Rural Log & Lumber Limited (in receivership and in liquidation) Notice of Intention to Remove the Company From the Register Pursuant to Section 295 of the Companies Act 1955 We, James Terence Taaffe and James Roland McIvor, liquidators of Rural Log & Lumber Limited, whose registered office is situated at the offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers, corner of Raffles and Bower Streets, Napier, hereby give notice that, pursuant to section 293 (e) of the Companies Act 1955, and having filed with the Registrar our final report on the liquidation, it is intended to remove the company from the New Zealand Register. Any objection to the removal, pursuant to section 296 of the Companies Act 1955, must be delivered to the Registrar no later than the 10th day of October 1999. Dated this 3rd day of September 1999. J. T. TAAFFE and J. R. McIVOR, Rural Log & Lumber Limited (in receivership and in liquidation)