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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 27

RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND AS AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON MONDAY, 30TH MARCH, 1936.

Liabilities.

1. Paid-up capital .. .. .. 500,000 0 0
2. General Reserve Fund .. .. 1,000,000 0 0
3. Bank-notes .. .. .. 10,153,129 10 0
4. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. .. 8,788,904 16 5
   (b) Banks .. .. .. 8,991,690 12 10
   (c) Other .. .. .. 122,059 4 7
5. Time deposits .. .. ..
6. Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand currency .. .. ..
7. Other liabilities .. .. .. 144,926 12 6

£29,700,710 16 4

Assets.

8. Reserve—
   (a) Gold .. .. .. 2,801,733 0 0
   (b) Sterling exchange .. .. 24,830,180 15 6
   (c) Gold exchange .. ..
9. Subsidiary coin .. .. .. 202,162 0 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 .. .. .. 1,828,813 14 7
12. Investments .. .. ..
13. Bank buildings .. .. .. 37,821 5 10
14. Other assets .. .. ..

£29,700,710 16 4

Proportion of reserve (No. 8 less No. 6) to notes and other demand liabilities, 98·489 per cent.

W. R. EGGERS, Acting Chief Accountant.

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Election to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth:—

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 30th March, 1936.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office.—Appointment of Agent at Huntly.

IT is notified for public information that Mr. Wilfred Charles Davies has been appointed to the position of Agent of the Public Trust Office at Huntly.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of March, 1936.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

Unclaimed Lands.—Notice by the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II), and its Amendments.

TO the owner of all that parcel of land containing 20 perches, more or less, situated in the Town of Okarito, and which said piece of land is Section numbered 22, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 2, folio 326 (Westland Registry), in the name of Edward Fawconer Tizard, of Okarito, Gentleman: Whereas after due inquiry the owner of the above-described land cannot be found: And whereas the said owner has no known agent in New Zealand: Now, the Public Trustee hereby calls upon such owner within six months from the date of the publication of this notice in the New Zealand Gazette to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee the title of such owner to the said land, and if such owner fails or neglects so to do the Public Trustee will exercise with regard to the said land all the powers and authorities granted to him in and by the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II), and its amendments.

Dated this 23rd day of March, 1936.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in North Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 1st April, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Government Buildings, Auckland, on Wednesday, 13th May, 1936, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Rodney County.—Oruawhara Parish.

PART Allotment 40a: Area, 43 acres 3 roods 8 perches. Upset price, £45.

Situated on the Te Hana–Mangawai Road, one mile and a quarter from Te Arai Post-office, nine miles from Albertland Dairy Factory, five miles from Te Arai School, and eleven miles to Wellsford Saleyards. Te Hana Railway-station is nine miles distant by metalled road. Access also from Mangawai Wharf, six miles and a half distant. The whole area is unimproved land in fern and short scrub with some scattered gorse; all more or less ploughable. Soil of poor quality clay resting on sandstone formation; poorly watered by swampy stream. Altitude 100 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-level. Unsuitable for selection as a separate holding.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 1/557.)