2688

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 73

7. That the amount of money held as executor to the credit of estates under administration was at 31st March, 1924, £275 8s. 2d.

8. That the amount remaining in the company’s hands at 31st March, 1924, to the credit of estates for which the company is executor, co-executor, trustee or co-trustee, attorney or agent, which sum is represented by either cash or securities, or both, was £3,005,349 19s. 4d.

9. That the liabilities and assets of the company were at 31st March, 1924, as follows:—

BALANCE-SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 1924.

Liabilities.

Capital—10,000 shares of £5 each .. .. .. 50,000 0 0
Less £4 per share uncalled 40,000 0 0

Reserve Fund .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10,000 0 0
Sundry creditors .. .. .. .. .. .. 532 8 0
Balance of profit and loss .. .. .. 10,992 18 6

£31,525 6 6

Assets.

Mortgages, debentures, deposits, and freehold property .. .. .. £ s. d. 27,501 5 6
Sundry debtors .. .. .. .. .. .. 45 5 5
Office furniture and stationery 184 8 2
Interest and commission accrued 2,191 9 7

2,421 3 2

The National Bank of New Zealand (Limited) current account .. .. .. .. 1,602 17 10

£31,525 6 6

STATEMENT OF PROFIT AND LOSS FOR YEAR TO 31ST MARCH, 1924.

Dr.

Directors’ fees, auditors’ fees, rent, office expenses, and salaries (including retiring-allowance to late manager and bonus to staff) .. .. 4,802 8 1
Government license fee, and income-tax .. .. .. .. 287 13 0
Office stationery, petty cash, and expenses .. .. .. 333 15 11
Law costs .. .. .. .. .. .. 12 12 0

5,436 9 0

Printing and advertising .. .. .. .. 862 4 7
Interim dividend at 10 per cent. per annum for half-year ending 30th September, 1923, paid .. .. .. .. 500 0 0
Balance (subject to income-tax) .. .. .. 10,992 18 6

£17,291 12 1

Cr.

Balance from last statement .. .. .. £ s. d. 9,813 5 8
Less dividend (which, with interim dividend paid, for the half-year ending 30th September, 1922, made 10 per cent. for the year ending 31st March, 1923) .. .. 500 0 0
Bonus (5 per cent. on £10,000) .. .. 500 0 0
Written off freehold property account .. .. .. .. 100 0 0

1,100 0 0

8,713 5 8

Less the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Co., Ltd., payment on account of donation of £100 .. .. .. .. 25 0 0

8,688 5 8

Agency and commission .. .. .. £ s. d. 6,544 9 6
Interest and rent .. .. .. .. 2,057 14 5
Transfer fees .. .. .. .. 1 2 6

8,603 6 5

£17,291 12 1

TRUST, EXECUTOR, AND AGENCY BUSINESSES AT 31ST MARCH, 1924.

Amount at credit of estates, trusts, and clients represented by investments as per contra .. .. .. .. .. £ s. d. 2,928,255 4 5
Balances at credit of sundry clients’ and trust accounts on current account .. .. 77,094 14 11

£3,005,349 19 4

£ s. d. £ s. d.
Mortgages .. .. .. 1,168,502 8 6
Debentures .. .. .. 889,101 10 4
Shares at company’s valuation 480,527 15 0
Landed property based on land-tax value .. .. 341,992 18 4
Other securities at book values 48,130 12 3

2,928,255 4 5

Balances at debit of sundry clients’ and trust accounts on current account .. .. 18,099 17 8
Deposits .. .. .. 34,950 8 8
Cash at bankers in company’s trust account and separate bank accounts .. .. 24,044 8 7

77,094 14 11

£3,005,349 19 4

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing it to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly intituled the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

E. E. CLOWES.

Declared by the said Ernest Edward Clowes at Dunedin, in the Dominion of New Zealand, this 23rd day of October, 1924, before me—F. S. Brent, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

1077

In the matter of the TAIT’S PATENT CIRCULATOR COMPANY (LIMITED).

At a special general meeting of the members of the above company duly convened and held at the residence of Mr. John Tait, Secretary, 10 Harrington Street, Port Chalmers, on the 7th day of October, 1924, the following resolutions were duly passed :—

“ That TAIT’S PATENT CIRCULATOR COMPANY be wound up voluntarily ”; and “ That JOHN TAIT be appointed Liquidator.”

At a special general meeting of the members of the same company duly convened and held at the same place, on the 21st day of October, 1924, the aforesaid resolutions were duly confirmed.

Dated at Port Chalmers this 22nd day of October, 1924.

1078

J. M. LACHLAN, Chairman.

TAIT’S PATENT CIRCULATOR COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the above company will be held at the residence of Mr. J. Tait, 10 Harrington Street, Port Chalmers, on Tuesday, 2nd December, 1924, at 8 p.m., for the purpose of having an account laid before them showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and any matters appertaining thereto.

JOHN TAIT, Liquidator.

Port Chalmers, 31st October, 1924.

1079

TAURANGA ELECTRIC-POWER 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 Tauranga Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purposes of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £100,000 authorized to be raised by the Tauranga Electric-power Board under the above-mentioned Act for electric works, the said Tauranga Electric-power Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of 2½d. in the pound upon the unimproved rateable value of all rateable property in the Tauranga Electric-power District, comprising the whole of the Tauranga Electric-power District; 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 April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, or until the loan is fully paid off.

THOS. LOCHHEAD, Chairman.

R. L. THOMAS, Acting-Secretary.

1080

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of H. E. PARTRIDGE AND CO. (N.Z.), LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given that the following special resolutions were made on the 31st day of October, 1924, by the above-named company by an entry in its minute-book,