. 4d.

Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: £284 16s.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company: £717 16s. (calls in arrear).
Amount of debts owing by company: Bank overdraft, £1,745 5s. 9d.; sundries, £1,071 3s. 3d.; total, £2,816 9s.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Debenture, £4,000.

I, Frederick Henry Irwin, of Wellington, the Secretary of the Murray Creek Gold-mining 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.
F. H. IRWIN, Secretary.
declared at Wellington this 31st day of January, 1917,
before me—Jas. B. Speed, J.P.

KIWITEA COUNTY COUNCIL.

WAITUNA COTTAGE LOAN.—RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by the Counties Act, 1908, and amendments thereto, the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and of every other power and authority in that behalf enabling it, the Kiwitea County Council hereby resolves as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £350, authorized, with the consent dated the 18th day of March, 1916, of the ratepayers of that part of the district affected by such consent (being the Ongo Riding), to be raised by the Kiwitea County Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, by a resolution by way of special order of the said Council adopted on the 19th day of February, 1916, and confirmed on the 18th day of March, 1916, for the purpose of providing the cost of purchase of Lots 21, 22, and 23, Village of West Waitapu, Block XV, Ongo S.D., together with the buildings erected thereon, for the purpose of using same for a roadman's dwelling, the said Kiwitea County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fortieth of one penny in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property of the said Ongo Riding; and that such special rate shall be an annually 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 the said loan, being a period of ten years, or until the said loan is fully paid off.

We hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a resolution passed at a special meeting of the Kiwitea County Council held on the 21st day of October, 1916.

ARTHUR E. PEARCE, Chairman.
L. J. VERRY, County Clerk.

DANNEVIRKE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE MADE AT A MEETING HELD ON THE 12TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1917.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £350 (three hundred and fifty pounds), authorized to be raised by the Dannevirke County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of metalling portions of the Blairgowrie Block Road, commencing at its intersection with the main Napier Road, and terminating at the Manga-te-wainui River, a distance of 210 chains (more or less), the said Dannevirke County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of five-sixteenths of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Blairgowrie Special-rating District, comprising Sections 1 of Blocks VI and X, 2 Block X, 3 Block X, 4 Block X, 5 Block X, 6 Block X, 7 Block X, 8 of Blocks VI and X, 9 of Block VI, all in the Norsewood Survey District; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a half (36½), or until the loan is fully paid off.

I, Frederic George Cowper, Chairman of the Dannevirke County Council, hereby certify that the above is a true copy