GEAR MEAT COMPANY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3003, 15 December 1896, Page 2

GEAR MEAT COMPANY.

The directors’ report, to be pretontod at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Gear Meat Company to bo held on January sth, is as follows Tour directors have pleasure in submitting tho balance-sheet and profit and loss account for tho year ended 30th November, 1806. After making duo allowance for &c., the balance available for appropriation is JlStlO 12s lOd, which the directors recommend be apportioned as followsln payment of a dividend on the paid-up capital of tho Company lof which an interim dividend for the half-year ended 31st Mav has already been paid), ,£4600 ; to be carried forward to next years account, 12s lOd: total, .£B4IO I2sdod. At an extraordinary general meeting of' the shareholders of the Company,‘held on. 11th instant, a resolution was parsed reducing the number of 'directors to seven. I‘hin will he brought - locwa.fl for confirmation on stn proximo, aud if adopted will become operative at the ordinary general meeting to be held thereafter. The retiring directors are Messrs Anderson and Bell, who, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. The auditors, Messrs T>. T. Stuart and R. TBadham, also offer thomscivcs for re-election.