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NOTICES

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 467.-Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hong Kong, during the month ended 30th September, 1940, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks:-

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China

26.637.512

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

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

200,057,228

4,475,110

3rd October, 1940.

TOTAL

$

231,169,850

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,

No. S. 468.--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.

3% Conversion Loan repayable

1948/1953.

£240,000.

3rd October, 1940.

99-100

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.