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TAWERA COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting held on Tuesday,
the 1st day of March, 1921, the Tawera County
Council resolved as follows: "That this Council become a
registering authority for motor vehicles under the Motor
Regulation Act, 1908, as from Monday, the 11th day of
April, 1921."

W. K. McALPINE,
Chairman, Tawera County Council.

G. L. POPPLE, County Clerk.

In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, the Public
Reserves and Domains Amendment Act, 1912, and the
Public Works Act, 1908, and its amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Wairoa County Council
proposes, under the provisions of the above-entitled
Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the acquisition
of land for recreation purposes at Te Reinga; and for that
purpose the land described in the Schedule hereto is required
to be taken. And notice is likewise given that a plan of the
said land is deposited in the office of the said Council in Queen
Street in the Borough of Wairoa, and is open for inspection
(without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours.

All persons affected are called upon to set forth in writing
any well-grounded objections they may have to the execution
of the said public work or to the taking of the said land,
and to send such writing, within forty days from the first
publication of this notice, to the said Council at its office
aforesaid.

Dated this 12th day of March, 1921.

THE SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 41
acres and 3 perches, more or less, being part of the Mangapoike
2A 2 Block, situate in Block Two of the Opoiti Survey District,
and being the land coloured red in outline on plan deposited
in the office at Gisborne of the Chief Surveyor of the Land
District of Hawke's Bay under Number 936, brown.

B. G. SIGNALL, County Clerk.

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In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the
matter of the Co-operative Service (Limited), in
Liquidation.

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the members of
the above-named company duly convened and held
at the registered office of the company, Sheridan’s Buildings,
Peel Street, Gisborne, on Friday, the 18th day of February,
1921, the following special resolution was duly passed:

"That the company be wound up voluntarily, in accordance with section 220 of the Companies Act, 1908."

At a subsequent meeting held on the 8th day of March,
1921, Edward Lowder Lees, Manager, Rongotea Industrial
Co-operative of New Zealand (Limited), and Reginald
Craig Piesse, Public Accountant, Gisborne, were appointed
Liquidators for the purpose of such winding-up.

Dated at Gisborne this 19th day of March, 1921.

EDWARD L. LEES Liquidators.
R. C. PIESSE

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T. AND H. COOKE (LIMITED).

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of the
shareholders of T. and H. Cooke (Limited), in Liquidation,
will be held at the registered office of the company,
12 Rewa Chambers, Auckland, on Friday, 15th April, 1921,
at 3 p.m.

BUSINESS.—To receive Liquidator's account of the winding-up and disposal of the company's assets, as provided for
in section 230 of the Companies Act, 1908.

W. H. COOKE, Liquidator.

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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: New Big River Gold-mining Company
(Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 19th August, 1907.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary:
Reefton; Thomas Hubert Lee.
Nominal capital: £6,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £6,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £600.
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: 24,000.
Number of shares allotted: 24,000.
Amount paid per share: 6d.
Amount called up per share: 6d.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.
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: 64.
Number of men employed by company: 38 (average for
year 1920).
Quantity and value of gold produced since last statement:
Battery—2,970 tons of quartz crushed, for 2,506 oz. 1 dwt.
of melted gold, valued at £10,644 0s. 8d; cyanide—1,450
tons of sands treated, for 226 oz. 15 dwt. 16 gr. of bullion,
valued at £956 8s. 8d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration:
Battery—64,931 tons of quartz crushed, for 63,164 oz.
13 dwt. of melted gold, valued at £255,489 17s. 7d;
cyanide—46,700 tons of sands treated, for 8,953 oz. 5 dwt.
16 gr. of bullion, valued at £25,297 7s. 8d.; concentrates
—714 tons 8 cwt. 1 qr. 14 lb. treated, for bullion valued
at £13,091 1s. 1d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations
since last statement: £12,169 5s. 8d.
Total expenditure since registration: £188,467 15s. 11d.
Total amount of dividends declared: £103,200.
Total amount of dividends paid: £103,200.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of gold on hand: 632 oz. 5 dwt., valued at £2,529.
Amount of bullion on hand: 43 oz. 18 dwt., valued at £110.
Amount of cash in bank: £201 10s. 7d.
Amount of cash in hand (Wages Imprest Account): At mine,
£20; at office, £30.
Amount of Reserve Fund: £1,500.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £155 1s. 6d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Sundry
accounts, £73 13s. 6d., and No. 77 dividend of 1s. 6d. per
share payable 12th January, 1921, £1,800.

I, Thomas Hubert Lee, the Secretary of the New Big
River 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,
1920; 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. HUBERT LEE.

Declared at Reefton this 14th day of March, 1920, before
me - W. B. Auld, J.P.

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POHANGINA COUNTY COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by
the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and all other Acts
in that behalf enabling, the Pohangina County Council hereby
resolves as follows:-

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments of
principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan
of £400, authorized to be raised by the Pohangina County
Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and amendments thereto, for the purpose of rebuilding a culvert in the
Tamaki Riding, and known as the Matakiore Stream Culvert,
the said Pohangina County Council hereby makes and levies a
special rate of one twenty-fifth of a penny in the pound on
all the capital rateable value of all the rateable property in
the Matakiore Stream Culvert Special Rating Area, the same
being the whole of the Tamaki Riding in the County of
Pohangina; and that such special rate shall be an annual-
recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be pay-
able half-yearly on the sixteenth day of April and the sixteenth
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.

H. W. SMART, Chairman.

HERBERT SYMES, Treasurer.

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AWAKINO COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

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
Awakino County Council hereby resolves as follows:-