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POST OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS.—GENERAL STATEMENT. Table showing the Business of the Post Office Savings-banks in New Zealand, by Ten-year Periods, from the Date they were established in February, 1867, to the 31st December, the Fifteen Months ended 31st March, 192 1, and the Year ended 31st March, 1922.

General Post Office, Wellington, 19th June, 1922. E. B. Mobris, Secretary.

By Authority : W. A. G. Skinner, Government Printer, Wellington.— 1922.

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Year. Number of Post Office Savingsbanks Open at the Close of the Year. Number of Deposits received during the Year. Total Amount of Deposits received during the Year. Average Amount of each Deposit received during the Year. Number of Withdrawals during the Year. Total Amount of Withdrawals during the Year. Average Amount of each Withdrawal during the Year. Excess of Deposits over Withdrawals during the Year. Excess of Withdrawals over Deposits during the Year. Cost of Management during the Year. Average Cost of each Transaction, Deposit or Withdrawal. Interest for the Year. Number of Accounts opened during the Year. Number Number of of Accounts Accounts remainclosed ing Open during at Close the Year. of the Year. Total Amount standing to the Credit of all Open Accounts, inclusive of Interest to the Close of the Year. Average Amount standing to the Credit of each Open Account at Close of the Year. 29,125,997 10 o 23 14 6 £ s. d.l 30,236,231 6 5 27 o o £ s- d - £ s. d. 1,110,233 16 5 £ 60,000 s. a. o 6-13 £ s - d - 1,599,907 2 o £ s - d - 43,841,704 4 7 £ s - d - 64 11 t Year ended 31st March, 1922 831 1,227,591 1,119,662 89,859 75,748 678,930 ♦Fifteen months ended 31st March, 1921 Totals for 1919 819 1,664,206 44,302,852 5 4 26 12 5 1,458,008 41,162,486 9 10 28 4 8, 13,140,365 15 6 80,000 o 6-14 1,818,534 5 2 •152,930! 118,894 664,819 43,352,030 19 0 65 4 2 794 1,289,161. 129,758,448 9 7 23 1 8 994,247 25,962,378 2 6 26 2 3 13,796,070 7 1 52,000 o 5-46 1,178,935 6 6 118,109 77,531 630,783 38,393,130 18 4 60 17 4 1918 .. 786 1,213,353 18,101,104 J 8 1 14 18 4 727-729; 14,938,841 10 o 20 10 7 3,162,263 8 1 32,000 o 3-96 1,059,471 17 8 76,869 53,oi5 590,205 33,418,125 4 9 56 12 5 , 1908 .. 593 706,101 9,674,075 4 o 13 r 4 o. 484,672 ; 9,417,82° 10 3 19 8 8 256,254 13 9 27,000 o 5-44 379,808 6 7 80,133 57,829 342,077 12,159,293 18 1 35 10 II 1898 .. 409 281,749 3,279,611 7 5 11 12 10 196,764 3,194,893 16 7 16 4 9 84,717 10 10 8,500 o 4-26 128,128 16 6 37,265 26,628 169,968 4,957,771 5 5 29 3 5 1888 .. 290 145,355 1,544,747 7 " IO 12 6 96,2041 j 1,387,47! 1 10 14 8 5 157,276 6 1 4,000 0 3'97 78,080 6 o 21,3071 i6,543 84,488 2,048,441 10 9 24 4 ic 1878 147 69,908 762,084 12 0 10 18 o' 42,746 742,053 14 3 17 7 2 20,030 17 9 2,500 ° 5'33 31,664 12 9 13,005 9,634 32,132 819,071 8 2 25 9 S 1868 .. 55 13,014 194,535 11 6 14 18 II 6,365 107,094 17 3 16 16 6 87,440 14 3 789 o 9-77 4,88o 7 3 3,282 1,186 4,252 163,518 15 7 38 9 1 Totals from ist Feb. to 31st Dec, 1867 46 6,977 96,372 7 10 13 16 3 i,9i9 26,415 18 9 13 15 3 69,956 9 1 822 : 1 1018 1,241 5 o 2,520 364 2,156 71,197 14 1 33 o < * Termination of Savings-bank year altered froi 31st Dec( imber to 31st March, with effei :t from 31st March, 1921.