RDP 9303: The 1893 Bank Crashes and Monetary Aggregates Appendix B: Deposit Receipts and Inscribed Deposit Stock by Bank 1893–1914

Dec. (£ms)
AJS1 BNQ2 BVic3 CMB4 Colonial5 CBA6 CBCS7 ESA8 LBA9 NBA10 QNB11 RBQ12 Total
1893 8.046 0.208 4.623 2.468 1.642 6.874 8.103 4.630 4.845 6.333 8.560 0.716 57.048
1894 7.656 0.156 4.623 2.468 1.642 6.374 6.003 4.025 4.348 5.418 6.387 0.700 49.800
1895 6.709 0.114 4.201   1.642 5.774   3.932 3.862 5.088 6.143 0.684 38.149
1896 5.375 0.050 3.209   1.554 5.331   3.845 3.716 3.266 5.851 0.668 32.865
1897 5.375 0.050 2.355   1.438 5.266   3.384 3.261 1.658 4.950 0.652 28.749
1898 5.719 0.050 1.500   1.267 4.796   3.267 3.189 1.611 4.946 0.489 26.834
1899 5.690 0.018 0.450   1.037 4.414   3.218 2.233 0.479 4.891 0.326 22.756
1900 5.301 0.018     0.361 4.348   3.176 1.912   4.835 0.163 20.114
1901 5.182 0.016     0.111 3.972   2.942 1.591   4.779   18.593
1902 4.478         3.752   2.906 1.589   4.723   17.768
1903 4.698         3.375   2.791 1.587   4.612   17.063
1904 4.370         3.311   2.780 1.586   4.581   16.628
1905 4.083         2.974   2.682 1.258   4.408   15.405
1906 4.070         2.719   2.673 0.942   4.322   14.726
1907 3.767         2.508   2.664 0.939   4.150   14.028
1908 3.751         2.257   2.654 0.936   4.064   13.662
1909 3.705         1.956   2.644 0.926   3.867   13.098
1910 2.149         1.553   2.632 0.608   3.436   10.378
1911 1.730         1.185   2.621 0.602   3.350   9.488
1912 1.711         0.631   2.607 0.589   3.330   8.868
1913 1.673         0.515   2.591 0.546   3.290   8.615
1914 1.634         0.041   2.576     3.153   7.404

Sources:

  1. Australian Joint Stock Bank: Deferred deposits shown in accounts 12/93–12/96 and 12/99–12/14; inscribed deposit stock shown in accounts 12/93–12/14. Estimation procedure for deferred deposits 12/97. Amended scheme of reconstruction postponed repayments of deferred deposits from 1/96 to 1/1900 AIBR, April 1897, p. 228.
  2. Bank of North Queensland: Interminable debenture deposits shown in accounts 12/95–6/1902; deferred deposits estimated by amount of liabilities at time of suspension coming under scheme of management and repayments noted in reports to shareholders, AIBR, February 1894, p. 97; August 1894, p. 546; February 1895, p. 107; February 1896, p. 107; August 1895, p. 523; August 1896, p. 588.
  3. Bank of Victoria: The estimation procedure was to calculate the deposit liabilities converted to deferred deposits from the number of preference shares on offer. 20 per cent of deposits could be taken up as preference shares. Thereafter repayments as noted in the reports accompanying the bank's accounts were progressively deducted from the initial sum. Details of the scheme of arrangement and the accounts and reports were published in the AIBR. Scheme of arrangement reported in AIBR, August 1893, p. 767.
  4. City of Melbourne Bank: The estimation procedure was the same used for the Bank of Victoria. Depositors could take up to 20 per cent of their claims as preference shares. The number of shares on issue allowed the calculation of an initial figure involved in the scheme of arrangement. No repayment had been made prior to the bank going into liquidation in July 1895. Scheme of arrangement reported in AIBR, August 1893, p. 767. The bank's accounts were balanced in September. That figure is used for December.
  5. Colonial Bank of Australasia: The estimation procedure was to use the value of preference shares which depositors could take, 25 per cent of their claims, to calculate the amount of deposits included under the scheme of arrangements. The reports accompanying the accounts give the amounts of deferred deposits outstanding at each balance date. A figure of deferred deposit receipts appears in the accounts from 3/97 to 9/90. The scheme of arrangement and the reports and accounts appear in the AIBR. The bank's September balance figure is used as a December figure.
  6. Commercial Bank of Australia: Data of ‘extended deposit receipts’ for 12/93 and 12/95 from R.J. Wood, The Commercial Bank of Australia Limited, p. 197; 12/94 in accounts as shown in AIBR, February 1895, pp. 104–105. Extended deposits ‘A’ series 12/98 to 6/1905 shown in Accounts; Extended deposits ‘B’ series were removed from balance sheet of bank to Trust Realisation Accounts from 1898 to 1908, thereafter shown in accounts of bank.
  7. Commercial Banking Company of Sydney: Deposits included in scheme of arrangement as given in AIBR, June 1893, pp. 616–617; repayment schedule as reported in AIBR, November 1895, p. 731.
  8. English, Scottish and Australian Bank: December 1893 is figure of liabilities of ‘old bank’ at date of suspension as given in AIBR, June 1893, p. 606. The figures for succeeding years of both perpetual stocks and terminable deposit receipts taken from accounts as reported in AIBR. The bank balanced its accounts in June. The balance figure is used as the December figure.
  9. London Bank of Australia: Fixed deposits in the ‘old bank’ appear in the accounts from 12/93 to 12/96. Thereafter they appear as ‘terminable deposit receipts’. Accounts reported in AIBR.
  10. National Bank of Australasia: Deferred deposits appear in the accounts from 9/93 to 9/96. The latter figures are estimated by progressively deducting the amounts repaid within each accounting period as indicated in the reports accompanying the accounts as published in the AIBR. The September balance figure is used as the December figure.
  11. Queensland National Bank: Figures include deferred deposits, interminable inscribed deposit stock and deferred government deposits. All are taken from the bank's accounts with the exception of the figure for 12/96 which is taken from the revised scheme of arrangement as reported in AIBR, April 1897, p. 237.
  12. Royal Bank of Queensland: The deposit liabilities at the time of suspension and the repayment schedule for current and term deposits is taken from the scheme of arrangement as published in AIBR, June 1893, p. 618. The split between current and term deposits at the time of suspension has been taken from the March quarter banking averages for Queensland as reported in AIBR, May 1893, p. 321.