Oct. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3385

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND AS AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON MONDAY, 22ND OCTOBER, 1934.

Liabilities.

1. Paid-up capital .. .. .. £ 500,000 0 0
2. General Reserve Fund .. .. 1,000,000 0 0
3. Bank-notes .. .. .. 8,878,563 10 0
4. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. .. 4,402,793 14 1
   (b) Banks .. .. .. 14,783,547 9 11
   (c) Other .. .. .. 2,902 6 0
5. Time deposits .. .. .. ..
6. Liabilities in currencies other than N.Z. currency .. .. .. ..
7. Other liabilities .. .. .. 30,469 0 6

£29,598,276 0 6

Assets.

8. Reserve—
   (a) Gold .. .. .. £ 3,201,727 0 0
   (b) Sterling exchange .. .. 24,721,050 3 8
   (c) Gold exchange .. .. ..
9. Subsidiary coin .. .. .. 115,669 1 5
10. Discounts—
    (a) Commercial and agricultural bills .. .. ..
    (b) Treasury and local-body bills.. ..
11. Advances—
    (a) To the State or State undertakings .. .. ..
    (b) To other public authorities .. ..
    (c) Other .. .. ..
12. Investments .. .. .. 1,516,221 19 10
13. Bank buildings .. .. .. ..
14. Other assets .. .. .. 43,607 15 7

£29,598,276 0 6

Proportion of reserve (No. 8 less No. 6) to notes and other demand liabilities, 99·48 per cent.

W. R. EGGERS, Acting Chief Accountant.

Election of Member of Canterbury Land Board.

I, JAMES FRANCIS QUINN, Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Canterbury Land Board, do hereby notify in accordance with the provisions of section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, and the regulations made thereunder, that the only person nominated for the vacancy occurring on the said Board was David Campbell Kidd, Esquire, of Burke’s Pass, Fairlie.

I do therefore declare that the said David Campbell Kidd is duly elected a member of the Canterbury Land Board as from the 12th day of December, 1934.

Dated at Christchurch, this 18th day of October, 1934.

JAMES FRANCIS QUINN,
Returning Officer.

(L. and S. 22/748/8.)

Gisborne—Opotiki via Waioeka Main Highway.—By-laws.

WHEREAS by section 9 of the Main Highways Act, 1922 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the powers, rights, duties, and liabilities vested in or imposed on the Governor-General or Minister of Public Works (in the case of Government roads), or vested in or imposed on any local authority (in the case of highways other than Government roads), are, in the case of main highways, transferred to and vested in or imposed on the Main Highways Board :

And whereas the roads hereinafter referred to have been declared to be main highways :

And whereas by authority of the said Act and of the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise enabling it in that behalf, the Main Highways Board made on the 19th day of April, 1933, by-laws which were published in the Gazette on the 4th day of May, 1933, at page 1230, to be cited as “The Waioeka Highway Stock By-laws, 1933.”

And whereas it is desirable that such by-laws be revoked, and that other by-laws be made in lieu thereof :

Now, therefore, the Main Highways Board, acting by authority of the said Act, and of the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise enabling it in this behalf, doth hereby revoke the Waioeka Highway Stock By-laws, 1933, as from the date of publication of this notice in the Gazette, and doth hereby make the following by-laws.

BY-LAWS.

1. INTERPRETATION.

(1) THESE by-laws may be cited as “The Waioeka Highway Stock By-laws, 1934.”

(2) These by-laws shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Gazette.

(3) These by-laws shall apply to the following main highways, namely :—

All that road or portion of road in the Opotiki and Waikohu Counties known as the Waioeka Road Main Highway, and the Gisborne—Opotiki via Waioeka Main Highway, commencing at the southern boundary of the Borough of Opotiki, in Otaia Road, and proceeding generally in a southerly and south-easterly direction via Waioeka Pah and Waiata, and terminating at its junction with the Matawai—Koranga Main Highway at the northern boundary of Section 3, Block IX, Motu Survey District.

(4) In these by-laws, unless inconsistent with the context,—

“ The said Act ” means the Main Highways Act, 1922 :

“ Board ” means the Main Highways Board :

“ Engineer ” means and includes any engineer of the Public Works Department for the time being a member of the District Highways Council of the No. 3 Highways District, or the No. 4 Highways District, respectively :

“ Authorized person ” means and includes engineer as hereinbefore defined, and any Traffic Inspector as hereinafter defined, and any other person who may be appointed to be an authorized person in accordance with the provisions of clause 2 of these by-laws :

“ Traffic Inspector ” means and includes any person duly appointed to be a Traffic Inspector by either the Board, or the Opotiki County Council, or the Waikohu County Council :

“ Cattle ” includes any bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer, or calf :

“ Sheep ” includes any ram, ewe, wether, or lamb :

“ The said highway ” means the main highways described in subclause (3) of this clause.

2. AUTHORIZED PERSONS.

(1) The Board, and the Opotiki County Council, and the Waikohu County Council, respectively, may appoint by resolution any person to be an authorized person within the meaning of these by-laws.

(2) The production of an instrument of appointment as an authorized person in terms of subclause (1) of this clause, or as an engineer as defined in subclause (4) of clause 1, or as a Traffic Inspector as defined in subclause (4) of clause 1, shall be conclusive evidence of an appointment as an authorized person for the purposes of these by-laws, and prima facie evidence that such appointment was continuously in force until the time of such production.

(3) No person shall obstruct, hinder, or interfere with any authorized person in the exercise of his powers.

3. PROHIBITION OF STOCK TRAFFIC.

(1) No person shall drive, or cause or permit to be driven, along or upon the said highway any drove of cattle exceeding twenty in number or any mob of sheep exceeding fifty in number, except as provided by the next succeeding subclause hereof.

(2) If any person is charged with an offence under the last preceding subclause, it shall be sufficient defence to the charge if such person proves that the cattle or sheep in question were being driven to or from some property having a frontage on or entrance from the said highway, and to or from which no other reasonable route was available.

4. ASCERTAINMENT OF OFFENDERS.

(1) Any authorized person or police officer may require any person driving any cattle or sheep, or causing or permitting any cattle or sheep to be driven, or allowing any cattle or sheep to be along or upon the said highway, to supply on demand information as to his name and address, and the name and address of the owner of the cattle or sheep, together with particulars relating to the place from which the cattle or sheep were driven, their intended destination, the routes by which they have travelled, and by which it is intended that they shall travel, and any other information which may be required by such authorized person or police officer in the exercise of his duties.

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