Present number of shareholders : 5.
Number of men employed by company : 4.
Quantity and value of gold produced during preceding year : £2,315 ls. 5d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration : £4,591 8s. 10d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement : £2,868 17s. lld.
Total expenditure since registration : £5,430 10s. ld.
Total amount of dividends declared : Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid : Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends : Nil.
Amount of cash at bankers : Nil.
Amount of cash in hand : Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company : Nil.
Amount of debts considered good : Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company : £1,375 2s. 4d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any) : Nil.

I, Frederick George Dunn, the Secretary of the Linklater Sluicing Syndicate (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at 31st December, 1922; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

FRED. G. DUNN.

Declared at Christchurch this 23rd day of April, 1923, before me—R. B. Walker, J.P.

COUNTY OF HOROWHENUA.

Notice of intention to take land in Sections 14 and 24, Ngarara West A Block, Block V, Kaitawa Survey District, under the Public Works Act, 1908, for the purposes of constructing a public road.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Horowhenua County Council, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, proposes to execute a certain public work—namely, a road through the above-named sections; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken.

And notice is hereby given that a plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the office of the County Clerk for the Horowhenua County, in Oxford Street, Levin, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land must, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of such public work or the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the said County Clerk at his said office.

THE SCHEDULE HEREFORBEEFERRED TO.

Dated at Levin this 23rd day of April, 1923.

P. W. GOLDSMITH,

Clerk to the Horowhenua County Council.

MANGAWARA RIVER BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Mangawara River Board 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 twelve thousand pounds (£12,000), authorized to be raised by the Mangawara River Board, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of deepening, widening, diverting, impounding, cleaning, and generally improving the Mangawara Stream and banks thereof upstream from its junction with the Tauhei Stream to that point known as the Confiscation Line, and to provide for the erection of bridges, landings, fences, crossings, or defences against water, compensation for or purchase or hire or occupation of land, plant, machinery, and material, or for any other purpose or thing necessary to the carrying-out of the said improvement-works and for the payment of engineering and other necessary expenses arising therefrom, the said Mangawara River Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of—

On lands classified “A,” threepence (3d.) in the pound;
On lands classified “B,” twopence and one-seventh of a penny (2d. and 1/7d.) in the pound;
On lands classified “C,” one penny and two-sevenths of a penny (1d. and 2/7d.) in the pound;
according to the classification as shown on the general classification list of the Board, upon the rateable value of all rateable property comprising all the lands situated and contained in the Central and Eastern Subdivisions of the Mangawara River District, as such are described and set out in a special order passed by the Board at its meeting on the 24th November, 1921. And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of July and the first day of January in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period not exceeding thirty-six and a half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

N. G. GRIBBLE, Clerk.

WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES, heretofore called and known by the name of William Henry Dambrogio, of Mangaiti, near Te Aroha, Labourer, hereby give notice that on the 16th day of April, 1923, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said surname of Dambrogio, and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Davies instead of the said name of Dambrogio: and I give further notice that by a deed-poll dated the 16th day of April, 1923, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Northern District, Hamilton Registry, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of Dambrogio, and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Davies instead of Dambrogio, and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and subscribed by the name of DAVIES exclusively.

Dated the 16th day of April, 1923.

W. H. DAVIES.

Witness—Arthur J. Burrows, J.P., Journalist, Te Aroha.

PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between Dr. W. E. Herbert and Dr. H. Hardwick-Smith as Medical Practitioners at Wellington has been terminated as at 31st March, 1923. Dr. Hardwick-Smith intends visiting Great Britain for a time on urgent private business, and will after his return commence practice separately from the Bowen Street Hospital.

Dr. Herbert will continue the Bowen Street Hospital and his medical practice there.

All accounts owing to the late Partnership should be paid to Dr. Herbert, by whom all accounts owing by the late Partnership will be paid.

Wellington, 24th April, 1923.

H. HARDWICK-SMITH.

W. E. HERBERT.

COLLINGWOOD COUNTY COUNCIL.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken under the Public Works Act, 1908, for a certain work—to wit, for the purpose of a road.

A copy of the plan of the lands is deposited at the County Office in Collingwood, and may be inspected there at any time during office hours.

All persons affected are hereby required and called upon to set forth in writing all well-grounded objections to the execution of such work or to the taking of such lands, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication hereof, to the Collingwood County Council at its office, Collingwood.