SEPT. 20.

WANGANUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

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 Wanganui Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of five hundred pounds (£500) authorized to be raised by the Wanganui Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of completing an undertaking for which the sum of five thousand pounds (£5,000) has already been raised by the said Council for the following purposes, namely: The providing, purchase, and erection of a refuse-destructor, steam-boiler, and electric generating plant for or in connection with the destruction of refuse in the said borough, the providing or purchase of an electric motor-lorry for the purpose of carrying or conveying refuse to such refuse-destructor, the erection, building, or construction of buildings necessary for housing or containing the same, and for all appliances, matters, and things necessary, incident, or relating to all or any of matters aforesaid,—the Wanganui Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixteenth of a penny (1/16d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the annual value) of all rateable property of the Borough of Wanganui, comprising the whole of the Borough of Wanganui, the boundaries whereof are defined in the New Zealand Gazette of the 19th day of December, 1912, Number 92, at page 3618; 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 April and the first day of October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of seventeen (17) years from the first day of October, 1923.

T. BOSWALL WILLIAMS, Mayor.
G. MURCH, Town Clerk.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: New Zealand Crown Mines Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office in New Zealand: 13th January, 1914.
Whether in active operation or not: Yes.
Where business is conducted: 60 Shortland Street, Auckland.
Name of Attorney: Herbert William Hopkins, or the Manager for the time being of the N.Z.M.T. Agency and Trustee Company (Limited).
Where mine is situate: Karangahake.
Nominal capital: £100,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £39,585 2s.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: £11,367 7s.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: 16 shares at 4s., £3 4s.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as 2s. paid up: 200,218 at 2s., £20,021 16s.
(c.) In cash: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 500,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 116,529.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): 108,208 at 4s., 5,220 at 3s. 6d., 3,101 at 3s.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): 4s.
Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand Register): 11; £285 11s.
Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 159.
Number of men employed in New Zealand: 6.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: Nil.
Total quantity and value produced since registration in New Zealand: 3,933 oz. gold, 13,685 oz. silver; £16,848 10s. 2d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £1,575 13s. d. (development and upkeep and dismantling plant for sale).
Total expenditure since registration of office in New Zealand: £40,534 1s. 7d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £.09 9s. 6d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £166 1s.
The amount of such debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: Nil.

2501

I, Herbert William Hopkins, Attorney of the New Zealand Crown Mines Company (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 day of December, 1923, 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.

H. W. HOPKINS.

Declared at Auckland this 12th day of September, 1923, before me—J. E. Russell, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

STatement OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Blackwater South Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 2nd November, 1914.
Whether in active operation or not: Not in active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Reefton; Herbert Percival Lawry.
Nominal capital: £42,500.
Amount of capital subscribed: £6,601 10s.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £6,100 14s. 6d.
Subsidy from County Council for track-construction: £27 2s. 6d.
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: £22,500.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 85,000 of 10s. each, of which 45,000 shares are deemed to be fully paid up.
Number of shares allotted: Contributing, 13,203; deemed paid up, 45,000.
Amount paid per share: Contributing shares, 10s.
Amount called up per share: Contributing shares, 10s.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: 4, £38 13s. 6d.; forfeited shares, £462 2s.
Number of shares forfeited: 1,756.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: Contributing, 123; paid up, 118.
Present number of shareholders: Contributing register, 104; paid up, 139.
Number of men employed by company: Nil.
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: 10s.
Total expenditure since registration: £5,881 1s. 1d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: £5 1s. 4d.
Amount of cash in hand: Shareholder's cheque, £150.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Unpaid calls, £500 15s. 6d.; sundry debtors, £286 13s. 3d.
Amount of debts considered good: Unpaid calls, £38 13s. 6d.; sundry debtors, £286 13s. 3d.
Amount of debts owing by company: £186 6s. 2d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, Herbert Percival Lawry, of Reefton, the Secretary of the Blackwater South Gold-mining Company (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, 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.

H. P. LAWRY.

Declared at Reefton this 31st day of August, 1922, before me—T. H. Lee, J.P.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Sandbills Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: 19th December, 1913.
Whether in active operation or not: Not in active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Sandhills, via Queenstown; J. A. Reid, Glenorchy.
Nominal capital: £7,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £7,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £2,000.