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XIV. CREDIT AND INSURANCE ESTABLISHMENTS OF SWEDEN.
savings-banks are to be found, to a certain degree become a competitor
to these, and the sums deposited in it, which in 1893 amounted to 11-j
of the sum total deposited during the whole year in the P. 0.
savings-bank and the private savings-banks together, had in 1896 risen to 20-6 %
of the sum total deposited that year. During the last few years a regress
has, however, shown itself, owing to the higher interest given by private
banks; thus the aforesaid proportion was, in 1902, only lTo %.
The Stockholm Savings-Bank.
In regard to the nature of the development of the P. 0.
savings-bank, we also find a testimony in the circumstances that the average
amount of a first deposit has grown from 6-2 2 kronor in 1884, to 99"is
kronor in 1896 (though decreased again to 45-6 2 kronor in 1902), and
the average amount of an investment in general, from 4-6 o kronor to
40’03 kronor (in 1902, only 22’4 7 kronor) during the same period. In
its originally intended main purpose — to constitute a constantly
accessible and fully reliable savings-bank for people in small circumstances,
and especially for the rising generation, —- the P. 0. savings-bank has.
on the other hand, not made any visible progress. The sale of
saving-stamps * amounted in 1884 (at 1,343 post-offices and 1,773 private seller?)
* In order to facilitate the collection of quite small amounts, so-called saving-stampf.
at 10 ore each (l’/a d.) are kept for sale both at the post offices and by private persons;
these stamps are affixed on a card, which, when the snm amounts to 1 krona, can be
deposited in the nearest P. 0. savings-bank office.
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