3280
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £920 13s. 6d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £920 13s. 6d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £17,584 12s. 4d.

I, Ernest William Spencer, Attorney of the Blackwater Mines (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 December, 1921 (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.

ERNEST W. SPENCER.

Declared at Reefton this 24th day of November, 1922, before me—H. P. Lawry, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

1190

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Progress Mines of New Zealand (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 8th December, 1896.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney: Head Office, London; New Zealand Office, Reefton; Ernest William Spencer.
Where mines are situate: Reefton.
Nominal capital: £275,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £275,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: Nil.
Price paid to vendors of mines—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £200,000.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as £1 paid up: Nil.
(c.) In cash: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 275,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 17,356.
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: 73.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 4.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 275 oz. 7 dwt.; £974 19s. 2d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 346,276 oz. 19 dwt.; £1,464,700 3s. 3d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £1,623 16s. 7d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £1,230,314 13s.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £5,385 14s. 9d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £128 4s. 11d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £128 4s. 11d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £1,048 3s. 10d.

I, Ernest William Spencer, Attorney of the Progress Mines of New Zealand (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 December, 1921 (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.

ERNEST W. SPENCER.

Declared at Reefton this 24th day of November, 1922, before me—H. P. Lawry, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

1191

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the Gorge Dredging Company (Limited), in Liquidation.

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the above-named company held on the 14th December, 1922, it was resolved that it has been proved to the satisfaction of the shareholders that the company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily; and that G. A. HARLOW be and is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up.

Dated this 15th day of December, 1922.

G. A. HARLOW, Liquidator.

1192

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—ST. ALBANS EASTERN LOAN OF £3,000.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Christchurch City Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £3,000, authorized to be raised by the Christchurch City Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of paying off the whole of the loan raised by the late St. Albans Borough Council which falls due on the 1st day of January, 1923, the said Christchurch City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 113/128ths of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (being the unimproved value) of all rateable property comprised within the St. Albans Eastern Loan Special Rating Area, the boundaries of which special rating area are described in the Schedule hereto; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the 1st day of January in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of fifteen years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

SCHEDULE.

Commencing at a point on Bealey Avenue two and a half (2½) chains east of Barbadoes Street; thence northerly and parallel with Barbadoes Street to a point five (5) chains beyond Edgeward Road; thence easterly and parallel with Edgeward Road to Hills Road; thence southerly along Hills Road, North Avon Road, and Bealey Avenue to the commencing-point.

Dated at Christchurch this 12th day of December, 1922.

HENRY T. J. THACKER, Mayor.
HY. R. SMITH, Town Clerk.

1193

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—WORKERS’ DWELLINGS LOAN OF £5,000.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Christchurch City Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £5,000, authorized to be raised by the Christchurch City Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of erecting workers’ dwellings and constructing works necessary and incidental thereto, the said Christchurch City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/114th of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (being the unimproved value) of all rateable property comprised within the City of Christchurch; and that the said special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the 1st day of January 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.

Dated at Christchurch this 12th day of December, 1922.

HENRY T. J. THACKER, Mayor.
HY. R. SMITH, Town Clerk.

1194

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that the Waikato County Council proposes to execute certain public works—to wit, the construction of a public road; for which purpose the following land is required to be taken by the said Waikato County Council under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, sections 18 and 19—that is to say, all that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement one acre and twenty-four and six-sevenths perches (more or less), being part of Lot Seven on plan Number 7156 of Allotment Number Sixty-one of the Parish of Komakorau. A plan of the land required to be taken as aforesaid is deposited at the residence of Mr. J. Paterson on Section 79, Komakorau Parish, River Road, near Horotiu Bridge.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to set forth in writing any well-founded objection to the execution of