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Free Lance, Volume VI, Issue 273, 23 September 1905, Page 5

ME. VV. G. SOMERVILLE, SOLICITOB AND PATENT AGENT, HAS REMOVED to new offices, Nos. 14, 15, and 16, KING'S CHAMBERS, corner of Willis Street and Lambton Quay Wellington. Money to lend at lowest rates

THE SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. X | OTIOE is hereby given that the i.l Ordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders of the 1 above Company will be held at the Head! Office of the Company, Queen-street, Auckland, on THURSDAY, the 12th day of October, 1905, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Business : To Receive the Report and Balancesheet for the year ended 31st August, 1905. To Elect Two Directors, in place of W. C. W. McDowell, Esq., and C. C. McMillan, Esq., who retire in acoou dance with the Articles of Association, hut are eligible and offer themselves for re-election. To Elect Two Auditors in place of G. S. Kissling, Esq., and W. B. A. Morrison, Esq., who offer themselves for re-eJection. As soon as such business is concluded the Meeting will resolve itself into an Extraordiinary General Meeting, for the purpose of considering, and, if approved, of passing the following two Resolutions, which are intended to be proposed to the Meeting as separate and distinct Resolutions : — Resolution No. 1. "That the objects of the Company be extended so as to include power to carry on in New Zealand or elsewhere the business of an Accident and General Insurance Company and of Insurance in all or any of its branches (except Life Insurance), and! that the provisions of the Memorandum of Association of tihe Company be, and they an© hereby, altered by substituting for Clause 3 thereof the clause contained in the printed document submitted to the meeting, and for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman tihereof, and that the Directors be authorised to apply to the Court to confirm this Resolution. Resolution No. 2. "That the Articles contained in the printed document submitted to the Meeting and for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof be, and the same are hereby, approved, and that such Articles be, and! they are hereby, adopted as the Articles of the Company^ to the exclusion of all the existing Articles thereof." A copy of the Clauses proposed to be added to the Memorandum of Association for the purpose of conferring the extended powers, as provided in Resolution No. 1 above, and a Copy of the Articles proposed to be substituted for the existing Articles as provided in Resolution No. 2 above may be seen at the Office of the Company. Should the above Resolutions, or either of them, be passed by the required majority, such Resolution so passed will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution to a second Extraordinary Meeting, which will be subsequently convened. The Transfer Books of the above Company will be closed! from the 29th day of September, 1905, to the 12th day of October, 1905, inclusive. Dated at Auckland this sth day of September, 1905. By order of the Board; of Directors. JAMES KIRKER, General Manager.