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TABLE XXXV-Contd.

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 31st March 1962

LIABILITIES

ASSETS

Voluntary Liquidations:

Investments (General) :

Unclaimed returns/dividends...

$ 654,865.35

Undistributed assets

133,706.09 $ 788,571.44

Compulsory Liquidations:

Unclaimed dividends

$

Undistributed assets

27,973.55 116,430.73

£20,000 3% Savings Bonds, 1955-65 (at cost) Investment (North China Daily News & Herald, Ltd.)

£993.19.11 3% War Loan, 1952 or after (at cost) Deposit with Joint Miscellaneous Fund (General) Advance Accounts

144,404.28

Payable to Hong Kong Government in respect of interest

received Creditors' Deposit

...

40,086.67

Balances as at 31st March 1961:

Cash at Bank

500.00

Cash in Hand

---

$321,324.93

4,243.35 500,000.00 10,307.30

:

..$ 136,356.12 1,330.69

137,686,81

+

$973.562.39

Note: 1. The market value of the investments as at 31st March 1961 was as follows:

£20,000, 0. 0 3% Savings Bonds, 1955-65

£ 393.19.11 31% War Loan, 1952 or after

@ 93$= $299,200.00 56 = $ 3,530.20

$302,730.20

2. The above Statement includes only such assets of Companies in Compulsory Liquidation as have been realized.

CERTIFICATE OF THE DIRECTOR OF AUDIT

W. K. THOMSON, Registrar General, (Official Receiver). 21st May 1962.

The above Statement of Assets and Liabilities and the accompanying Statement of Receipts and Payments have been examined in accordance with Colonial Regulation 257. I have obtained all the information and explanations that I have required, and I certify, as a result of this audit, that in my opinion the Statements are correct.

AUDIT DEPARTMENT,

Hong Kong, 18th July 1962.

W. J. D. Cooper, Director of Audit.

$973,562,39