APRIL 15.]

Notice to Persons affected by an Application for a License under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936.

Manufacture for Sale of Footwear.

AN application has been received from N. Ferguson, 7 Margaret Street, Palmerston North, for a license to commence in the above industry to the extent of manufacturing sandals made from discarded rubber tires.

Any person who considers he will be materially affected by the decision of the Bureau of Industry on this application, and who wishes to make representations accordingly, should furnish them in writing not later than 29th April, 1943.

G. L. O'HALLORAN, Secretary.
Bureau of Industry, G.P.O. Box 3025, Wellington.

Officiating Ministers for 1943.—Notice No. 8.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1943.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned names of officiating ministers have been removed from the List of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by request :

The Methodist Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend William Barrows Cuming.
Mr. George Densem.
Mr. William Herbert Gregory.
Mr. Duncan Ian Alister McDonald.
Mr. Norman William Olds.
Mr. Leonard Shapcott.
Mr. Trevor Shepherd.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1943.—Notice No. 9.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1943.

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 Methodist Church of New Zealand.
Mr. John Frederick Amos.
The Reverend Clifford George Brown.
Mr. Edward James Carter.
Mr. Alfred Currie.
The Reverend William Selwyn Dawson.
The Reverend Edmund David Grounds.
The Reverend Albert Jolly.
Mr. Donald George Sherson.
Mr. Herbert Thornley.
Mr. Cyril Wharton Tolley.
Mr. Mervyn David George Turkington.

Seventh-day Adventists.
Pastor Gerald Hopetoun Minchin.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The Timber Control Notice No. 55.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to the Supply Control Emergency Regulations 1939 and the Timber Emergency Regulations 1939, the Timber Controller requires and directs as follows :

1. This notice may be cited as the Timber Control Notice No. 55.
2. This notice shall come into force the day next following the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette, but shall not apply to doors for which orders have been placed before that date if they are delivered by the 30th June, 1943.
3. In this notice—
   “The said specification” means the New Zealand Emergency Standard Specification entitled “New Zealand Emergency Standard Specification for Doors,” issued by the New Zealand Standards Institute under the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, bearing date March, 1943, and numbered N.Z.S.S. E. 106,* and includes any amendment thereof which may hereafter be issued or any specification which may hereafter be issued in substitution therefor;
   “Door” means a door exceeding 4 ft. 6 in. in height but not exceeding 7 ft. 6 in. in height ; but does not include a cupboard door or a door for any domestic outbuilding or garage.
4. Except with the prior written consent of the Building Controller no proprietor, within the meaning of the Timber Emergency Regulations 1939, of any sash and door factory or joinery factory shall manufacture any door or allow or permit any door to be manufactured therein unless the door is of one of the type specified in the said specification and conforms to the requirements of the said specification.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of April, 1943.
ALEX. R. ENTRICAN, Timber Controller.
*Coples obtainable from the Secretary, New Zealand Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, Lambton Quay, Wellington C. 1. Price 1s., post free.

Land acquired for a Permanent State Forest.

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 8th April, 1943.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired under the Forests Act, 1921-22, for the purposes of a permanent State forest.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—ROTORUA CONSERVANCY.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, Matamata County, containing by admeasurement 943 acres 1 rood 33 perches, more or less, situated in Blocks XII and XVI, Tapapa Survey District, and Blocks II and IV, Tapapa East Survey District, and being Whaiti-Kuranui No. 6c No. 2B Block (certificate of title, Vol. 253, folio 298), Whaiti-Kuranui No. 6c No. 2c Block (certificate of title, Vol. 257, folio 22), and Whaiti-Kuranui No. 6c No. 2D Block (certificate of title, Vol. 255, folio 241). As the same is delineated on plan No. 29/9, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

ALEX. R. ENTRICAN, Director of Forestry.
(S.F. 6/2/3.)

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, 5TH APRIL, 1943.

Liabilities

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. .. £ 1,500,000 0 0
2. Bank-notes .. .. .. £ 30,497,445 10 0
3. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. .. £ 14,455,361 9 11
   (b) Banks .. .. .. £ 22,185,437 0 5
   (c) Other .. .. .. £ 727,954 5 8
4. Time deposits .. .. .. ..
5. Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand currency .. .. .. £ 2,466 6 1
6. Other liabilities .. .. .. £ 1,663,689 15 6
   £(N.Z.)71,032,354 7 7

Assets

7. Reserve—
   (a) Gold .. .. .. £ 2,801,877 10 0
   (b) Sterling exchange* .. £ 20,146,226 15 3
   (c) Gold exchange .. ..
8. Subsidiary coin .. .. .. £ 20,984 6 8
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 .. £ 3,635,387 11 5
    (2) For other purposes .. £ 31,135,000 0 0
    (b) To other public authorities ..
    (c) Other .. ..
11. Investments .. .. .. £ 10,294,581 10 6
12. Bank buildings .. .. ..
13. Other assets .. .. .. £ 2,998,296 13 9
    £(N.Z.)71,032,354 7 7

*Expressed in New Zealand currency.

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 33-810 per cent.

W. R. EGGERS, Chief Accountant.