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| Apple Fields Limited
APF
7 Sep, 2007, 08:35
MEETING
REPORT - SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS |
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APPLE FIELDS LIMITED
SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
At the Special Meeting of Shareholders of APPLE FIELDS LIMITED
held on Wednesday 5th September 2007 in Christchurch, the
shareholders of the company passed all 6 resolutions set out in
the Notice of Meeting including:
- putting in place a profit share scheme for the executive of the
Company;
- putting in place a profit share scheme for the Board of
Directors of the Company; and
- approving the issue of shares to Mr. G T C Kain for past fees
due;
- approving the issue of shares to directors for past fees due;
- approving the issue of shares to repay $265,000 of the Company's
debt, all at a price of 8c per share; and
- approving the Company entering into an agreement to manage the
development of the Noble Gardens development in Christchurch, in
which the Company has a 47.5% interest, in return for taking 95%
of any development profits, based on a valuation of $12.38 million
for that development; and
- approval of the Company guaranteeing the obligations of its
subsidiary Takamatua West Limited (in relation to borrowing to
complete that company's Kingfisher Point, Takamtua property
development at Akaroa) in return for a guarantee fee.
Directors reported that the Takamatua development continued to be
on target, with good sales, and with completion expected towards
the end of 2007 or early 2008.
Shareholders were also told that the Company is actively looking
for a strategic partner for the Noble Gardens development, and
anticipates making a further announcement in the very near future.
It was noted that the Company had secure funding for its
contribution in that development and for its working capital, with
its financiers confirming their continuing support.
Gordon Stewart
Chairman
6 September 2007
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| Apple Fields Limited
APF
17 Aug, 2007, 08:35
MEETING
Apple Fields Limited - Special General Meeting 5
September |
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Apple Fields Limited has sent the
attached Notice of Special Meeting to shareholders today.
APPLE FIELDS LIMITED
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Meeting of Shareholders of
APPLE FIELDS LIMITED ("the Company") is to be held at
The Canterbury Manufacturers' Building, 253 Cambridge Terrace,
Christchurch on Wednesday 5 September 2007 commencing at 11.00 a.m.
SPECIAL BUSINESS (Please see the Explanatory Notes attached)
1. To consider and if appropriate pass the following ordinary*
resolution:
First Resolution (See Note A. in the Appendix attached)
That directors be entitled to participate in a performance based
directors' bonus scheme as follows, in place of directors'
professional fees, but in addition to directors' fees, for the
financial year to 30 September 2007 and subsequent years:
a. A bonus equal to 10% of the after-tax profit of the Company for
each financial year, subject to the limits in paragraphs c. d. and
e. below, payable at the time that the annual profits of the
Company are announced for that year;
b. Such bonus to be divided between the directors as shall be
determined each year by the Remuneration Committee of the Board of
Directors of the Company, and shall be payable to each of the
directors who held such office in that financial year (and if for
only part of the year, pro rata);
c. That the amount payable under the above bonus scheme for the
2007 financial year shall be $250,000, unless the monetary sum
calculated in accordance with paragraph a. above shall be less
than that amount in which case the amount payable under the above
bonus scheme shall be that lesser monetary sum;
d. That the total amount payable for directors' fees and the above
directors' bonus scheme for the 2007 financial year shall not
exceed 5% of the Average Market Capitalisation at the end of that
year; and
e. That the maximum monetary sum of the directors' bonus for each
subsequent financial year shall be approved by a Meeting of
Shareholders.
2. To consider and if appropriate pass the following ordinary*
resolution:
Second Resolution (See Note A.
in the Appendix attached)
That senior executives of the company be entitled to participate
in a performance based executive bonus scheme as follows, in
addition to the agreed fees or salary, for the financial year to
30 September 2007 and subsequent years:
a. A bonus equal to a maximum of 10% of the after-tax profit of
the Company for each financial year, subject to the limits in
paragraphs c. and d. below, payable at the time that the annual
profits of the Company are announced for that year;
b. Such bonus to be divided between the senior executives as shall
be determined each year by the Remuneration Committee of the Board
of Directors of the Company, and shall be payable to each of the
senior executives who held such office in relation to that
financial year (and if for only part of the year, pro rata);
c. That the amount payable under the above bonus scheme for the
2007 financial year shall not exceed $250,000;
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d. That the total amount payable to senior executives' for salary
and fees and under the senior executives' bonus scheme, for the
2007 financial year shall not exceed 5% of the Average Market
Capitalisation at the end of that year; and
e. That the maximum monetary sum of the senior executives' bonus
for each subsequent financial year shall be approved by a Meeting
of Shareholders.
