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Amount of capital subscribed : £6,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash : £6,000.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and the amount
of cash received for same (if any) : Nil.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no
cash has been paid : Nil.
Number of shares into which the capital has been divided :
6,000.
Number of shares allotted : 6,000.
Amount paid up per share : £1.
Amount called up per share : £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrears : Nil.
Number of shares forfeited : Nil.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and the money received for
same : Nil.
Number of shareholders at the time of registration of company :
13.
Present number of shareholders : 13.
Number of men employed by the company : Nil.
Quantity and value of gold procured during the preceding
year : Nil.
Total quantity and value produced since registration :
3,130 oz.; £12,520 0s. 5d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations
during the preceding year : Nil.
Total expenditure since registration : £22,178 14s. 6d.
Total amount of dividends declared : £300.
Total amount of dividends paid : £300.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends : Nil.
Amount of cash at bankers : £143 2s. 9d.
Amount of cash in hand : Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to the company : Nil.
Amount of debts considered good : Nil.
Total amount of debts owing by the company : Nil.
Amount of contingent liabilities of the company (if any : Nil.
I, Robert Arthur Mathewson, the Manager of the Waikaka
Deep Lead Gold-dredging 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,
1923. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously
believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices
of the Peace Act, 1908.

R. A. MATHEWSON.

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THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF OFFICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the SOUTHERN UNION
GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AUSTRALASIA
(LIMITED) is now carrying on business at Christchurch at
Number 211 Manchester Street, instead of Number 90 Here-
ford Street, where the office or place of business of the com-
pany was formerly situated.
Dated this 6th day of March, 1924.

W. A. MINNITT,
Manager for New Zealand of the above-named
Company.

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KAPONGA TOWN 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
Kaponga Town Board hereby resolves as follows :—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £3,000, authorized to be raised by the
Kaponga Town Board under the above-mentioned Act, for
the purposes of metalling and asphalt ing roads and streets
within the Town District of Kaponga and forming and
making footpaths with tarred surfaces and water-channels
and kerbing on such roads and streets, the said Kaponga
Town Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of five-
ninths (5/9ths) of a penny in the pound sterling on the rate-
able value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable
property of the Kaponga Town District; and that such
special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, and shall be payable yearly in one
sum on the 1st day of April in each and every year during
the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and
one-half (36½) years, or until the loan be fully paid off.

R. G. COOK, Chairman.
G. COOK, Clerk.

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 15

KAPONGA TOWN BOARD.

RESOLUTION INCREASING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and
of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the
Kaponga Town Board hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Kaponga
Town Board Electrical Extension Loan of £10,000, 1923,
authorized to be raised by the Kaponga Town Board under
the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of the purchase,
erect ion, and installation of electric lighting and power
head works, plant, machinery, and materials, including
poles and transmission-lines connected with the Board's
electric-power scheme, and with the distribution and sale
of electric lighting and power therefrom, the said Kaponga
Town Board, pursuant to section 22 of the Local Bodies'
Loans Act, 1913, hereby increases to two and sixteen twenty-
fifths (2 16/25ths) of a penny in the pound sterling the special
rate of two and one-quarter (2¼) of a penny in the pound
sterling made and levied by resolution passed by the said
Kaponga Town Board on the 17th day of October, 1923, on the
rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable
property in the Town District of Kaponga, such rate of two
and one-quarter (2¼) of a penny in the pound sterling being
insufficient to provide for payment of interest, sinking fund,
and other charges on such loan ; and that such special rate as
increased shall be an annually recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day
of April in each and every year during the currency of such
loan, being a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan
be fully paid off.

R. G. COOK, Chairman.
G. COOK, Clerk.

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CHRISTCHURCH CITY 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
Christchurch City Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of ten thousand pounds (£10,000), authorized
to be raised by the Christchurch City Council under the above-
mentioned Act, for the purpose of erecting workers’ dwellings
and constructing works necessary and incidental thereto, the
said Christchurch City Council hereby makes and levies a
special rate of seventeen one-thousandths (17/1,000ths) of a
penny in the pound upon the rateable value (being the un-
improved value) of all rateable property comprised within
the City of Christchurch, and that such special rate shall be
an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan,
and be payable on the 1st day of March 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.

J. A. FLESHER, Mayor.
J. S. NEVILLE, Acting Town Clerk.

304

TE PUKE TOWN 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
Te Puke Town Board hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in re-
spect of principal and interest and also the other charges
on a loan of three hundred and twenty-five pounds (£325),
authorized to be raised by the Te Puke Town Board under
the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of erect-
ing a bridge in Jellicoe Street, Te Puke, over Raymonds
Stream, the said Te Puke Town Board hereby makes and levies
a special rate of one-eighteenth of one penny in the pound
upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Te
Puke Town District ; and that such special rate shall be an
annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and
be payable half-yearly on the 28th day of March and the
28th day of September in each and every year during the
currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-
half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

H. W. EARP, Clerk.

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