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in Austria : 



Marks. 



Postal Banks 190,810,000 



Other Savings Banks 4,861,960,000 



in Italy : 



Postal Banks 1,268,090,000 



Ordinary Banks 1,844,170,000 



in France: 



National Savings Bank (corresponding with the 



Postal Banks) 1,275,700,000 



Other Banks 3,106,730,000 



It would be interesting to know how the deposits are distributed ac- 

 cording to the class of depositors. But, unfortunately, the annual reports 

 of the Austrian Postal Savings Banks give no information on this point. 

 So we do not know anything in regard to the deposits made more 

 especially by the agricultural class, nor, generally, as to the profession of 

 the depositors. 



In the Austrian Savings Banks the number of depositors was as 

 follows in the 3'^ears 1900-1912. 



Neither in the case of the cheque service can we give figures to show 

 the degree to which the agricultural classes have made use of the Postal 

 Savings Banks. The balance sheets of the Postal Bank of Vienna do indeed 

 show the profession of those who profit by this service, but they give no 

 information in regard to farmers, the agricultural population, or generally, 

 people engaged in agriculture and deriving their means of liveHhood from 

 it. Of the 116,904 holders of current accounts shown in the last return of 

 the Vienna Postal vSavings Bank, 33,400 were shopkeepers, 14,353, manufac- 

 turers and 13,795, societies. The number of operations conducted by 

 the Bank in the cheque department in 1912 was 72,772,929 for an amount 

 of 32,916,697,585.86 crs. (See in this connection the figures in the following 

 Table, drawn up with the help of the Annual Reports of the Vienna Postal 

 Savings Bank). 



