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Number of shareholders at time of registration of company : 33.
Present number of shareholders : 35.
Number of men employed by the company : 50.
Quantity and value of gold produced since the last statement : 14,092 oz., £57,725.
Total quantity and value produced since registration : 82,722 oz., £349,081.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since the last statement : £35,194.
Total expenditure since registration : £244,760.
Total amount of dividends declared : £22,981.
Total amount of dividends paid : £22,981.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends : Nil.
Amount of cash in bank : Overdraft, £464 15s. 8d.
Amount of cash in hand : Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to the company : £45,327 12s. 7d.
Amount of debts considered good : £45,301 3s. 8d.
Amount of the contingent liabilities of the company (if any) : Nil.
Amounts of debts owing by the company : £609 16s. 6d.
I, Donald Gordon Johnston, of Wellington, the Secretary of the Rimu Gold Dredging Company, Ltd., do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at the present date; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.
D. G. JOHNSTON.
Declared at Wellington, this 25th day of July, 1929, before me—W. S. Wheeler, J.P.

OXO MEAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of OXO MEAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

A T an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the above-named company, held at the office of A. E. PALMER, Public Accountant, Hastings, on Wednesday, 24th July, 1929, the following special resolution was duly passed :
“ That this company be wound up voluntarily, and that A. E. PALMER, Public Accountant, of Hastings, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding-up.”
Dated this 24th day of July, 1929.
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A. E. PALMER, Liquidator.

SIGNS LIMITED.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of SIGNS LIMITED, in Voluntary Liquidation.
NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of the company, held on the 23rd July, 1929,
the following resolution was passed :—
“That the company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up, and accordingly it is hereby resolved that the company be wound up voluntarily, and that Mr. VICTOR WILLIAMSON, of Auckland, Registered Accountant, be and is hereby appointed Liquidator for such purpose.”
All persons or firms having claims against the above company are required to forward full particulars of all such claims to the undersigned at First Floor, Ellison Chambers, 138 Queen Street, Auckland, not later than the 31st day of August, 1929, otherwise they may be excluded from participation in any distribution made.
V. WILLIAMSON, Liquidator.
24th July, 1929.

R. A. ELLIOT AND CO., LTD.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and of R. A. ELLIOT AND Co., LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of the members of R. A. ELLIOT AND CO., LTD., on the 22nd day of July, 1929, it was unanimously resolved by way of special resolution that the company be wound up voluntarily.
Dated the 23rd day of July, 1929.
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A. T. ELLIOT
A. McEWAN
Directors.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1928, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and the Acts amending the same.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Christchurch City Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-named Acts and all other Acts and powers enabling it in that behalf, to execute a certain work—namely, the widening of Carlton Mill Road—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken : And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Lands and Survey Department, Government Buildings, Durham Street, in the said city, and is there open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours, and that all persons affected by the execution of such public work and the taking of such lands should, if they have well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Christchurch City Council, addressed to the Town Clerk at his office, Manchester Street, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing thirteen and nine-tenths perches, situated in the City of Christchurch, being part of the bed of the River Avon, as the same is shown on the plan above referred to, and therein coloured green.

As witness my hand at Christchurch, this 25th day of July, 1929.
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J. S. NEVILLE, Town Clerk.

CHRISTCHURCH DRAINAGE BOARD.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1928, and the Christchurch District Drainage Act, 1907, and the Acts amending the same.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Christchurch Drainage Board proposes under the provisions of the above-named Acts, and all other Acts and powers enabling it in that behalf, to execute a certain work—namely, the diversion of the River Avon—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken : And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Lands and Survey Department, Government Buildings, Durham Street, in the said city, and is there open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours, and that all persons affected by the execution of such public work or the taking of such lands should, if they have well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Christchurch Drainage Board, addressed to the Clerk of the said Board at his office, Number 198 Hereford Street, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing thirteen and nine-tenths perches, situated in the City of Christchurch, being part of Hagley Park Reserve, as the same is shown on the plan above referred to, and therein coloured pink.

As witness my hand at Christchurch, this 23rd day of July, 1929.
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C. F. CHAMPION, Secretary and Treasurer.

GREY 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, 1926, the Grey Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows :—
That, for the purpose of providing interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of £8,000, authorized to be raised by the Grey Electric-power Board under the above-mentioned Act for the development of electric power within the district, the said Grey Electric-power Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-eleventh of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property (on the basis of the capital value) of the Grey Electric-power 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

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