FINAL CURTAIN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18903, 19 January 1927, Page 2

FINAL CURTAIN.

DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. [THE PEESS Special Service.] DUNEDIN, January 18. To-day will see the final curtain of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. The company's offices in Rattray street are to be closed, and the secretary (Mr H. R. Spence) will vacate to-morrow. The liquidators fulfilled all their obligations when they met shareholders at the recent meeting. ; Notice has been given to the Registrar of Companies of the holding of that final meeting, and the company will automatically dissolve on April Bth, three months from the date of the shareholders meeting, this being provided for by the Companies Act. The liquidators have handed to the City Council, a number of books and papers, the company's seal, a sample of the award medal, and various documents other than the books of accounts, which will remain in the possession of the chairman of directors (Mr J. Sutherland Ross, C.M.G.) for a period of two years. To the Board table, which is presented to the Otago Early Settlers' Association, a brass plate has been affixed bearing this inscription: "This is the Board-room table ÜBed by the directors of the New Zealand and South Seas •Exhibition Company, Ltd., Dunedin, 1923-26, and presented by them as a memento to the Otago-Early Settlers' Association."

Some of the cheques for the first dividend are not yet presented, and over £IOOO of the second dividend is yet to be acknowledged.