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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 10 December 1907, Page 3

AGGREGATE BALANCE SHEET BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES SEPTEMBER 30, 1007. 1,665,000 0 0 Notes in Circulation 982,704 0 0 Coin, Bullion, and Deposits and Accrued Cash Balances ... 6,869,019 18 1 Interest ... 26,056,302 1 4 Queensland GovernBills payable and ment Notes ... 167,722 0 0 other Liabilities Notes of other Pants 29,521 0 0 (which include Be- ' Money at short call serves held for in London ... 1,665,000 0 0 Doubtful Debts and Investments. — Amounts at Credit British and Coloof Investments nial Government Fluctuation Ac Securities ... 2,344,273 3 0 count, Officers' Fi- Municipal and other delitv Guarantee Securities. ... 152,264 211 and Provident Fund Due by other Hanks , 64,521 2 9 and the Buekland Bills Receivable in Fund) 3,251,518 410 London and Kemit. Paid-up Capital,bear- tances in transit ... 2,106,090 610 ing 6 months' Divi- Bills Discounted, and dend £3,000,000; 3 loans and Advances months' Dividend, to Customers ... 20,311,637 4 0 £425,400 2.425,400 0 C Bank Premises ... 690,000 0 0 Reserve Fund ... 1,500,000 0 C Profit and Loss ... 181,124 11 5 34,400,048 17 7 Liabilities of Cus--31,400,048 17 7 lowers and others Contingent Liabilities— on letters of Credit Outstanding Credits, as per Contra ... 690,26111 4 as per Contra ... 690,261 11 4 £35,090,310 8 ll' £35,090,310 8 11 Dr. PROFIT AND LOSS, SEPTEMBER 30, 1907. Cr. To Rebate (at current rates) on Bills Discounted not due on this date Balance proposed to he dealt with as follows: To Dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum To Augmentation of the Reserve Fund To Balance carried forward By Amount from last Account By Balance of Halt 8,843 17 0 year's Profits after providing for Bad and doubtful Debts, Fluctuations in the Value of Investment Securities, re--110,635 0 0 ducing the Valuation ot Bank Preu 30,000 0 0 ises, and including Recoveries from 31,643 14 5 Debts previously written off as bad £181,124 11 5 £181,124 11 5 RESERVE FUND, SEPTEMBER 30, 1907. £ s. d.j '£ s. d. 1,530,000 0 0 By Balance 1,500,000, 0 0 I By amount from Profit To Balance (Of which £750,000 is mvestsd in British Government Securities, and the balance is employed in the business of the Bank.) £1,530,000 0 0] By Balance J. RUSSELL FRENCH, General Manager. W. E. SOUTHERDEN, Chief Accountant (£1,530,000 0 0 £1,530,000 0 0 FREDE. W. UTHER, ALFRED G. MILSON, Auditors Audited November 22, 1907.

BOROUGH OF NEW PLYMOUTH. PROPOSED SPECIAL LOAN OF £5200. rpHE Council of Hie Borough of New Plymouth hereby gives Public Noow by way of £5200 at _ - -ding £5 per annum, with 11 Sinking Fund of % per cent, additional, the loan to be able on a period ending the first u «j ul October, 1922, and to be for the following purposes:— £5200 to provide additions and extensions to the Electric LightJ ing either within or without the Borough and to supply electricity; to acquire in connection with such additions and extensions lands easements and appurtenances and buildin gines machinery and things; to pay compensation to any person injuriously affected and any other purposes incidental to or in relation to any of the above purposes. THE COUNCIL proposes to pledge as a security for the loan of £5200 and the interest thereon an annually recurring Special Rate of IVSjd in the £ on the rateable value (on the basis of the nnnual value) of all rateable property within the Borough and its revenues, rents, tolls, issues, and profits with the exception of all land taken acquired or used for public abattoir and all buildings erections structures and appurtenances now or hereafter "■— L belonging and the i( rents, tolls and profits therefrom and also excepting moneys received or receivable by way of grant from the Government. THE COUNCIL proposes that the first year's interest, all preliminary expenses incurred in connection with the scheme for which the loan is raised and the cost of raising the loan be paid out of the proceeds of such loan. Hated this Uth day of December, 11)07. F. X. BELLRINGER, Xowu Clerk.

NOTICE OF MEETINti. J HEREBY CONVENE a .\i.rliiy o: tlie Katepayers of the Boroiyli u New Plymouth to be held iu the Couiiei Cinunbeiri, King-street, New Plymouth on THURSDAY, the Dth day of January 1!)08, at 7.30 o'clock p.m., to couside the proposal described in the abov Dated this iitli day of December, 1907. E. DOCKKILL, .Mayor of New Plymouth. UOVETT .YSD QUILLIAM, . lioronuU Solicitors.

A J-'I'LIOATIoXS arc invited from youths between the ages of 15 ami 17 years (last birthday) for positions as Cadets in the Railway Department in the Wanganui district. Forms of application, conditions of employment, and particulars of salary may be obtained from any stationmastcr. Applications to.be addressed to "Ccneral Manager. Railways, Wellington." BY ORDER. EXCELSIOR MINES, LTD. ADJOINING TALISMAN CONSOLIDATED. T AM receiving applications lor Shares in tlie above Company, which is being formed to develope tlie reefs extending from the Talisman Consolidated into the Company's ground. I Shares, (id on application, Cd on allotment. Prospect uses on application. WALVER BEWLEY, Broker.

FIGS. PIGS. PIGS. W. DIMOCI~& (JO., LTD TUGS will be received at the following receiving stations as under:— Okaiawa, Auroa, Opunakc (Mondays)— Dee. 2, 9, 16, 30. JFoturou—Dec. 30. . 10. Otakelio, Mangatoki, Manaia, Inglewooil (Tuesdays)— Dee. 3, 10, 17, 31. tlawera, Eltham, Kaponga (Wednesdays)— Dec. 4, 11, 18. Toko (Wednesdays)— Dec. 4 and 18. Douglas Road (Wednesdays)— Dec 11. Mokoia, Te Eoti, Eltham, Stratford (Thursdays)— Dec. 5, 12, 19. Agents- •• '"^ J. BUTCHER, Stratford. 0. ARNOLD, Hawera. J. HOLLAED, Kaponga. A. TUNNIOLIFF, Eltham,