3. To consider and if appropriate pass the following ordinary*
resolution:
Third Resolution (See Note A. in the Appendix attached)
That the Company issue not more than 7,084,825 ordinary shares in
the Company at an issue price of 8 cents per share to Mr G T C
Kain, manager of the Company, in satisfaction of his unpaid profit
based bonus and fees for the 2005 and 2006 and previous years,
being not more than $566,786. Each such share shall, upon issue,
rank equally in all respects with all other ordinary shares issued
by the Company. The shares to be issued will be issued immediately
after the Special Meeting of Shareholders.
The particulars of the voting securities to be allotted if this
Resolution is passed are as follows:
(i) the number of ordinary shares being allotted: 7,084,825;
(ii) the issue price: 8 cents per share;
(iii) the percentage of the aggregate of all existing voting
securities and all voting securities being allotted that that
number represents; 10.57%; and
(iv) the percentage of all voting securities that will be held or
controlled by the person to whom the voting securities are being
allotted after completion of the allotment: 68.46%%.
4. To consider and if appropriate pass the following ordinary*
resolution:
Fourth Resolution (See Note A. in the Appendix attached)
That the Company issue [6,625,000] Ordinary shares in the Company
at an issue price of 8 cents per share, to be issued to creditors
of the Company including to the Chairman, Gordon Stewart and the
non executive Directors of the Company Mark Schroeder and Justin
Prain, and to Southpac Property Holdings Limited the financier to
the company. The shares shall be issued in consideration for
converting into shares:
a. Mr Stewart's, Mr Schroeder's and Mr Prain's unpaid professional
and director's fees, owed to them by the Company, for the 2005 and
2006 years, of $265,000; and
b. debt owing to Southpac Property Holdings Limited.
Each such share shall, upon issue, rank equally in all respects
with all other ordinary shares issued by the Company. The shares
to be issued will be issued immediately after the Special Meeting
of Shareholders.
PROVIDED HOWEVER that no more than 50% of the shares issued
pursuant to this Resolution shall be issued to Directors or
Associated Persons of Directors of the Company.
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5. To consider and if appropriate pass the following special
resolution:
Fifth Resolution (See Note B. in the Appendix attached)
That the Company approve enter into an agreement by the Company
with Southpac Property Holdings Limited ("Southpac")
whereby the Company would acquire for nominal consideration the
right to receive 95% of the profits from the Noble Gardens
development, based on a value of $12,380,000 for Noble Investments
Limited's interest in that development, being the valuation figure
as at 30 October 2006 determined by Fright Aubrey Limited,
Registered Valuers & Property Consultants of Christchurch,
independent registered valuers, on the following terms:
- Southpac will continue to be entitled to the other 5% of the
development profits from the Nobel Gardens development;
- Southpac will continue to lend Noble Investments Limited, the
special purpose company which owns of the development, an amount
equal to its existing loans, plus the rezoning profit that it was
entitled to receive based on the above valuation, plus interest
thereon, at normal commercial second mortgage lending rates;
- the Company will be entitled to manage the development of the
Noble Gardens property;
- the Company will continue to lend Noble Investments Limited an
amount equal to its existing loans, plus the rezoning profit that
it was entitled to receive based on the above valuation, plus
interest previously accruing thereon, such loan to be interest
free, and secured behind the loan from Southpac and the borrowings
to fund the development of the property; and
- the Company will guarantee to Southapac the performance of Noble
Investments Limited's obligations to Southpac, including Noble
Investment Limited's indebtedness of approximately $7.5 million to
Southpac.
6. . To consider and if appropriate pass the following special*
resolution:
Sixth Resolution (See Note B. in the Appendix attached)
That the Company enter into a development or sale agreement with
an experienced developer or developers (not being a related party
to any director or major shareholder) for the development of the
Noble Gardens property on terms which reflect a value of the
property of not less than the $12,380,000 valuation as above, and
on terms which preserve Southpac's 5% share of any profits; and on
other term to be negotiated and agreed by the directors as being
in the best interest of the Company.
