44 ITALY - CREDIT 



As regards the distribution of credit it is enough to note that of 21,161 

 loans 7,034 were of less than 100 liras, 9,611 of sums between 100 and 500 

 liras, and 3,122 of sums between 500 and 1000 liras ; so that 93 per cent, of 

 the total number of loans and about 49 per cent, of their total amount were 

 accounted for by operations covering less than 1000 liras. 



Of operations of direct discount with intermediary institutions 335 for 

 2,666,544 liras were for the collective acquisition of materials useful to agri- 

 culture, 20 for 633,700 liras were for collective sales of agricultural products, 

 and 272 for 718,572 liras were to supply the deficiency of resources of their 

 own from which intermediary institutions suflEered. Applications for such 

 discount came almost always from agricultural consortia and agricultural 

 and rural funds. 



Altogether in 1916 the savings-bank of the Banco di NafoU distributed 

 credit as follows among the various provinces : 



Credit obtained by each Province in 191 6. 



Province I<iras 



Bari 1,594.55344 



Salerno 1,502,632.97 



Caserta 1,497,557.03 



Teramo 1,199,949.61 



Foggia 1,166,814.80 



Aquila 973.720.73 



Lecce 742,354.08 



Campobasso 653,480.56 



Reggio Calabria 550,698.00 



Sassari 488,188.06 



Benevento 359'329-38 



Avellino 345,886.40 



Chieti 245,876.01 



Cagliari 221,355.64 



Catanzaro 177,041.75 • 



Naples 138,617.13 



Cosenza 69,087.00 



Potenza 7.50o.o6 



11,934,642.66 



In its fifteen years of activity the agricultural credit of the savings- 

 bank of the Banco di Napoli has distributed in the Southern and Sardinian 

 provinces the remarkable sum of 102,805,000 liras. Of this sum only 

 2,740,064 liras are accounted for by loans to agriculturists, the remainder 



