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AUSTRIA - CREDIT 



Year 



3. — Net Balance 



in the 



Savings Department 



Crs. 



Cen. 



Cheque Department 



Crs. 



Cen. 



1883 

 1885 

 1890 



1895 

 1900 



1905 

 1910 

 1912 



8,146,030 



5,154.079 



6,801,415 



11,643,520 



8,479,074 

 12,804,087 



5,186,249 

 25.543,968 



70 

 36 

 76 

 90 

 68 

 06 

 63 

 37 



218,490 



23.551.123 

 4.693,557 

 3,334,305 



13,239,828 



47.763,939 



33.459.434 

 1,570,810 



14 



82 



14 

 48 

 92 



49 

 62 

 72 



Total Credit of Depositiors on December 3i3t., 1912 



02,629,148 21 441,453,581 



91 



Austria is one of the States in which part of the postal savings bank 

 funds is invested in agriculture. 



These funds are invested in State or State guaranteed securities, land 

 bonds, communal bonds, railway bonds etc. In 1906, Austria had invested 

 in this way an amount of 632,500,000 crs, representing the credit of its 

 depositors (including the funds of the cheque service). 



Depoiitors' Credit* 



Nature of Investment 



Government Debt 



State Guaranteed Securities .... 



632,500,000 crs. . .<' Railway Bonds 



I^and Bonds, Communal and Bank 

 Bonds 



Bills and other Commercial Paper . 



236,500,000 

 62,000,000 

 12,000,000 



108,000,000 

 214,000,000 



37 



10 



2 



17 



34 



The proportion of the investments remained unchanged in subsequent 

 years. In the accounts for 1912, for example, under the head of " Land 

 Bonds, Communal and Bank Bonds ", we find 106,696,500 crs. and under 

 that of " Government Debt ", 225,317,240 crs. 



