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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 38

BALANCE-SHEET of the New Plymouth Savings-bank as on the 31st December, 1911.

LIABILITIES.

By Depositors (9,391) .. .. .. £ 27,460 12 5
Balance, Profit and Loss Account .. 2,915 5 3
£30,375 17 8

ASSETS.

Cash at call .. .. .. £ 4,077 6 10
Securities (including reserve of £1,850) .. 25,900 0 0
Office furniture .. .. .. 19 10 3
Accrued interest .. .. .. 379 0 7
£30,375 17 8

PAUL C. MORTON, Manager.
H. WESTON, Vice-President.
A. SHUTTLEWORTH,
D. BERRY,
R. COCK,
W. L. NEWMAN,
} Trustees.

I certify that I have examined the books and vouchers of the New Plymouth Savings-bank for the year ended 31st December, 1911, also deeds of mortgage and insurance policies; and I further certify that the above balance-sheet is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the bank’s affairs as shown by the books of the bank. All my requirements as Auditor have been complied with.

C. T. MILLS, Public Accountant.
New Plymouth, 5th February, 1912.

Estate of Kaitangata Relief Fund.

STATEMENT of account—31st March, 1911, to 31st March, 1912 :—

By Balance .. .. .. £ 4,135 9 5
Public Trust Office—
Six months interest to 30th £ s. d.
September, 1911, at 4½ per cent. and 4 per cent. .. 89 0 11
Six months interest to 31st March, 1912, at 4½ per cent. and 4 per cent. .. 88 7 10
177 8 9
£4,312 18 2

Dr.

To Beneficiaries’ Accounts—
Allowances to eleven recipients—
24th March, 1911, to 19th £ s. d.
May, 1911 .. .. 42 0 0
Allowances to ten recipients—
19th May, 1911, to 22nd March, 1912 .. 227 14 0
269 14 0
To Board Expenses—
Members’ expenses .. .. 1 1 0
Balance .. .. 4,042 3 2
£4,312 18 2

Present annual liability to ten recipients .. £269 2 0

T. S. RONALDSON,
Deputy Public Trustee.
Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1912.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 18th April, 1912.

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 (100,000 lb.) 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, 1914, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1915.
2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) 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 quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAMES COLVIN,
Minister of Mines.

Officiating Ministers for 1912.—Notice No. 18.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 24th April, 1912.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend JOHN MAURICE SAUNDERS, M.A.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Bank Statements.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 25th March, 1912.

LIABILITIES.

Notes in circulation .. .. £ 970,277 4 7
Bills in circulation .. .. 52,385 1 1
Balances due to other Banks .. 16,918 19 8
Government deposits .. .. 2,272,845 1 9
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. 6,415,751 13 8
Bearing interest .. .. 5,218,462 5 6
Total average liabilities .. £14,946,640 6 3

ASSETS.

Coined gold and silver and other coined metals .. .. .. £ 2,219,677 13 6
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. 85,861 3 4
Notes and bills of other Banks .. 127,858 7 7
Balances due from other Banks .. 3,691 17 6
Landed property .. .. 117,075 19 11
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. 951,333 15 6
2. Colonial Government securities .. 1,052,327 3 1
3. Other funded securities .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. 8,214,723 2 10
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. .. 665,928 7 6
   Total average assets .. .. £13,438,477 10 9

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £1,000,000.
Preference shares issued to the Crown under Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903, £500,000.
Ordinary shares, £500,000.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on preference shares, 10 per cent. per annum.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on ordinary shares (12 per cent. per annum, and bonus 3 per cent. per annum), 15 per cent. per annum.
Amount of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on preference shares, £50,000.
Amount of the last dividend declared on ordinary shares, £75,000.
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £1,034,405.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of April, 1912.

W. CALLENDER, General Manager.
F. A. MACBEAN, Accountant.