JULY 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2195

A.B.C. GARAGES, LIMITED.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the above-named company, held on Thursday, the 23rd day of July, 1931, the following extraordinary resolution was duly passed:—

“ That is has been proved to the satisfaction of this meeting that the company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily, and that ERNEST WILLIAM HUNT, of Wellington, Public Accountant, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding-up.”

G. A. MILLS
C. MACDERMOTT }
Shareholders.

A.B.C. GARAGES, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

THE creditors of the above-named company are required, on or before the 23rd day of August, 1931, to send their names and addresses and particulars of their debts or claims to the undersigned, the Liquidator of the said company; or, if required by notice in writing from the Liquidator, to come in and prove such debts or claims, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.

ERNEST W. HUNT, Liquidator.
Public Accountant,
P.O. Box 1527, Wellington.

STATEMENT OF AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of Company: Waihi Grand Junction Gold Company, Ltd.
When formed, and date of registration of company in New Zealand: 22nd December, 1897.
Whether in active operation or not: Mine leased.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney: 60 Shortland Street, Auckland; Robert Gracie Milligan.
Where mine is situate: Waihi.
Nominal capital: £400,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £41,437 12s. (written down from £384,375 to 2s. per share).
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: On basis of £1 per share, £40,494 15s.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a) In fully paid-up shares: Nil.
(b) In partly paid-up shares, credited as 15s. paid up: £112,500.
(c) In cash: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 4,000,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 269,874.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): 2s.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): 2s.
Number and amount of calls in arrears (New Zealand Register): Nil.
Number of shares forfeited (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: 982.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 12 (on dismantling).
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: £11,220 8s. 6d. (Waihi Gold-mining Company).
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £2,368,532 9s.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £1,061 10s. 6d. (upkeep).
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £2,353,327 11s. 9d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £147,943 19s. 4d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £1,627 5s. 1d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil.
Amounts of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £7,055 17s. 2d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £7,055 17s. 2d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £198 0s. 10d.

I, Robert Gracie Milligan, the Attorney of the Waihi Grand Junction Gold Company, Ltd., do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 31st day of December,

1930 (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, 1927.

R. G. MILLIGAN, Attorney.

Declared at Auckland, this 23rd day of July, 1931, before me— J. Hore, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

THE BROOKES' SAWMILLING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE OF VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that, by resolution in the minute-book of the company, dated the tenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, it was resolved that the above company be wound up voluntarily.

ADAMS BROS., Solicitors, Dunedin.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between BRUCE AGNEW WILLS and STANLEY VICTOR RATLEY, carrying on business as Agents and Indentors at Southern Cross Buildings, Auckland, under the style or firm of “ Lewis and Wills,” has been dissolved as from the 31st March, 1931, so far as concerns the said Bruce Agnew Wills, who retires from the said firm.

Dated this 14th day of July, 1931.

B. A. WILLS.
S. V. RATLEY.

GISBORNE 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, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Gisborne Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purposes of providing for the payment of interest and other charges on a loan of £12,550, authorized to be raised by the Gisborne Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act for redeeming the outstanding liability in respect of a portion—viz., £15,700—of Peel Street Bridge and Street-metalling Loan, 1920, of £42,500, raised on the 1st October, 1921, and maturing on 1st October, 1931, the said Gisborne Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 11/64ths of a penny in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the Borough of Gisborne, comprising the whole of the Borough of Gisborne, and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of April and the first day of October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Gisborne was hereto affixed at the office of and pursuant to a resolution of the Gisborne Borough Council in the presence of—

D. W. COLEMAN, Mayor.
R. D. B. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership hitherto subsisting between G. F. ENGLAND and T. A. WALDER, trading together under the firm name of “ England and Co.,” Manufacturers’ Agents, at 83 Cameron Street, Whangarei, has been dissolved.

Dated this 16th day of July, 1931.

THOS. A. WALDER.

THE PUKEKOHE MIDGET GOLF COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of shareholders of the above-named company the following resolution was passed:—

“ That the Pukekohe Midget Golf Company, Limited, be wound up voluntarily, and that Mr. F. A. Hosking, of Pukekohe, Solicitor, be appointed Liquidator.”

Dated at Pukekohe, this 24th day of July, 1931.

F. A. HOSKING, Liquidator.