10 FEBRUARY
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
165

Amendments
B.S.
15 : 1961 Mild steel for general structural purposes.
Amendment No. 2.
394 : 1951 Short link wrought iron chain (excluding
pitched or calibrated chain). Amendment
No. 3
752 : 1958 Test code for acceptance tests for steam tur-
bines. Amendment No. 1
792 : 1947 Mild steel dustbins. Amendment No. 4
This amendment was inadvertently printed as “Amendment
No. 4”. It should have read “Amendment No. 5”.
1104 : 1957 General purpose Acme screw threads. Amend-
ment No. 1
1250 : —— Domestic appliances burning town gas—
Part 5 : 1963 Refrigerators. Amendment
No. 2
1500 : —— Fusion welded pressure vessels for use in the
chemical, petroleum, and allied industries—
Part 1 : 1958 Carbon and low alloy steels.
Amendment No. 5
1696 : 1951 Short link wrought iron chain of special
quality (excluding pitched or calibrated
chain). Amendment No. 2
1710 : 1960 Identification of pipelines. Amendment No. 1
1722 : —— Fences—
Part 1 : 1963 Chain link fences. Amend-
ment No. 2
Part 2 : 1963 Woven wire fences. Amend-
ment No. 3
Part 3 : 1963 Strained wire fences.
Amendment No. 2
Part 4 : 1963 Cleft chestnut pale fences.
Amendment No. 2
Part 5 : 1963 Close boarded fences in-
cluding oak pale fences. Amendment
No. 3
Part 6 : 1963 Wooden palisade fences.
Amendment No. 2
1877 : —— Domestic bedding excluding cellular rubber
bedding—
Part 9 : 1964 Upholstered wood-framed
bases and divan-type bases. Amendment
No. 9
1907 : 1964 Industrial overalls for general purposes.
Amendment No 1
2578 : 1961 Warp tubes for ring spinning and twisting
frames. Amendment No 1
3439 : 1961 Stainless steel compression pipe fittings.
Amendment No 1
3543 : 1962 Sisal twines for automatic pick-up balers and
similar machines. Amendment No. 1
3572 : 1962 Access fittings for chimneys and other high
structures in concrete or brickwork. Amend-
ment No. 1
3706 : 1964 Mild steel for general engineering purposes.
Amendment No. 1

Ref.
No.
PD
5572
5566
5610
5605
5555
5587
5554
5565
5564
5579
5581
5580
5582
5583
5584
5561
5600
5588
5562
5575
5589
5568

Amendments
B.S.
3866 : 1965 Holes and shanks for buttons. Amendment
No. 1
3879 : 1965 Portable liquefied petroleum gas appliances
operating at vapour pressure from small
L.P. gas containers. Amendment No. 1

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No.
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5559
5577

The Standards Act 1941—Draft New Zealand Standard Speci-
fication No. D 8463: Model Building Bylaw (NZSS 1900)—
Chapter 12: Foundations

PURSUANT to subsection (3) of section 8 of the Standards Act
1941, notice is hereby given that the above-mentioned draft
New Zealand standard specification is being circulated.
All persons who may be affected by this specification and
who desire to comment thereon may, on application, obtain
copies on loan from the New Zealand Standards Institute,
Bowen State Building, Bowen Street, or Private Bag, Welling-
ton C. 1.
The closing date for the receipt of comment is 24 March
1966.
Dated at Wellington this 4th day of February 1966.
R. J. SMITH,
Acting Executive Officer, Standards Council.
(S.I. 114/2/8)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

PURSUANT to section 33 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Act 1964, the Reserve Bank, acting with the approval of the
Minister of Finance, hereby gives notice that as at the close
of business on 4 February 1966, and until further notice,
balances to be maintained in the Reserve Bank by each trading
bank shall be equal to an amount which, when added to that
bank’s holdings of Reserve Bank notes as disclosed in that
bank’s latest available weekly return of Banking Statistics
under the Statistics Act 1955, will be not less than the
aggregate of: 25 per cent of that bank’s demand deposits in
New Zealand plus 3 per cent of that bank’s time deposits in
New Zealand (excluding wool retention deposits) as shown
in the last preceding monthly return furnished by that bank
in accordance with section 31 of the Reserve Bank of New
Zealand Act 1964.
The balances to be maintained as aforesaid shall be exclusive
of any balance held by a trading bank in its wool retention
or special fund account at the Reserve Bank.
G. WILSON, Governor.
Wellington, 2 February 1966.

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, 2 FEBRUARY 1966

Liabilities
Notes in circulation .. .. .. .. £ 82,175,692
Demand deposits—
(a) State .. .. .. .. 15,328,595
(b) Banks .. .. .. .. 66,546,811
(c) Marketing accounts .. .. .. 2,595,887
(d) Other .. .. .. .. 25,437,054
Time deposits.. .. .. .. .. ..
Liabilities in currencies other than New Zealand
currency .. .. .. .. 109,018
Other liabilities .. .. .. .. 2,670,788
Capital accounts—
(a) General Reserve Fund .. 1,500,000
(b) Other reserves .. 6,665,275
8,165,275
£203,029,120

Assets
Gold .. .. .. .. .. .. £ 132,150
Overseas assets—
(a) Current accounts and short-term
bills .. .. .. £ 9,775,489
(b) Investments .. .. .. 25,299,672
35,075,161
New Zealand coin .. .. .. 490,794
Discounts .. .. .. .. ..
Advances—
(a) To the State (including Treasury
bills) .. .. .. 66,276,532
(b) To marketing accounts .. 52,681,164
(c) Other advances .. .. 11,750,750
130,708,446
Investments in New Zealand—
(a) N.Z. Government securities .. 34,851,814
(b) Other .. .. .. 73,750
34,925,564
Other assets .. .. .. .. 1,697,005
£203,029,120

R. M. SMITH, Chief Accountant.