SEPT. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2407

Number of shares allotted: 20,114.
Amount paid per share: £1.
Amount called up per share: £1.
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: 52.
Number of men employed by company: 1.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: Nil.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £414 8s. 3d.
Total expenditure since registration: £12,155 19s. 3d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Amount of cash at mine: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £2,122 1s.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, Norman Howard James, of Masterton, the Secretary of the United Gold-mine (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.

NORMAN H. JAMES.

Declared at Masterton this 16th day of September, 1921, before me—G. D. Wilson, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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THE Partnership business recently carried on by us as Sheep and Cattle Farmers at Hangatiki has from the date hereof been dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated at Te Kuiti this 12th day of September, 1921.

J. G. STURGES.
D. R. McLEAY.
W. R. BECKERLEG.

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N.Z. PIANO COMPANY (LIMITED), IN LIQUIDATION.

A GENERAL meeting of the shareholders of the N.Z. Piano Company (Limited), in Liquidation, will be held at 128 Manchester Street, Christchurch, on Thursday, 6th October, 1921, at 2.30 p.m.

OBJECT.—For the purpose of laying the Liquidator’s account before the shareholders, showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the assets of the company disposed of.

R. N. BAKER, Liquidator.

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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between DAVID HERBERT NAPIER and FREDERICK SCOTT as Motor Mechanics, under the style of “Napier and Scott,” at Castle Street, Dunedin, has this day been dissolved.

All accounts owing to the firm should be paid to the said DAVID HERBERT NAPIER at Castle Street aforesaid.

Dated this 10th day of September, 1921.

D. H. NAPIER.
F. E. SCOTT.

Witness to the signatures of David Herbert Napier and Frederick Scott—Chas. J. Payne, Solicitor, Dunedin.

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EKETAHUNA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

SPECIAL RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and the several Acts amending the same respectively, the Eketauna Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of two hundred and twenty-five pounds, authorized to be raised by the Eketauna Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, being a ten-per-centum supplementary loan on the original loan of two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds authorized to be raised for installing a septic tank and drainage, the Eketauna Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three thirty-firsts (3/31sts) of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property comprised in the following special drainage area,—

Lots 8 to 44 of Section 13; Lots 34 and 83 of Section 12; Lots 8F to 22F of closed road; Lots 1 and 1D, 3 and 4, and part Lot 2, Section 23; Lots 1 to 31 of Section 24; and Lots 2D to 4D, 1E to 3E, and 14E to 18E, closed road; Lots 1 to 13, 62 to 78, of Section 12; and the northern portion of Section 12 adjoining the Alfredton Road; Lots 1, 6, 7, half Lots 3 and 4, of D.P. 3146; Lot 38 of Section 13; Lots 1 to 5, 40 to 42, 45 to 48, part Lot 50, Lots 51, 52, 61, of Section 13; Settlement of Eketauna; and Sections 1 to 6, 22 to 45, 82 to 92, Township of Parkville.

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 August 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.

PHIL PIKE, Mayor.

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WAITOTARA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING A SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Waitotara 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 five thousand pounds (£5,000), authorized to be raised by the Waitotara County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of widening and metalling the Rangitatau East Road from Waitahinga to Paparangi, the said Waitotara County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 5/8 of one penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Waitahinga Special Rating District, comprising Lot 1, part Sections 10/12, Blocks VII and VIII, Nukumaru S.D.; Lot 2, part Sections 10/12, Blocks III, IV, VII, VIII, Nukumaru S.D.; part Lot 5, part Sections 10/12, Blocks II and III, Nukumaru S.D.; part Lot 5, part Section 11, Blocks II and IV, Nukumaru S.D.; part Manganui-o-Tahu Block; Lots 3 and 4, part Section 11, Blocks III and IV, Nukumaru S.D.; part Manganui-o-Tahu Block No. D (D.P. 3644); Lot 3, Maungapapa No. 1B, Block VI, Momohaki S.D. (D.P. 2765); Lot 1, Maungapapa No. 1B (D.P. 2764); part S.G.R. 2, Block XVI, Momohaki S.D., Section 3, Block XVI, Momohaki S.D., part Manganui-o-Tahu Block (all D.P. 3462); Section 2, Block XII, Momohaki S.D.; Run 16, Blocks VII and XII, Momohaki S.D.; Subsec. 2, part Section 11, Blocks III and IV, Nukumaru S.D.; Section 4, Block XVI, Momohaki S.D. (scenery reserve); Section 6, Block XII, Momohaki S.D.; Sections 6 and 7, Block XVI, Momohaki S.D.: containing a total area of 31,398 acres 0 roods 36 perches.

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 September 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.

A. S. DYMOCK, County Clerk.

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In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and the Public Works Act, 1908, and its several amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Waitomo County Council purposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Act, to execute a certain public work—namely, the establishment of a public road and the taking of the land therefor; and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited at the public office of the Clerk of the said Council situate in Taupiri Street, in Te Kuiti, and is open for inspection during ordinary business hours. All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land, who have any well-grounded objection to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said land, must state their objections in writing, and send same, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the County Clerk at the Council Chambers.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the parcels of land required to be taken: 7·3 perches.

Being portion of Section 2, Block V, Aria Survey District.

Coloured on plan: Pink.

Situate in County of Waitomo.

Dated this 15th day of September, 1921.

P. MORA, County Clerk.

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