2322
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 70

(e.) The sum of £6,603 3s. 5d. for the purpose of general extensions to the Council’s electric light and power system, and the erection and purchase of lines, transformers, plant, machinery, and appliances; the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one shilling and eleven pence (1s. 11d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the annual value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Tauranga. And that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

B. DIVE, Mayor.
R. B. SHEARMAN, Town Clerk.
690

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between us, the undersigned, CHARLES HASTINGS BRIDGE and ARTHUR HASTINGS BRIDGE, carrying on business at Christchurch and Auckland, under the style of “C. Hastings Bridge and Son,” was on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated this 19th day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

C. HASTINGS BRIDGE.

Witness to the signature of Charles Hastings Bridge—G. W. C. Smithson, Solicitor, Christchurch.

ARTHUR H. BRIDGE.

Witness to the signature of Arthur Hastings Bridge—C. H. Batty, Surveyor’s Assistant, Palmerston Buildings, Auckland.
691

WINDING-UP OF COMPANY—

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the WANGANUI SLOT-MACHINE COMPANY (Limited):

NOTICE is hereby given that the following special resolution was passed by the requisite majority at a general meeting of shareholders of the above-named company duly convened and held at the company’s office on Tuesday, 29th June, 1920, and confirmed at a special general meeting of shareholders of the above-named company duly convened and held on Tuesday, 21st July, 1920:—

“That the Wanganui Slot-machine Company (Limited) be wound up voluntarily; and that EDWIN MARTELL SILK, of Wanganui, be appointed Liquidator.”

E. M. SILK, Liquidator.

Wanganui, 22nd July, 1920.
692

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: 201,163.
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: Nil.
Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 2,189.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 578.
Quantity and value of bullion produced since last statement: 457,584 oz.; £380,402 1s. 6d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration in New Zealand: 18,223,054 oz.; £12,646,171 19s. 1d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £219,987 2s. 5d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £6,883,424 3s. 3d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £930,078 8s. 6d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £11,322 13s. 1d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £485 3s. 7d.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £63 4s. 8d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £63 4s. 8d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £24,679 7s. 6d.

I, Thomas Frederick Wallace, of Auckland, 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, 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.

T. F. WALLACE.

Declared at Auckland this 20th day of July, 1920, before me—O. Nicholson, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
693

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Scandinavian Water-race Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 10th December, 1907 (date of construction).
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Dunedin; T. J. Hamann, Fire Brigade Buildings, Cumberland Street.
Nominal capital: £18,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £7.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £7.
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: £9,750, issued to shareholders of the Scandinavian Water-race Company (Registered).
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 18,000.
Number of shares allotted: 9,757.
Amount paid per share: £1.
Amount called up per share: Nil (except on 7 shares subscribed for in memorandum of association).
Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.
Number of shares forfeited: 501.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: 501; £149 3s. 9d.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 18.
Present number of shareholders: 20.
Number of men employed by company: 5.
Quantity and value of gold produced during preceding year: 124 oz. 5 dwt. 13 gr.; £472 5s. 1d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: 7,849 oz. 11 dwt. 20 gr.; £29,886 0s. 9d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £1,091 8s. 4d.
Total expenditure since registration: £32,950 3s. 7d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash at bank: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company: £47 8s. 4d.
Amount of debts considered good: £47 8s. 4d.
Amount of debts owing by company: £8,238 1s. 11d. (including bank, £429 10s. 1d.).

I, John Thomas Hamann, of Dunedin, Secretary of the Scandinavian Water-race Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at 31st December, 1919; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

J. T. HAMANN.

Declared at Dunedin this 23rd day of July, 1920, before me—John Wilson, J.P.
694

COUNTY OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Motor Regulation Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that by a resolution of the above Council, passed on the 23rd day of June, 1920, it