BANK OF NEW ZEALAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16052, 20 April 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

BANK OF NEW ZEALAND

LIABILITIES AND ASSETS.

The following is a statement of the average amount ol liabilities and assets of the Bank of New Zealand in New Zealand during the quarter ended March 31;— Liabilities—Notes in circulation, £945,309 15s; bills in circulation, £52,809' 1&• 3d; balances duo to other banks £12,690 16s 3d; Government deposits, £2,671,258 lis; other deposits—not bearing interest, £6,319,201 12s „9d; bearing interest, £5 327 660 lis Id;—total average liabilities, £15,328,931 Os 4d. ; Assets —Coined gold and silver, and other coined metal, £2,407,321 15s 9d; gold and silver in bullion or bars, £66,257 8s 2d; notes a.nd bills of other banks, £141,723 15s 6d- balances due from other banks, £5212 9s 7d; landed property, £137,476 13s 9d; amount of all other securities—notes and bills discounted, £1,085,346 14s 6d; colonial Government securities, £718,681; other funded securities, nil; debts clue to the bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as.bad), £8.710,161 15s 2d; securities not included under 'the above heads. £524.316 10s 2d ;w----total average assets, £13.796,498 2s 7d. Amount 'of the capital stock paid up at the clotv? of the quarter ended March 31. igi4:—Four per cent, guaranteed stork, £1.000,000: preference shares - issued to the Crown under "Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903." £500,000 ;■ ordinary shares, £500,000; instalments received on account of new canital. £133.110. Rate of the last dividend d-olar"d to shareholders—on preference shares. 10 nor cent. p"r annum; on ordinary shores—dividend of 12 per cent, per armim and bonus of 3 per cent, per annum. 15 net- rent. rt n r annum. Amount of la.pt rliVdewl On prr>f«"""i"> shares. £50 Wi* "n ordinary «h«res, £75 001:—toM. P" oe i <™

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The above figures are for New Zealand only.