Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash
has been paid: £9,750 issued to shareholders of the
Scandinavian Water-race Company (Registered).
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 18,000.
Number of shares allotted: 9,757.
Amount paid up per share: £1.
Amount called up per share: Nil, except on 7 (shares sub-
scribed for in memorandum of association).
Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.
Number of shares forfeited: 501.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and the money received for
same: 501; realized £149 3s. 9d.
Number of shareholders at the time of registration of com-
pany: 18.
Present number of shareholders: 20.
Number of men employed by company: 6.
Quantity and value of gold produced during preceding
year: 386 oz. 3 dwt. 18 gr.; £1,523 14s. 1d.
Total quantity and value of gold produced since registration:
10,640 oz. 13 dwt. 14 gr.; £42,013 6s. 9d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations
since last statement: £2,047 7s. 2d.
Total expenditure since registration: £44,923 14s. 1d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: £385 ls. 10d.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company: £3,603 18s. 6d.
Amount of debts considered good: £3,603 18s. 6d.
Amount of debts owing by company: £4,156 ls. 3d.

I, John Thomas Hamann, of Dunedin, Secretary of the
Scandinavian Water-race Company (Limited), do solemnly
and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete state-
ment of the affairs of the said company at 31st December,
1925; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously
believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices
of the Peace Act, 1908.
J. T. HAMANN.
Declared at Dunedin this 17th April, 1926, before me—
John Wilson, J.P.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

ADAM IRVINE HUNTER, Bachelor of Medicine, N.Z.,
1925, Bachelor of Surgery, N.Z., 1925, now residing in
Dunedin, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the
10th May next to have my name placed on the Medical
Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that I have
deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the
Department of Health at Dunedin.
ADAM IRVINE HUNTER,
Drurie’s Buildings, Octagon.
Dated at Dunedin, 10th April, 1926.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF REGISTERED OFFICE.

BRITISH UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA
PROPRIETARY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the office or place of busi-
ness of the above company where legal process may
be served or notices may be addressed has been changed to
the corner of Tory and Frederick Streets, in the City of
Wellington.
Dated at Wellington this 16th day of April, 1926.
BELL, GULLY, MACKENZIE, & O'LEARY,
Solicitors for the Company.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the
matter of STILES AND MATHESON (LIMITED), Levin.

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named
company duly convened and held at Levin on the
15th day of April, 1926, the following special resolutions were
duly passed and confirmed by all members of the above
company, viz.—
“That the company go into voluntary liquidation for the
purposes of reconstruction on the 15th day of April, 1926.”
“That Mr. G. DACRE HAMILTON, Public Accountant, Levin,
be appointed Liquidator.”
G. D. HAMILTON, A.P.A. (N.Z.),
Liquidator,
STILES AND MATHESON (LIMITED), in Liquidation.

FELLOWS OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE.
New Zealand Institute,
Wellington, 19th April, 1926.
It is hereby notified that at the last meeting of the Board
of Governors of the New Zealand Institute the following
were elected to the Fellowship of the Institute:—
Professor W. N. Benson, B.A., D.Sc., F.G.S.
J. S. Maclayrin, D.Sc., F.C.S.
M. WOOD,
Assistant-Secretary.

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE (LIMITED).
NOTICE UNDER COMPANIES ACT, 1908.
AS from 1st April, 1926, FRANK M. WINSTONE (MER-
CHANTS), LIMITED, are appointed the Attorneys for
the Auckland Province.
Business will be conducted at their registered office, No. 39
Customs Street, Auckland, and legal process may be served
and notices of any kind may be addressed to the CANTON
INSURANCE OFFICE (LIMITED) at that office.
FRANK M. WINSTONE (MERCHANTS),
LIMITED,
Attorneys.

ARCADE COMPANY (LIMITED).
REGISTERED OFFICE IN NAPIER.
In Liquidation.
NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of the
shareholders in the above company will be held at
Messrs. J. V. Brown and Company's Registered Office, Tenny-
son Street, Napier, on Friday, the 7th May, 1926, at 10 a.m.
Business: To consider auditor's report and final accounts
on the winding-up of the company.
GEO. EBBETT,
Liquidator.
Napier, 17th April, 1926.

HAMILTON 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 Hamil-
ton Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £18,400, authorized to be raised by the
Hamilton Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act,
to pay the cost of all necessary labour, material, plant, tools,
engineers' fees, plans, supervision, and compensation to owners
of property for or in respect of the following public works in
and for the benefit of that portion of the Borough of Hamilton
described in the Schedule hereto and hereinafter referred to as
the Maeroa Special-rating Area—
For laying, constructing, supplying, and fitting
mains, pipes, machinery, meters, fittings, and
appliances for the supply of water .. .. .. £6,500
For making and constructing sewer-drains and
drainage-works .. .. .. .. .. .. £11,900
£18,400
The said Hamilton Borough Council hereby makes and levies
a special rate of sevenpence halfpenny (7½d.) in the pound
upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Maeroa
Special-rating Area, comprising all that area in the Borough
of Hamilton bounded by a line commencing at the southern-
most corner of Lot 7, deposited plan 8639, and proceeding
north-easterly along the south-eastern boundary of that lot
to a line easterly of Lake Street, parallel to and distant
250 links from the north-eastern side of the said Lake Street;
thence south-easterly along that line to Lot 20, deposited
plan 7493; thence north-easterly along the north-western
boundaries of the said Lot 20 and Lots 19 to 13 (inclusive)
on the said deposited plan 7493, the abutment of a road, and
Lots 11 to 1 (inclusive) on the said deposited plan 7493; thence
south-easterly along the north-eastern boundary of the said
Lot 1; thence north-easterly along a right line to and thence
along the south-eastern boundary of Lot 4, plan 90 lodged in
the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, to a
point in the production of the south-western boundary of
Allotment 37, Pukete Parish; thence south-easterly along a
right line to and along the last-mentioned boundary to