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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

Surveyors registered.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 28th May, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of section 18 of the Surveyors Registration Act, 1928, that the following persons have been registered as surveyors under the said Act.
The particular section of the Act under which the surveyors are registered is shown under the heading of qualifications.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 17/163.)

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, 31ST MAY, 1937.

Liabilities.

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. £ 1,500,000 0 0
2. Bank-notes .. .. 12,974,590 10 0
3. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. 7,383,790 7 9
   (b) Banks .. .. 10,133,952 18 6
   (c) Other .. .. 971,143 14 6
4. Time deposits .. .. ..
5. Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand currency .. .. ..
6. Other liabilities .. .. 123,761 8 11

£33,087,238 19 8

Assets.

7. Reserve—
   (a) Gold .. .. £ 2,801,791 0 0
   (b) Sterling exchange .. .. 22,327,094 13 8
   (c) Gold exchange .. .. ..
8. Subsidiary coin .. .. 111,624 1 1
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 4,673,119 10 10
    (2) For other purposes .. 200,000 0 0
    (b) To other public authorities .. ..
    (c) Other .. .. ..
11. Investments .. .. 2,906,450 0 0
12. Bank buildings .. .. ..
13. Other assets .. .. 67,159 14 1

£33,087,238 19 8

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 79·866 per cent.

W. H. WELSH, Chief Accountant.

Officiating Ministers for 1937.—Notice No. 20.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1937.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend John Harold Datson.

Orthodox Eastern Church.

The Very Reverend Archimandrite Antonious Mobayed.

Pentecostal Church of New Zealand.

Pastor Jack Elston Davies.

Apostolic Church.

Pastor Robert Louis Arnold.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 1st June, 1937.

THE Waverley Lodge, No. 158, with registered office at Invercargill, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 1st day of June, 1937.

R. SINEL,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Engineers Registration Act, 1924.—Examinations, October, 1937.

ENTRIES for the next examinations to be held in accordance with the regulations issued under section 16 of the above Act close on 30th June, 1937. Entrance forms received after that date cannot be considered. Entrance forms will be supplied on request to the Registrar, Engineers’ Registration Board, Wellington. Applicants should state whether they require forms for civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering. Civil engineering candidates should note that for the October, 1938, examinations and thereafter two papers in Engineering Drawings will be set for Section B. These papers will not be set this year.

W. L. NEWNHAM, Registrar.

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

TO the owner of that parcel of land containing 1 rood 10 perches, more or less, being Section 188A, Parish of Waipareira, and being the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 63, folio 200 (Auckland Registry), the registered proprietor of which is James Murray, of Taupaki, Settler: 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 on 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 27th day of May, 1937.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee,