Nov. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2835

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month from the date of publication of the New Zealand Gazette containing this notice.

813. CHARLES EVES.—Lots 41, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 374, 375, and 376 of Section 162, District of Omaka, containing together 8 acres 0 roods 12 perches, fronting Havelock and Inkerman Streets, Renwicktown. Plans 949 and 950. Occupied by applicant.

Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 9th day of November, 1923, at the Land Registry Office, Blenheim.

G. H. SEDDON, District Land Registrar.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (4).

NOTICE is hereby given that the name of the under-mentioned company has been struck off the register, and the company dissolved.

Bockaerts Limited. 1912/5.

Given under my hand at Christchurch this 10th day of November, 1923.

J. MORRISON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (3).

TAKE notice that at the expiration of three months from the date hereof the name of the undermentioned company will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the register, and the company will be dissolved :—

Watsons Limited. 1909/29.

Given under my hand at Christchurch this 10th day of November, 1923.

J. MORRISON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Waihi Grand Junction Gold Company (Limited).

When formed and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 22nd December, 1897.

Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.

Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney: Waihi; Samuel Leah.

Where the mine is situate: Waihi.

Nominal capital: £400,000.

Amount of capital subscribed: £385,000.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: £40,494 15s.

Price paid to the vendors of the mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: Nil.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares credited as 15s. paid up: £112,500.
(c.) In cash: Nil.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: £400,000.

Number of shares on the New Zealand Register: 241,315.

Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): £1.

Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): £1.

Number and amount of calls in arrears (New Zealand Register): Nil.

Number of shares forfeited (New Zealand Register): Nil.

Number of forfeited shares on the New Zealand Register sold, and the money received for same: Nil.

Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 1,095.

Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 191.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: —; £26,315 6s. 11d.

Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £2,190,441 0s. 11d.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £84,226 18. 11d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £2,158,135 3s. 11d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £145,689 12s.

Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £8,284 7s. 10d.

Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £20.

Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £2,183 7s. 8d.

Amount of such debts considered good: £2,183 7s. 8d.

Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £1,666 8s. 7d.

I, Samuel Leah, the Attorney of the Waihi Grand Junction Gold 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, 1922 (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.

S. LEAH.

Declared at Waihi this 29th day of October, 1923, before me—P. G. Brady, J.P. 1119

THE Partnership hitherto existing between ALFRED DUNTHORNE and A. J. BOUGHTON, trading together as “Dunthorne and Boughton,” Manufacturing Tailors, Osborne Street, Newmarket, has this day (15th October) been dissolved by mutual consent.

The business will be carried on by ALFRED DUNTHORNE under the present firm name, and the said ALFRED DUNTHORNE will take over the existing assets and liabilities at this date.

A. DUNTHORNE. 1120

HAURAKI PLAINS COUNTY 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, section 39 of the Finance Act, 1921–22, and by and with the consent of the Governor-General in Council, the Hauraki Plains County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of two thousand pounds (£2,000), authorized to be raised by the Hauraki Plains County Council under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of discharging an existing liability of £2,000 for the purchase of land at Hikutaia for quarry purposes, the said Hauraki Plains County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-thirtieth of a penny (1/30d.) in the pound (£1) upon the rateable value (unimproved) of all rateable property of the special-rating area comprising the whole of the County of Hauraki Plains; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half (36½) years or until the loan is fully paid off, to Ernest Walton, County Treasurer, at the County Office, Ngatea.

Ngatea, 4th September, 1923. 1121

JAMES C. MILLER, County Chairman.

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE IN THE MIKKELSEN’S ROAD SPECIAL-RATING AREA.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of the principal, interest, and other charges on a loan of £1,600 authorized to be raised by the Piako County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of metalling for the first time Mikkelsen’s Road from the southern boundary of Lot 1, Section 17, Block XI, Aroha Survey District, to connect with the present metalling adjoining the main Thames–Waikato Road, and also the whole of Taylor’s Road, the said Piako County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (upon the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Mikkelsen’s Road Special-rating Area (comprising all that area in the Land District of Auckland, bounded, commencing at the south-west corner of Section 83, Waihou Township, towards the north by the western boundary of Sections 83 and 100, Waihou Township, to the north-west corner of Section 100; thence towards the east by the northern boundaries of Sections 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, and 93, Waihou Township, to the north-eastern corner of Section 93; thence following a northerly direction by the western boundaries of Sections 136, 135, 134, 133, and 129, Waihou Township, to the north-west corner of Section 129; thence in an easterly direction following the northern boundaries of Sections 129 to 132 to the north-western corner of Section 137, Waihou Township; thence towards the north and north-east by the western boundaries of Sections 143, 180, and 256, Waihou Township, to the Town Belt; thence following the Town Belt in a north-easterly direction for a distance of about