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POST OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS.— GENERAL STATEMENT. Table showing the Business of the Post Office Savings-banks in the various Postal Districts in New Zealand during the Year ended the 31st December, 1917.

Postal Districts. Number of Post Office Savingsbanks Open at the Close of the Year. Average - ! A Number of -r„„i 4„„,„, Amount of Number : . Average Deposits TOt f a ««* of With- Total Amount of Amount of Excess of received of De P°?' ts . Deposit drawals Withdrawals =*!* , V duringthe recened during the £ d during the Year. Withdrawal Withdrawals Year. Year - duringthe the YeSr. * m ™S during the Year. Yelr. I j lheY «"-- - Excess of of Withdrawals Manageover Deposits , m . during the Year. Average Cost of each Transaction, Deposit or Withdrawal. Interest for the Year. | Number Number Number • of of of Accounts Accounts Accounts remainopened closed ing Open during during at Close the Year, the Year. of the Year. Total Amount standing to the Credit of all Open Accounts, inclusive of Interest to the Close of the Year. Average Amount standing to the Credit of each Open Account at Close of the Year. I I £ s. d. 14 7 3 155,395 13 11 3 7,609 £ s. d. 2,861,941 16 3 169,855 17 11 £ s. d. 455,792 5 6| 32,139 0 7 £ s. d. £ d. ■ £ s. d. £ s. d. 176,063 17 11 16,887 10,626 108,183 5,437,592 3 9 13,348 12 9 995 666 8,156 403,424 1 4 Auckland £ s. d. 232 231,002 3,317,734 1 9 £ s. d. 18 8 4 £ s. d. 50 5 3 Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth .. Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport Totals for 1917 15 : 14,894 201,994 18 6 71 : 173,868 2,412,952 13 7 09 I 125,321 1,811,678 11 3 22 ' 30,487 430,381 11 4 18 13.Q51 180,008 0 0 7 3,101; 39,462 17 9 34 I 45,372' 647,373 11 10 46 60,971 1 895,295 14 4 27 I 22,848 348,742 12 0 30 47,584 771,727 9 2 11 13,801 225,964 18 9 30 26,618 368,897 3 5 16 32,8051 516,696 9 7 44 j 58,851 842,155 3 4 100 302,169 3,974,314 2 8 19 9,186 121,149 6 1 791 1,211,90917,106,529 5 4 22 6 5 49 9 3 j 13 17 7l 110,910 2,043,510 5 7 18 8 6, ■_.__. 50 9 1 369,442 8 0 . 140,389 1 3 9,124 6,507 j 85,347 4,306,056 1 10 i 14 9 lj 71,034 I I I i 1,568,102 13 8 22 1 6' I 243,575 17 7 ... I 116,145 9 0 I 7,019 j 4,872 I 61,407 3,503,599 9 2 57 1 1 14 2 4 17,698 359,283 6 2 20 6 0 71,098 5 2 j 21,008 3 10 j 2,222 1,626 14,079 650,409 1 4 46 3 11 13 15 10 7,C48 176,412 0 3 25 0 7 1 3,595 19 9 112,236 7 2 151,126 12 1 38,204 17 11 422 5 11 14,815 12 5 ] 936 860 8,588 | 441,344 2 10 3,980 4 1 274 197 2,475 i 116,387 15 10 42,388 14 1 3,245 2,012 23,395 ] 1,284,170 6 3 48,878 19 1 4,388 2,993 29,170 1,522,672 1 2 22,174 8 9 1,428 1,327 13,145 661,071 0 5 51 7 10 12 14 6 1,489 39,885 3 8 26 15 9 47 0 6 14 5 4 21,565 535,137 4 8 24 16 4 54 17 10 14 13 8 31,942 15 5 3 12,740 16 4 6 22,195 744,169 2 3 310,537 14 1 661,477 4 7 23 5 11 52 4 0 24 7 6 50 5 10 29 16 1 110,250 4 7 38,549 18 1 3,812 2,201 20,067 1,191,012 17 2 59 7 0 16 7 6, 6,858 190,243 14 1 27 14 10 35,721 4 8 48,182 4 3 65,536 11 11 130,165 17 10 767,736 19 7 10,977 11 1 14,088 0 7 955 614 6,907 424,439 15 10 21,933 2 2 2,531 1,896 16,019 672,362 17 4 32,111 7 2 2,110 1,591 16,508 963,501 7 1 39,645 1 0 4,519 3,255 26,695 1,224,207 13 0 193,575 11 5 21,115 12,146 120,8.19 6,127,587 11 6 8,725 2 5! 640 532 5,391 266,551 13 2 61 9 0 13 17 2 13,928 320,714 19 2 23 0 6 41 19 5 15 15 oj 17,577 I I 451,159 17 8 i 25 13 4 58 7 4 14 6 2 34,448 711,989 5 6 20 13 4 45 17 2 13 3 0 181,915 3,206,577 3 1 17 12 6 50 14 4 13 3 9 4,556 110,171 15 0 24 3 7 49 8 10 14 2 3 718,907 14,461,169 3 7 20 2 4 2,645,360 1 9 32,000 3-97 947,821 6 0 .82,200 53,921 566,351 29,196,389 19 0 51 11 1