Option Associates Limited Notice of Intention to Apply for Removal of Company From the Register Notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned applicant, propose to apply to the Registrar of Companies at Wellington, pursuant to section 318 (1) (d) (ii) of the Companies Act 1993, for the removal of Option Associates Limited, whose registered office is situated at Level Eleven, Morrison Kent House, 105 The Terrace, Wellington, from the New Zealand Register on the grounds that the company has ceased to carry on business, has discharged in full its liabilities to all its known creditors and has distributed its surplus assets in accordance with the Companies Act 1993. Unless written objection to removal, pursuant to section 321 of the Act, is sent or delivered to the Registrar at Wellington by the 14th day of August 1997 (being a date not less than 20 working days after the date of this notice), the Registrar may remove the company from the Register. Dated at Wellington this 17th day of July 1997. RICHARD DALE PETERSON, Applicant.