✨ Bank Notes Legal Tender Proclamation
122 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 3
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 seventh day of
February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, until and including the thirtieth
day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, 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 Saint Michael and Saint
George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Com-
mander-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
seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and sixteen.
J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.
Issued in Executive Council.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
NZ Gazette 1916, No 3
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Declaring Notes of certain Banks to be a Legal Tender for a Further Period
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💰 Finance & Revenue17 January 1916
Legal tender, Bank notes, Proclamation, Banking Amendment Act 1914
- Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- J. G. Ward, Minister of Finance
- J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council