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TABLE 2

Liquidity of official and Private Sterling Balances at 30th June 1967

Comm..

British Govern-

U.K.

Local

Common- wealth

Treasury

ercial

ment

Authority

Sterling

Deposits

Bills

Bills

Stocks

Securities

Securities

Total

Official balances

with Crown Agents

Note Security

Fund

45.8

143.2

.5*

4.7*

194.2

General Fund

.7

4.8

3.3*

2.0

10.8

Special Fund

1.0

3.8*

'|

2.1*

6.9

47.5

151.8

3.8

8.8

211.9

Private balances

With London offices

1

|

of note-issuing

banks

78.8

.3

26.7

With other banks

in U.K.

26.8

1.2

3.0

.2

105.8

31.2

With hire

purchase companies

1.9

1.9

107.5

1.2

3.3

26.9

138.9

|

otal balances

155.0

1.2

3.3

178.7

3.8

1 1

8.8

350.8

Commercial

K. olaims

Advances

and Overdrafts

767

bills and

promissory

notes

4.5

Acceptances

Total

.9

13.1

*Excluded from standard series of "U.K. Sterling

Liabilities and Claims" (apart from 0.8 of deposits with U.K. local authorities in General Fund).

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