April 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1115

Tomatoes.
Toys, games, and playing-cards.
Typewriters.
Vacuum cleaners.
Vegetables, canned, bottled, dried, and preserved, and pickles.
Vegetables in brine.
Weighing-machines, scales, and balances of all descriptions.
Wine.
Wood and timber of all kinds, hewn, sawn, or split, planed or dressed.
Wood-flour.
Woollen and worsted manufactures of all kinds except yarns.
Works of art.
Wringers and mangles.
Yeast.

NOTE.—This list is in substitution for previous lists published in the New Zealand Gazette.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

Amending the Regulations under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by section 17 of the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, the Surveyors’ Board doth hereby amend the regulations dated the 30th day of July, 1913, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 7th day of August, 1913,—

(1.) By deleting from regulation 14 the words after the third line as follows:—

“(1.) Mathematics.

“Plane and spherical trigonometry, geometry, algebra, as far as these subjects are applicable to surveying.”

(2.) By deleting the whole of regulation No. 15, with its heading.

(3.) By deleting from regulation 16 (1) the fourth line thereof as follows: “2. Elementary mathematics, 75.”

(4.) By the consequential reduction of the total 625 in the said regulation 16 (1) to 550.

And the Surveyors’ Board doth hereby declare that such amendments shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1919.

Signed at Wellington this 26th day of March, 1918.

E. H. WILMOT,
Chairman, Surveyors’ Board.

M. C. SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Approved in Council this sixteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 10th. April, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to

BENJAMIN LOVE, late No. 341, Private, Canterbury Engineer Volunteers (No. 1 Company),

he having a total service to the 8th April, 1918, entitling him thereto, of twenty-nine years and nine days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Bank Statements.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1918.

LIABILITIES. £ s. d.
Notes in circulation .. .. .. 2,753,502 6 8
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 54,921 4 3
Balances due to other Banks .. .. 48,729 4 2
Government deposits .. .. .. 9,706,836 16 11
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. 10,245,118 1 6
Bearing interest .. .. .. 6,839,822 7 9

Total average liabilities £29,648,930 1 3

ASSETS.
Coined gold and silver and other coined £ s. d.
metals .. .. .. 3,377,260 5 5
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. 218,267 13 11
Legal tender notes of other Banks .. 653,303 8 4
Notes and bills of other Banks .. .. 127,581 14 3
Balances due from other Banks .. .. 51,245 5 9
Landed property .. .. .. 190,631 2 7
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. 727,833 16 8
2. Government securities (New Zealand or otherwise) .. .. .. 2,721,137 16 8
3. Other funded securities .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. 13,357,115 12 3
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. .. .. 578,308 3 4

Total average assets .. £22,002,684 19 2

Amount of the capital stock paid up at the close of the quarter ended 31st March, 1918:—
4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £529,988.
“A” preference shares issued to the Crown under Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903, £500,000.
“B” preference shares issued to the Crown under Bank of New Zealand Act, 1913, £250,000.
Ordinary shares, £1,000,000.

Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on—
“A” preference shares, 10 per cent. per annum.
“B” preference shares and ordinary shares (dividend 12 per cent. per annum, and bonus 3 per cent. per annum), 15 per cent. per annum.

Amount of the last dividend declared on—
“A” preference shares, £50,000.
“B” .. £37,500.
Ordinary shares, £150,000.

(On the Guaranteed Stock £10,599, interest for six months, was paid on 1st November, 1917.)
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £2,246,595.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of April, 1918.

W. CALLENDER, General Manager.
A. McLENNAN, Accountant.

[NOTE.—The above are the figures for New Zealand only.]

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of Australasia, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1918.

LIABILITIES. £ s. d.
Notes in circulation .. .. .. 458,203 13 4
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 19,493 1 11
Balances due to other Banks .. .. ..
Government deposits .. .. .. ..
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. .. 2,345,585 1 6
Bearing interest .. .. .. 1,093,084 14 8

Total average liabilities ..£3,916,366 11 5

ASSETS.
Coined gold and silver and other coined £ s. d.
metals .. .. .. 976,856 9 11
Legal tender notes of other Banks .. 7,147 0 2
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. 70 0 0
Notes and bills of other Banks .. .. 55,131 3 11
Balances due from other Banks .. .. ..
Landed property .. .. .. 6,394 10 9
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. .. 109,064 16 2
2. Colonial Government securities .. 144,437 18 4
3. Other funded securities .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. .. 3,176,370 14 9
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. .. .. 10,207 12 7

Total average assets .. ..£4,485,680 6 7

Amount of the capital stock paid up at this date, £2,000,000.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders, 14 per cent. per annum and bonus 12s. per share, equal to 17 per cent. per annum.
Amount of the last dividend declared, £170,000.
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £3,028,300.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of April, 1918.

ROBT. R. SMITH, Inspector.
O. K. TENNENT, Accountant.