APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1043

in writing, and send the same, within forty days from the
first publication of this notice, to the County Clerk at the
Council Chambers.

THE SCHEDULE.

Dated this 18th day of March, 1920.

328 P. MORA, County Clerk.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Talisman Consolidated (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 14th September, 1916.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Auckland; William Wright.
Where mine is situate: Karangahake.
Nominal capital: £345,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £345,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: £4,500.
Price paid to vendors of mine —
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £340,500.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares credited as £ paid up: Nil.
(c.) In cash: £4,500.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 345,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 268,624.
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): Nil.
Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 1,325.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 79.
Quantity and value of gold and silver produced since last statement: 27,332 oz.; £65,274 8s. 5d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 127,346 oz.; £329,908 19s.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £42,858 6s. 10d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £164,853 11s. 5d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £103,500.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £3,339 7s. 6d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £26 5s. 8d.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of such debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £3,281 12s. 6d.

I, William Wright, of Auckland, the Secretary of the Talisman Consolidated (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 30th September, 1919 (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.

WILLIAM WRIGHT.

Declared at Auckland this 25th day of March, 1920, before me—Chas. E. Palmer, J.P.

330

NATIONAL FLAX-DRESSING COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

PURSUANT to sections 230 and 231 of the Companies Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that a general meeting of the members of the above-named company will be held at the registered office, 153 Featherston Street, Wellington, on Friday, the 9th day of April, 1920, at 11 a.m., for the purpose of having an account laid before them showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the assets of the company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be made by the Liquidators.

331 ROWLEY AND GILL, Liquidators.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

I, WILLIAM KING CAREW, L.R.C.P.I., L.R.C.S.I., L.M., L.D.S., R.C.S.I., now residing in Maungaturoto, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 22nd April 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.

W. K. CAREW.

Dated at Auckland 22nd March, 1920. 332

OPOTIKI COUNTY COUNCIL.

EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING HELD ON THE 5TH DAY OF MARCH, 1920, AT 10 A.M.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Opotiki County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Opotiki County Council joint loan with the Whakatane County Council of £2,000, 1919, authorized to be raised by the Opotiki County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of completing the construction of a wharf and shed at Kutarere, the said Opotiki County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of nine-sixteenths of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in that portion of the Kutarere Wharf Special Rating District within the Opotiki County, such special area being bounded as follows, —
All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded on the west, commencing at the point of intersection between the boundary-line of the Opotiki and Whakatane Counties and the northern boundary of S.G. Run No. 5, thence following the said boundary-line between the Opotiki and Whakatane Counties in a southerly direction generally to the point of intersection of the said boundary-line of Cook County, Block XII, Ruatahuna Survey District; bounded on the south, commencing at the said point of intersection of the boundary-line between the Opotiki and Whakatane Counties and the boundary-line of the Cook County, in a north-easterly direction generally to the point where the boundary-line between the Cook and Opotiki Counties intersects the block-line dividing Blocks V and VI, Koranga West Survey District; bounded on the east by a straight line between the Cook and Opotiki Counties, intersects the block-line dividing Blocks V and VI, Koranga West Survey District, in a northerly direction along the eastern boundaries of Blocks V and I, Koranga West Survey District, Blocks XIII, IX, V, and I, Waioeka South Survey District, and Block XIII, Waioeka Survey District, to the north-eastern corner of said Block XIII, Waioeka Survey District; thence along the northern boundary of the said Block XIII, Waioeka Survey District, in a westerly direction to the point where the Tahoma No. 2A Block boundary intersects the said northern boundary of Block XIII, Waioeka Survey District; thence towards the north-east and north by the eastern boundary of Tahoma No. 2A Block to the source of the Waiotahi River; thence in a northerly direction by the said Waiotahi River to the road crossing said river at the north-eastern corner of Section 413, Block I, Opotiki Survey District, and bounded on the north generally by the road commencing at the north-east corner of the said Section 413 in a westerly direction through Section 435, Block I, Opotiki Survey District; thence following the road on the southern boundaries of Sections 148, 147, 117, and 115, Block I, Opotiki Survey District; thence in a southerly direction along the road forming the eastern boundaries of Sections 139, 188, 131, 132, and 136, Blocks I and V, Opotiki Survey District; thence following the road by the southern boundary of the