Index		Contact: Dawn Chambers

Hape Gold Mining Company

Auckland Provinical Gazette July 1868 page 336
I, the undersigned, John Henry Smith, hereby make application to
register the Hape Gold Mining Company, Registered, under the
provisions of "The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1865", and
I do solemnly and sincerely declare, that the following statement is,
to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular,
namely:

1. The name and style of the Company is the Hape Gold Mining Company
Registered.
2. The place of operations is at the Hape Creek, Thames Gold Fields.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is Two thousand one hundred
pounds, in two hundred and ten shares of ten pounds each.
4. The amount, already paid up, is One thousand four hundred pounds.
5. The name of the Manager is John Henry Smith.
6. The Office of the Company is in Lower Queen-street, Auckland.
7. The names and several residences of the Shareholders, and the
number of Shares held by each at this date, are as follows:-

Name			Residence		No. of shares
James Taylor		Auckland		10
John Chambers		Auckland		10
John Henry Smith	Shortland		70
Seering Hall Matthews	Auckland		10
Josiah Mallett		Shortland Gold Field	10
Moritz Samuel Leers	Epsom			10
John Fisher		Auckland		10
Henry Sherrard		Auckland		10

Dated this eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

J. H. Smith

Witness to signature: Henry Gilfillan, Justice of the Peace.