RESERVE BANK RETURN
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 11, 14 January 1944, Page 3
RESERVE BANK RETURN
STERLING EXCHANGE HIGHER,
Details of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand return for the week ended January 3. 1944, compared with those for the week ended I December 27, 1943, are:— Liabilities— £NZ. £NZ. General reserve 1,500,000 Unchanged Bank-notes 37,536,575 U82.028 Demand Liabilities— State 14,853,582 f1,442,248 Banks 33,699,837 *334,345 Other 203,766 t376,274 Other currencies 10,754 Unchanged Other liabilities 4,036,537 *2,106,513 £91,841,052 *341,310 Assets— £NZ. SNZ. Keserve Gold 2,801,877 Unchanged Sterling exchange 34,907,213 '*1,290,873 Subsidiary coin 67,067 "1,398 Advances to State— Marketing 842,778 *163.633 Other purposes 40,635,000 Unchanged Investments 10,324,320 Unchanged Other assets 2,262,796 t1,H5,595 £91,841,052 »341,310 ♦Increase. tDecrease. Proportion of reserve to notes and other de- mand liabilities. 43,686 per cent., compared with 41.344 per cent, for week ended December 27.
Principal figures in the return for the corresponding week last year were:—Bank-notes, £30,674,298; demand liabilities to the State, £12,565,006; to the banks, £18,511,196; sterling exchange (N.Z. currency), £25,676,059; advances to the Marketing Department, £578,303; to the State for other purposes, £30,000,000; investments, £4,459,272; reserve to liabilities, 45,470.