SEPT. 15] \ THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE \ 2313

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,

31ST AUGUST, 1949

• Expressed in New Zealand currency.

Proportion of reserve (No. 7 less No. 5) to notes and other demand liabilities, 39·178 per cent.

W. R. EGGERS, Chief Accountant.

Sitting of the Maori Land Court at Kaikohe on 11th October, 1949

Office of the Maori Land Court, Auckland, 6th September, 1949.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be heard by the Maori Land Court sitting at Kaikohe
on Tuesday, 11th October, 1949, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

[Tokerau 1949/50—10.]

J. H. ROBERTSON, Registrar.

SCHEDULE

No. Applicant. Name of Land. Nature of Application.
50 Commissioner of Works... Tawapuku 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B... For assessment of compensation for land taken for public works.
50A... Part Taraire 2v No. 1 Block and other blocks...
69... Motatau 2, part Lot 54, D.P. 7586; Assessment of compensation for land taken for Maori school site.
and Motatau 2, part Lot 57, D.P. 7586
73... Part Taraire 2v No. 1 and other blocks For assessment of compensation for land taken for public works.

Notice by the Public Trustee Under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908
(Part III), and its Amendments

WHEREAS it has been reported to the Public Trustee that William Lawrence Tyner, of Hastings, in New Zealand, Barman, is the owner of the following property, the gross value of which is less than £1,000, namely:-

£ s. d.
Cash... ... ... ... ... 90 0 0
Post Office Savings Bank Account No. 2639, Hastings... ... ... ... ... ... 303 12 0
Life Policy No. 298892, New Zealand Government Life Insurance Department, for... ... ... 200 0 0
Shares-
(a) Another Chance Kawarau Gold, Limited, forty 5s. fully paid shares... say 25 0 0
(b) Broadlands Forests, Limited, twenty-five £1 fully paid shares... ...
Bank draft, say... ... ... ... ... ... 100 0 0
Jewellery and personal effects, say... ... ... ... ... 27 0 0
£745 12 0

And whereas the said William Lawrence Tyner disappeared on the 21st day of June, 1949, and it is not known where he is, or whether he is alive or dead:

And whereas it is provided by Part III of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, (relating to unclaimed property) as amended by section 41 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921-22, and by section 2 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1948, that where the value of unclaimed real or personal property does not exceed £1,000 the Public Trustee may by notice in the Gazette declare his intention to take possession of such property and exercise the powers conferred upon him by section 87 of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, without application to the Court:

Now, the Public Trustee hereby gives notice that he intends to take possession of the property above mentioned and all other property of the said William Lawrence Tyner, and to exercise in respect thereof the powers conferred upon him in and by the provisions of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of September, 1949.

H. W. S. PEARCE, Public Trustee.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee Under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II), (Unclaimed Lands)

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have for the purposes of Part II of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, (relating to unclaimed lands) made due inquiry with respect to the lands described in the Schedule hereunder and the whereabouts of the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said lands, given the notices prescribed by section 66 of that Act and have in all respects complied with the provisions of that Act pertinent thereto:

And whereas the owner has not established his title to the said lands as required by that Act:

I hereby give notice that the said lands are under and by virtue of that Act vested in the Public Trustee as aforesaid as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, the value of the lands for the purposes of section 67 (d) of that Act being less than five hundred pounds (£500).

SCHEDULE

ALL that parcel of land containing 1 acre 2 roods 16 perches, be the same a little more or less, being Lots 21-32 of Section 5, Riverhead Town, situated in the Parish of Paremoremo and County of Eden: Bounded on the north-west by Princes Street 264 ft.; on the north-east by Great North Road 264 ft.; on the south-east by Kaipara Portage Road 264 ft.; and on the south-west by Edwards Street 264 ft.; which said piece of land is part of the land comprised in a Crown Grant No. 15990c, dated the 14th day of October, 1859, to one James Williamson, and in subsequent conveyances the last of which was registered as No. 29327, dated the 28th day of April, 1865, from John Sangster McFarlane to Michael Wood, of Auckland, Merchant.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of September, 1949.

H. W. S. PEARCE, Public Trustee.