76: To consider and if appropriate pass the following special**
resolution:
Seventh Sixth Resolution (See Note B.
in the Appendix attached)
67.1 That the increase in borrowings by the Company's subsidiary,
Takamatua West Limited, which is carrying out the Kingfisher Point
development at Akaroa, Canterbury, from $4.365 million to $5.4
million be approved, with the increased funding to be used to
continue the development; and
7.2 That the Company guarantee that increased
indetednessindebtedness of Takamatua West Limited, in return for
an annual guarantee fee of 2.5% of the amount guaranteed.
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8. To transact any other business that may properly be transacted
at a Meeting of Shareholders.
*Ordinary Resolution means a resolution approved by a simple
majority of the votes cast of those shareholders entitled to vote
and voting.
**Special Resolution means a resolution approved by a majority of
75% votes of the shareholders entitled to vote and voting
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
G R Stewart
Wellington
15 August 2007
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PROXIES
Shareholders are advised that any shareholder entitled to attend
and vote at the meeting may appoint a proxy to attend and vote on
their behalf. The proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company
but is entitled to attend and be heard as if the proxy were a
shareholder. A proxy must be appointed by a written notice of a
shareholder, which notice must state whether the appointment is
for a particular meeting, or for a specified term not exceeding 12
months.
As explained in the Explanatory Notes in the Appendices, certain
persons are prohibited from voting on certain resolutions, being
disqualified from voting under the NZSX Listing Rules. These
voting prohibitions will not prevent a person who is disqualified
from voting, who has been appointed as a proxy or voting
representative by another person who is not disqualified from
voting under the NZSX Listing Rules, from voting in respect of the
securities held by that other person in accordance with the
express instructions of that other person.
A shareholder may appoint the Chairman of the Meeting as proxy,
however such an appointment may only be made by specifying the
Chairman as proxy in the proxy form.
A proxy form is enclosed with this Notice. To be effective, the
proxy form must be deposited at the offices of the Company, by
mail or facsimile, no later than 11 a.m. on Monday 3 September
2007, being 48 hours before the start of the meeting.
Addresses for depositing of proxy forms:
Physical Address: 203 Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch
Postal Address: The Secretary, Apple Fields Limited, PO Box 1948,
Christchurch
Facsimile: 03 365 9590
MEMBERS, ATTENDANCE AND VOTING RIGHTS
Shareholders must be on the Apple Fields Limited share register by
5 p.m. on Thursday 30 August 2007 in order to be entitled to
attend and vote at the meeting.
All members on the share register at that time and date are
entitled to attend the meeting and vote on a show of hands, one
vote per member OR on a poll, one vote per share.
APPROVAL BY NZX
This Notice of Meeting has been approved by New Zealand Exchange
Limited, in accordance with NZSX Listing Rule 6.1.
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APPLE FIELDS LIMITED
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Appendix A
Explanatory Notes to the First, Second, Third and Fourth
Resolutions
First Resolution. As explained in the Notice of the Annual Meeting
of Shareholders of Apple Fields Limited ("the Company")
held on 30 March 2005 the Board of Directors of the Company wish
to align as closely as possible the interests of the directors and
management of the Company with the interests of the shareholders
(including the major shareholders, whose presence in the Company
provides the required continuity in relation to the carried
forward tax losses), with directors and management paid on a
results basis. At present, the directors are entitled, in addition
to the previously agreed directors' fees, to time fees on a normal
professional basis. The directors therefore propose, for the
approval of shareholders at this Special Meeting of Shareholders,
the bonus scheme set out in the First Resolution for the payment
of a bonus, so that the directors' remuneration will be at a level
appropriate for a listed public company of the anticipated size
and level of activity of the Company. The bonus will be divided
amongst the directors as they shall determine, based on their
agreement as to each of their contributions to the profitability
of the Company.
The bonus payable to directors under this scheme, if adopted,
which will be in lieu of any other time fees, will not exceed
$250,000 for the 2007 financial year, and together with directors'
fees also payable to the directors, will not exceed 5% of the
Average Market Capitalisation at the end of that financial year. .
For the year to 30 September 2006 the Board are entitled to
director's fees of the lesser of 10% of profits for that year or
$250,000, together with time fees (the amount of which vary from
year to year). Directors have agreed to limit their directors'
fees to $120,000 per year plus bonuses under the bonus scheme, if
the bonus scheme is adopted.
