New Zealand Gazette – 1864 – No. 16

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✨ Bank Financial Statement

STATEMENT of the Average Amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, within the Colony, during
the Quarter ended 31st March, 1864.

LIABILITIES.

Item	£	s.	d.
Notes in Circulation	321,267	0	9
Bills in Circulation	19,927	16	5
Balances due to other Banks	83,403	18	4
Government Deposits	225,497	2	7
Other Deposits
Not bearing Interest	715,358	17	11
Bearing Interest	212,265	0	4
Total Average Liabilities	1,577,719	16	4

ASSETS.

Item	£	s.	d.
Coined Gold and Silver, and other Coined Metal	202,698	12	3
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars	51,651	2	3
Notes and Bills of other Banks	4,264	16	1
Balances due from other Banks	88,218	1	2
Landed Property	17,050	7	10
Amount of all other Securities—
1. Notes and Bills discounted.	878,363	16	11
2. Colonial Government Securities	199,022	8	3
3. Other Funded Securities	...	...	...
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of Debts abandoned as bad)	557,386	9	5
5. Securities not included under the above heads	107,098	12	9
Total Average Assets	2,105,754	6	11

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter ended 31st March, 1864     £313,842
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders     10 per cent. per annum.
Amount of the last Dividend declared     £14,054 2 3
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such Dividend     £111,314 0 2

A. KENNEDY, General Manager.
HENRY B. MACNAB, Chief Accountant.

Dated at Auckland, this 29th day of April, 1864.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1864, No 16

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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💰 Statement of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand for Quarter ended 31st March, 1864

Domain💰 Finance & Revenue
Dated29 April 1864
KeywordsBank return, Liabilities, Assets, Bank of New Zealand, Financial statistics
👩‍💼 Officials

A. Kennedy, General Manager
Henry B. Macnab, Chief Accountant

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