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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5561, 24 January 1879, Page 3

greetings npHE WELLINGTON TRUST, LOAN, AND INVESTMENT COMPANY (limited). The Sixth Annual General Meeting of this Company will be held at the Chamber of Commerce on MONDAY, 3rd FEBRUARY proximo, at half-past Seven o’clock in the evening. BUSINESS ; To receive Directors’ report and balance sheet. Declaration of dividends. Election of three directors. Election of Auditors General. Proxy papers can be obtained at the Offices of the Company, Lambton-quay, and no others will be accepted. L. LEVY, Man aging Director. Wellington, 16th January, 1879. TRUST, LOAN, AND INVESTMENT COMPANY (limited.) NOTICE. SHAREHOLDERS are requested to take notice that at the Annual Meeting (as above) only two of the retiring Directors will offer themselves for re-election. As, therefore, at least one new Director will have to be elected, attention is called to the following rule, viz.: — Rule 51a. —No Shareholder other than a retiring Director shall be eligible for election as a Director, unless notice in writing of the intention to propose such Shareholder as a Director, under the hand of a Shareholder, shall have been left at the registered office of the Company seven days at least previous to the Meeting at which such election is to takejilaoe, L. LEVY, Managing Director, Wellington, January 16, 1879. ELLINGTON GAS COMPANY (LIMITED.) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. Tho annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Chamber of Commerce, on MONDAY, 3rd FEBRUARY at 4 p.m. By order of the Board. J. REES GEORGE, Manager. Business : To receive Report of Directors; To elect two Directors; To elect Auditors; and General. After the completion of the business, the meeting will be made special to consider alterations to Articles of Association, as per special advertisement and circular. Wellington, January 15, 1879. WELLINGTON GAS COMPANY (LIMITED.) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. The annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company will he held at the Chamber of Commerce, on MONDAY, 3rd FEBRUARY, 1879, at 4 p.m,; and after the conclusion of the ordinary business the meeting will be made special, and the Resolution and Regulations at the foot of this notice will be proposed and considered ; such regulations to be in place of other regulations of the Company hitherto in force relating to the same matters. By order of the Board. J. BEES GEORGE, Manager. Resolution. That the capital of the Wellington Gas Company (Limited) be, and the same is hereby increased to £IOO,OOO. Regulations. *4. If before or on the day appointed for payment, any Shareholder does not pay the amount of any call to which he is liable, then such Shareholder shall be liable to pay interest for the same at the rate of fifteen pounds per cent, per annum from the day appointed for the payment thereof to the time of the actual payment. *7. No Shareholder shall transfer his Shares without the consent of the Directors, who may decline to register any transfer of Shares unless fully paid up, or when made by a Shareholder who is indebted to them. If any Shareholder feels aggrieved with the refusal of the Directors to allow him to transfer his Shares, the matter shall be settled by arbitration. *l2. Any person becoming entitled to a Share in consequence of the death, bankruptcy, or insolveuoy of any Shareholder, or in consequence of the marriage of any female Shareholder, or in any other way than by transfer, may be registered as a Shareholder upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be required by the Directors and upon payment of all costs in connection therewith. *l6. If any Shareholder fails to pay any call due on the appointed day the Directors may at any time thereafter, during such time as the call remains unpaid, serve a notice on him requiring him to pay such call, together with any interest that may have accrued by reason of such non-payment. # 23. General meetings of the Company shall be held at such time and place as may be prescribed by the Company in general meetings ; and, if no other time or place is prescribed, a general meeting shall be held during the month of February in every year at such place as may be determined by the Directors. *2B. Seven days’ notice at the least, specifying the place, the time and hour of meeting, and the purpose for which any general meeting is to be held, shall be given by advertisement, by notice forwarded through the post to each Shareholder, or by leaving the same at the last known place of abode. *3l. No business shall be transacted at any meeting except the declaration of a dividend, unless a quorum of Shareholders is present at the commencement of such business ; and such quorum shall be ascertained as follows : that is to say —if the Shareholders belonging to the Company at the time of the meeting do not excred ten in number, the quorum shall be five; if they exceed ten there shall be added to the above quorum one for every ten additional Shareholders up to fifty ; and one for every twenty additional Shareholders after fifty ; with this limitation, that twenty shareholders shall be sufficient to form a quorum at any meeting. *44. No person shall be appointed a proxy who is not a Shareholder, and the instrument appointing him shall be deposited at the Registered Office of the Company not less than fortyeight hours before the time of holding the meeting at which he proposes to vote, and every instrument appointing a proxy shall remain in force until the death of the Shareholder giving the same or by the revocation thereof by notice in writing or lodging a proxy of a later date. *49. The office of Director shall be vacated— If he holds any other office or place of profit under the Company, excepting that of Managing Director. If he becomes bankrupt or insolvent. If he is concerned in or participates in the profits of any contract with the Company. If he participates in the profits of any work done for the Company. *SO. At the annual meeting in every year the Director or Directors as the case may be who have been longest in office shall retire, but shall be eligible for re-election by the Shareholders present or represented at such meeting. *sl. No Shareholder other than a retiring Director shall be eligible for election as a Director unless notice of the intention to propose such Shareholder shall have been leit at the Company’s office seven days at least previous to the meeting.