RESERVE BANK RETURN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 47, 24 February 1945, Page 9

RESERVE BANK RETURN

I roportion of reserve to notes and other demand liabilities, 52.866 per cent., compared with 52.807 per cent, for the week ended February 12.

•Principal figures in the return for the corresponding week last year were:—Bank-notes. £36,337,000; sterling exchange (N.Z. currency) £38,511,000; advances to Marketing Department, £1,609,000; to the State for other purposes, £40,035,000: investments, £10,322,000; reserve to liabilities, 44.327 per cent.

Details of the Reserve Bank ot New Zealand return for the week ended February 19, 1944, compared with those for the week ended February 12, are:— Liabilities— £NZ. £NZ. General Reserve 1,500,000 Unchanged Bank-notes 39,449,493 1154,803 Di'iimnd LiabilitiesState 11,778,250 *1,278,380 Banks 37,005,149 *571,627 Other 531,^42 f66,979 Other currencies 5,963 1936 Other liabilities 2,356,416 *12,992 £92,627,119 *1,640,281 Assets— £NZ. £NZ. Reserve— GoId '2,801,877 Unchanged bterling exchange .. 44,130,569 *911,013 Subsidiary coin ... 41,704 *267 Advances io Stato— Marketing 2,397,938 *453,243 Other purposes 29,885,000 Unchanged Investments 11,737,026 *3s Other assets 1,633,001 *275,806 £92,627,119 *1,640,281 'Increase. tDecrease.