Business Notes.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 10, 1 August 1906, Page 282

Business Notes.

Keith, Hutcheson & Wilson (James Stephen Keith, John Hutcheson, and Thomas Wilson) ship chandlers, riggers and sailmakers, Wellington, have dissolved partnership, J. S. Keith retiring. ****** Edward Anderson & Co. Ltd. (private company) have been registered with a capital of £25,000, in 5000 shares of £5 each. Objects : To acquire and carry on the business of china and glassware merchants. Subscribers, with number of shares each : — Edward Anderson, 4,980 shares fully paid up ; Elizabeth Anna Anderson, 20. Registered office, Wellington. ****** J. A. Nash & Co. Ltd. (private company) have been registered with a capital of £8,950, in 1790 shares of £5 each. Objects : To acquire the business of J. A. Nash & Co., of Wellington, and Manawatu Hardware Co., at Palmerston North. Subscribers, with number of shares each : — James Alfred Nash, 704 ; Henty Stratfoid Porteous, 142 ; John Samuel Watchorn, 472 ; Leonard Sutton, 472. ****** Taranaki Oil and Freehold Co. Ltd. have been registered with a nominal capital of £15,0001 5,000 in £1 shares. Subscribers for five shares each : — William Thomas Jennings, M.H.R., Francis Peacock Corkill, George William Browne, Michael Jones, William Thomas Gardner, James Hawkins, and Thomas Kmgwell Skinner. Registered office, Devon street, New Plymouth ; secretary, John Spencer Selwyn Medley. ****** Ellis Motor Co. Ltd. have been registered with, a capital of £4,000, in 4000 shares of £1 each. Objects • To acquire from Peter Ellis, of Wellington, engineer, the rights of a rotary engine invented by him. Subscribers, with number of shares each : — Samuel Bolton, 100 ; A. H. Pringle, 100 ; Herbert P. Rawson, 50 ; G. Hutchinson, 25 ; John Highet, 50 ; Graham S. Pringle, 50 ; W. P. Pringle, 50 ; and others. Registered office, Wellington. ****** Robertson & Co. Ltd. (private company) have been registered with a capital of £15,000 in 15000 shares of £1 each. Objects : To take over the engineering business of Robertson & Co., Phoenix Foundry, Wellington. Subscribers, with number of shares each : — David Robertson, 14,992 ; James Alex. Robertson, 1 ; Hannah Robertson, 1 ; Jane Virtue, 1 ; Helen Newson, 1 ; Marjory Bannatyne, 1 ; Thomas Young, 2 ; William D. Robertson, 1 ; Registered office, Wellington. ****** Taranaki Petroleum Co. Ltd. have been registered with a capital of £120,000, in £1 shares. Objects : To acquire from the liquidator the business, assets, etc., of " The Moturoa Petroleum Co., Ltd." for 56,000 ordinary shares credited as fully paid up. Subscribers for five shares each: — Daniel Berry, Murdoch Fraser, George Charles Fair, John Walter Wilson, William Humphries, Michael James Jones, and John Rollo. Registered office, Egmont street, New Plymouth ; secretary, David Laing. New Zealand Automatic Gate Co. Ltd. have been registered with a capital of £4,500, divided into 4,500 shares of £1 each, of which 1500 are considered fully paid up. Objects : To purchase from S. S. Hartley a New Zealand patent for " improvements in and relating to farm gates." Subscribers, with number of shares each : — Charles B. Pharazyn, 100 ; James B. Campbell, 50 ; H. Harcourt, 50 ; George F. M'Lean, 50 ; Peter H. Miller, 50 ; S. S. Hartley, 50 ; W. E. Hughes, 25 ; Registered office, Wellington.