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Evening Star, Issue 3795, 23 April 1875, Page 2

PROSPECTUS. If PROSPECTUS OF THE ROYAL EW ZEALAND POTTERY COMPANY (LIMITED). Registered under the Joint Stock Companies Avct, 1860. Capital ... £30,000 la 12,000 Shares of L2 10s each, of which 800 shares are already paid up, representing portions of the pimsent capital of the Company. Five shillings per share to be paid on application, and 5s ou allotment. A call of 5s per share to be made three months after allotment, and no further call to exceed 5s per share, payable at intervals of not less than three months between each call. Provisional Directors : W. A. MURRAY, M.H.R., Glenore HEN RY CLARKE, M.P.C., Tokomairiro GOOD ALL, Mayor of Milton ANDREW MCLAREN, Stock-dealer GEORGE COOMBE, Settler JAMES ELDER BROWN, Settler JOSEPH MACK AY, Publisher R. W. OAPSTICK, Auctioneer J. M. WATSON, Contractor Henderson, and Co. JOHN A. DUTHIE, of Capstick, Duthie, and Co. ’ T ’ Timber Merchant JAMES hj INCH, Farmer J. L. t- QUTTER, Merchant JOHN M'FARLANE, Farmer, Wanualoa THOMAS MURRAY, Farmer’, GleSe With power to add to their number. Bankers * NATIONAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. Solicitor : DONALD REID, ESQ. Manager : MR JOHN CHETHAM. Agent for Dunedin : M. W. HAWKINS. The name of the Company is the New Zealand Royal Pottery Company The Registered Office of the Company is to be established in the township of Milton in the Province of Otago. The objects for which the Company is estabhshed are for the purposes of manufacturing and selling all kinds of Stone, China, Printed! Painted, and Enamel Earthenware ; also, every description of Salt Glaze Stone Pipes, Chimney Tops Sewer Pans, Fire Bricks, Tesselated Pavements, and Telegraph Insulators, and to do all things the Company, from time to time, consider to be incidental or conducive to the attainment of its objects, or otherwise for its benefit. The Liabilities of the Shareholders are Limited. r The Capital of the Company is L 30.000, divided into 12,000 Shares at L2 10s each. fIIHE success which has attended the estaX blishment of the Mosgiel Woollen Fac toiy under the provisions of the Joint Stock cSTn 3 f- C i’ an u th ® grater facilities and v. Ch such un dei taking s can be conducted by a Company as compared with a private individual, hi is led to the project of the formation of a Company, with a view to the purchase of the Tokomairiro Pottery Works now owned by Mr W. M. White, and conducting the manufacture of Pottery and Eartheaa BCa , le somew hat commensurate uath the large market presented in New Zealand and the other Australian Colonies, this being SoX^Hem^ 0111 eStabUsh ' !d “«“ time he has disposed of over L 3,000 worth of eP T 3 . alone > the market for which is steadily on the mcrease, and beyond the present producing powers of the establishment. During this period Mr White hr s also devoted Hnn r f!! d + T able porti : n of Ws time and attenon to the preparation of the necessary buildings and plant for the manufacture of all classes of Staffordshire Pottery Ware upon .he most and latest improvementsan machinery used in Staffordshire, fn ■2 RI Sf ed a m^ he besfc and mosfc economical centre Tilton pr< " ,etty is sitUßtod ia th »

Mr W. M. White has now ready for market large supphes 0 f saleable articles for general thifZ e :C The present time is, n“ e > considered by the projectors of this Gomjjany the most favorable opportunity for entering upon the possession of the works, 7 and pushing the manufacture and sale of Potteryware in this and the adjoining Colonies. An estimate of the nature and extent of the available market may be arrived at from the fact tnat tne value of such imports into New Zealand alone for the year ending December last mrtedT worn 70 ' 00 .?’ *°J Which otago alone im ' Ported L 22,000 worth of potteryware, fj 16 Promoters have eveiy confidence that they will be enabled to supply the whole Colonial market with any article in pottery ware at witwt BU W ° lently to com P ete successfully with. the Home article, while securing a large margin of profit to the Company, who have secured the services, as manager, of Mr Chefcnam, for thirty years proprietor of one of the largest English Potteries, and practically acquainted with the various processes adopted in every branch of the trade. The services of the present staff-of over thirty thoroughly experipnnftl;iian.r S ~? r ° l Ig i ht from tlie Staffordshire n f lre ? t ’ and n , ow engaged upon tho ha y e aso een obtained. Projectors have agreed with Mr W. M. White to take over the Freehold Property, consisting of Three Acres of Land surrounding the present centrally situated Works (secured with a view to their future development), and the s „ ubstant ! al hidings, with plant and S L • i^ Uat T estimated at, or about, bonS2°of7?nq din MU, the General Government bonus of L3OO. Ihe amount of goodwill estimated at L2 000, Mr White has resolved to nCo “P an y. in P aid -up shares to that amount, so confident is he in the bona tides of the undertaking in the hands of a public ComM?m> hj V Pr °- e ? tor ? have 3180 secured from Mr White his right obtained from the General Government to remove clay from the lands adinTtheClutb 6 of between Tokomairiro ana the Llutha, which clay is allowed, bv competent judges, to be equal to any found in England for manufacturing purposes. The Government are now forming a siding to these Pi* 8 ’ which are inexhaustible. g The projected branch line to the Tokomairiro coal fiSds has also been surveyed to pass in front of the premises, so that the work 8 P will bo ?n rafiwav communication with he raw material iSSS limited and cheap coal supplies, and with a port of shipment; as also with the metropolis and the larger townships of the Province likelv to fonn good markets for suppUes. Kely t0 i pro^ct S ß a PP.® al for support with everv confidence to the residents of • • every the settlers of the County of amr ° nd as the establishment of thi* indnsf-i-wk generally, tended greatly to district m opening np clay andSTSinoe employing a large amount of outside labor in two tim t ber> coal - “>*T 5 : pues , while the recent unexampled nrosneritv °f the township of Milton has beenXatfv aSvanced by the presence in its- midst S the iar number of employes—men, women, and chi il7? ngaged ., U ? on the ™rks. and whil would be greatly increased by a larger propri +,bp y Jn°w Sed ° f mc i eftsed capital to carry the works to every advantage. y 4 The promoters also confidently brins tl enterprise under the notice gfner public of Otago, as it is a well-known fact th nothmg so tends to advance the prosperity of as the establishment of locafindustri within its borders, thus preventing the expo of capital from the Colony for supplies of ever day requirements. Apart from these consid MlZl heenterpn - 0 of itself Promises to 1 remunerative and successful one T f Ol8 ’ having & ven matter iS all i aspects every consideration, have great olp »™, Oorapaiy tatfe IS and believe rt wiH prove & every wav wort! of public confidence and co-opurative sunnor Toms of application maybe obtaineeffro George capstiok,' 1 Interim Secretary,