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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 742, 9 December 1869, Page 2

The Saving Banks.—ln the Kew Zealand Gazette of the 11th ult., is published the return of savings banks transactions at the chief and accounting post-office.-,- in the Colony for the quarter ending the 30th September last. In that quarter there were 57 banks in the; Colony, while for the same quarter in the previous year there were only 52. In the number of new accounts opened there is a large increase. In the quarter under notice 1,000 new accounts were opened; the number opened in the same quarter of 1868 being 876. But the amounts of the deposits by new accounts were not so large, for those in 1868 represent £26,420 5s lOd, those in 1869 represent £24,495 17s. The number of additions to open accounts was 3,413, representing £32,834 13s sd, while those in 1868 were only 2,597 and represented £24.002 9s 6u, As was the case in the June quarter of this year, the number ot depositors and the amount of the deposits are considerably in excess of what they were in the corresponding quarter last year. The number in 1869 was 4,413 against 3,473 in 1868; and the total amount deposited in 1869 was £57,330 10s sd, against £50,422 15s 4d. The number of accounts closed in the third quarter of 1868 was 313, representing £10,700 9s 6d ; in the corresponding quarter this year 520 were closed, representing £15,217 12s 6d. There remains in deposit, £7,109 4s 4d, against £19,305 8s 3d in 1868. ;