Reserve Bank of Australia Annual Report – 1981 Financial Statements Balance Sheet - Central Banking Business

At 30 June 1981

Central Banking Business
Liabilities
 
  1981
$'000
1980
$'000
Capital   40,000 40,000
Reserves —
Reserve Bank Reserve Fund 5,568    
Reserves for contingencies and general purposes (Note 5) 1,373,387 1,378,955 1,668,598
Deposits by —
Trading banks — Statutory Reserve Deposits   1,846,146 1,376,089
— Other
  8,955 9,570
Savings banks   128,806 553,331
Overseas governments and institutions (Note 7)   169,639 358,228
Governments and government instrumentalities
— Commonwealth
  746,976 442,595
— State
  108,994 104,120
Note Issue Department   1,441,219 827,279
Other   18,771 15,303
Special Reserve — International Monetary Fund special drawing rights (Note 8)   388,066 389,572
Other liabilities (Note 9)   175,308 108,743
Total   6,451,835 5,893,428
Assets
 
1981
$'000
1980
$'000
Gold and foreign exchange (Note 2) —
Gold 1,090,431 1,511,342
International Monetary Fund special drawing rights 45,667 30,113
Foreign exchange holdings 2,193,759 1,317,986
Australian government securities (Note 3) —
Treasury bills 650,685 917,783
Treasury notes 232,301 141,416
Other Commonwealth securities 736,227 848,921
Loans, advances and bills discounted —
Rural Credits Department 275,611 159,421
Other (Note 10) 474,731 355,615
Bank premises (Note 4) 79,307 77,794
Clearing items (remittances in transit, cheques and bills of other banks) 594,477 465,750
Australian notes and coin 46,818 36,572
Other assets 31,821 30,715
Total 6,451,835 5,893,428

H.M. Knight
Chairman, Reserve Bank Board — 31 July 1981