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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.

NOTES in Circulation in

No. S. 1.-Returns of the Average Amount of BANK

Hong Kong, during the month ended 31st December, 1939, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks:-

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China

25,524,624

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited.......

195,232,228

4,843,727

5th January, 1940.

TOTAL

钥

225,600,579

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 2.—The following statement of the securities lodged with the Crown Agents by the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, against their notes in circulation, is published for general information under Section 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911):-

Security.

Amount.

Nominal Value.

Price when deposited.

Latest market price.

41% Conversion Loan repayable

1940/1944..

£240,000.

5th January, 1940.

100 101

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.