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5. That the composition of the phosphate shall average not less than 50 per cent. of phosphate of lime (tricalcic phosphate): provided, however, that should a phosphate of a lower average composition be discovered the committee may recommend that a portion of the bonus be granted.
6. That the bonus will only be paid to the first claimant who satisfies the above conditions.
   The terms of payment will be—
   One-fifth on the committee reporting favourably of the discovery;
   One-fifth on delivery of the first 200 tons to purchasers;
   The remaining three-fifths by equal payments on delivery of each additional 150 tons to purchasers.
   Applications addressed to “The Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington,” will be received up to and including the 31st day of December, 1908.
   Specimens of the rock may be seen at the office of any Inspector of Stock in the Dominion, and a leaflet descriptive of the phosphate, and showing how it may be roughly tested, may be obtained on application to these officers. A limited number of specimens of New Zealand phosphate rock are available for distribution to farmers, prospectors, and others interested, and will be sent free on application to the Chief Chemist, Department of Agriculture, Wellington.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister for Agriculture.

Officiating Ministers for 1908.—Notice No. 20.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st April, 1908.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1904,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Edward Andrew Axelsen.

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
The Reverend Charles Boughton Jordan.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Kaitangata Relief Fund.

STATEMENT of account—1st April, 1907, to 31st March, 1908:—

Cr.
£ s. d.
By Balance as at 1st April, 1908 .. .. 4,685 8 2
Public Trust Office—
Interest—
1st April, 1907, to 30th September, 1907 .. .. 99 0 8
1st October, 1907, to 31st March, 1908 .. .. 97 9 3
196 9 11
£4,881 18 1

Dr.
£ s. d.
To Beneficiaries Account—
Allowances to fifteen recipients—
29th March, 1907, to 30th August, 1907 .. .. 137 16 8
30th August, 1907, to 27th March, 1908 .. .. 218 3 1
355 19 9
Expenses of Board member .. 1 1 0
Expenses of report re one beneficiary .. .. 0 14 0
Petty expenses .. .. 0 3 2
1 18 2
Balance as at 31st March, 1908 .. .. 4,524 0 2
£4,881 18 1

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.
Public Trust Office, Wellington, 22nd April, 1908.

The New Zealand Gazette.

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STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 30th March, 1908.

LIABILITIES.
£ s. d.
Notes in circulation .. .. .. 888,030 14 7
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 53,776 11 3
Balances due to other Banks .. .. 24,581 19 1
Government deposits .. .. .. 1,748,902 1 9
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. .. 5,321,918 6 10
Bearing interest .. .. .. 4,573,010 3 3
Total average liabilities ..£12,610,219 16 9

ASSETS.
Coined gold and silver and other coined metal .. .. .. £ 2,134,690 14 9
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. .. 50,602 6 10
Notes and bills of other Banks .. .. 120,664 8 5
Balances due from other Banks .. .. 2,195 3 4
Landed property .. .. .. 106,834 6 9
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. .. 996,062 1 0
2. Colonial Government securities .. 1,077,113 6 2
3. Other funded securities .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. .. 7,104,932 15 4
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. .. 819,462 6 5
   Total average assets .. ..£12,412,557 9 0

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £1,000,000. (Interest, £20,000 for six months, paid 1st November, 1907.)
Preference shares fully paid up issued to the Crown under “Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903,” £500,000.
Ordinary share capital, £500,000.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on preference shares, 7½ per cent. per annum.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on ordinary shares, 10 per cent. per annum.
Amount of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on preference shares, £37,500.
Amount of the last dividend declared on ordinary shares, £50,000.
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £281,675.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of April, 1908.

W. CALLENDER, General Manager.
F. E. CORKILL, Accountant.