SEPT. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2419

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,
14TH SEPTEMBER, 1942.

Liabilities.

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. .. £1,500,000 0 0
2. Bank-notes .. .. .. .. 26,741,601 0 0
3. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. .. .. 10,397,021 6 8
   (b) Banks .. .. .. .. 21,401,010 3 10
   (c) Other .. .. .. .. 655,797 17 1
4. Time deposits .. .. .. .. ..
5. Liabilities in currencies other than New
   Zealand currency .. .. .. 15,400 14 5
6. Other liabilities .. .. .. .. 1,240,435 14 5

Total: £(N.Z.)61,951,266 16 5

Assets.

7. Reserve— £ s. d.
   (a) Gold .. .. .. .. 2,801,877 10 0
   (b) Sterling exchange* .. .. .. 25,183,609 6 6
   (c) Gold exchange .. .. .. ..
8. Subsidiary coin .. .. .. .. 42,988 6 3
9. Discounts—
   (a) Commercial and agricultural bills .. ..
   (b) Treasury and local-body bills .. ..
10. Advances—
    (a) To the State or State undertakings—
    (1) Marketing Department .. .. 6,014,131 11 3
    (2) For other purposes .. .. 22,300,000 0 0
    (b) To other public authorities .. ..
    (c) Other .. .. .. .. ..
11. Investments .. .. .. .. 4,146,340 0 11
12. Bank buildings .. .. .. .. ..
13. Other assets .. .. .. .. 1,462,320 1 6

Total: £(N.Z.)61,951,266 16 5

• Expressed in New Zealand currency.
  Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 47.250 per cent.
  W. R. EGGERS, 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, 1942.
W. G. BAIRD, Public Trustee.

The Women's Footwear Design 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 Women's Footwear Design Control Notice 1942.
2. This notice shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 1942.
3. No person shall manufacture women's footwear in contravention of the provisions of the New Zealand Emergency Standard Specification entitled "Simplified Practice for the Manufacture of Women's Footwear," issued by the New Zealand Standards Institute under the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, bearing date September, 1942, and numbered N.Z.S.S. E. 73 (SP)†.
4. (1) Every manufacturer of women's footwear shall within seven days after the 1st day of October in each year furnish in writing to the Secretary of the New Zealand Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, Lambton Quay, Wellington, the numbers, names, or other designations of the designs of women's footwear that he was producing on that date.
   (2) No person shall in any period of twelve months commencing on the 1st day of October commence to produce any design of women's footwear that he was not manufacturing on the first day of that period unless he has first furnished in writing to the Secretary, New Zealand Standards Institute, aforesaid, the number, name, or other designation of the design.
5. Nothing in this notice shall be deemed to affect the provisions of the Footwear Control Notice 1942‡.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of September, 1942.
G. A. PASCOE, Factory Controller.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, serial number 1939/143, page 656.
  † Copies obtainable from the Secretary, New Zealand Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, Lambton Quay, Wellington.
  ‡ Gazette, 9th July, 1942, Vol. II, page 1893.

Building Construction Control Notice No. 13.

PURSUANT to the Supply Control Emergency Regulations 1939, and the Building Emergency Regulations 1939, I hereby direct as follows :—

1. This notice may be cited as the Building Construction Control Notice No. 13.
2. In any case where an application is made to any Electrical Supply Authority, pursuant to paragraph (a) of clause (1) of Regulation 15-01 of the Electrical Wiring Regulations 1935,* for a permit to commence or undertake any electrical-wiring work, the Supply Authority shall not issue a permit therefor except with the precedent consent of the Building Controller or in accordance with his directions.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of September, 1942.
G. W. ALBERTSON, Building Controller.

• Gazette, 1935, Vol. III, page 2539.

CROWN LANDS NOTICE.

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1942.

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, Wellington, up to noon on Monday, 26th October, 1942.
Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, State Fire Building, Wellington, on Wednesday, 28th October, 1942, 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.