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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

Number of men employed by the company: 46 (average).
Quantity and value of gold produced since the last statement: 14,820 oz.; £110,726 3s. 11d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: 148,063 oz.; £678,034 3s. 11d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since the last statement: £65,645 19s. 6d.
Total expenditure since registration: £450,219 19s. 6d.
Total amount of dividends declared: £36,441 6s. 1d.
Total amount of dividends paid: £36,441 6s. 1d.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: £12,186 0s. 3d.
Amount of cash in hand: £20.
Amount of debts directly due to the company: £43,245 3s.
Amount of debts considered good: All.
Amount of the contingent liabilities of the company (if any): NIL.
Amount of debts owing by the company: Nil.

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 29th day of June, 1934, before me—W. S. Wheeler, a Justice of the Peace in the Dominion of New Zealand.

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TIMARU FIRE BOARD.

Timaru Fire Board Conversion Loan, 1934.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Timaru Fire Board at a special meeting held on the 24th day of April, 1934, passed a resolution the purport of which was to convert the loan as set out in the First Schedule of the Timaru Fire Board Loan Conversion Order, 1934, published in New Zealand Gazette No. 22 of 5th April, 1934, page 892, and amounting to £5,500, into fresh securities, and such resolution was confirmed at a meeting of the Board held on 26th June, 1934.

W. C. RAYMOND,
Chairman.

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F. E. WEST AND COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of section 234 of the Companies Act, 1933, that a meeting of creditors of F. E. West and Company, Limited, will be held at 2.30 p.m. on Monday, the 9th day of July, 1934, in the registered office of the company in Miriama Chambers, Miriama Street, Taumarunui.

Taumarunui, 29th June, 1934.

G. A. STANTON,
Secretary of F. E. West and Co., Ltd.

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YEATS LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to section 232 of the Companies Act, 1933, that a general meeting of the members of the above-named company will be held at the offices of Barnett and Barnett, Public Accountants, Featherston Chambers, Wellington, on Friday, the 27th day of July, 1934, at two o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of having an account laid before the company showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator, and also of determining by extraordinary resolution the manner in which the books, accounts, and documents of the company and of the Liquidator shall be disposed of.

Dated this 2nd day of July, 1934.

J. H. BARNETT,
Liquidator.

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MANAWATU DRAINAGE BOARD.

CONVERSION OF LOANS.

I, PERCY GEORGE MILDON, Chairman of the Manawatu Drainage Board, do hereby certify that the undermentioned resolution was passed at a special meeting of the Manawatu Drainage Board held on Saturday, the 16th day of June, 1934, and that same was confirmed at the regular monthly meeting of the said Board on the 2nd day of July, 1934, notice thereof having appeared in the Manawatu Evening Standard on the 18th and 25th June, 1934, and the Manawatu Daily Times on the 19th and 26th June, 1934.

Resolution.—“That, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by section 9 of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932-33, and the Orders in Council dated the 30th May, 1934, known as the Manawatu Drainage Board Loans Conversion Order, 1934 (No. 1), and the Manawatu Drainage Board Loans Conversion Order, 1934 (No. 2), published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 43 of the 8th June, 1934, and of all other powers and authorities it thereunto enabling, the Manawatu Drainage Board doth hereby resolve to issue new securities in conversion of the existing securities as set out in the First Schedule to the said Orders in Council, the said securities to bear interest at the rate of four and one-quarter (4¼) per centum per annum, and to be redeemable in respect of the loans subject to Order No. 1 at the end of a period of eighteen (18) years from the 1st August, 1934, and in respect of the loans subject to Order No. 2 at the end of a period of eighteen (18) years from the 1st December, 1934, in accordance with the terms of the said loans conversion Orders.”

P. G. MILDON, Chairman.

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MANAWATU DRAINAGE BOARD.

NOTICE TO DEBENTURE-HOLDERS.

CONVERSION under the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932-33, and the Manawatu Drainage Board Loans Conversion Order, 1934 (No. 1), of debentures or other securities issued in respect of the following loans:—

Notice is hereby given to the holders of debentures or other securities issued by the Manawatu Drainage Board in respect of the above-mentioned loans that it is intended to convert all such debentures or other securities (except those in respect of which dissent is duly signified) into new debentures having new maturity dates and bearing interest at 4½ per cent. per annum.

The conversion will take effect from the 1st August, 1934. Application for conversion must be made in writing and be accompanied by the securities to which it relates.

Dissent from the conversion of any existing debentures or other securities may be signified by the holder by notice in writing delivered to the Clerk to the Board at the Board’s Office, Hodder and Tolley’s Buildings, Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North, on or before the 15th day of August, 1934. If notice of dissent from the conversion of any debentures or other securities is not received by that date the securities will be converted.

The rate of interest on any debentures or other securities in respect of which dissent is signified as aforesaid will, by virtue of section 18 of the above-mentioned Act, be reduced to two-thirds of the original rate as from the 1st August, 1934. Further particulars as to the new debentures and the conversion generally may be obtained from the Clerk to the Board, Manawatu Drainage Board, Hodder and Tolley’s Buildings, Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North.

Dated this 3rd day of July, 1934.

P. G. MILDON, Chairman.

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