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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 16

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,
19TH FEBRUARY, 1945

Liabilities
£ s. d.

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. .. 1,500,000 0 0
2. Bank-notes .. .. .. 39,449,493 0 0
3. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. .. 11,778,255 15 9
   (b) Banks .. .. .. 37,005,148 16 0
   (c) Other .. .. .. 531,842 11 2
4. Time deposits .. .. .. ..
5. Liabilities in currencies other than New
   Zealand currency .. .. .. 5,963 2 8
6. Other liabilities .. .. .. 2,356,416 0 2

£(N.Z.)92,627,119 5 9

Assets
£ s. d.
7. Reserve—
(a) Gold .. .. .. 2,801,877 10 0
(b) Sterling exchange* .. .. 44,130,568 14 8
(c) Gold exchange .. .. ..
8. Subsidiary coin .. .. .. 41,704 5 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 .. 2,397,938 6 6
(2) For other purposes .. 29,885,000 0 0
(b) To other public authorities .. ..
(c) Other .. .. .. ..
11. Investments .. .. .. 11,737,026 8 6
12. Bank buildings .. .. ..
13. Other assets .. .. .. 1,633,004 0 5

£(N.Z.)92,627,119 5 9

• Expressed in New Zealand currency.
  Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 52·866 per cent.
  W. R. EGGERS, Chief Accountant.

Mining Privilege struck off the Register

Mining Registrar’s Office, Lawrence, 19th February, 1945.

NOTICE is hereby given, in accordance with the provisions of section 188 (4) of the Mining Act, 1926, that the mining privilege mentioned in the Schedule hereto has been struck off the Register.

J. MATHIESON, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE

(Mines N. 10/10/223.)

Price Order No. 341 (Walnuts)

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on it by the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939,* the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, doth hereby make the following Price Order:—

PRELIMINARY

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 341, and shall come into force on the 16th day of March, 1945.
2. (1) Price Orders Nos. 158† and 247‡ are hereby revoked.
   (2) The revocation of the said Orders shall not affect the liability of any person for any offence in relation thereto committed before the coming into force of this Order.
3. Except with respect to cases or other containers referred to in the Schedule to the Sale of Fruit and Vegetable Containers Emergency Regulations 1945§, the maximum prices fixed by this Order include the price of the case or other container.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. (1) This Order applies with respect to all walnuts sold in New Zealand.
   (2) The maximum prices fixed by this Order apply with respect to sales by auction as well as to other sales.
   (3) The provisions of this Order shall apply notwithstanding that any walnuts are sold otherwise than by weight.

FIXING MAXIMUM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES OF WALNUTS

Wholesalers’ Prices

5. The wholesale prices fixed by this Order apply with respect to—
   (a) Sales by way of wholesale; and
   (b) Sales, for purposes other than resale, in any case where a lot of not less than 3 cwt. of walnuts is sold to any one purchaser for delivery at any one time.
6. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause and of clause 8 hereof, the maximum wholesale price of any walnuts shall be determined in accordance with the Schedule hereto.
   (2) The wholesale prices fixed by this Order are fixed as for delivery at the wholesaler’s store or other premises from which delivery to the purchaser is effected.
   (3) In computing the weight of any walnuts for the purpose of ascertaining the maximum wholesale price as fixed by this Order the weight of the case or other container shall be excluded.

(4) Where delivery is effected by a wholesaler elsewhere than at premises occupied by him, he may add to the appropriate price fixed in accordance with the Schedule hereto the reasonable cost of delivery, not exceeding in any case the cost that would have been incurred by him if delivery has been effected by a common carrier at current freight rates.

Retailers’ Prices

7. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause and of clause 8 hereof, the maximum retail prices for any walnuts shall be the sum of the following amounts:—
   (a) The price actually paid or payable by the retailer for the walnuts:
   (b) Any transport charges actually paid or payable by the retailer:
   (c) (i) With respect to walnuts purchased by the retailer during the period 16th November to 15th March (both days inclusive): An amount computed at the rate of 5½d. per pound:
   (ii) With respect to walnuts purchased by the retailer during the period 16th March to 15th November (both days inclusive) and sold by him during that period: An amount computed at the rate of 5½d. per pound:
   (iii) With respect to walnuts purchased by the retailer during the period 16th March to 15th November (both days inclusive) and sold otherwise than during that period: An amount computed at the rate of 7½d. per pound.
   (2) The retail price of any walnuts computed in accordance with the last preceding subclause shall be calculated by reference to the prices and weights disclosed in the appropriate invoices.
   (3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing provisions of this clause but subject to the provisions of clause 8 hereof, the retail price of any walnuts to which this Order applies shall not in any case exceed the price determined in accordance with the Schedule hereto.
   (4) If in respect of any lot of walnuts sold by a retailer the maximum price calculated in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause or in accordance with an authority given under clause 8 hereof is not an exact number of pence or half-pence, the maximum price of the lot shall be computed to the nearest upward halfpenny.
   (5) For the purposes of this clause the price paid or payable by a retailer for any lot of walnuts and the transport charges paid or payable by the retailer in respect of the same lot shall be apportioned evenly over the whole lot, and the price and charges paid or payable by the retailer for each 1 lb. of walnuts included in the lot shall be determined accordingly.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  † Gazette, 23rd September, 1943, Vol. III, page 1144.
  ‡ Gazette, 15th June, 1944, Vol. II, page 717.
  § Statutory Regulations 1945, Serial number 1945/5, page 6.