Companies. Dates of, and parties to, every matcrial contract (other than contracts entered into in the ordinary course of the business intended to be carried on by the Company or entered into more than two years before the delivery of this statement). Yime and place at which the contracts copies thereof may be inspected. Names and addresses of the auditors of the Company (if any). Vull particulars of the nature and extent of the interest of every director in the pro- motion of or in the property proposed to be acquired by the Company, or, where the interest of such a director consists in being a partner in a firm, the nature and extent of the interest of the firm, with a statement of all sums paid or agreed to be paid to him or to the firm in cash or shares, or other- wise, by any person cither to induce him to become, or to qualify him as, a director, or otherwise for services rendered by him or — by the firm in connection with the pro- motion or formation of the Company. If it is proposed to acquire any business, the amount, as certified by the persons by whom the accounts of the business have been audited, of the net profits. of the business in respect of each of the three financial years immediately preceding the date of this statement provided that in the case of a business which has been carried on tor less than three years and the accounts of which have only been made up in respect of two years or onc year the above requirement shall have effect as_ if references to two years or one year, as the case may be, were substituted for refer- ences to three years, and in any such case the statement shall say how long the business to be acquired has been carried on. (Signatures of the persons above-named as directors or proposed directors, or of their agents authorised in writing.) Date Note.—-In this Schedule the expression ‘‘ vendor Part III. of the Fourth Schedule to this Ordinance, and the expression “ financial year ’’ has the meaning assigned to it in that Part of the said Schedule. {Ch. 31. No. 1. includes a vendor as defined in 553