2478

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 60

other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Waikiwi River Board hereby resolves as follows:- That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Waikiwi River Board Loan of £2,500, 1925, being a part of loan of £8,000 authorized by a poll of the ratepayers taken on the 15th day of November, 1915, for the purpose of straightening, deepening, and widening the Waikiwi Creek, and cleaning out all obstructions therefrom within the Waikiwi River District, and the construction and acquiring of all necessary works, lands, easements, and materials and plant relative and incidental to such work, the said Board hereby appropriates the special differential rate of six shillings and sixpence (6s. 6d.) per acre on all land in the Waikiwi River District classed "A," the special differential rate of three shillings (3s.) per acre on all land in the said district classed "B," and the special differential rate of fourpence (4d.) per acre on all land in the said district classed "C," made and levied by special order passed on the 11th day of July, 1925; and the said special differential rates shall be annually recurring rates during the currency of such loan, being payable yearly on the 1st day of August 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.

R. A. ANDERSON, Chairman. D. CUTHBERTSON, Clerk.

NEW ZEALAND DAIRY-PRODUCE CONTROL BOARD.

To OWNERS and EXPORTERS of all BUTTER and CHEESE to be exported from New Zealand,

THE above-named Board hereby gives notice that on the 11th day of August, 1925, it by resolution determined to exercise limited control over the export of all butter and cheese which shall from and after the date hereinafter mentioned be exported from New Zealand to any port on the East Coast of North America or any port in Great Britain or the Continent of Europe (between Bordeaux and Hamburg, both inclusive) to the extent and for the purpose of requiring that all butter and cheese so exported shall be insured under a marine policy held and arranged by the said Board against all risks from any cause whatsoever (including war and strike risks, shortage of fuel, and malicious damage). The said control, it was resolved, shall operate as from midnight on the 31st day of August, 1925, and shall cease at midnight on the 31st day of August, 1926; and shall not apply to butter or cheese not shipped on or before that date; and shall not apply to butter or cheese which shall be laden upon the exporting ship at or before midnight on the 31st day of August, 1925.

For and on behalf of the Board,

T. C. BRASH, Secretary.

FINAL NOTICE BY LIQUIDATOR.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of Thos. WADDELL AND Co. (LIMITED) in liquidation.

IN accordance with section 230 of the Companies Act, I hereby summon a meeting of shareholders to be held at my office, 176 Hereford Street, Christchurch, on Tuesday, 25th August, 1925, at 3 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Liquidator's report upon the winding-up of the above-named company.

DENYS HOARE, Liquidator.

Christchurch, 10th August, 1925.

TAUMARUNUI COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908, and its amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Taumarunui County Council proposes to take, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of making a road approach to the Ongarue River Bridge.

Further notice is hereby given that a plan has been prepared showing the land proposed to be taken, and a copy thereof marked "A" is deposited at the Taumarunui Hospital, in the Kururau-Turoto Riding of the Taumarunui County, and is open for inspection by all persons during ordinary office hours—namely, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., except on Saturday when the office will be closed from noon. All persons affected are hereby called upon to set forth in writing any well-grounded objections to the execution of such work or to the taking of such land, and to send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Taumarunui County Council at Taumarunui aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land containing ten decimal thirty-six (10·36) perches, be the same a little more or less, being part of that piece of land known as Ohura South N 2E 3G 3, Lot 11B, Number 3, Block II, Piopiotea West Survey District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the said plan marked "A" and therein coloured sepia.

Dated at Taumarunui this 17th day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five (1925).

S. H. ANDREW,

Clerk, Taumarunui County Council.

STATEMENT OF AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Clutha Development (Limited). When formed and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 14th February, 1924; 27th August, 1924. Whether in active operation or not: In active operation. Where business is conducted and name of attorney: 150 Hereford Street, Christchurch; Charles Norman Taylor. Where mine is situated: Clutha River, near Lowburn Ferry. Nominal capital: £10,000. Amount of capital subscribed: £10,000. Amount of capital actually paid in cash in New Zealand: Nil. Price paid to the vendors of the mine: (a) in fully paid-up shares, £5,000; (b) in partly paid-up shares, Nil; (c) in cash, Nil. Number of shares into which capital is divided: 10,000. Number of shares on New Zealand register: 2,060. Amount paid per share (New Zealand register): £1. Amount called up per share (New Zealand register): £1. Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand register): Nil. Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand register sold, and money received for same: Nil. Number of shareholders on New Zealand register: 10. Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 4. Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: Nil. (NOTE.-The company is a prospecting company, and not a producing company.) Total quantity and value produced since registration of the office of the company in New Zealand: Nil. (See note to previous answer.) Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £2,032 19s. 11d. Total expenditure since registration of the office of the company in New Zealand: £2,032 19s. 11d. Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: Nil. Amount of cash in Bank of New Zealand: £161 19s. 6d. Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil. Amounts of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £76 18s. 5d. Amount of such debts considered good: £76 18s. 5d. Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £516s. 10d.

I, Charles Norman Taylor, of Gisborne, the Attorney of Clutha Development (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 14th day of February, 1925, 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..

CHARLES N. TAYLOR.

Declared at Gisborne this 9th day of August, 1925, before me-F. W. Nolan, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that JAMES FRANCIS SKEDDEN and NORMAN EDWARD WATSON, hitherto carrying on the business of Barristers and Solicitors in partnership at Stewart Dawson's Chambers, Wellington, under the style of "Skedden and Watson," have dissolved the said Partnership by mutual consent as from the 8th day of August, 1925.