Total quantity and value produced since registration : Nil.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations
since last statement : £69 2s. 10d.
Total expenditure since registration : £678 2s. 4d.
Total amount of dividends declared : Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid : Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends : Nil.
Amount of cash in bank : £21 7s.
Amount of cash in hand : £10 11s. 5d.
Amount of debts directly due to company : £173 8s.
Amount of debts considered good : £73 8s.
Amount of debts owing by company : £11 18s. 6d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any) : Nil.

I, Joseph Bernard Sheath, of Auckland, the Secretary of
the Pinafore Gold-mining Company (Limited), do solemnly
and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement
of the affairs of the said company at the 31st December,
1921; 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. B. SHEATH.
Declared at Auckland this 19th day of June, 1923, before
me-Chas. E. Palmer, J.P.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY
Name of company: Colossus Gold-mining Development
Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration : 28th August, 1914.
Whether in active operation or not: Property being maintained.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary:
Registered office, Tribune Buildings, Hastings; Laurence
A. Denton, Secretary.
Nominal capital: £36,000.
Amount of capital subscribed : £30,473.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £12,473.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of
cash received for same: £30,073; £12,473.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no
cash has been paid: £18,000.
Number of shares into which the capital is divided: 36,000.
Number of shares allotted: 30,473, of which 400 are forfeited.
Amount paid per share: £1.
Amount called up per share: £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.
Number of shares forfeited: 400.
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: 65.
Number of men employed by company : 1.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last
statement: Nil.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: Nil.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations
since last statement: £840 11s. 2d.
Total expenditure since registration: £32,492 13s. (including
purchase of properties).
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 debts directly due to company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £2,369 13s.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, Laurence Ackworth Denton, the Secretary of the
Colossus Gold-mining Development Company (Limited), do
solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete
statement of the affairs of the said company at the present
date; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously
believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices
of the Peace Act, 1908.

LAURENCE A. DENTON.
Declared at Hastings this 15th day of June, 1923, before
me-G. A. Maddison, J.P.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the
matter of WILLIAM COOPER AND NEPHEWS (LIMITED).
NOTICE is hereby given that William Cooper and Nephews
(Limited), a company having its registered office at
47 Russell Square, London, and duly incorporated under the
Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, in accordance with the
laws of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
proposes to carry on business in the Dominion of New Zealand,
and that the office of the company where legal process of any
kind may be served upon it and notices of any kind may be
addressed or delivered will be at the office of the company at
Number 12 Kingston Street, in the City of Auckland.
Dated this 18th day of June, 1923.

WILLIAM COOPER AND NEPHEWS (LIMITED),
668 By its Attorney, SHIRLEY HARBOWELL.

OTAMATEA COUNTY COUNCIL.
RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.--KOMITI FRUITLANDS
SPECIAL RATING DISTRICT LOAN, £2,750.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the
Otamatea 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 £2,750 (two thousand seven hundred and fifty
pounds), authorized to be raised by the Otamatea County
Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the
purpose of forming, bridging, culverting, metalling, and
improving the roads in the Komiti Fruitlands Special Rating
District of the Otamatea County, the said Otamatea County
Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of threepence
halfpenny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable
property of the Komiti Fruitlands Special Rating District,
comprising-
All that parcel of land, containing 1,238 acres 3 roods
2 perches, more or less, being the blocks situated in the
Hukatere Survey District called Te Komiti No. 1A.
Sections 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, and 2F, and part of the block
situated in the said survey district called Te Komiti
No. 1A Section 2A, and being the whole of the land
comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 244,
folio 143, of the Register-books of the Auckland Land
Registration District.
All that parcel of land, containing 2,379 acres 1 rood
0 perches, more or less, being part of the block situated
in the Hukatere Survey District called Komiti No. 2B,
and being the whole of the land comprised and described
in certificate of title, Volume 224, folio 163, of the
Register-books of the Auckland Land Registration
District.
All that parcel of land, containing 876 acres 1 rood
0 perches, more or less, being part of the block situated
in the Hukatere Survey District called Komiti No. 2B,
and being the whole of the land comprised and described
in certificate of title, Volume 224, folio 164, of the
Register-books of the Auckland Land Registration
District.
The whole of the aforesaid lands being situated within the
Matakohi Riding of the Otamatea County.
And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate
during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on
the 1st day of June in each and every year during the currency
of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a half,
or until the loan is fully paid off.

ROdney CoATES, Chairman.
670 E. G. AICKIN, Clerk.

AT a general meeting of the Nobles Company (Limited)
held on Wednesday, the 20th of June, 1923, the
following extraordinary resolution was carried:-
"That it is proved to the company that the company
cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and
that it is advisable to wind up the same."
ARTHUR CHARLES CROLL, of Wellington, Company Manager,
and Peter Macarthur Cameron, of Wellington, Public
Accountant, were appointed Liquidators.
671 P. M. CAMERON, Secretary.

RESOLUTION.
THE following regulations were laid before the members
of the Ngaruawahia Racing Club at a meeting held
on the 29th day of March, 1923, at Ngaruawahia, with a
recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. Andrew
Sutherland, that the same be passed at once with a view
to their approval by His Excellency the Governor-General,
in pursuance of the Gaming Act, 1908, section 33.
Mr. Andrew Sutherland, the Chairman of such club and
the meeting, moved, and Mr. Leonard Ayres seconded, and it
was resolved, that such regulations should be adopted, and