1794
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

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, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1936.

Liabilities.

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. £1,500,000 0 0
2. Bank-notes .. .. 11,194,486 0 0
3. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. 3,950,196 15 10
   (b) Banks .. .. 6,653,669 14 9
   (c) Other .. .. 190,987 8 0
4. Time deposits .. .. ..
5. Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand currency .. .. ..
6. Other liabilities .. .. 104,517 16 6

£23,593,857 15 1

Assets.

7. Reserve—
   (a) Gold .. .. £2,801,733 0 0
   (b) Sterling exchange .. .. 16,921,502 9 3
   (c) Gold exchange .. .. ..
8. Subsidiary coin .. .. 172,295 7 0
9. Discounts—
   (a) Commercial and agricultural bills .. .. ..
   (b) Treasury and local-body bills .. .. ..
10. Advances—
    (a) To the State or State undertakings—
    (1) Dairy Industry Account 894,230 10 7
    (2) For other purposes .. 700,000 0 0
    (b) To other public authorities .. .. ..
    (c) Other .. .. ..
11. Investments .. .. 2,035,850 0 0
12. Bank buildings .. .. ..
13. Other assets .. .. 68,246 8 3

£23,593,857 15 1

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 89·694 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, 21st September, 1936.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Settlement Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 22nd September, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925; and applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 19th October, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 21st October, 1936, at 10 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.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS SETTLEMENT LAND.

Waitemata County.—Waitemata Survey District.

SECTION 63, Waari Hamlet: Area, 5 acres 1 rood 1·89 perches. Capital value £210; half-yearly rent, £5 5s.

Weighted with the sum of £225 for improvements (see below) payable by a cash deposit of £25, balance being secured on instalment mortgage under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act for a term not exceeding thirty-six years and a half and bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum if purchased by a discharged soldier, or 5½ per cent. per annum if purchased by a civilian.

This area is situated on Sunnyside Road, three-quarters of a mile from Henderson Post-office, one mile from Henderson School, and quarter of a mile from Sunnyvale Railway-station, by metalled road. Hilly to undulating, all ploughable, with soil of clay. Subdivided into three paddocks and watered by swampy stream. Approximately 2 acres in pasture, 1½ acres cultivated for crops, and 1½ acres cleared and ploughed.

Improvements (which must be paid for as stated above) comprise a four-roomed dwelling and lean-to, fowl house and run, a few lemon and orange trees, 8 chains road-fencing, 20 chains boundary-fencing, 10 chains subdivisional fencing, 14 chains shelter-trees, 8 chains drains, grassing, and cultivation.

Any further particulars may be obtained from the under-signed.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(Files: H.O. 26/27142; D.O. M.L. 1988.)