APPENDIX B.
Development of Postal Cheque Systems Abroad.

Germany ..
France ..
Austria a
Belgium ..
Holland ..
Czecho-
Slovakia

Switzerland
Hungary ..
Yugo Slavia
[taly ..
Denmark ..

Year of
nstitu-
Hon.

1909
1918
(883
1913
[918
i018
908
890
1918

1921. | 1922. | 1923. | 1924. | 1925. | 1926.

Popula-
tion (in
millions).

(in thousands of accounts).

759
110
177
35
55
3

918
151
186
93
_E

626
182
191
11&

808
216
177
137
108

856
258
178
157
113

Q7

' 893
318
180
178
120

7

63
40
6
7
7
13

A

59
53
12

9

683 1
55 8
13 12
11 | 38
11 gq

The following countries also have Postal Cheque systems :—
Saar Territory Luxembourg Poland
Sweden Lithuania Egypt
Danzig Japan Latvia
Some form of Postal Cheque business is transacted also in :—
Albania Spain Roumania
Bolivia Greece Venezuela
Cuba Portugal

APPENDIX C.

Relative Development of Branch Banking in various

Number of
Bank Offices. *

Population.
Great Britain and Ireland
Switzerland

Belgium

Denmark

France ..

Holland

Germany

Austria ..

Hungary

100
“0

47,100,000
3,900,000
7 800,00"

200 ND
700,
7,400

63,100,000
6,500,000
8,000,600

20

Countries.
Number of
Inhabitants
to each
Bank Office.
3,600
5,600
6,500
8,500
9,250
10,600
20,350
32,500
80,000
* Figures of actual branches shown in “ The Bankers’ Almanac and Year
Book, 1927-28.”