A PROCLAMATION.

Grey River Argus, 6 August 1914, Page 5

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas .by .Section 2 of the Banking Amendment Act, 1914, it is enacted that the Governor in Council jnay, by proclamation, de- ~ clare that the notes payable on demand by any bank and then issued, or thereafter to be issued or re-is-sued within New Zealand under any lawful authority in that behalf shall, during the period limited by the Proclamation, be everywhere within New Zealand a good and legal tender of money to the amount therein expressed to be payable, and whereas occasion for -the exercise of such power in respect of the Banks named, or described in the schedule hereto, has now arisen, and whereas the Gov-ernor-in-Council is satisfied in pursuance of the requirements of the said Act, that in respect of each of the said banks which had its head office out of New Zealand, the assets of that bank within New Zealand exceed its liabilities therein, as between the bank and its creditors, now therefore His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by Section 2 <jf. the Bank Amendment Act, 1914, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the notes payable on demand by any of the banks named or described in the Schedule hereto, and now issued or hereafter to be issued, or re-issued within New under any lawful authority in that behalf shall on and after the sixth day of August one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, until and including the sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, be everywhere within New Zealand a good and legal tender or money to the amount therein expressed to be payable. THE SCHEDULE. The Bank of New Zealand, the National Bank of New Zealand (limited), the Union Bank of Australia (limited), the Bank of Australasia, the Bank of New South Wales, the Commercial Bank of Australia (limited). Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William . de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand ahd its dependencies, and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Gove ; nitie.<it House at Wellington, this fifth day of August, in the year of Dur Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. ' J. ALLE.-.-T, Minister of Finance. Issued in Executive Council, J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive ' Council, God Save the King.