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Amount of debts owing by company: Nil.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, Robert Erskine, the Manager of the Ourawera 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.

R. ERSKINE.

Declared at Invercargill this 7th day of January, 1918, before me—Wm. Smith, J.P. 63

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.
Name of company: New Keep-it-Dark Mines (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 31st January, 1917; 26th February, 1917.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Reefton; Richard Floyd Williams.
Nominal capital: £50,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £17,017 10s.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £9,643 8s.
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: £32,982 10s.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 50,000.
Number of shares allotted: 50,000.
Amount paid per share: 17s., less amount outstanding due.
Amount called up per share: 17s.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: 45: £939 2s.
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: 7.
Present number of shareholders: 195.
Number of men employed by company: 40.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: No previous statement.
Quantity and value of gold produced since registration: 922 oz. 19 dwt. 15 gr.; £3,465 14s. 10d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: No previous statement.
Total expenditure since registration: £12,319 18s. 7d.
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: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Calls outstanding, £939 2s.; sundry, £2 11s. 10d.
Amount of debts considered good: £941 13s. 10d.
Amount of debts owing by company: £10,610 7s. 4d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, Richard Floyd Williams, of Reefton, the Secretary of the New Keep-it-Dark 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, 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.

RICHARD F. WILLIAMS.

Declared at Reefton this 11th day of January, 1918, before me—E. J. Scantlebury, J.P. 65

NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING.

WAIRARAPA SAWMILLERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (LIMITED), IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 230 of the Companies Act, 1908, that a general meeting of the members of the above-named company will be held at my office, Perry Street, Masterton, on Thursday, the 31st day of January, 1918, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of having an account laid before them showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator, and also of determining by extraordinary resolution the manner in which the books, accounts, and documents of the company and of the Liquidator thereof shall be disposed of.

Dated at Masterton this 12th day of January, 1918.

G. W. SELLAR, Liquidator.

NEW ZEALAND.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT, 1909.—ADVERTISEMENT OF CANCELLING.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of Friendly Societies has, pursuant to section 70 (2) of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, by writing under his hand dated this fourteenth day of January, 1918, cancelled the registry of the Manakau Lodge, Branch of the Grand Lodge of the North Island of New Zealand of the United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society, Register No. 296, held at Manakau, on the ground that the said branch has ceased to exist.

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R. E. HAYES, Registrar.

MANGONUI COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 Mangonui County Council hereby resolves as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £2,500, authorized to be raised by the Mangonui County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, to form main street and footpaths in Kaitaia Township by forming the road, and footpaths on both sides thereof, from the Courthouse Road to 1½ chains past the junction of the Herekino-Kaitaia Road, and to form road and footpath from there to Waikuku Bridge (footpath on right-hand side), the said Mangonui County Council makes and levies a special rate of 3d. and 1/16th of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the special rating area, comprising portion of the Kaitaia Riding of the Mangonui County, being Sections 17 (hospital site), 65 (domain reserve), part 60, 25, 26, part 29, part 30, part 27, part 21, 15, 16, 1, 2, 3, 4, part 5, part 6, part 10, part 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, part 23, part Old Land Claim 214, part Old Land Claim 7, Agricultural Reserve, School Reserve (all Block V, Takahue Survey District); part Section 29, part 30, part 27, 28, 24, part 21, part 5, part 6, 7, 8, 9, part 10, part 11 (all Block VI, Takahue Survey District); part Puckey's Grant, Old Land Claim No. 214, Woodville, Kaitaia; part Old Land Claim No. 7 (all Block I, Takahue Survey District): comprising a total area of 1,410 acres.

Bounded on the south by other part Section 60 (Crown land), other parts Sections 29 and 30 (Block VI, Takahue Survey District); other part Section 30 (Block V, Takahue Survey District); on the east by the Kaitaia River, Tawhati Block, part Old Land Claim 242 (all Block VI, Takahue Survey District), part Old Land Claim 242, part Section 23, Section 2 of Allotment 23 (all Block V, Takahue Survey District); on the north by part Old Land Claim No. 214 (Block I, Takahue Survey District); on the west by part Old Land Claim No. 214, and part Old Land Claim No. 7 (Block I, Takahue Survey District), and part Old Land Claim No. 7 and Tongonge Kauri-gum Reserve (Block V, Takahue 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 October 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 above resolution is a true copy of and extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the Mangonui County Council as passed at a meeting of the said Council on the twenty-eighth day of November, 1917.

EVA A. FOSTER,

Clerk, Mangonui County Council.

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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Mareburn Gold and Scheelite Mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 18th April, 1914.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Hyde; H. Renfree, 26 Dowling Street, Dunedin.
Nominal capital: £6,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £6,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £5,947 8s.
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: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 6,000.
Number of shares allotted: 6,000.
Amount paid per share: £1.