JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1983

I, ERNEST EDWARD CLOWES, Acting-Manager of the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited), do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare,—

1. That the liability of the company is limited.
2. That the capital of the company is £50,000, divided into 10,000 shares of £5 each.
3. That the number of shares issued is 10,000.
4. That calls to the amount of £1 per share have been made, from which the sum of £10,000 has been received.
5. That the amount of money received as executor of estates under administration for the six months to 31st March, 1919, was £2,931 3s. 1d.
6. That the amount of money paid as executor of estates under administration for the six months to 31st March, 1919, was £8,467 14s. 6d.
7. That the amount of money held as executor to the credit of estates under administration was at 31st March, 1919, £4,231 14s. 6d.
8. That the amount remaining in the company’s hands at 31st March, 1919, to the credit of estates for which the company is executor, co-executor, trustee or co-trustee, attorney or agent, which sum is represented by either cash or securities, or both, was £2,500,758 9s. 4d.
9. That the liabilities and assets of the company in terms of its balance-sheet were at 31st March, 1919, as follows:—

Liabilities.

Capital—10,000 shares of £5 each .. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Less £4 per share uncalled 50,000 0 0
40,000 0 0 10,000 0 0
Reserve Fund .. .. .. 10,000 0 0
Balance of profit and loss .. .. 6,856 17 3
£26,856 17 3

Assets.

Mortgages, debentures, and deposits .. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Sundry debtors 18 4 0 24,090 4 9
Office furniture and stationery 180 0 0
Interest and commission accrued 1,047 16 1 1,246 0 1
The National Bank of New Zealand (Limited) current account .. .. 1,520 12 5
£26,856 17 3

STATEMENT OF PROFIT AND LOSS FOR YEAR TO 31ST MARCH, 1919.

Dr.
Directors’ fees, auditors’ fees, rent, expenses, and salaries £ s. d. £ s. d.
Government license fee, and income-tax 3,248 0 6
302 12 10
Office stationery, petty cash, and expenses 263 5 10
Law costs.. 12 12 0 3,826 11 2
Printing and advertising .. 73 14 6
Interim dividend at 10 per cent. per annum for half-year ending 30th September, 1918, paid 500 0 0
Balance (subject to income-tax) .. .. 6,856 17 3
£11,257 2 11

Cr.
Balance from last statement £ s. d. £ s. d.
Less dividend (which, with interim dividend paid, for the half-year ending 30th September, 1917, made 10 per cent. for the year ending 31st March, 1918) 6,403 1 5
Bonus (5 per cent. on £10,000) 500 0 0
Paid Manager’s percentage .. 215 3 0 1,215 3 0
5,187 18 5
Agency and commission 4,733 5 10
Interest and discount 1,335 16 2
Transfer fees 0 2 6 6,069 4 6
£11,257 2 11

TRUST, EXECUTOR, AND AGENCY BUSINESS AT 31ST MARCH, 1919.
Amount at credit of estates, trusts, and clients represented by investments as per contra .. £ s. d.
2,423,736 11 7
Balances at credit of sundry clients’ and trust accounts on current account 77,021 17 9
£2,500,758 9 4

£ s. d. £ s. d.
Mortgages .. 1,089,173 17 3
Debentures .. 725,851 0 0
Shares at company’s valuation 300,163 12 11
Landed property based on land-tax value .. 278,692 11 3
Other securities .. 29,855 10 2 2,423,736 11 7

Balances at debit of sundry clients’ and trust accounts on current account 20,282 16 10
Deposits .. 45,304 3 1
Cash at bankers in company’s trust account and separate bank accounts .. 11,434 17 10 77,021 17 9
£2,500,758 9 4

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

ERNEST EDWARD CLOWES.

Declared this 21st day of June, 1919, before me—Spencer Brent, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTON AND STAPLE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, JOHN EDWARD NOTON and MAURICE LONGLAND STAPLE, carrying on business as Monumental Masons at Whangarei under the style or firm of “Noton and Staple,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the fourth day of June, 1919. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said MAURICE LONGLAND STAPLE, who will continue to carry on the said business.
Dated at Whangarei this fourth day of June, 1919.

JOHN E. NOTON.
MAURICE L. STAPLE.

Witness to both signatures—L. T. Pickmere, Solicitor, Whangarei.
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BOROUGH OF INVERCARGILL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—PASSED 19TH JUNE, 1919.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and the Invercargill Borough Council Special Rate Empowering Act, 1918, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Invercargill Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking funds and other charges on all the loans mentioned in the Invercargill Borough Council Special Rate Empowering Act, 1918, the Invercargill Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twopence halfpenny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Invercargill within the area comprising the whole of the Borough of Invercargill; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of the said loans, and be payable yearly on the first day of April in each year during the currency of such loans, or until such loans are fully paid off. The first instalment of such special rate to be for the period commencing on the 1st day of April, 1919, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1920, and to be payable on the 14th day of July, 1919.

F. BURWELL, Town Clerk.
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