COPY of REGISTER OF UNCLAIMED MONEYS held by the NATIONAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED), as on 1st January, 1918.

The National Bank of New Zealand (Limited), General Manager's Office, Wellington, 14th January, 1918.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.
Name of company: Blackwater South Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 2nd November, 1914.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Reefton; Herbert Percival Lawry.
Nominal capital: £42,500.
Amount of capital subscribed: £6,601 10s.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £5,814 9s. 6d.
Subsidy from County Council for track-construction: £27 2s. 6d.
Calls paid in advance: £6 17s. 6d.
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: £22,500.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 85,000 of 10s. each, of which 45,000 shares are deemed to be fully paid up.
Number of shares allotted: Contributing, 13,203; deemed paid up, 45,000.
Amount paid per share: Contributing shares, 9s. 6d.
Amount called up per share: Contributing shares, 9s. 6d.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: 4, £142 11s. 6d.; forfeited shares, £314 7s. 6d.
Number of shares forfeited: 855.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: Contributing, 123; paid-up, 118.
Present number of shareholders: Contributing, 110; paid up, 137.
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: £752 13s. 7d.
Total expenditure since registration: £5,719 7s. 8d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand: Shareholder's cheque, £150.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Unpaid calls, £180 17s. 1d.

Amount of debts considered good: £38 5s. 7d.
Amount of debts owing by company: £140 2s. 4d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, Herbert Percival Lawry, of Reefton, the Secretary of the Blackwater South 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, 1917; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

H. P. LAWRY.

Declared at Reefton this 10th day of January, 1918, before me—L. Hubert Lee, J.P.

MOA ROAD BOARD.
RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Moa Road Board hereby resolves as follows:--
That, for the purpose of providing the instalments of principal, interest, and also the other charges on a loan of £445, authorized to be raised by the Moa Road Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of forming and remetalling Mangaotea Road, the said Moa Road Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny and one-third of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Mangaotea No. 2 Special Rating Area, comprising part Section 26 (containing 30 acres), part Section 27 (containing 44 acres 2 roods), part Section 28 (containing 69 acres 2 roods 11 perches), part Section 32 (containing 73 acres), Sections 33, 34, 35, Block 6, Huiroa 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 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a half, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the above resolution is a true copy of an extract from the minute-book of the Road Board, and that the resolution was passed at a meeting of the Moa Road Board held at Inglewood on Saturday, the 15th day of December, 1917.

ALF. CORKILL, Chairman.