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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Dunedin; George Arthur Harlow.
Nominal capital: £1,250.
Amount of capital subscribed: £1,250.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £779.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): £471.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 1,250.
Number of shares allotted: 1,250.
Amount paid per share: £1.
Amount called up per share: £1.
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: 58.
Present number of shareholders: 52.
Number of men employed by company: When dredging, 8.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced during preceding year: Nil.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: 2,558 oz. 11 dwt. 18 gr.; £10,016 14s. 2d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £315 5s. 4d.
Total expenditure since registration: £10,076 8s. 3d.
Total amount of dividends declared: £625.
Total amount of dividends paid: £625.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand: £8 6s. 6½d.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £342 19s. 2d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, George Arthur Harlow, of Dunedin, the Secretary of the Good Chance Dredging 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.

G. A. HARLOW, Secretary.

Declared at Dunedin this 8th day of January, 1917, before me—A. Anderson, J.P.
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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Electric Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 2nd September, 1899.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Dunedin; George Arthur Harlow.
Nominal capital: £26,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £26,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: Nil.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): Nil.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £26,000.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 26,000.
Number of shares allotted: 26,000.
Amount paid per share: £1.
Amount called up per share: £1.
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: 19.
Present number of shareholders: 267.
Number of men employed by company: 20.
Quantity and value of gold produced during preceding year: 1,640 oz. 7 dwt.; £6,423 12s. 2d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: 61,928 oz. 19 dwt. 7 gr.; £
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £5,642 8s. 2d.
Total expenditure since registration: £113,829 3s. 6d.
Total amount of dividends declared: £133,900.
Total amount of dividends paid: £133,892 10s.
Total amount of unclaimed and unpaid dividends: £7 10s.
Amount of cash in bank: £3,310 17s. 8d.
Amount of cash in hand: £12 13s. 11½d.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.

Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £419 5s. 1d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, George Arthur Harlow, of Dunedin, the Secretary of the Electric Gold-dredging 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.

G. A. HARLOW, Secretary.

Declared at Dunedin this 8th day of January, 1917, before me—A. Anderson, J.P.
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HOROWHENUA 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 Horowhenua 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 £750, authorized to be raised by the Horowhenua County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of constructing a road and bridge in the Hautere Road Deviation, the said Horowhenua County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-eighth of a penny in the pound (1/8th) upon the rateable capital value of all rateable property of the Hautere Road Deviation Special-rating District, comprising Secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, XII, Kaitawa S.D.; Secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, VIII, Kaitawa S.D.; Secs. 18, 19, 20, V, Taungata; 12, pt. 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, IV, Kaitawa; Secs. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24/37, 43, and pt. 1a and pt. 1b, III, Kaitawa; Secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, IX, Waitohu. And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of June 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.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of a resolution passed at a properly constituted meeting of the Horowhenua County Council held on the eleventh day of November, 1916.

P. W. GOLDSMITH, County Clerk.
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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore carried on by us, the undersigned, HENRY CHARLES ROBJOHNS and WILLIAM HENRY WATSON, at Pakarae, Wairoa, in the trade or business of Sheep-farmers, under the style or firm of “Robjohns and Watson,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent; and that the said business will in future be carried on in his own name by the said HENRY CHARLES ROBJOHNS.

As witness our hands this 23rd day of December, 1916.

HENRY C. ROBJOHNS.
W. H. WATSON.
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In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the LIMESTONE BRICK COMPANY (LIMITED), in Liquidation.

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the above company held at the office of Messrs. Sligo Bros., Stock Exchange Buildings, Dunedin, on Friday, the 22nd December, 1916, the following extraordinary resolution, of which statutory notice had been given, was submitted to the meeting and carried unanimously, viz.:—
“That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the company that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue to carry on its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and that the same be wound up accordingly.”

J. A. SLIGO, Liquidator.

Dunedin, 23rd December, 1916.
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COUNTY OF CLUTHA.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR A ROAD NEAR OLD HOTEL, WAIWERA.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Clutha County Council proposes, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and its amendments, to execute a certain public