24 JUNE] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1049

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, 9 JUNE 1954

Liabilities Assets
£ s. d. £ s. d.
2. General Reserve Fund …… …… 1,500,000 0 0 8. Reserve—
3. Bank notes …… …… 68,156,811 10 0 (a) Gold …… …… 6,168,855 3 0
4. Demand liabilities— (b) Sterling exchange …… …… 89,947,601 16 7
(a) State— (c) Gold exchange …… …… ……
(i) Government Marketing (d) Other exchange …… …… 305,834 15 0
Accounts …… …… 105 13 10 9. Subsidiary coin …… …… 609,988 5 4
(ii) Other …… …… 6,712,530 14 3 10. Discounts—
(b) Banks …… …… 85,396,815 12 3 (a) Commercial and agricultural
(c) Other— bills …… …… ……
(i) Marketing organizations 555,462 8 2 (b) Treasury and local-body bills …… …… ……
(ii) Other demand liabilities 4,174,806 15 1 11. Advances—
5. Time deposits …… …… …… (a) To the State or State under-
6. Liabilities in currencies other than New takings—
Zealand currency …… …… 136,127 1 1 (i) Government Marketing
7. Other liabilities …… …… 8,410,547 8 8 Accounts …… …… 4,250,362 9 0
(ii) For other purposes …… …… 36,006,022 13 10
(b) To other public authorities …… …… ……
(c) Other—
(i) Marketing organizations …… …… 6,525,386 4 10
(ii) Other advances …… …… 6,368,613 13 8
12. Investments—
(a) Sterling …… …… 23,715,974 9 3
(b) Other …… …… 217,718 19 10
13. Bank buildings …… …… ……
14. Other assets …… …… 926,848 13 0

£ (N.Z.) 175,043,207 3 4 £ (N.Z.) 175,043,207 3 4

• Expressed in New Zealand currency.

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 :—

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 21 June 1954. G. E. TURNEY, Public Trustee.

Board of Trade Notice No. 88—Public Inquiry into Import Duties on Road-graders and Earthmoving Machinery

1. The Board of Trade proposes to inquire into and report upon the question of what rates of import duty should be imposed on the goods mentioned hereunder included in the following tariff items:

Ex. Tariff Item 333 (3): Hydraulic loaders specially designed for farm use, for mounting on tractors.

Ex. Tariff Item 352 (b): Earthmoving machinery of classes manufactured in New Zealand.

Ex. Tariff Item 353 (8) (c): Earthmoving machinery of classes manufactured in New Zealand.

Tariff Item 366: Road-graders.

The present rates of import duty in respect of these items are:

Tariff Item 333 (3)—
British Preferential: 3%.
Canadian Agreement: 3%.
General: 3%.

Tariff Item 352 (b)—
British Preferential: Free.
Most Favoured Nation: 20%.
Switzerland: 20%.
General: 25%†.

Tariff Item 353 (8) (c)—
British Preferential: 20%.*
Australian Agreement: 30%.
Canadian Agreement: 30%.
General: 50%†.

Tariff Item 366—
British Preferential: 3%.
General: 20%†.

• Plus surtax at the rate of nine-fortieths of the amount of duty in respect of goods imported from Ireland (except Northern Ireland), Union of South Africa, India and Pakistan.

† Plus surtax at the rate of nine-fortieths of the amount of the duty.

2. During the course of this inquiry the Board will consider the desirability of reclassifying the goods in question for the purposes of the Customs Tariff. In addition, the Board will consider whether such of the goods in question as are now subject to import licensing should be exempted from the requirements of import licensing, and in respect of such of the goods in question as are already exempt, whether import licensing should be re-imposed in respect of any of them.

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