May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1557

STATEMENT OF AFFAIRS OF A MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Rimu Gold-dredging Co., Ltd.
When formed, and date of registration: 20th July, 1920.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Hokitika; D. G. Johnston, Box 1527, Wellington.
Nominal capital: £250,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £213,572.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £142,863.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, £213,572; and the amount of cash received for the same (if any): £142,863.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £70,709.
Number of shares into which the capital is divided: 250,000.
Number of shares allotted: 213,572.
Amount paid 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 time of registration of company: 33.
Present number of shareholders: 35.
Number of men employed by the company: 53 (average).
Quantity and value of gold produced since the last statement: 9,840 oz., £40,207.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: 109,243 oz., £436,972.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since the last statement: £35,636.
Total expenditure since registration: £315,918.
Total amount of dividends declared: £24,622 10s.
Total amount of dividends paid: £24,622 10s.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: £1,042 2s. 3d.
Amount of cash in hand: £20.
Amount of debts directly due to the company: £32,226 13s.
Amount of debts considered good: All.
Amount of the contingent liabilities of the company (if any): Nil.
Amounts of debts owing by the company: £171 0s. 3d.

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 16th day of May, 1931, before me—O. S. Watkins, J.P.

146

THE CHRISTCHURCH VULCANIZING CO., LTD.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and amendments thereto, and in the matter of THE CHRISTCHURCH VULCANIZING COMPANY, LIMITED, a Private Company incorporated under the above Act.

NOTICE is hereby given that by a minute dated the 14th day of May, 1931, the following resolution was passed:—

“It was resolved that the company be wound up voluntarily as from the 14th day of May, 1931, and Mr. F. E. TWYFORD of the firm of Hicks, Ainger, and Twyford, Accountants, be appointed Liquidator.”

All claims against the above company must be made to P.O. Box 707, Christchurch, on or before the 28th day of May, 1931, otherwise they may be excluded from any distribution of the assets.”

Dated at Christchurch this 14th day of May, 1931.

147 F. E. TWYFORD, Liquidator.

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920 and its amendments, and the Public Works Act, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Wellington 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 public work—namely, the extension of a substation in Moxham Avenue, in the City of Wellington—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 land so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Town Clerk to the said Council, in the Town Hall, Cuba Street, in the said city, and is there open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during office hours, and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or the taking of such land 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 Wellington City Council, addressed to the Town Clerk at his said office.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land, containing one perch and ten one-hundredths of a perch, bring part of Lot 67 on deposited plan number 168, part Section 4, Evans Bay District, coloured red on the above plan.

Dated this 11th day of May, 1931.

148 E. P. NORMAN, Town Clerk.

TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

Taranaki County Carrington Road Special-rating District Loan, 1931, of £350.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Taranaki County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Taranaki County Carrington Road Special-rating District Loan, 1931, of £350, authorized to be raised by the Taranaki County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of forming and metalling the Carrington Road, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of two and a half pence (2½d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Carrington Road Special-rating District of the County of Taranaki, being Sections 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, Lot 2 of Section 17, and 19, Block XI, Cape Survey District, and that such special rate 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 for a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly passed at a properly constituted meeting of the Council held on the 4th day of May, 1931.

149 R. O. ELLIS, County Clerk.

TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

Taranaki County Te Arei Road Special-rating District Loan, 1931, of £250.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Taranaki County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Taranaki County Te Arei Road Special-rating District Loan, 1931, of £250, authorized to be raised by the Taranaki County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of forming and metalling the Te Arei Road, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one and seven-eighths pence (1⅞d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Te Arei Road Special-rating District of the County of Taranaki, being Sections part 180, Sections 1 and 2, Manganui Town Belt, Block 9, Waitara Survey District, and that such special rate 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 is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly passed at a properly constituted meeting of the Council held on the 4th day of May, 1931.

150 R. O. ELLIS, County Clerk.