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road through the above-named subdivisions; and for the purpose of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken.
And notice is hereby further 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 HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO.

APPROXIMATE area of land taken :—
A. R. P.
2 1 35 Subdivision South I, situate in Horowhenua XIB 41, Waiopahu Survey District; coloured on plan purple.
3 0 35·4 Subdivision 9A, situate in Horowhenua Block, Waiopahu Survey District; coloured on plan blue.
5 3 37·7 Subdivision E, situate in Horowhenua XIB 41, Waiopahu Survey District; coloured on plan pink.

Dated this 15th day of May, 1923.
P. W. GOLDSMITH,
Clerk to the Horowhenua County Council.

NEW ZEALAND.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT, 1909.—ADVERTISEMENT OF CANCELLING.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of Friendly Societies has, pursuant to section 70 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, by writing under his hand dated this fifteenth day of May, 1923, cancelled the registry of Pride of Waikiwi Tent, No. 79, of The New Zealand Central District Independent Order of Rechabites Friendly Society (Register No. 110/68), held at Waikiwi, on the ground that the said branch has ceased to exist.
WILLIAM M. WRIGHT, Registrar.
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned BENJAMIN JOHN McARTHUR and LIONEL LLOYD, carrying on business at Dunedin, in the Dominion of New Zealand, as Manufacturers, under the style or firm of the Makosoap Company, has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said BENJAMIN JOHN McARTHUR, who will continue to carry on the said business in the name of “McArthur's Agency.”
Dated this first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.
BENJAMIN JOHN McARTHUR.
Witness to the signature of the said Benjamin John McArthur—A. S. Gosney, Law Clerk, Dunedin.
LIONEL LLOYD.
Witness to the signature of the said Lionel Lloyd—H. G. Hay, Solicitor, Dunedin.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION.
I ERNEST YOUNG COMRIE, M.B., Ch.B., University of New Zealand, now residing in Christchurch, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 16th June next to have my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths at Wellington.
ERNEST YOUNG COMRIE, M.B., Ch.B.
Dated at Christchurch 16th May, 1923.
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; J. T. 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 : 6.
Quantity and value of gold produced during preceding year : 589 oz. 18 dwt. 3 gr.; £2,486 9s. 6d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration : 9,235 oz. 0 dwt. 9 gr.; £36,424 0s. 5d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement : £2,059 2a. 10d.
Total expenditure since registration : £38,344 11s. 6d.
Total amount of dividends declared : Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid : Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends : Nil.
Amount of cash at bank : £628 9s. 8d.
Amount of cash in hand : £187 18s. 4d.
Amount of debts directly due to company : £248 8s. 4d.
Amount of debts considered good : £248 8s. 4d.
Amount of debts owing by company : £8,950 14s. 7d.
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, 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.
J. T. HAMANN.
Declared at Dunedin this 14th day of May, 1923, before me—John Wilson, J.P.
STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.
Name of company : Komata Reefs Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand : 16th October, 1900.
Whether in active operation or not : Not in active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney : 60 Shortland Street, Auckland; Herbert William Hopkins.
Where mine is situate : Mine and machinery sold.
Nominal capital : £40,000.
Amount of capital subscribed : £40,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand : Not known.
Price paid to vendors of mine-
(a.) In fully paid-up shares : 7.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as 4s. 3d. paid up : 39,993 shares.
(c ) In cash : £6,109 2s. 10d.
Number of shares into which capital is divided : 800,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register : 219,593.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register) : 1s.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register) : 1s.
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 : 367.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand : None.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement : Nil.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand : 77,797 oz. gold, 363,782 oz. silver; £372,312 14s. 5d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement : Nil.