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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

Continuation of Free Places in Secondary Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 27th January, 1905.

PURSUANT to regulations made by Orders in Council of the 16th December, 1903, and of the 13th April, 1904, under “The Secondary Schools Act, 1903,” notice is hereby given that the requirements of clause 12 of the said regulations have been satisfied by such holders of free places as passed the Civil Service Junior Examination held in December, 1904, and also by those holders of free places whose names are given in the following list.

G. HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

Thames—
Addison, Alfred.

New Plymouth—
Avery, Frederick Sidney.
Bullard, John Noden.
Skinner, Dorothy Lillian Kate.
Smith, Harry McKenzie.
Stoddart, John Henry Nichol.
Stöhr, Leonard.

Palmerston North—
Billens, Emmie.
Chapman, Agnes Annie.
Fairbrother, Vera Muriel.

Napier—
Casey, Ellen Christine.
Dyett, Henry Lewis Percy.
George, Alice Maud.
Goddard, Douglas.
Hall, Ethel Margaret Baird.
Harker, Cyril Geoffrey Edmund.
King, Guy Nelson.
Love, Willie Albert Hedley.
Macdonald, Charles.

Blenheim—
Barnett, John Burley.
Brydon, Margaret Isabell.
Grace, Monica Geraldine.
Horton, Decima Constance.
Mogridge, Sidney James.
O’Sullivan, Agnes Elvira.
Simson, Irene Ruapehu.
Thompson, Fleetwood Bernard.

Nelson—
Akers, Karl Caro.
Allan, Edward Florian.
Bamford, Eric Ellerslie.
Bamford, Vera Isoline Overton.
Bartlett, Constance.
Cowles, Quince Bainbridge.
Dayman, Frank Scott.
Fathers, Harold Thomas Malcolm.
Haldane, Janet Minnie.
Hammond, Kenneth Leslie.
Hill, Mabel Helen.
Hurst, Arthur Bendigo.
Ingram, Charles Gordon.
Jennings, Natalie Lardner.
Jordan, Hedley Vicars.
Kempthorne, Frederic Maurice.
Kempthorne, Hilda Anne.
Neale, Edgar Rollo.
Neve, Julius.
Palmer, Constance Minnie.
Papps, Arthur James.
Peart, Alfred Cuthbert.
Pettit, Thomas Harold.
Richards, Gertrude Amelia.
Savage, Willie Howard.
Smith, George Talbot O’Hara.
Sowerby, William.
Thomson, Ernest Harold.
Vercoe, Norman Arthur.
Veysey, Roy.
Wilkinson, John Arthur.

Rangiora—
Anderson, Edward John.
Arnott, Lilian Florence.
Borthwick, Phoebe Fullerton.
Butters, William.
Casserley, Thomas.
Horrell, Constance Rayner.
Robinson, Robert Pursey.
Sullivan, Samuel Henry.
Turner, Lillian.

Ashburton—
White, George Harold.
Williams, Arthur Stanley.

Timaru—
Malthus, Cecil.

Dunedin—
Allnutt, Gladys Eliza.
Angell, John.
Arnold, Alice.
Bagley, Agnes Reta.

Barkman, Neil Bruce.
Barth, Irene.
Bayley, Stella Ione.
Bennett, Muriel Joyce.
Carrick, Hilda Marie.
Clayton, Helen Creta Eunice.
Clyde, Helen Diana.
Dawson, John Tewslcy.
Evans, Catherine Anne.
Hancock, John.
Hastings, Angela.
Hercus, Eric Oswald.
Hey, Joseph Albert.
Johnston, William Bruce.
Lomas, Margaret Ethel Letitia.
Luke, Bertha Alice.
Macdonald, Margaret.
Maitland, Alfred William James.
Marshall, James Ayson.
Mazengarb, Oswald Chettle.
Miller, James Alexander.
Passmore, John.
Paterson, Stanley Gordon.
Reid, Percy Gower.
Robertson, John Hector.
Robertson, Walter Sneddon.
Rose, William David.
Ryan, Horace Laurence.
Ryan, Ruby Louisa.
Slater, William Turner.
Spedding, Arthur Vivian.
Terry, Elizabeth Summerfield.
Treurn, Amy Evelyn.
Turner, Beatrice Emily.
Turner, James Macdougall.
Ussher, Andrew Vincent.
White, Ernest William.
White, Percy Henry.
Whyte, Frank Mitchell.

Invercargill—
Cochrane, George Douglas.
Cowie, Norman Andrew McLeod.
Frayne, Leonora Jane.
Gedney, Mary Jane.
Jones, Alfred William.
McCartney, Leslie.
McKellar, Beatrice Lily.
Mair, Hugh Lindsay Hamilton.
Morris, Cecil Grahame.
Spite, Arthur Bolton.
Waymouth, Nora Blanche.
Wylie, Thomas Wilson.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 26th December, 1904.

LIABILITIES.
£ s. d.
Notes in circulation .. .. .. 773,400 13 10
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 20,024 2 1
Balances due to other Banks .. .. .. 13,352 11 6
Government deposits .. .. .. 1,024,352 10 5
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. .. 3,917,947 11 5
Bearing interest .. .. .. 4,297,450 11 9

Total average liabilities ..£10,046,528 1 0

ASSETS.
Coined gold and silver and other coined metal .. .. .. 1,497,684 3 8
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. .. .. 93,292 14 7
Notes and bills of other Banks .. .. .. 44,626 2 9
Balances due from other Banks .. .. .. 879 3 11
Landed property .. .. .. 103,629 0 10
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. .. .. 1,014,784 15 0
2. Colonial Government securities .. .. .. 716,631 5 0
3. Other funded securities .. .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. .. .. 4,620,353 19 8
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. .. .. 360,821 9 5

Total average assets ..£8,452,702 14 10

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £1,000,000. (Interest, £20,000 for six months, paid 1st November, 1904.)
Preference shares fully paid up issued to the Crown under “Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903,” £500,000.
Capital payable by shareholders, £500,000.
Rate of the last dividend declared to shareholders, 5 per cent.
Amount of the last dividend declared, £21,281.
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £25,599 16s. 8d.
Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of January, 1905.

A. MACINTOSH, General Manager.
HENRY R. LAWRY, Acting Accountant,