MAY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 871

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, 4th May, 1936. E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

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, 4TH MAY, 1936.

Liabilities.

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. £1,500,000 0 0
2. Bank-notes .. .. 10,257,463 0 0
3. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. 8,476,857 6 3
   (b) Banks .. .. 8,409,673 11 0
   (c) Other .. .. 126,509 5 6
4. Time deposits .. .. ..
5. Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand currency .. .. ..
6. Other liabilities .. .. 77,290 7 8

£28,847,793 10 5

Assets.

7. Reserve—
   (a) Gold .. .. £2,801,733 0 0
   (b) Sterling exchange .. .. 23,915,444 7 7
   (c) Gold exchange .. .. ..
8. Subsidiary coin .. .. 203,194 17 5
9. Discounts—
   (a) Commercial and agricultural bills .. .. ..
   (b) Treasury and local-body bills .. .. ..
10. Advances—
    (a) To the State or State undertakings .. .. ..
    (b) To other public authorities .. .. ..
    (c) Other .. .. ..
11. Investments .. .. 1,815,387 9 9
12. Bank buildings .. .. ..
13. Other assets .. .. 112,033 15 8

£28,847,793 10 5

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 97·97 per cent.

W. R. EGGERS, Acting Chief Accountant.

CROWN LAND NOTICE.

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 6th May, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and application will be received at the Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, 1st June, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, 4th June, 1936, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Rotorua County.—Rotorua Survey District.

SECTION 14, Block VIII: Area, 176 acres 0 roods 6 perches. Capital value, £130. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 1s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 12s.

Weighted with £585 for improvements, consisting of cottage (incomplete), outbuildings (2), water cistern and piping, clearing and grassing, road-boundary fencing, subdivisional fencing, and half-share in boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash or by means of a deposit of £145, the balance (£440) to remain on mortgage to the Mortgage Corporation of New Zealand payable over a period of thirty years by means of quarterly instalments of principal and interest with interest at the rate chargeable by the Mortgage Corporation at the date of selection.

A dairying property, when ragwort has been brought under control, situated on Kaharoa—Rotorua Road, two miles from Kaharoa Post-office, four miles from Kaharoa School, and six miles from Ngongotaha Railway-station and Dairy Factory. Access is by well-formed pumice and metalled road. Watered by cistern only, but a bore should be a success. Easy undulating to hilly land mostly open fern country merging into bush. Approximately 70 acres in fair pasture with ragwort appearing, balance in natural state.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(Files: H.O. 31/394; D.O. O.R.P. 5172.)