NEW COMPANIES.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 11

NEW COMPANIES.

Registration of the following now com- : panics is reported by the "Mercantile Gazette":— A., King and Co., Ltd., private comfian, Foxton. Capital: £11,250, into 11,250 . shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington— E. J. Harvey 2800; Foxton—A. B. Si<*- ' nal 2SOO, E,. Baker 2SOO, E. Baker and G. H. King (jointly) 2SOO, A. Eraser 50* Objects: To acquire and take over as a going concern the business now carried on. at Foxton under the style of "A, King and C 0.," to carry on the business of. planting, cultivating, and milling New Zealand flax (phormium tenax) and of the prepar-, ation and ' sale of. the fibre thereof, and general incidental. Feildins Duco Painting, and Varnishing Co., Ltd., private company, Feilding. Capital: £400, into 400 shares of £1 each. / Subscribers: Feilding—W. H. Bain and Co., Ltd., 300, A. B. Harrison 100. Objects: To carry on the business of paint-" ing, .varnishing, and renovating (including painting and varnishing by any and every method, including the gun spray method ■ of painting or varnishing)" of motor-cars, : motor-lorries, carts, and general incidental. ■ ' ■ 9 . . : K. Y. Shearer, Ltd., private company^ Lower ILutt, W. .Capital: £10,000, into. 10,000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers r' Lower Hutt—R. Y. Shearer 8700, Mary E« Shearer 500, \ H. Shearer 500, Ethel' M* " M'Donald 200, Eva W. Lowe 100. Objects: To carry ou the business of univer* sal providers, warehousemen, importers^ wholesale and retail' drapers, and general incidental. Hoover Co. (U.Z.), Ltd.', private company, Wellington. Capital: £3000, into. 3000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wei-' lington—D. C. E. Blake, L. F. Wallis, ' and P. S. Ramsay, 1000 shares each. Objects: To establish, promote, and carry, on the business of importers, exporters, manufacturers, sellers, dealers in "Tho * Hoover Vacuum Cleaner," and its acces« sories, and general incidental. Other companies are Sun and Yew (pri« vate), £10,000, silk merchants, Auckland* Druleigli Business College, Ltd., £10,000* Auckland. Southland Flax Co. (private)^ £2000, flax culture, Gore. British Pavements (Canterbury), £50,000, engineers) and road b"ild«rs, Christchurch. J. A* Pa .;son (private), £10,000. wines anj .spirits, Wanganui.

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