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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 11

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, 25 FEBRUARY 1953

Liabilities
2. General Reserve Fund ....... 1,500,000 0 0
3. Bank notes ....... 61,907,775 0 0
4. Demand liabilities—
(a) State ....... 13,635,412 0 4
(b) Banks ....... 95,160,836 0 4
(c) Other ....... 647,363 16 7
5. Time deposits .......
6. Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand currency ....... 18,495 17 7
7. Other liabilities ....... 6,679,310 8 11

£(N.Z.)179,549,193 3 9

Assets
8. Reserve—
(a) Gold ....... 6,014,719 6 3
(b) Sterling exchange* ....... 48,830,206 17 4
(c) Gold exchange ....... 843,524 17 7
(d) Other exchange ....... 627,674 5 5
9. Subsidiary coin .......
10. Discounts—
(a) Commercial and agricultural bills .......
(b) Treasury and local-body bills .......
11. Advances—
(a) To the State or State undertakings—
(1) Marketing organizations 5,187,234 14 5
(2) For other purposes 53,162,772 5 2
(b) To other public authorities .......
(c) Other ....... 6,018,613 13 8
12. Investments† ....... 58,131,885 13 1
13. Bank buildings .......
14. Other assets ....... 732,561 10 10

£(N.Z.)179,549,193 3 9

• Expressed in New Zealand currency.
  † Included in this item are sterling investments of £(N.Z.)22,090,079 12s. 4d.
  W. R. EGGERS, Chief Accountant.

Public Trust Office Act 1908, and its Amendments—Election to Administer Estates

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth:—

*In lieu of No. 5 gazetted on 22 January 1953.
† In lieu of No. 6 gazetted on 22 January 1953.
Public Trust Office, Wellington, 3 March 1953.
G. E. TURNEY, Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office—Alteration and Reconstitution of Local Districts

WHEREAS by section 2 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act 1921–22 it is enacted that the Public Trustee may, by notice in the Gazette, from time to time establish and define, abolish, alter, and reconstitute local districts for the purposes of the said Act:

And whereas in pursuance of the said power a notice establishing and defining (inter alia) the local district to be controlled by the District Public Trustee for Timaru was published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 13th day of April 1922:

And whereas a further notice in pursuance of the said power was published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 27th day of March 1947 establishing and defining the local district to be controlled by the District Public Trustee for Oamaru:

And whereas it has become expedient to alter the boundaries of the said local districts:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2, the Public Trustee of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby, as from the 16th day of February 1953, alter the said local districts and reconstitute them as set out hereunder.

LOCAL DISTRICT OF OAMARU

The district comprises the boroughs of Oamaru and Hampden and the whole of the County of Waitaki and all that portion of Waimate County lying to the west of a straight line commencing on the northern boundary of Waimate County at Mount Nimrod and drawn through the centre point of Mount Parker and continuing in a straight line southwards to that point where it meets the Waitaki River.

LOCAL DISTRICT OF TIMARU

The district comprises all that area in the Counties of Mackenzie, Levels, and Geraldine, and all that portion of Waimate County lying to the east of a straight line commencing on the northern boundary of Waimate County at Mount Nimrod and drawn through the centre point of Mount Parker and continuing in a straight line southwards to that point where it meets the Waitaki River.

Given under the hand and seal of the Public Trustee, this 27th day of February 1953.

GEO. E. TURNEY, Public Trustee.