BANKING RETURNS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13979, 8 January 1916, Page 3

BANKING RETURNS.

[Unjted Press Association.]

Wellington,' Jan. 7.

The first of tl*e "returns of the six banks trading in New Zealand, for the quarter ended December 31st, were available to-day. The leading items are as follows:—

Bank of New Zealand: Freo deposits, £8,375,713; fixed deposits, £5,951,087; advances, £9,224.419; discounts, £836.----253; coin and bullion, £3,338,?66; note circulation, £1.781,300. . Commercial Bank: Free deposits, £152,514; fixed deposits, £27,577; advances,- £111,060.; - discounts,. £8,828 ; coin-and bullion, £79,633; nota circulation, £35,473. . , , ■;..