NEW ZEAKAND FACTS

Cue (NZERS), Issue 10, 31 October 1944, Page 22

NEW ZEAKAND FACTS

Subscribed capital invested in all types of NZ companies is nearly L 50,000,000. Private concerns claim over Li 000,000. * # * Bank of NZ is partly State-owned. The Government holds shares worth L 2,109,375 put of the L 6,328,125 total paid-up capital. y; * * * Estimated private wealth of the Dominion in 1940 was Ly 47 Public wealth approximated £400,000,000. $ # * Time signals, broadcast four times daily take the form of six dots, at intervals of one second. The last dot is the exact minute. * * * ( - Advertising is not accepted for broadcasting on Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or Anzac Day. * * * - Before the war German inventors applied for patent rights in NZ—l73 in 1937 an 41 the following year. ♦ * * Thirty-five industries are subject to licensing under the Industrial Efficiency Act. /

Although now increased by Invercargill going wet, there were 1032 publicans’ licences, 192 for accommodation, and four for sale of wine in New Zealand. « * * Stewart Island has an area of 670 square miles. Its population is 490 including 130 Maoris. $ $ * Heal service staff maintained in Samoa consists of 15 Europeans ■, including three medical officers and 136 Samoans. * * ■ r . .■ ■ Arran Chief is the potato yielding the best crop in NZ soil, with 8.49 tons to the acre. Next in turn come Inverness Favourite and Aucklander' Tall Top. 4 * . Total productiqn of crude petroleum in NZ to the end of 1941 was 3,177,917 gallons. .$ * - Fifty-seven of NZ’s 140 coal mines work on freehold lands and the remaining 83 on Crown lands. # * * Cost of railway construction up to 1942 was L 62,408,000, equal to £,18,409 for each mile of open line.