✨ Banking Proclamation
3880 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 141
respect of each of the said banks which has its head office out of New Zealand the assets of that bank within New Zealand exceed its liabilities therein as between the bank and its creditors :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section two of the Banking Amendment Act, 1914, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the notes payable on demand by any of the banks named or described in the Schedule hereto and now issued or hereafter to be issued or reissued within New Zealand under any lawful authority in that behalf shall on and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, until and including the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, be everywhere within New Zealand a good and legal tender of money to the amount therein expressed to be payable.
THE SCHEDULE.
The Bank of New Zealand.
The National Bank of New Zealand (Limited).
The Union Bank of Australia (Limited).
The Bank of Australasia.
The Bank of New South Wales.
The Commercial Bank of Australia (Limited).
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.
Issued in Executive Council.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE KING !
By Authority : MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1916, No 141
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NZ Gazette 1916, No 141
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Declaration of Bank Notes as Legal Tender
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💰 Finance & Revenue18 December 1916
Banking, Legal Tender, Proclamation, Bank Notes, Schedule
- Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Arthur M. Myers, Acting Minister of Finance
- J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council