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BANKING.
N a m e of Bank
Particular* of all Bauks doing business in tbe Island
Address of Head Office
Principal Agency in
the United Kingdom
No. of
Establish–
ments in
the Island
Under what
authority
established
Capital
paid up
Note Cir–
culation
in the
Island
Amount of
Deposits in
tbe Island
[mperial
Ottoman
Bank
Banque d' Athenes
Iinp-.'rial Ottoman
dank,
26 Tiirogiuorton
Street, London,
E.C.2.
Bauqtie d' Aiuenes.
Athena.
Bank of Cyprus Bank of Cyprus,
Nicosia
Imperial Ottoman
Bunk,
26 Throgmorton
Street, Loudon,
E.C.2.
BanQue <1' Athenes
22 Fenchurch
Street, London,
E.C.3.
Westminster
Bank Ltd., Foreign
Branch, 82 Cornhill,
Loudou, E.C.3.
Branches at
Nicosia,
Larnaca,
Limaasol,
Famagustn.
*£ Papho*,.
also Troodos
during sum–
mer season.
and Agencies
at Kyrenia
ami Lefkirn
Head OiBce
at Limassoi,
Branch at
Nicosia.
Corres–
pondents at
Larnaca.
Fatnai-usra,
I'apbus.
Ji Kvrenia
Vn'cncics :it
l^arnaca.
Limassoi.
Fama-rusta.
Pa|»h"**.
Kyrenia. J:
Morpnou
Firman of
the Porte
£5,000,000 NIL.
Decree of
the King of
Greece
30th No-*..
1893
Drachmae
72,000,000
NIL.
sanction ni
H.E. the
Hi'.'h Comm.
uf Cyprus
pursuant to
the Provi–
sions of tbe
Ottoman
Commercial
Code (No.
11.54B)
Cyprue
Gazette
1.0R4 of
20/1*2/12
£157.868 ; NIL.
I
£346,900
£155,866
£78,161
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Weights
and
Measures iu coramou use and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures
C A P A C I T Y .
2 pints = 1 quart
2£quarts = 1 Cyprus litre
t quurrs -*= 1 gallon
8 gallons= 1 kile
( 9 quarts =-= 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure \ 16 kouzas= 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke
1 Jokes -*= 1 Cyprus litre
-14 <»kes = I cantur
180 okes = I Aleppo ciintar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 Foot
2 feet =s 1 pic
3 feet or \\ pics *= 1 yard
Z'.\ pics = I chain
2.610 pics= I mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 donum — 6'1 pica or 40 vds. square— 14,400 sq. ft. or •£/*-
of an acre.
1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile 3*02.5 donums — I acre
The above figures as regards capacity, weight and length have
been laid down hy the Weights and Measures Law (No. XI. of
1890.) The donum is. however, computed at different sizes by
the inhabitants in different parts of the Island, and under rhe
Interpretation Law (No. X. of 1901) it is reckoned as ** 1,601)
square yards, according to the British Imperial Standard."
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