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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19205, 23 June 1924, Page 8

AGGREGATE BALANCE SHEET OF THE Bank of New South Wales 31 ST MARCH, 1924 LIABILITIES. £ s. d. Notes In Circulation 695,702 0 0 Deposits, Accrued Interest and Rebate 55,043,477 19 4 Bills Payable and other Liabilities (which include Reserves held for Doubtful Debts, Amount at Credit of Investments Fluctuation Account, and Amounts Due to Other Banks) Paid up Capital £6,000,000 0 0 Reserve Fund £3,900,000 0 0 Profit and £ s, d. Loss-613,159 3 0 Less Interim Dividend to 31st Dec. 1923 150,000 0 0 £ 55,739,179 9,747,919 10,363,159 s. d. 19 4 1 5 3 0 * £75,850,258 3 9 Contingent Liabilities — Outstanding Credits, as per Contra 2,358,821 10 2 £78,209,079 13 11 ASSETS. & 6. d. £ s. d. Coin, Bullion, Government Legal Tender Notes and Cash at Bankers 13,061,872 5 5 Notes of other Banks 48,107 10 0 Money at short call in London .. 550,000 0 0 Short-dated British , Treasury Bills .. 1,550,000 0 0 Investments —British and Colonial Government Securities .. .. 7,473,803 13 8 Investments—Municipal and other Securities .. 511,754 0 0 Due by other Banks 871,527 0 9 Bills Receivable In London & Remittances in transit 9,131,387 13 4 Wheat Pool Advances .. ..9 666,715 15 8 Advances under Government Sugar Fool .. 99,000 0 0 Bills Discounted, and Loans and Advances to Customers .. 41,036,090 511 Bank Premises h* r.. 850,000 0 0 £75.850,258 3 9 Liabilities of Customers and others on Letters of Credit as per Contra 2,358,821 10 2 £78,209,079 13 11 Pr. PROFIT AND LOSS, 3Ut MARCH, 1924 fit. £ s. d. To Interim Dividend for Quarter ended 31st December, 1923, at 10 per cent, per annum, paid in terms of Clause' CY. of Deed of Settlement out of the Half-year’s Profits .. . • • • 150,000 0 0 Balance proposed to be dealt with as foliates: — Quarter’s Dividend to Ist March, 1924, at the ate of 10 per cent, per nnum out of the Halfear’s Profits .. ■ .£150,000 Augmentation of the Leserve Fund .. • • 150,000 Balance carried forward .. .. , - 163,159 0 0 0 0 3 0 463.159 3 0 £ s. d. By Amount from last Account .. 154,538 11 4 „ Balance of Half-year’s Profits after . deducting Rebate on Current Bills, Interest on Deposits, paying Income, Land and Other Taxes amounting to £106,635:0:9, reducing valuation of Bank Premises, providing for Bad and Doubtful Debts and fluctuations in the value of Investment Securities, and including recoveries from Debts previously written off as bad >• «i 458,620 11 8 \ £613,159 3 0 £613,159 3 0 rRESERVE FUND, 31st MARCH. 1924 dr. OSCAR LINES, General Manager. W. E. SOUTHERDEN, Chief Accountant. HARRINGTON PALMER ( S. E. LAIDLEY 1 Auditors. Audited 20th May, 1924.

“Shake hands old chap! it’s long since wa Were mates in the Outback.” “Vou’re looking pretty fit,” isaid ne, “Come over to the shack.” I’ll introduce a friend of mine. Who saved my life, I’m sure. A cupboard opened—there, how fine, Was Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. A Chinese carpenter can look at a place that has to be repaired, and go back to hie bench and cut the boards so that they will fit exactly. He has trained his sense of eight to give him exact knowledge. , The first tiling a man does when ha starts to help his wife at her work is to get her to wait on him and find things. One of the players wore gloves, and, as he won almost every stake, his friends asked him whether ho wore gloves as a charm. “Not at all,” ho replied; “but I promised my wife, on my word of honour, never again to touch a card.” At a sale of cattle near Mold, North Wales, a cow was sold for Is. It was 25 years of age, apparently in good health, and was yielding a quart of milk per day. Children like WADE’S WORM PIG& &afe and certain remedy for worms.—Advb.

For Children’s' Hacking Cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.—Advt.