Mortgages.—After a great: dkal 6 labor, a return1 of all the money! lent on mortgage in thisJColony (says the1 New Zealand Times) has been prepared. :'Jt' gives some curious and niost' interesting' facts.' ; The total amount of money so! lent is in round numbers £30,O0O;0qO. : By many persons it has been estimated at: £6Q,ooo,ooo,'a'ndf to :these the news must borne as a'pleisant surprise. The amount comes very; nsar what was expected by tbose 'best informed on' the' matter. Of this large amount it is pleasing to find that one^half—viz., £15,000,000—is owned by people living in the Coloiiyi Thia sum is surprisingly large, and it is most gratifying to find so big a sum owned by colonists.
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Colonist, Volume XXVII, Issue 3880, 29 March 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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