APRIL 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1205

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company : Hohonu Diamond Terrace Gold-mining and Water-race Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand : 8th June, 1914 ; 7th January, 1915.

Whether in active operation or not : In active operation.

Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney : Hokitika ; James Park.

Where mine is situate : Hohonu.

Nominal capital : £25,000.

Amount of capital subscribed : £22,500.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand : £3,644.

Price paid to vendors of mine—

(a.) In fully paid-up shares : 20,000 held by company pending settlement.

(b.) In cash : £5,000.

Number of shares into which capital is divided : 100,000.

Number of shares on New Zealand Register : Nil.

Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register) : Nil.

Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register) : Nil.

Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand Register) : £570.

Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same : Nil.

Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register : Nil.

Number of men employed by company in New Zealand : Average of about ten men.

Quantity and value of gold produced since last statement : 178 oz. 23 dwt. 14 gr. ; £700 11s. 7d.

Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand : 348 oz. 4 dwt. 23 gr. ; £1,365 2s.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement : £4,216 0s. 8d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand : £11,359 17s. 5d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand : Nil.

Amount of cash in Bank of New Zealand : Nil.

Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand : Nil.

Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand : £1,270.

Amount of such debts considered good : £1,270.

Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand : £150.

I, James Park, of Hokitika, Attorney of the above-named company, do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 21st day of December, 1916, being, I believe, 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.

JAMES PARK, Attorney.

Declared at Hokitika this 29th day of March, 1917, before me—H. L. Michel, J.P.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company : Komata Reefs Gold-mining Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand : 16th October, 1900.

Whether in active operation or not : Not in active operation.

Where business is conducted, and names of Attorneys : Auckland ; Herbert William Hopkins and Thomas Frederick Wallace.

Where mine is situate : Mine and machinery sold.

Nominal capital : £40,000.

Amount of capital subscribed : £40,000.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand : Not known.

Price paid to vendors of mine—

(a.) In fully paid-up shares : 7.

(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as 4s. 3d. paid up : 399,993 shares.

(c.) In cash : £6,109 2s. 10d.

(Capital reduced, 15th December, 1914.)

Number of shares into which capital is divided : 800,000.

Number of shares on New Zealand Register : 217,800.

Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register) : 1s.

Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register) : 1s.

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 : 375.

Number of men employed by company in New Zealand : None.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement : None.

Total quantity and value produced since registration of company in New Zealand : 77,797 oz. gold, 363,782 oz. silver ; £372,312 14s. 5d.

Amount expended in New Zealand since last statement : £136 11s.

Total expenditure since registration of company in New Zealand : £329,528 18s. 9d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand : £7,266 13s. 2d.

Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand : £8 17s. 5d.

Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand : Nil.

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, Thomas Frederick Wallace, of Auckland, one of the Attorneys of the Komata Reefs Gold-mining 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 30th day of June, 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.

T. F. WALLACE,

One of the Attorneys of the Komata Reefs Gold-mining Company (Limited).

Declared at Auckland this 29th day of March, 1917, before me—Thornton Jackson, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

COOK COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL RESOLUTION MADE ON 16TH DAY OF MARCH, 1917.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Cook County Council hereby resolves as follows :— That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £400, authorized to be raised by the Cook County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for metalling part of Taurau Valley Road from the centre of the boundary of Section 4 to the centre of the boundary of Section 8, Block XII, Patutahi S.D., the said Cook County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of two-farthings in the £l upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Taurau Valley Special-rating District, comprising Sections 7, 8, 9, and 3A, Block XII, Patutahi 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 a period equal to the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years, or until the loan is fully paid off. The rate of interest to be four pounds ten shillings per cent.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Cook was hereto affixed in the presence of—

F. J. LYSNAR, Chairman.

JOHN WARREN, Clerk.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A WATER-RACE.

UNDER THE MINING ACT, 1908.

To the Warden of the Hauraki Mining District at Thames.

PURSUANT to the Mining Act, 1908, the undersigned, Zeehan Consolidated (Limited), of Auckland, Miners, hereby applies for a license for a water-race, as specified in the Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.

Precise time of marking out privilege applied for : 26th February, 1917, at 3.30 p.m.

Date and number of miner's right : 6th March, 1917; No. 103626.

Address for service : C/o Edwin Clendon, Solicitor, Thames.

Dated at Thames this 6th day of March, 1917.

Schedule.

Locality of the race and of its starting and terminal points : Puru Creek, in Block XIV, Hastings Survey District.