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**THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE**

[No. 60]

| Name | Description. | Situation and Remarks. |
|------|--------------|-----------------------|
| Benmore .. | Hydro - electric scheme | Benmore Survey District. On the Waitaki River. |
| Homer .. | Saddle | Castlemount Survey District. Instead of Homer's. The name Homer's for a saddle in Hollyford Survey District about four miles south of Lake Alabaster is expunged. |
| Mount Watkin | Trig. and road.. | Block X, &c., Hawksbury Survey District. Instead of Mount Watkins. |
| Ocean Grove .. | Village, post-office, and school | Block VII, Otago Peninsula District, and Block III, Tomahawk District. Instead of Tomahawk. |
| Roxburgh .. | Hydro - electric scheme | Teviot Survey District. On the Clutha River near Roxburgh. |
| Roxburgh Hydro | Post-office | Teviot Survey District. Serving Roxburgh Hydro-electric Power-station and locality. |
| Watkin .. | Creek | Block III, &c., Hawksbury Survey District. Instead of Watkins. |

**SOUTHISLAND LAND DISTRICT—continued**

| Name. | Description. | Situation and Remarks. |
|-------|---------------|------------------------|
| Ethne | Stream | Flows into south-west arm of George Sound. |
| Homer | Saddle | Castlemount Survey District. Instead of Homer's. |
| Irene | Mountain | Five miles south of Mount Pluvius in the Caswell Sound area. 6,085 ft. |
| Pakihaukea | Pass | Milford Sound Survey District. Between Mounts Milne and Patuki on the eastern side of Tutoko River. |
| Pluvius | Mountain | Approximately one mile west of Lake McKinnon in the Caswell Sound area. 4,770 ft. |
| Pukutahi | Lake | Milford Sound Survey District. Between Lake Never-never and Te Hau Peak, upper Harrison River area. |
| Ronald | Lake | Mitre Peak Survey District. Approximately one and a half miles inland from Transit Beach, near Milford Sound. |
| Shirley | Lake | Immediately west of Fleetwood Peak, Caswell Sound area. |
| South West Arm of sound. | | Largest arm of George Sound. |
| Spot | Hill | Approximately three miles north from head of Caswell Sound. 4,040 ft. |
| Stillwater | River | Flows into the northern end of Lake Marchant, Caswell Sound area. |

**R. G. DICK, Surveyor General,**
Chairman, New Zealand Geographic Board.

**Mining Privileges to be Struck off the Register**

Mining Registrar's Office, Westport, 15th November, 1948.

NOTICE is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of section 188 (3) of the Mining Act, 1926, that, unless sufficient cause to the contrary is shown within one month from the date hereof, the mining privileges mentioned in the Schedule hereto will be struck off the Register.

J. W. POOLEY, Mining Registrar.

**SCHEDULE**

| Licence No. | Date. | Nature of Privilege. | Locality. | Registered Holder. |
|-------------|-------|---------------------|-----------|-------------------|
| 18/19 | 11/12/19 | Water-race | Red Jacket Beach, Brighton | John McCarthy. |
| 3646 | 4/6/12 | ,, | Jones Creek | George Griffiths. |
| 8599 | 11/2/31 | ,, | Totara River | The Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Westport. |
| 9241 | 19/7/33 | Drainage area | Block VII, Steeples Survey District | John Edward Beable Fox. |
| 8786 | 18/11/31 | Water-race | Giles Terrace | John Risk. |
| 10415 | 27/1/37 | ,, | Rapid Creek | James Ronald Buller Nixon. |
| 10574 | 2/2/38 | ,, | Jones Creek | Albert Peter Svendsen and Robert Fitzroy Neill. |
| 10581 | 23/2/38 | ,, | Maori Creek | Ditto. |
| 10594 | 9/3/38 | ,, | Goat Creek | Henry Leopold Goulding. |

_(Mines 10/5/8.)_

**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 NOVEMBER, 1948.**

| Liabilities | £ s. d. | Assets | £ s. d. |
|-------------|---------|--------|---------|
| 1. General Reserve Fund | 1,500,000 0 0 | 7. Reserve | |
| 2. Bank-notes | 48,843,442 0 0 | (a) Gold | 2,802,147 0 0 |
| 3. Demand liabilities | | | (b) Sterling exchange* | 41,271,653 6 7 |
| (a) State | 10,770,563 12 3 | (c) Gold exchange | |
| (b) Banks | 55,664,485 14 1 | 8. Subsidiary coin | 51,393 14 6 |
| (c) Other | 159,223 18 6 | 9. Discounts— | |
| 4. Time deposits | | (a) Commercial and agricultural bills | |
| 5. Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand currency | 18,487 5 3 | (b) Treasury and local-body bills | |
| 6. Other liabilities | 3,526,949 2 7 | 10. Advances— | |
| | | (a) To the State or State undertakings— | |
| | | (1) Marketing organizations | 516,983 17 0 |
| | | (2) For other purposes | 37,469,855 13 6 |
| | | (b) To other public authorities | |
| | | (c) Other | 3,229,811 11 2 |
| | | 11. Investments | 16,124,097 13 3 |
| | | 12. Bank buildings | |
| | | 13. Other assets | 19,017,208 16 8 |
| £(N.Z.)120,483,151 12 8 | | £(N.Z.)120,483,151 12 8 | |

*Expressed in New Zealand currency.

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 38·163 per cent.

**R. W. COX, Deputy Chief Accountant.**