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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40]

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, 15TH JUNE, 1936.

Liabilities.

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. £1,500,000 0 0
2. Bank-notes .. .. 10,049,350 0 0
3. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. 9,768,407 3 6
   (b) Banks .. .. 7,095,342 19 0
   (c) Other .. .. 146,636 13 1
4. Time deposits .. .. ..
5. Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand currency .. .. 18,600 0 0
6. Other liabilities .. .. 88,660 13 8

£28,666,997 9 3

Assets.

7. Reserve—
   (a) Gold .. .. £2,801,733 0 0
   (b) Sterling exchange .. .. 23,388,007 4 2
   (c) Gold exchange .. .. ..
8. Subsidiary coin .. .. 198,213 11 7
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 .. .. 2,014,856 13 6
12. Bank buildings .. .. ..
13. Other assets .. .. 264,187 0 0

£28,666,997 9 3

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 96·716 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, 15th June, 1936.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 16th June, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 20th July, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 22nd July, 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.

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position, such as bank passbooks, certificates, or letters of credit from managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply guarantees of their own financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year’s rent, broken period rent, lease and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of improvement loading.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Ohura Survey District.

SECTION 6, Block X: Area, 593 acres 2 roods 23 perches. Capital value, £670. Deposit on deferred payments, £30: Half-yearly instalments on deferred payments, £20 16s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £13 8s.

Loaded with £1,930 for improvements, comprising a five-roomed dwelling, wool-shed, two sets of yards, shed, fencing, felling, and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £100, leaving £420 on first mortgage to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand and £1,410 on second mortgage under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act.