FEB. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 261

Mining Privilege to be struck off the Register.

Mining Registrar's Office, Blenheim, 2nd February, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of section 188 (3) of the Mining Act, 1926, unless sufficient cause to the contrary is shown within one month from the date hereof, the mining privilege mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be struck off the Register.

A. F. BENT, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

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, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1938.

Liabilities. Assets.
£ s. d. £ s. d.

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. 1,500,000 0 0 7. Reserve—
2. Bank-notes .. .. 14,067,973 0 0 (a) Gold .. .. 2,801,791 0 0
3. Demand liabilities— (b) Sterling exchange .. .. 15,700,698 13 0
   (a) State .. .. 3,889,650 2 5 (c) Gold exchange .. .. .. .. ..
   (b) Banks .. .. 9,485,512 8 8 8. Subsidiary coin .. .. 218,148 1 3
   (c) Other .. .. 156,298 15 0 9. Discounts—
4. Time deposits .. .. .. .. .. (a) Commercial and agricultural
5. Liabilities in currencies other than bills .. .. .. .. ..
   New Zealand currency .. .. .. .. .. (b) Treasury and local-body bills
6. Other liabilities .. .. 192,685 19 6 10. Advances—
   (a) To the State or State undertakings—
   (1) Primary Products Marketing Department 6,460,102 2 5
   (2) For other purposes 1,100,000 0 0
   (b) To other public authorities .. .. ..
   (c) Other .. .. ..
7. Investments .. .. 2,941,003 17 9
8. Bank buildings .. .. .. .. ..
9. Other assets .. .. 70,376 11 2
   £29,292,120 5 7 £29,292,120 5 7

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 67·039 per cent.

W. H. WELSH, Chief Accountant.

Wheat, Oats, and Barley.—Estimated Yields.

Census and Statistics Department,
Wellington, 9th February, 1938.

THE following estimated average yields per acre of wheat, oats, and barley for the season 1937–38 have been compiled from reports furnished by Stock Inspectors of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion, and are now published for general information.

The above estimates may be compared with last season’s actual average yields, which were: Wheat, 32·32 bushels; oats, 47·15 bushels; and barley, 36·36 bushels.

In accordance with the above estimates, the total yield of wheat for the season 1937–38 should be approximately 5,730,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 7,168,963 bushels for the season 1936–37.

The area from which oats were threshed for the five seasons ending with 1936–37 averaged 22 per cent. of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 2,550,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 3,525,430 bushels for the season 1936–37.

On a similar assumption in regard to barley, the total yield of grain should be approximately 830,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 746,948 bushels for the season 1936–37.

In the above estimates of total yields allowance has been made for crops which, as a result of adverse weather conditions experienced early in the season, will not be threshed.

J. W. BUTCHER,
Government Statistician.

Officiating Ministers for 1938.—Notice No. 3.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1938.

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 :—

Churches of Christ.
Mr. Charles Cates.

Brethren.
Mr. Aaron Nobes.

Church of Te Kooti Rikirangi.
Mr. Kaiwhare Kireona.

K. D. C. MORRISON,
Acting Deputy Registrar-General.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925.—Notice of Proposed Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 9th February, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 22 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, the registration of the Kaiapoi Freezing Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1405, situated at Kaiapoi, will, unless cause to the contrary is shown, be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof.

E. B. TAYLOR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.