Notice of Intention to Request Removal From the Register In the matter of section 318 (1) (d) of the Companies Act 1993 (``the Act''), and in the matter of Matamata Co-Operative Rural Intermediate Credit Association Limited (``the association''), a duly incorporated association in New Zealand having its registered office at 101 Arawa Street, Matamata: Notice is hereby given: 1. That pursuant to section 318 (1) (d) (i) of the Act, the association intends to deliver to the Registrar of Companies at Wellington, a request that the association be removed from the Register of Companies on the grounds that at the date of such request that the association will have 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 its constitution and the Act. 2. That any objection, under section 318 of the Act, to the removal of the association from the Register of Companies, must be delivered to the Registrar of Companies at Hamilton, no later than the 25th day of May 1998. Dated this 23rd day of April 1998. Signed for and on behalf of the association by its solicitors: KENSINGTON SWAN.