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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

14. In addition to the formal reports hereinbefore referred to (but subject in every case to the conditions as to non-disclosure of the identity or particular account, as provided in Regulation 15), it shall be the duty of the Chief Auditor from time to time to call the attention of the General Manager, either verbally or in writing as he deems expedient, to any matter or thing relating to the business or affairs of the bank which in his opinion requires alteration or attention; and if such matter or thing is not satisfactorily altered or attended to, he shall make it the subject of a formal report to the Colonial Treasurer.

15. In every case where the Chief Auditor makes a report or furnishes a balance-sheet to the Colonial Treasurer he shall avoid referring to the name or amount of any individual account (except the accounts of the Assets Realisation Board or the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, Limited), and shall furnish the Chairman of the Board of Directors with a copy thereof.

16. Every such report or balance-sheet shall be deemed to be confidential.

17. The Chief Auditor shall call on the bank to supply him with whatever office-room, materials, and clerical and other assistance he deems necessary for the efficient discharge of his duties and those of the Assistant Auditor, and the bank shall supply the same at its own cost.

18. He shall also be paid by the bank his travelling-expenses whilst absent from Wellington in the discharge of his duties. Such travelling-expenses shall consist of all sums actually paid by him for fares by rail, boat, or coach, together with a sum not exceeding one guinea per day during such absence, including the day on which he leaves Wellington, but excluding the day on which he returns there.

III. AS TO THE ASSISTANT AUDITOR.

19. The Assistant Auditor shall take his directions from and be subject to the control of the Chief Auditor, except during the illness, absence, or incapacity of the Chief Auditor, or whilst the office of Chief Auditor is vacant, in any of which cases the Assistant Auditor shall have all the powers, functions, and duties of the Chief Auditor.

20. The Assistant Auditor shall be paid by the bank his travelling-expenses at the same rate and in the same circumstances as in the case of the Chief Auditor.

IV. AS TO THE LONDON AUDITOR.

21. In respect of the business and affairs of the bank within the United Kingdom, the London Auditor shall have the same powers, functions, and duties as those conferred and imposed on the Chief Auditor by Nos. 2 to 18, inclusive, of these regulations in so far as the same are applicable to the circumstances of the case within the United Kingdom; and those regulations shall, mutatis mutandis, apply accordingly.

22. When authorised by the Colonial Treasurer so to do, the Agent-General of New Zealand in London shall exercise, as regards the London Auditor and the business and affairs of the bank within the United Kingdom, all the powers and functions which by these regulations are conferred upon the Colonial Treasurer as regards the Chief Auditor and the business and affairs of the bank outside of the United Kingdom. But this regulation shall not affect the right of the Colonial Treasurer to himself exercise such powers and functions within the United Kingdom.

23. The London Auditor shall make all such reports and returns, and furnish all such balance-sheets and certificates, to the Chief Auditor as the latter may from time to time request.

24. When furnishing any report, return, balance-sheet, or certificate to the bank, or the Colonial Treasurer, or the Agent-General, the London Auditor shall forward a copy thereof to the Chief Auditor, and also to the manager for the time being of the bank in London.

25. Nos. 4 and 14 of these regulations shall, as regards the London Auditor, apply to the Chairman of the London Board instead of to the General Manager.

SCHEDULE.

We hereby certify that, having carefully examined the foregoing balance-sheet and statements, we are satisfied that they have been correctly compiled from the books and accounts of the bank, and that the balance-sheet is a full and fair balance-sheet, properly drawn up, and exhibits a true and correct view of the state of the bank’s affairs at the date thereof [or otherwise as the case may be].

Dated this day of

A.B., General Manager.
C.D., Accountant [or other authorised officer].

I, E.F., the Chief Auditor of the Bank of New Zealand, do hereby certify,—

1. That, having carefully examined the foregoing balance-sheet and statements, I am satisfied that they have been correctly compiled from the books and accounts of the bank.

2. That I am also satisfied that the said balance-sheet is a full and fair balance-sheet, properly drawn up, and exhibits a true and correct view of the state of the bank’s affairs at the date thereof [or otherwise if the balance-sheet and statement are incorrect, setting forth in such case the details].

3. That I have verified so much of the cash, investments, securities, and assets of the bank as at the date of the said balance sheet were held at the Head Office in Wellington, and have had access to certified returns of so much thereof as were then held at the various branches and agencies of the bank, or were then in transit.

Dated this day of

E.F.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Native Land in the Papamoa No. 2 Block, Block XV., Tauranga Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 5th October, 1894, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 3rd July, 1894.

SCHEDULE.
ROAD THROUGH PAPAMOA BLOCK.

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, and deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

Dated this 17th day of December, 1898.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Resignation of Assistant Lecturer and Instructor at Thames School of Mines accepted.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 17th December, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of

WILLIAM ALEXANDER MACLEOD, Esq.,
as Assistant Lecturer and Instructor at the Thames School of Mines, as from the 31st December, 1898.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1900, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1901.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the