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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 17

RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND AS AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON WEDNESDAY,
17TH MARCH, 1948

Liabilities

1. General Reserve Fund .. .. .. 1,500,000 0 0
2. Bank-notes .. .. .. 48,806,889 0 0
3. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State .. .. .. 23,576,825 6 7
   (b) Banks .. .. .. 43,789,654 10 10
   (c) Other .. .. .. 320,325 12 3
4. Time deposits .. .. .. ..
5. Liabilities in currencies other than New
   Zealand currency .. .. .. 1,161,003 8 10
6. Other liabilities .. .. .. 3,612,331 15 5

£(N.Z.)122,767,029 13 11

Assets

7. Reserve—
   (a) Gold .. .. .. 2,802,147 0 0
   (b) Sterling exchange* .. .. 72,706,770 3 8
   (c) Gold exchange .. .. ..
8. Subsidiary coin .. .. .. 123,088 16 6
9. Discounts—
   (a) Commercial and agricultural bills .. ..
   (b) Treasury and local-body bills .. ..
10. Advances—
    (a) To the State or State undertakings—
    (1) Marketing organizations .. 2,169,353 7 5
    (2) For other purposes .. 34,000,000 0 0
    (b) To other public authorities .. ..
    (c) Other .. .. .. 1,287,446 12 7
11. Investments .. .. .. 7,868,093 2 11
12. Bank buildings .. .. .. ..
13. Other assets .. .. .. 1,810,130 10 10

£(N.Z.)122,767,029 13 11

• Expressed in New Zealand currency.

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 63·821 per cent.

W. R. EGGERS, Chief Accountant.

Decisions of the Bureau of Industry under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936

Bureau of Industry, C.P.O. Box 3025, Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to the authority conferred on the Bureau of Industry under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936, the following decisions have been made in respect of applications for licences.

J. R. CUTTANCE, Secretary.

Manufacture for Sale of Footwear

C. M. Donald, 57 Cutten Street, Dunedin | For a licence to manufacture infants’ boots and shoes, sizes 3’s to 6’s by the cemented process only | Granted .. | 15th Mar., 1948. |
Auckland Footwear Repair Co., Ltd., 332 Broadway, Auckland | For a licence to permit stitching and finishing of footwear for the trade, including stitching of new footwear | Granted (on appeal) | 15th Mar., 1948. |

Pharmacy Industry

W. T. Hoffman, 785 Mount Eden Road, Auckland | For a pharmacy licence at the corner of Rewa Road and Three Kings Road, Auckland | Declined .. | 15th Mar., 1948. |
G. G. McNamee, Westmere, Auckland | For a new licence at 330 Great North Road, Auckland | Granted .. | 15th Mar., 1948. |
L. J. Lincoln, 42 Liverpool Street, Mount Roskill, Auckland | For a licence to operate a new pharmacy at Owairaka | Declined .. | 15th Mar., 1948. |
D. de Vere Wilson, 94 Sandringham Road, Auckland | For a new licence at Owairaka .. .. | Granted .. | 15th Mar., 1948. |

Fish-liver Oil Industry

Seafoods Ltd., P.O. Box 388, Auckland | For a licence to engage in the extraction from fish livers of nutritional and medicinal oils | Granted .. | 1st Mar., 1948. |
Karitane Products Society, Ltd., Wellington | For permission to transfer the licence held by it to a company to be formed in New Zealand on behalf of an English company | Granted (with conditions) | 2nd Feb., 1948. |

Retail Sale and Distribution of Motor-spirit

R. W. Jensen, Midhirst | For a licence to resell motor-spirit from one pump to be installed on the kerbside outside garage premises at Mountain Road, Midhirst | Declined .. | 15th Mar., 1948. |
L. G. Christie, Petone | For a licence to resell motor-spirit from one pump already installed outside a garage in rental car depot at 4 Waione Street, Petone | Declined .. | 15th Mar., 1948. |
J. R. Pentecost, 13 Petrie Street, Richmond, Christchurch | For a variation of the conditions of his existing licence covering one inside pump to permit the installation of the pump outside, but effectively screened from the view of passing motorists | Granted (one pump outside building) | 15th Mar., 1948. |
J. R. Park, Goodwood, Palmerston, Otago | For a licence to resell motor-spirit from one pump to be installed outside garage premises at Goodwood | Granted .. | 15th Mar., 1948. |
W. J. McClean, Cambridge | For a licence to resell motor-spirit from one pump to be installed outside garage premises at 67 Alpha Street, Cambridge | Granted (concealed from passing motorists) | 15th Mar., 1948. |
R. S. Low and R. T. Challis, Christchurch | For a variation of their licence for one pump to be installed inside garage premises to permit of its installation outside | Granted (on appeal) | 15th Mar., 1948. |
A. S. Duthie, Cromwell | For a licence to resell motor-spirit from four pumps to be installed on proposed garage and service-station premises at the corner of Melmore Terrace and Murray Street, Cromwell | Granted (on appeal, 2 pumps only) | 15th Mar., 1948. |