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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and the amendments to that Act; and in the matter of the BLUE CREEK GOLD, SILVER, AND LEAD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (LIMITED).

Wednesday, the 27th day of March, 1918.

UPON the petition of Charles John Harley, Percy Bolland Adams, and Noel Percy Adams, all of Nelson, Solicitors, creditors of the above-named company, filed in this Court on the 10th day of December, 1917, preferred unto a Judge of the Supreme Court, and upon hearing counsel for the petitioners, and the company not appearing, and upon reading the said petition, an affidavit of the said petitioners filed the 12th day of December, 1917, an affidavit of Jesse Edward Colechin, and an affidavit of John Hazlitt Upham, both filed on the 19th day of December, 1917, the New Zealand Gazette of the 13th day of December, 1917, and the Christchurch Press and Lyttelton Times newspapers of the 11th day of December, 1917, each containing an advertisement of the said petition, this Court doth order that the said Blue Creek Gold, Silver, and Lead Development Company (Limited) be wound up by this Court under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908.

By the Court.

A. McCARTHY,
Deputy Registrar.

NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED).
TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR, AND AGENCY BRANCH.

In the matter of the New Zealand Insurance Company Trust Act, 1916.

Schedule as at 30th November, 1917.

I, CHARLES FREDERICK THOMAS, Manager, do solemnly and sincerely declare,--

1. That the liability of the members is limited.
2. That the capital of the company is £1,500,000, divided into 150,000 shares of £10 each.
3. That the number of shares issued is 150,000.
4. That calls to the amount of £4 per share have been made, under which the sum of £600,000 has been received.
5. That the amount of all moneys received on account of estates is £174,466 8s.
6. That the amount of all moneys paid on account of estates is £168,959 16s. 4d.
7. That the amount of the balance held to the credit of estates under administration is £5,106 11s. 8d.
8. That the liabilities of the company at the close of its financial year (to wit, the 30th day of November last) were-- Debts owing to sundry persons by the company, viz.-- On judgment: Nil.
   On speciality: Nil.
   On notes or bills: Nil.
   On simple contracts: £60,584 7s.
   On estimated liabilities: £358,000 12s. 10d.
9. That the assets of the company on that day were-- Government securities, New Zealand: £201,997 8s.
   Government securities, British and British Dependencies: £259,995 4s.
   Bills of exchange and promissory notes: Nil.
   Cash at bankers: £130,670 5s. 10d.
   Other securities: £1,039,085 11s. 6d.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

C. F. THOMAS.

Declared at Auckland this 27th day of March, 1918--C. F. Bennett, J.P.

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