MAY 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1443

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, 11TH MAY, 1942.

Liabilities. Assets.
£ s. d. £ s. d.

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. 1,500,000 0 0 7. Reserve—
2. Bank-notes .. .. 24,322,132 0 0 (a) Gold .. .. 2,801,877 10 0
3. Demand liabilities— (b) Sterling exchange*.. .. 21,238,845 2 9
   (a) State .. .. 11,599,329 15 11 (c) Gold exchange .. .. 53,036 3 2
   (b) Banks .. .. 21,544,937 15 11 8. Subsidiary coin .. .. 53,036 3 2
   (c) Other .. .. 2,079,806 15 11 9. Discounts—
4. Time deposits .. .. .. (a) Commercial and agricultural
5. Liabilities in currencies other than bills .. .. ..
   New Zealand currency .. .. 32,818 8 10 (b) Treasury and local-body bills .. ..
6. Other liabilities .. .. 1,423,647 3 6 10. Advances—
   (a) To the State or State undertakings—
   (1) Marketing Department 11,180,121 10 0
   (2) For other purposes .. 22,200,000 0 0
   (b) To other public authorities .. ..
   (c) Other .. .. 4,146,228 5 4
   11. Investments .. .. 4,146,228 5 4
   12. Bank buildings .. .. 882,563 8 10
   13. Other assets .. .. 882,563 8 10
   £(N.Z.)62,502,672 0 1 £(N.Z.)62,502,672 0 1

• Expressed in New Zealand currency.

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 40·318 per cent.

W. R. EGGERS, Chief Accountant.

Sitting of the Native Land Court and Maori Land Board at Rotorua on the 2nd June, 1942.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Native Land Court and Maori Land Board will sit at Rotorua on Tuesday, 2nd June, 1942, or as soon thereafter as possible to hear and determine the matters in the Schedule hereunder.

C. V. FORDHAM, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

The Industrial Absenteeism Emergency Regulations 1942.—Notice that Undertakings shall be operated and Workers shall be bound to work on the Sovereign’s Birthday.

IN pursuance of the Industrial Absenteeism Emergency Regulations 1942 the Minister of Labour doth hereby prescribe that the undertakings described in the following Schedule shall be operated and the workers employed therein shall be bound to work on the 1st day of June, 1942 (being the date of observance of the Sovereign’s Birthday under the Sovereign’s Birthday Observance Act, 1937), for the times which would have comprised the working-hours of the workers concerned if such day had not been a holiday.

SCHEDULE.

Every undertaking which is on the 1st day of June, 1942—

(a) An essential undertaking within the meaning of Regulation 9 of the National Service Emergency Regulations 1940; or

(b) An undertaking which has been declared to be an undertaking to which the Industrial Absenteeism Emergency Regulations 1942 apply;

and in respect of which a Controller appointed under emergency regulations has issued a direction to the employer concerned that such undertaking shall be operated on that date.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of May, 1942.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.

The Non-ferrous Metals Control Notice 1942.

PURSUANT to the Factory Emergency Regulations 1939, I, George Augustus Pascoe, Factory Controller, hereby direct and give notice as follows:—

1. This notice may be cited as the Non-ferrous Metals Control Notice 1942.

2. This Notice shall come into force on the day next following the date of publication hereof in the Gazette.

3. Compliance with this Notice may be excused or varied by the express prior consent in writing of the Factory Controller and subject to such conditions as may be specified in such consent.

4. Any such consent, or any consent given under clause 5 hereof, may at any time be withdrawn by notice in writing by the Factory Controller given to the person to whom such consent was given.

5. After the coming into force of this Notice no person being the occupier of a factory or the owner of factory materials shall use any non-ferrous metals or alloys (in the form of angles, bars, ingots, pipes, plates, rods, wire, sections, sheets, strip, tubes, or scrap) for the manufacture of any of the articles set out in the Schedule hereto without the precedent consent in writing of the Factory Controller.

6. In the interpretation of the said Schedule no item shall be deemed to be limited or restricted in meaning by any inference to be drawn from the fact that an article that may be comprised therein is specified or may be comprised in any other item, and generally no item shall be construed by reference to any other item.

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