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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, 7 MARCH 1956

Liabilities

2. General Reserve Fund
3. Bank notes
4. Demand liabilities—
   (a) State—
   (i) Government Marketing Accounts
   (ii) Other
   (b) Banks
   (c) Other—
   (i) Marketing organisations
   (ii) Other demand liabilities
5. Time deposits
6. Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand currency
7. Other liabilities

£ s. d.
1,500,000 0 0
68,478,945 10 0
1,772,818 11 8
21,525,816 10 10
59,359,209 10 11
443,914 6 0
885,794 7 7
117,386 2 9
8,767,205 2 4

£(N.Z.)162,851,090 2 1

Assets

8. Reserve—
   (a) Gold
   (b) Sterling exchange*
   (c) Gold exchange
   (d) Other exchange
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—
    (i) Government Marketing Accounts
    (ii) For other purposes
    (b) To other public authorities
    (c) Other—
    (i) Marketing organisations
    (ii) Other advances
12. Investments—
    (a) Sterling*
    (b) Other
13. Bank buildings
14. Other assets

£ s. d.
6,161,585 2 10
26,731,163 14 9
489,057 14 6
596,017 15 0
447,620 11 9
50,411,401 19 6
23,243,809 1 10
5,018,749 18 11
27,890,974 9 3
18,388,274 3 0
3,472,435 10 9

£(N.Z.)162,851,090 2 1

*Expressed in New Zealand currency.

W. R. EGGERS, Chief Accountant.

Amendment of Standard Specifications

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 7 February 1956, amended the undermentioned standard specifications by the incorporation of the amendments shown hereunder:

Number and Title of Specification

Amendment

Price of Copy (Post Free)

s. d.
2 6
2 0
4 0
10 0
2 0
2 0
2 0

N.Z.S.S. 538: Carbon steel castings for general engineering purposes, being B.S. 592 : 1950
N.Z.S.S. 814: Austinitic manganese steel castings, being B.S. 1457 : 1948
N.Z.S.S. 824: Steel tubes and tubulars suitable for screwing to N.Z.S.S. 24 (B.S. 21) pipe threads, being B.S. 1387 : 1947
N.Z.S.S. 826: Aluminium and aluminium alloy ingots and castings for general engineering purposes, being B.S. 1490 : 1949
N.Z.S.S. 853: 1½ per cent manganese steel castings, being B.S. 1456 : 1948
N.Z.S.S. 863: Mild steel castings of high magnetic permeability, being B.S. 1617 : 1950
N.Z.S.S. 886–8: Corrosion-resisting alloy steel castings, being B.S. 1630–32 : 1950

No. 1 (Ref. No. PD 2163), 14 April 1955
No. 1 (Ref. No. PD 2165), 14 April 1955
No. 5 (Ref. No. PD 2067), 23 December 1954
No. 2 (Ref. No. PD 1841), 31 March 1954
No. 1 (Ref. No. PD 2164), 14 April 1955
No. 1 (Ref. No. PD 2168), 14 April 1955
No. 2 (Ref. No. PD 2169), 14 April 1955

Application for copies of the standard specifications so amended should be made to the N.Z. Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay (P.O. Box 195), Wellington C. 1. Copies of the amendment will be supplied, free of charge, upon request.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of March 1956.

L. J. McDONALD, Executive Officer, Standards Council.

Amendment of Standard Specification

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 7 February 1956, amended the undermentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the amendment shown hereunder:

Number and Title of Specification: N.Z.S.S. 1255: Steel fabric for concrete reinforcement. Part A: Hard drawn steel wire fabric. Part B: Twisted steel fabric. Part C: Expanded metal (steel) fabric, being B.S. 1221 : 1945.

Amendment: No. 1 (Ref. No. PD 800) July 1948.

Price of Copy (post free): 3s. 6d.

Application for copies of the standard specification so amended should be made to the N.Z. Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay (P.O. Box 195), Wellington C. 1. Copies of the amendment will be supplied free of charge, upon request.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of March 1956.

L. J. McDONALD, Executive Officer, Standards Council.

Amendment of Standard Specification

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 7 March 1956, amended the undermentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the amendment shown hereunder:

Number and Title of Specification: N.Z.S.S. 1275: Acrylic resin denture base materials, being B.S. 2487 : 1954.

Amendment: No. 1 (Ref. No. PD 1943) 30 August 1954.

Price of Copy (post free): 2s. 6d.

Application for copies of the standard specification so amended should be made to the N.Z. Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay (P.O. Box 195), Wellington C. 1. Copies of the amendment will be supplied, free of charge, upon request.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of March 1956.

L. J. McDONALD,
Executive Officer, Standards Council.