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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

Electoral rolls for the four classes of electors above specified will be prepared, and, for the purposes of the first election, will be closed at 5 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 28th March, 1898. Such rolls will be called respectively—(a) the “parliamentary,” (b) the “graduates’,” (c) the “teachers’,” and (d) the “Education Boards’” electoral roll.

Every candidate for election is to be nominated by one or more electors entitled to vote for his election, and the nomination is to bear the candidate’s consent thereto. Nominations will close at noon on Monday, the 4th April, 1898.

Applications for enrolment, and all notices, &c., relating to the election, are to be addressed to “The Returning Officer for the Victoria College Council Election, Education Department, Wellington,” from whom copies of the regulations and forms may be obtained. Copies of the Act are to be had from the Government Printer; price, 9d.

E. O. GIBBES,
Returning Officer.

Auckland Savings-bank Balance-sheet for 1897.

STATEMENT of the Receipts and Payments of the Auckland Savings-bank for the Year ending the 31st December, 1897:—

RECEIPTS.

Balance, 1st January, 1897 .. .. 123,032 8 3
Deposited during the year .. .. 424,953 7 8
Interest added during the year .. .. 606 18 8
Interest added, 31st December, 1897 .. 16,930 10 5
Interest on mortgages and debentures .. 19,058 4 0
Interest on deposits with—
Bank of New Zealand .. .. 4,188 18 4
National Bank of New Zealand .. 807 10 0
Bank of New South Wales .. 700 0 0
Union Bank of Australia .. 180 0 0
Mortgages repaid .. .. 27,371 0 0
Special mortgage repaid .. .. 2,050 0 0
Debentures repaid .. .. 200 0 0
£620,078 17 4

PAYMENTS.

Repaid depositors .. .. 394,667 9 5
Interest credited depositors .. 17,537 9 1
Advanced on mortgage .. .. 26,755 0 0
Advanced on special mortgage .. 43,000 0 0
Charges .. .. 3,223 10 8
Building Account .. .. 82 4 2
Deposit with Bank of New Zealand (current account) .. .. 134,813 4 0
£620,078 17 4

S. G. ROUNTREE, pro Manager.
J. MUIR BARR, pro Accountant.
G. S. KISSLING, Auditor.

31st December, 1897.

We hereby certify that we have examined the above statement of the receipts and payments of the Auckland Savings-bank, and to the best of our belief it contains a true and correct account of all the transactions of the bank during the year, and that the balance of cash amounts to £134,813 4s.

THOS. PEACOCK, Vice-President.
J. L. WILSON,
LAURENCE D. NATHAN,
W. F. COCHRANE,
THOMAS MORRIN,
} Trustees.

STATEMENT of the ASSETS and LIABILITIES of the Auckland Savings-bank on the 31st December, 1897.

LIABILITIES.

Amount due 22,626 depositors .. .. 591,622 1 5
Reserved Surplus Profits Fund .. .. 43,000 0 0
Balance .. .. .. 4,134 0 10
£638,756 2 3

ASSETS.

Invested on mortgage (revalued) .. .. 214,541 0 0
Invested on special mortgage .. .. 40,950 0 0
Invested on debentures .. .. 158,200 0 0
Interest due, 31st December, 1897 .. 4,515 7 7
Deposits with—
Bank of New Zealand .. .. 21,500 0 0
National Bank of New Zealand .. 21,500 0 0
Bank of New South Wales .. .. 21,500 0 0
Union Bank of Australia .. .. 6,000 0 0
Interest accrued on fixed deposits .. 1,236 10 8
Bank premises .. .. 14,000 0 0
Deposit with Bank of New Zealand (current account) .. .. 134,813 4 0
£638,756 2 3

S. G. ROUNTREE, pro Manager.
J. MUIR BARR, pro Accountant.
G. S. KISSLING, Auditor.

31st December, 1897.

We hereby certify that, to the best of our belief, the above is a true and correct statement of the assets and liabilities of the Auckland Savings-bank on the 31st December, 1897.

THOS. PEACOCK, Vice-President.
J. L. WILSON,
LAURENCE D. NATHAN,
W. F. COCHRANE,
THOMAS MORRIN,
} Trustees.

Bank of New Zealand,
Auckland, 24th January, 1898.

We hereby certify that the amount at the credit of the Trustees of the Auckland Savings-bank in account with the Bank of New Zealand, on the 31st December, 1897, was £130,865 3s. 3d.

MEMO.

Balance as above.. .. .. .. £130,865 3 3
Cash in hand, paid in on 5th January, 1898.. 3,948 0 9
£134,813 4 0

R. BROOKFIELD, pro Manager.

Lands in the Auckland District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 26th February, 1898.

IT is hereby notified that the leases and licenses of the under-mentioned Crown lands having been voluntarily surrendered by the lessees and licensees, or forfeited by resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

JOHN McKENZIE, Minister of Lands.