Total amount of dividends paid : Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank : Nil.
Amount of cash in hand : Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company : Nil.
Amount of debts considered good : Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company : £245 7s. 4d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any) : £85 3s.

I, William Henry Toy, of Waihi, Secretary of the Maori-land Mines (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.
W. H. TOY.
Witness—P. G. Brady, J.P.; 27th April, 1917.

MOUNTAIN RIMU TIMBER COMPANY (LIMITED).
IN LIQUIDATION.

IN accordance with the provisions of section 230 of the Companies Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that a general meeting of the above company will be held at the office of Mr. W. Elliot, B.N.Z. Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland, on Monday, the twenty-first day of May proximo, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of laying before the shareholders an account of how the winding-up has been conducted and the assets of the company disposed of.
GEORGE ELLIOT,
W. B. LEYLAND,
CHARLES RHODES,
H. C. WICK,
Liquidators.
Auckland, 25th April, 1917.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership in the business of Butchers heretofore carried on by the undersigned at Seven Oaks Butchery, Papanui, under the style of “Clarkson and Burborough,” has been dissolved this day by mutual consent. The business will in future be carried on by the undersigned JOHN FRANCIS BURBOROUGH in his own name, and he will pay all liabilities of and receive all moneys owing to the late firm.
Dated this 19th day of April, 1917.
W. C. CLARKSON.
J. F. BURBOROUGH.
Witness to both signatures — W. J. Hunter, Solicitor, Christchurch.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

I, ALEXANDER MARTIN ROSS, Bachelor of Medicine, Univ. of New Zealand, and Bachelor of Surgery Univ. of New Zealand, now residing in Auckland, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 28th May, 1917, next to have my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of New Zealand ; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths at Auckland.
A. M. ROSS.
Dated at Auckland, 27th April, 1917.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned FREDERICK ARTHUR LAWS and SIDNEY JAMES MANNING, carrying on business as Saddlers at Number 69 Courtenay Place, Wellington, under the style or firm of “ Laws and Manning,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the date hereof.
All debts due and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said SIDNEY JAMES MANNING, who will continue to carry on business on his own account at the above-mentioned address.
The said FREDERICK ARTHUR LAWS will carry on business on his own account at Number 31 Courtenay Place, Wellington.
Dated this 30th day of April, 1917.
F. A. LAWS.
S. J. MANNING.
Witness to both signatures—H. W. Hutchings, Clerk to Messrs. Perry, Gill, & Linklater, Solicitors, Wellington.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between HERBERT LATHEY COPPEN and WILLIAM JOHN PRESTNEY, carrying on business as Plumbers, Sheet-metal Workers, and Electricians at New Plymouth, under the style or firm of “Coppen and Prestney,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the thirty-first day of March, 1917.
All accounts owing to the late firm must be paid to the said HERBERT LATHEY COPPEN on or before the lst day of June, 1917; and all accounts against the late firm must be rendered on or before that date to the said HERBERT LATHEY COPPEN, who will carry on the said business under the style or firm of “Coppen & Prestney.”
Dated the 28th day of April, 1917.
H. L. COPPEN.
W. J. PRESTNEY.
Witness to both signatures—P. Hopkins, Law Clerk, New Plymouth.

WESTPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT THE SYSTEM OF RATING ON THE BASIS OF THE UNIMPROVED VALUE.

In the matter of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, the Rating Act, 1908, and the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and the amendments thereof respectively.
HEREBY give public notice that at the poll on the above proposal held on the 25th day of April, 1917, the following votes were recorded : For the above proposal, 467 ; against the above proposal, 345.
I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers for the Borough of Westport held on the 25th day of April, 1917, on the proposal to adopt a system of rating on the basis of the unimproved value, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 467, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 345 ; informal, 30.
I therefore declare the said proposal to be duly carried.
Dated this 27th day of April, 1917.
ARTHUR LEAVER, Mayor.

DISSOLUTION OF INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETY.

SECTION 15 (c) (v), INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT, 1908.
ROGER HARTY BOURKE, Registrar of Industrial and Provident Societies for the District of Nelson, hereby give notice that an instrument of dissolution of the MOTUERE FRUITGROWERS (LIMITED), a society registered under the above Act, has this day been registered by me in pursuance of section 15 (c) (iv) of the said Act, and that unless within three months from the 17th day of May, 1917, a member, or any other person interested in or having any claim on the funds of the society, commences proceedings to set aside the dissolution of the society in the Magistrate's Court in or near to Motueka, being the town in which the registered office of the society is situate, and such dissolution is set aside accordingly, the society shall be legally dissolved from the said 17th day of May, 1917, and the requisite consents to the instrument of dissolution shall be considered to have been duly obtained without proof of the signatures thereto.
Dated at Nelson this 1st day of May, 1917.
R. H. BOURKE, Registrar of Industrial and Provident Societies.

ATIAMURI RIVER LANDS (LIMITED).
IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of the above-named company will be held at the office of the Liquidator, 153-155 Featherston Street, Wellington, on Monday, the 28th day of May, 1917, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of laying before such meeting the Liquidator's account showing his acts and dealings and the manner in which the winding-up of the company has been conducted and its assets disposed of.
Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of May, 1917.
S. ROWLAND HORNBROOK, Liquidator.