8 Nov.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

1531

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

PURSUANT to section 45 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1933 (as amended by section 23 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Act 1936), the Governor of the Reserve Bank, acting with the authority of the Minister of Finance, hereby gives notice that, as from 9 November 1956, the balance to be maintained in the Reserve Bank by each other bank for the time being carrying on business in New Zealand in accordance with the said section 45 shall be such that, when added to that bank’s holdings of Reserve Bank notes, it shall be equal to not less than 29 per cent of its demand liabilities in New Zealand, plus 10 per cent of its time liabilities in New Zealand, as shown in the last preceding monthly return furnished by that bank in accordance with section 46 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1933.

Provided that the minimum balance to be maintained at the Reserve Bank shall not be less than 7 per cent of its demand liabilities in New Zealand, plus 3 per cent of its time liabilities in New Zealand.

For the purpose of this calculation a bank’s holding of Reserve Bank notes shall be as shown in the latest available weekly return provided under the Statistics Act 1955.

E. C. FUSSELL, Governor of the Reserve Bank.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, 6 November 1956.

Revoking Declaration of Main Highway and Declaring Public Highway to be Main Highway

PURSUANT to section 11 of the National Roads Act 1953, the National Roads Board, acting with the written approval of the Minister of Works, hereby gives notice as follows:

1. (1) The public highway described in the First Schedule hereto shall cease to be a main highway.

(2) The Order in Council made on the 2nd day of October 1940* declaring (inter alia) that portion of the said highway in the Borough of Inglewood to be main highway is hereby consequentially amended by revoking so much of the Second Schedule thereto as relates to the said highway.

(3) The Order in Council made on the 17th day of April 1946† declaring the said highway to be main highway is hereby consequentially revoked.

2. The public highways described in the Second Schedule hereto are hereby declared to be main highways within the meaning and for the purposes of the National Roads Act 1953.

3. This notice shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Gazette.

FIRST SCHEDULE

ROADS COUNCIL DISTRICT No. 7

ALL that public highway in the Borough of Inglewood as described in Order in Council dated 2nd day of October 1940*; also all that public highway in the Counties of Inglewood and Stratford as described in Order in Council dated 17th day of April 1946† and declared as the Inglewood–Purangi Main Highway.

SECOND SCHEDULE

ROADS COUNCIL DISTRICT No. 7

Inglewood-Pohokura

ALL that public highway in the Counties of Inglewood and Stratford commencing at the eastern boundary of the Borough of Inglewood, opposite the north-east corner of part Section 385, thence proceeding generally in an easterly direction by way of the public highway known as Junction Road, via Kaimata and Purangi and terminating at its junction with the Stratford–Tatu Main Highway opposite the eastern boundary of Lot 2, D.P. 5317, Block III, Ngatimaru Survey District, being a distance of 32 miles 27 chains, more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on plan P.W.D. 151986 deposited in the office of the National Roads Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured black.

All that public highway in the Borough of Inglewood commencing at its junction with the New Plymouth–Hawera State Highway, being the junction of Rata and Matai Streets, and proceeding thence generally in an easterly direction by way of Rata Street and terminating at the eastern boundary of the Borough of Inglewood, opposite the north-eastern corner of part Section 385, being a distance of 31 chains, more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on plan P.W.D. 151986 deposited in the office of the National Roads Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Otaraoa

All that public highway in the Counties of Clifton and Inglewood commencing at its junction with the Inland North Main Highway, opposite the north-east corner of Subdivision 3, part Section 24, D.P. 4365, Block VI, Waitara Survey District, thence proceeding generally in a south-easterly direction by way of those public highways known as Waihi, Otaraoa, and Wiri Roads, and terminating at its junction with the Inglewood–Pohokura Main Highway, opposite the north-east corner of Section 18, Block III, Huiroa Survey District, being a distance of 10 miles 40 chains, more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on plan P.W.D. 151987 deposited in the office of the National Roads Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured black.

Dated at Wellington this 8th day of November 1956.

Signed on behalf of and by direction of the National Roads Board—

D. M. GROVER, Member.
W. F. YOUNG, Member.

*Gazette, 10 October 1940, Vol. III, p. 2601
†Gazette, 2 May 1946, Vol. II, p. 541

(N.R. 62/19)

Plants Declared Noxious Weeds in the Borough of Raetihi (Notice No. Ag. 6186)

PURSUANT to the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, the Director-General of Agriculture, acting under a delegation from the Minister of Agriculture for the purposes of the said Act, hereby publishes the following special order made by the Raetihi Borough Council on the 9th day of October 1956.

SPECIAL ORDER

THAT, pursuant to the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, the Raetihi Borough Council do hereby declare the plants mentioned in the First Schedule hereto to be noxious weeds within the boundaries of the Borough of Raetihi.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Barberry (Berberis vulgaris and B. darwini).
Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus and Rubus laciniatus).
Common broom (Cytisus scoparius).
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare).
Gorse (Ulex, any species).
Hemlock (Conium maculatum).
Milk thistle or variegated thistle (Silybum marianum).
Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea).
Sweetbriar (Rosa eglanteria syn. Rosa rubiginosa).

Dated at Wellington this 30th day of October 1956.

E. J. FAWCETT, Director-General of Agriculture.

Plants Declared Noxious Weeds in Taupo County (Notice No. Ag. 6188)

PURSUANT to the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, the Director-General of Agriculture, acting under a delegation from the Minister of Agriculture for the purposes of the said Act, hereby publishes the following special order made by the Taupo County Commissioner on the 18th day of October 1956.

SPECIAL ORDER

THE Council of the County of Taupo, acting in pursuance of the powers conferred upon it by the Counties Act 1920 and the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, and acting through the Taupo County Commissioner pursuant to the powers contained in the Taupo County Act 1954, hereby resolves by way of special order to declare the undermentioned plants to be noxious weeds within the whole of the district of Taupo County:

Bathurst bur (Xanthium spinosum).
Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea).
Gorse (Ulex, any species).
Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus and Rubus laciniatus).
St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum).
Tutsan (Hypericum androsaemum).
Silver poplar (Populus alba var. Nivea).
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes).
Winged thistle (Carduus tenuiflorus and Carduus pycnocephalus).
Common broom (Cytisus scoparius).

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of November 1956.

E. J. FAWCETT, Director-General of Agriculture.