SHIMADA (UK) LIMITED

At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above-named Company, duly convened, and held at Bartfield & Co., 5th Floor, 9 Kingsway, London WC2B 6XF, on 22nd December 1997, the following Extraordinary Resolutions were duly passed:   “That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the Meeting that the Company cannot, by reasons of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable that the same should be wound up, and that the Company be wound up accordingly, and that Gerald Maurice Krasner, of Bartfield & Co., Burley House, 12 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9NF, an Insolvency Practitioner duly qualified under the Insolvency Act 1986, be and is hereby appointed the Liquidator of the Company for the purposes of such winding-up, and that at a Meeting of Creditors, duly convened, and held pursuant to sections 98 to 100 of the Insolvency Act 1986, the Resolutions for Voluntary Liquidation and the appointment of Gerald Maurice Krasner as Liquidator were confirmed.” D. Foden, Chairman