This resolution does not materially increase the directors'
entitlement to fees for the 2007 year; rather it substitutes a
performance-based fee for the previous time based fee.
If the Resolution is not passed, directors will continue to be
entitled to directors' fees and time fees as set out above.
Second Resolution. The directors also separately propose for the
approval of shareholders at this Special Meeting of Shareholders,
the bonus scheme set out in the Second Resolution for senior
executives. Mr G T C Kain has been, and will be continuing, to
carry out this function on a non-exclusive basis, and will receive
fees of $150,000 in addition to any bonus agreed by shareholders
at the Special Meeting. The fees and salaries of the executive(s)
are presently set by the Board of Directors. Certain executives
are also entitled to a profit share of designated projects. It is
proposed that executives be offered participation in the bonus
scheme in addition to agreed salary or fees of $150,000 but in
place of all other fees, salaries or profit shares.
The bonus payable to executives under this scheme if adopted, will
not exceed $250,000 for the 2007 financial year, and together with
all other fees also payable to the executive, will not exceed 5%
of the Average Market Capitalisation at the end of that financial
year. For the year to 30 September 2006 and previous years, the
sole executive, Mr G T C Kain, is entitled to fees of up to
$145,000 per year, based on the profit on certain defined
projects.
If the Resolution is not passed, executives will continue to be
entitled to salary and fees including profit-based fees as at
present.
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APPLE FIELDS LIMITED
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Appendix A (continued)
Third Resolution. The directors also propose separately that the
Company issue shares in the Company to Mr G T C Kain, the sole
executive of the Company at present, to convert this previous
years' unpaid fees and bonuses into shares at a purchase price of
8c per share the average market price, rounded up the nearest
whole cent per share, as defined in Share Price below, , and to
issue such shares, all as set out in the Third Resolution.
Fourth Resolution. The directors also propose separately that
shares be issued to creditors to satisfy the Company's
indebtedness to those creditors, including in part to directors to
convert fees and bonuses owing to them for previous years unpaid
fees and bonuses to purchase shares at current market value, in
order to satisfy the Company's indebtedness to creditors, and to
issue such shares, all as set out in the Fourth Resolution.
Shares to be issued pursuant to the options in the Third
Resolution and the Fourth Resolution will be issued at 8c being
the average market price, rounded up the nearest whole cent per
share, as defined in Share Price below.
Either the Third Resolution or the Fourth Resolution, or both, or
neither, may be passed at the Special Meeting of Shareholders.
If the Third Resolution is not passed the executives' fees will be
payable in cash rather than in shares.
If the Fourth Resolution is not passed the directors' fees will be
payable in cash rather than in shares.
The effect of the Third Resolution and the Fourth Resolution on
the total shares on issue and the shareholdings of the directors
and executive are shown in the attached Appendix.
The Company has satisfied itself that the issue of shares proposed
complies with the Companies Act, NZSX Listing Rules, and Takeover
Code at the time of the issuing the shares.
None of Mr Stewart, Mr Schroeder or Mr Prain, nor those
shareholders of the Company who are "associated persons"
(as that term is defined in the NZSX Listing Rules) of any or all
of Mr Stewart, Mr Schroeder and Mr Prain, may vote on the First
Resolution or Fourth Resolution.
Neither Mr G T C Kain, nor those shareholders of the Company who
are "associated persons" (as that term is defined in the
NZSX Listing Rules) of Mr Kain, may vote on the Second Resolution
or the Third Resolution.
Share Price
The price at which shares will be issued, if one or more of these
Resolutions are passed, is 8c per share, being the Average Market
Share Price on the day that the Resolutions were announced to the
Market, 2 May 2007, rounded up to the nearest whole cent per
share. Average Market Share Price is the Average Market
Capitalisation divided by the Number of Shares on Issue. Average Market Capitalisation is
defined in the NZSX Listing Rules. That definition is set out
below. Number of Shares on Issue is the number of shares in the
Company on issue throughout the period over which the Average
Market Capitalisation was determined.
