JULY 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1957

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Akaroa and Wainui and the Le Bon’s Bay Road Districts, and in the County of Mackenzie.—Notice No. 1046.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th July, 1906.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned local governing bodies have by special order declared the plants enumerated opposite each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under the jurisdiction of each respectively:—

Local Bodies. Plants.
Akaroa and Wainui Road Board Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakea, ragwort or ragweed, fennel, hemlock, ox-eye daisy, St. John’s wort, star thistle, and milk or French thistle,
Le Bon’s Bay Road Board .. Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakea, ragwort or ragweed, dock, burdock, any species of stemless thistle, common plume or Scotch thistle, woolly-headed thistle, star thistle, milk thistle, lupin, pennyroyal, hemlock, wild turnip, ox-eye daisy, St. John’s wort, tutsan, fennel, periwinkle, elderberry, kangaroo acacia, viper’s bugloss, and wild borage.
Mackenzie County Council .. Ragwort, St. John’s wort.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 9th July, 1906.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO RANGIORA POST-OFFICE.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Gulliver, G. A., Rangiora .. .. .. 690 0 0

Declined.
Soames Bros., Christchurch .. .. .. 759 0 0

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 12th July, 1906.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

ERECTON OF POST-OFFICE, JOHNSONVILLE.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Bennett, W. H., Wellington .. .. .. 1,356 0 0

Declined.
Emeny, W. G., Wellington .. .. .. 1,366 0 0
Cooper, A., and Sons, Wellington .. .. 1,442 0 0
Connon, G., Wellington .. .. .. 1,465 10 0
Wakelin, R. A., Wellington .. .. .. 1,657 13 6

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 16th July, 1906.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

ERECTON OF THREE COTTAGES AT WERAROA TRAINING-FARM.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Hopwood and Son, Palmerston North .. 4,349 0 0

Declined.
Jones and Whitaker, Levin .. .. .. 4,727 13 6

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1905.”—Notice of Cancellations of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 14th July, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Industrial Unions mentioned in the Schedule below are hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

The Manawatu and West Coast Builders and Contractors Industrial Union of Employers, registered No. 432, situated at Palmerston North.

The Timaru Dressmakers, Tailoresses, and Shirtmakers Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 361, situated at Timaru.

The Canterbury Flax and Twine Mills Employees Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 489, situated at Waikuku.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Applications for Inspecting Engineer, Mines Department.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 14th July, 1906.

APPLICATIONS are invited for the position of Inspecting Engineer, Mines Department.

Applicants are required to state experience, and must hold a first-class mine-manager’s certificate under either the Mining Act or the Coal-mines Act, and must also be a licensed surveyor of New Zealand.

Salary, £500 per annum; limit of age, fifty years.

Applications addressed to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington, will be received up to noon of Monday, the 6th August, 1906.

T. H. HAMER,
Under-Secretary.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 25th June, 1906.

LIABILITIES.
£ s. d.
Notes in circulation .. .. .. 868,309 9 2
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 39,670 10 3
Balances due to other Banks .. .. 17,821 9 3
Government deposits .. .. .. 2,442,123 18 6
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. .. 4,870,399 16 0
Bearing interest .. .. .. 4,502,380 3 7

Total average liabilities .. £12,740,705 6 9

ASSETS.
£ s. d.
Coined gold and silver and other coined metals .. .. .. 1,757,848 9 2
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. .. .. 157,791 0 10
Notes and bills of other Banks .. .. .. 99,029 8 1
Balances due from other Banks .. .. .. 696 12 8
Landed property .. .. .. 102,695 18 8
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. .. .. 893,388 8 10
2. Colonial Government securities .. .. 892,040 0 0
3. Other funded securities .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. .. 4,967,239 13 8
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. .. .. 270,653 19 2

Total average assets .. .. .. £9,141,383 11 1

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £1,000,000. (Interest, £20,000 for six months, paid 1st May, 1906.)

Preference shares fully paid up issued to the Crown under “Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903,” £500,000.

Ordinary Share Capital (paid up to £500,000), £500,000.

Rate of the last dividend declared to shareholders, 5 per cent.

Amount of the last dividend declared on preference shares, £25,000.

Amount of the last dividend declared on ordinary shares, £25,000.

Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £81,294 10s 3d.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of July, 1906.

ALEX. MICHIE, General Manager.
HENRY R. LAWRY, Acting Accountant.

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