New Zealand Gazette – 1861 – No. 25

Page 134

✨ Bank Financial Statements

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Printed and Published by W. C. WILSON, for the New Zealand Government, at the Printing Office, Shortland Crescent.

STATEMENT of the Average Amount of LIABILITIES and ASSETS of the Oriental Bank Corporation, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1861.

LIABILITIES.

Notes in circulation .. .. .. .. £ 27,092 1 8
Bills in circulation .. .. .. .. 3,567 0 9
Balances due to other Banks .. .. .. ..
Government Deposits .. .. .. 6,435 16 1
Other Deposits
Not bearing Interest .. .. 27,583 14 0
Bearing Interest .. .. 94,141 13 6
.. 128,161 3 7

Total Average Liabilities .. .. £158,820 6 0

ASSETS.

Coined Gold and Silver, and other Coined Metal .. .. .. £ 68,226 16 2
Gold or Silver in Bullion or Bars .. .. .. ..
Notes and Bills of other Banks .. .. .. ..
Balances due from other Banks .. .. .. ..
Landed Property .. .. .. ..
Amount of all other Securities—

Notes and Bills Discounted .. .. 93,173 2 5
Colonial Government Securities .. ..
Other Funded Securities .. ..
Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of Debts abandoned as bad) .. 48,594 2 2
Securities not included under the above heads .. 30,068 12 6

Total Average Assets .. .. £240,062 13 3

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter ended 30th June, 1860 .. £1,260,000
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders .. 14 per cent. per annum
Amount of the last Dividend declared .. 88,200
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such Dividend .. 252,000

Dated at Auckland this 1st day of May, 1861.
This Statement has been re-published in consequence of some errors in that printed in Gazette No. 23 of the 20th May, 1861.

F. LARKWORTHY, Manager.
HENRY B. MACNAB, Accountant,
R. F. PORTER, Assistant Treasurer.

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Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

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💰 Oriental Bank Corporation Financial Statement, Qtr ending March 1861

Domain💰 Finance & Revenue
Dated1 May 1861
KeywordsBank statement, Liabilities, Assets, Oriental Bank Corporation, Financial statistics, Auckland, Capital Stock
👩‍💼 Officials

F. Larkworthy, Manager
Henry B. Macnab, Accountant
R. F. Porter, Assistant Treasurer

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