"Average Market Capitalisation" means the volume
weighted average market capitalisation of the Company's ordinary
shares calculated from trades on the NZSX over the 20 Business
days before the day the Resolutions were announced to the Market,
2 May 2007.
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APPLE FIELDS LIMITED
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Appraisal Report - Third and Fourth Resolutions
As required by Rule 6.2.2 of the NZSX Listing Rules, this Notice
is accompanied by an Appraisal Report prepared by Northington
Partners Limited, an independent appropriately qualified person
approved by the New Zealand Exchange Limited in accordance with
Rule 1.2 of those Rules, in relation to the Third and Fourth
Resolutions. That Appraisal Report is required because those
Resolutions relate to Material Transactions with Related Parties
(as defined in those Rules) not otherwise falling within an
exemption in those Rules. The Report will also be an Independent
Adviser's Report pursuant to the New Zealand Takeovers Code
Appendix B
Explanatory Notes to the Fifth and Sixth and Seventh Resolution
Fifth Resolution. As previously announced to the market, the
Company has negotiated a development joint venture in relation to
Noble Investments Limited, which in turn is the owner of the Noble
Gardens property. This agreement was subject to shareholder
approval. This agreement included an option to allow the Company
to acquire for nominal consideration a 47.5% (being most of the
balance of the 52.5% it does not own) carried interest in the
Noble Gardens development, in return for the Company assuming the
risk of developing the property. . The Company has decided to
exercise that option, and is seeking shareholder approval to the
entry by the Company into the development joint venture agreement
including the exercise of that option.
The Noble Gardens development is owned by Noble Investments
Limited. Noble Investments Limited is a special purpose vehicle
created specifically to own, rezone, and develop the Noble Gardens
development. Noble Investments Limited is a related party to the
Company, through its director, Gordon Stewart, also being a
director of the Company.
The Company has a 47.5% carried interest in the rezoning profits
of the Noble Gardens development, through a Commission Agreement
with Noble Investments Limited. The balance of the rezoning
profits are payable to Southpac Property Holdings Limited ("Southpac")
as interest. The Company presently has no interest in other
increases in value in the Noble Gardens development, unless the
entry into the above development joint venture agreement is
approved. Noble Investments Limited has no activity other than
holding the Noble Gardens properties as above.
Under the Commission Agreement the Company was entitled to 47.5%
of the rezoning profit, when the land was rezoned, based on either
sale price or valuation. The rezoning of the land was approved by
the Environment Court effective October 2006, and Noble
Investments Limited obtained an independent valuation of its
interest in the land as of 31 October 2006 of $12,380,000.. That
valuation was carried out by Fright Aubrey Limited, Registered
Valuers & Property Consultants of Christchurch, independent
registered valuers, The date of 31 October 2006 was used as it was
the date at which the rezoning was approved as above. This is in
accordance with the Commission Agreement between Noble Investments
Limited and the Company. The valuation was of the land as rezoned.
Under that Commission Agreement, the Company was entitled to a
commission of 47.5% of the rezoning profit on the development of
approximately $7 million. The final amount of the rezoning profit
will be determined when title has been issued to the land, and
other outstanding matters resolved. Apart from the calculation of
the final amount of the Commission, the Commission Agreement is
now at an end.
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APPLE FIELDS LIMITED
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Appendix B (continued)
Accordingly, the Company will be entitled to receive from Noble
Investments Limited its existing loan of $600,000, interest
thereon to 30 October 2006 of approximately $400,000, and a
rezoning profit commission of approximately $3,325,000.
The development joint venture that has been agreed between the
Company and Southpac for the development of the Noble Gardens
land. This agreement is conditional on shareholder approval for
both parties. Southpac is the present financier of the Noble
Gardens development.
The Option is based on an independent valuation of the property as
of 30 October 2006 (the date when provisional and conditional
agreement was reached) as set out in the Resolution.
Under that agreement, both parties have agreed to leave their
existing loans to Noble Investments Limited in place, and also to
not at this stage require payment of the Noble Gardens rezoning
profits as above.
Southpac's existing loans and rezoning profits will continue as a
loan to Noble Investments Limited Property Holdings Limited has
agreed to finance the Company's purchase of that interest on
normal commercial mortgage lending terms, in return for second
mortgage security as set out in the resolution. The interest on
the Company's loan to Noble Investments Limited will cease as of
31 October 2006, and its rezoning profit as above will not carry
interest.
Southpac is presently entitled to all the development profits,
that is all profits arising from the land above the agreed
valuation of the land of $12,380,000. As a term of the development
joint venture agreement, and in return for the Company agreeing as
above, Southpac has agreed that the Company may develop the land,
in return for 95% of those development profits. The Company will
assume the risks of the development of the Noble Gardens property.
