Public Notice of Intention to Apply for Removal of Company From the Register In the matter of the Companies Act 1993, and in the matter of A & D Ben Holdings Limited (in liquidation) (a solvent company): Public notice is given that, pursuant to section 318 (1) (e) of the Companies Act 1993, the Registrar of Companies must remove A & D Ben Holdings Limited (in liquidation), whose registered office is situated at 11 Haydn Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland, from the New Zealand Register on the grounds that the documents referred to in section 257 (1) (a) of the Companies Act 1993, have been sent or delivered to the Registrar, thereby completing the liquidation, pursuant to section 249 of the Act. Unless, pursuant to section 321 of the Act, written objection to the removal is delivered to the Registrar by the 25th day of February 1999 (being a date not less than28 days after the date of this notice), the Registrar is obliged to remove the company from the Register. Dated at Auckland this 21st day of January 1999. BRUCE R. SIMPSON, Liquidator. Note: The above company should not be confused with A & D Ben Limited, which continues to trade as normal.