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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between ROBERT BRIGHTY STOCKWELL and FREDERICK DANIEL LAWLESS at Wanganui, as Saddlers and Harnessmakers, is dissolved by mutual consent as from this date. All debts and claims owing by or to the late Partnership will be paid or received by the said ROBERT BRIGHTY STOCKWELL, who will continue to carry on the business alone under the style of “Stockwell and Lawless.”

Dated this 9th day of July, 1919.
R. B. STOCKWELL.
F. D. LAWLESS.

Witness to both signatures—Thos. W. Blennerhassett, Solicitor, Wanganui.
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I, SAMUEL LAWRENCE LUDBROOK, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University N.Z. 1919, now residing in Auckland, N.Z., hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 15th August 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.

S. LAWRENCE LUDBROOK,
Auckland Hospital.

Dated at Auckland 15th July, 1919.
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RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—LOAN OF £250.—
McDONELL’S ROAD SPECIAL RATING DISTRICT.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Rangitikei County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £250, authorized to be raised by the Rangitikei County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of metalling McDonell’s Road from its junction with the Taihape–Mataroa Road for a distance of about 40 chains, the said Rangitikei County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of fourpence (4d.) in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property of the McDonell’s Road Special Rating District, comprising the following subdivisions of the Awarua Block 4a 3c No. 8d in Block XIV, Ohinewairua Survey District (D.P. 3193): No. 9 (3 ac. 3 r. 25 p.), No. 10 (12 ac. 3 r. 15 p.), No. 11 (16 ac. 1 r. 24 p.), No. 12 (13 ac. 3 r. 23 p.), No. 13 (23 ac. 3 r. 20 p.), No. 14 (15 ac. 1 r. 39 p.), and No. 15 (15 ac. 0 r. 35 p.). As the said special rating district is more particularly shown upon the map attached to the ratepayers’ consent to the said loan, and thereon bordered red. 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 May 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, Bennet Perry Lethbridge, Chairman of the Rangitikei County Council, do hereby certify that the above resolution was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the said Council held on the 3rd day of July, 1919.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Rangitikei was hereunto affixed this 3rd day of July, 1919, in the presence of—

BEN P. LETHBRIDGE, Chairman.
HAROLD H. RICHARDSON, County Clerk.
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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Waihi Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 7th December, 1887.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and names of Attorneys: 60 Shortland Street, Auckland; Herbert William Hopkins and Thomas Frederick Wallace.
Where mine is situate: Waihi.
Nominal capital: £500,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £495,907,
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: £19,212.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £53,333.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares: Nil.
(c.) In cash: £48,637.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 500,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 197,514.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand Register):
Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 2,223.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 553.
Quantity and value of gold and silver produced since last statement: 561,948 oz.; £387,065.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 17,765,470 oz.; £12,265,769 17s. 7d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £194,520 0s. 4d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £6,663,437 0s. 10d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £890,264 13s. 6d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £431 15s. 4d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £2,344.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £33 1s. 6d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £33 1s. 6d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £31,129 18s. 6d.

I, Thomas Frederick Wallace, one of the Attorneys of the Waihi Gold-mining Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 31st day of December, 1918 (being the date of the last balance-sheet); and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

T. F. WALLACE.

Declared at Auckland this 17th day of July, 1919, before me—F. E. McKenzie, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
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MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

I, EDWARD JOHN CRONIN, M.B., Ch.B., Univ. of N.Z. 1919, now residing in Hamilton, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 18th August 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.

E. J. CRONIN.

Dated at Hamilton 18th July, 1919.
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PATEA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE PASSED AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS ON MONDAY, 14TH JULY, 1919, AT 7.30 P.M.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Patea Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £6,000, authorized to be raised by the Patea Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for alterations and additions to water and drainage works and plant, and securing additional water-supply for generating electricity as a motive power for pumping and all necessary plant, the said Patea Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of eightpence farthing in the pound upon the rateable property within the Borough of Patea, comprising the whole borough; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 31st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

N. C. HARDING, Town Clerk.
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