New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 5

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✨ Bank Financial Statements

STATEMENT of the Liabilities and Assets of the undermentioned Banks in the Dominion of New Zealand for the Quarter ended 31st December, 1919.

LIABILITIES.

BANKS.	Notes in Circulation.	Bills in Circulation.	Balances due to other Banks.	Deposits.			Total Liabilities.
	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	Government.	Not Bearing Interest.	Bearing Interest.	£ s. d.
Bank of New Zealand	4,757,844 19 3	104,225 6 6	94,532 11 3	7,174,009 15 4	14,107,578 3 1	7,772,260 10 4	34,010,451 5 9
Union Bank of Australia, Limited	606,950 0 0	23,806 0 0	8,968 0 0	86,101 0 0	3,741,115 0 0	1,727,307 0 0	6,194,247 0 0
Bank of New South Wales	605,595 1 6	29,074 15 5	22,312 9 2	70,644 12 4	3,617,525 5 5	2,416,407 4 2	6,761,559 8 0
Bank of Australasia	431,574 4 7	36,042 17 9	..	71,578 17 0	3,235,092 14 6	1,116,050 2 1	4,890,338 15 11
National Bank of New Zealand, Limited	786,363 0 0	17,699 0 0	46,707 0 0	88,862 0 0	4,822,939 0 0	2,268,548 0 0	8,031,118 0 0
Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited	66,085 3 7	4,820 6 11	..	..	611,812 7 0	133,340 11 8	816,058 9 2
Totals	7,254,412 8 11	215,668 6 7	172,520 0 5	7,491,196 4 8	30,136,062 10 0	15,433,913 8 3	60,703,772 18 10

ASSETS.

BANKS.	Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined Metals.	Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars.	Notes and Bills of other Banks.	Balances due from other Banks.	Landed Property.	Notes and Bills discounted.	Colonial Government Securities.	Legal Tender Notes of other Banks.	Debts due to Bank, exclusive of Debts abandoned as bad.	Securities not included under other Heads.	Total Assets.
	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Bank of New Zealand	3,418,125 4 1	38,493 4 1	235,804 14 5	50,210 16 5	195,570 6 2	859,786 16 3	3,474,927 2 4	69,903 12 4	14,135,550 3 11	493,986 17 11	22,972,358 17 11
Union Bank of Australia, Limited	876,695 0 0	2,114 0 0	139,652 0 0	3,372 0 0	51,600 0 0	46,334 0 0	443,000 0 0	104,014 0 0	4,359,797 0 0	49,853 0 0	6,076,931 0 0
Bank of New South Wales	1,241,248 2 3	127,149 9 9	494 8 1	107,620 13 7	123,358 19 10	79,963 14 3	1,091,205 3 7	171,638 0 9	3,614,055 18 11	186,098 10 5	6,747,833 1 5
Bank of Australasia	971,984 2 3	..	79,664 12 7	..	7,197 13 1	92,691 19 8	136,609 5 0	98,452 1 6	3,933,269 6 2	8,036 11 0	5,377,905 11 3
National Bank of N.Z., Limited	1,003,220 0 0	65,110 0 0	194,340 0 0	..	144,500 0 0	223,701 0 0	1,252,443 0 0	228,000 0 0	4,222,491 0 0	14,291 0 0	7,348,096 0 0
Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited	118,277 6 10	..	26,944 10 5	..	55,500 0 0	110,726 13 4	16,688 19 1	71,180 3 11	377,887 17 11	941 18 3	778,147 9 9
Totals	7,629,549 15 5	232,866 13 10	676,900 5 6	161,203 10 0	582,726 19 1	1,413,704 3 6	6,414,873 10 0	743,187 18 6	30,693,051 6 11	753,207 17 1	49,301,272 0 4

CAPITAL AND PROFITS.

BANKS.	Capital paid up.	Rate per Annum of Last Dividend.	Amount of Last Dividend declared.	Amount of Reserved Profits at Time of declaring such Dividend.
	£		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Bank of New Zealand—
4-per-cent. stock guaranteed by the Government of N.Z.	529,988	..	..	..
“A” preference shares issued to the Crown under Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903	500,000	On “A” preference shares, ten per cent. per annum	50,000 0 0	..
“B” preference shares issued to the Crown under Bank of New Zealand Act, 1913	250,000	On “B” preference shares, dividend twelve per cent. per annum and bonus three per cent. per annum, equal to fifteen per cent. per annum	37,500 0 0	2,496,224 0 0
Ordinary shares	1,000,000	On ordinary shares, dividend twelve per cent. per annum and bonus three per cent. per annum, equal to fifteen per cent. per annum	150,000 0 0	..
Union Bank of Australia, Limited	2,500,000	Fourteen per cent. per annum	140,000 0 0	2,288,614 0 0
Bank of New South Wales	4,000,000	Ten per cent. per annum	200,000 0 0	3,200,000 0 0
Bank of Australasia	2,000,000	Fourteen per cent. per annum, and bonus twelve shillings per share, equal to seventeen per cent. per annum	170,000 0 0	3,127,000 0 0
National Bank of New Zealand, Limited	1,000,000	Twelve per cent. per annum for half-year and one per cent. bonus	52,500 0 0	874,932 0 0
Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited { Ordinary	95,659
Preference	2,117,350	Four per cent. per annum (preference only)	42,347 0 0	13,060 2 2