The Company will guarantee to Southpac repayment of its existing
loan to Noble Investments Limited, its 52.5% share of the rezoning
profit as above, interest thereon, and its share of the
development profit, if any. Southpac Property Holdings Limited
will continue to hold a 5% carried interest in the development,
which interest will be secured.. Noble Investments Limited will
continue to own the land.
The Company has decided to exercise that Option, subject to
shareholder approval, which is being sought at this Special
Meeting of Shareholders, which largely supersedes the development
joint venture.
The present financier of the Noble Gardens development, Southpac
Property Holdings Limited, Southpac is an independent party.
Southpac Property Holdings Limited is also financier to the
Company. It is not a related party to the Company.
The directors unanimously recommend that the shareholders approve
the exercise of the option withentry into the development joint
venture with Southpac Property Holdings Limited as set out above,
and have indicated that they intend to vote in favour of the Fifth
Resolution in relation to their own shares. The majority
shareholders of the Company have also indicated that they intend
to vote in favour of the Fifth Resolution in relation to their
shares.
If the Fifth Resolution is not passed, the Company will have no
automatic right to carry out the development of the Noble Gardens
property, and to share in the development profits.
Sixth Resolution. The management of the Company are presently
negotiating with experienced independent developers to carry out
the development of the Noble Gardens property on behalf of the
Company by way of a development joint venture or, should an
advantageous offer be received, the sale of the Company's interest
in the property .. Although not required by the Companies Act 1993
or the NZSX Listing Rules, except as below, the directors have
decided to seek shareholder approval to the Company's entering
into a development agreement or agreement of sale and ourchase
with an experienced independent developer or developers for the
development of the Noble Gardens property on terms which reflect a
value of the property of not less than the $12,380,000 valuation
as above, and on other term to be negotiated and agreed by the
directors as being in the best interest of the Company.
Shareholder approval wouold be required for the sale of the
Company's interest in the property, as it would constitute a
"major transaction" under section 129 of the Companies
Act.
The directors unanimously recommend that the shareholders approve
the Sixth Resolution, and have indicated that they intend to vote
in favour of the Sixth Resolution in relation to their own shares.
The majority shareholders of the Company have also indicated that
they intend to vote in favour of the Sixth Resolution in relation
to their shares.
If the Sixth Resolution is not passed, the Company will either
carry out the development itself, or seek shareholder approval to
a development joint venture at a later date.
Seventh Sixth Resolution. The Company's subsidiary, Takamatua West
Limited, which is carrying out the Kingfisher Point development at
Akaroa, Canterbury, presently has borrowings of $4.365 million.
The Compnany has agreed, subject to shareholder approval, that
these borrowings be increased to $5.4 million to enable the
development to continue. The potential lenders of this increased
faciltyfaculty have sought the guarantee of the CompnayCompany of
that increased indebtedness, which the Company has agreed to do,
subject to shareholder approval and in return for an annual
guarantee fee of 2.5% of the amount guaranteed.
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APPLE FIELDS LIMITED
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Appendix B (continued)
The Sixth Resolution is in the form of a special resolution, as
the guarantee would constitute a major transaction under Companies
Act 1993. The lender (to whom the guarantee would be granted) is
not a related party to the Company.
The directors unanimously recommend that the shareholders approve
the Sixth Seventh Resolution, and have indicated that they intend
to vote in favour of the Sixth Seventh Resolution in relation to
their own shares. The majority shareholders of the Company have
also indicated that they intend to vote in favour of the Sixth
Seventh Resolution in relation to their shares.
If the Sixth Seventh Resolution is not passed, the Company will
have to seek alternative funding to enable its subsidiary to
continue the development. |
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APF
13 Jul, 2007, 10:57
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Increased Stake in Noble Development at Yaldhurst |
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Apple Fields is increasing its stake in the Noble development at
Yaldhurst in West Christchurch from 63% to 95% through the
exercise of an option based on a valuation as of October 2006 of
$12,380,000. The increase has been funded by loans from the vendor
Noble Investments Limited, which retains a 5% interest, with
development funding to be by way of first mortgage.
The Company has also engaged Colliers International to entertain
development offers for the property.
The above matters will be put before shareholders at the SGM,
expected to be held mid August.
Mark J Schroeder
Director
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