Trustee savings banks. Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 27 July 1910;--for, return "for the year ending the 20th day of November 1909 (1) from each savings bank in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the Channel Islands, containing, in columns, the number of such banks; the number of accounts remaining open; the total amount owing to depositors; the total amount invested with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, excluding the Surplus Fund; the balance in the hands of the treasurer; the total amount of the Separate Surplus Fund in the hands of the commissioners; the other assets, including the estimated value of the bank premises, furniture, &c.; the total assets; the rate of interest paid to depositors on the various amounts of deposit, and the average rate of interest on all accounts; the annual expenses of management, inclusive of all payments and salaries; the rate per cent. per annum on the capital of the bank for the expenses of management; the average cost of each transaction; the total amount of government stock standing to the credit of depositors; and the total number and amount of annuities in course of payment, including in such return a summary of all such savings banks as, under the provisions of the act 26 Vict. c. 14, or otherwise, have been closed and have transferred their funds, or any part thereof, to the Post Office savings bank; showing for England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and the United Kingdom the number of such banks, the number and amount of depositors' balances on the 20th day of November previous to date of notice to close; the number and amount of accounts so transferred, and the amount of compensation, if any, made to all or any of the officers of such banks; and showing in separate columns the particulars relating to such savings banks as have been closed during the year; and (2) showing the total number of depositors in trustee savings banks; the total number of deposits; the total number of withdrawals; the average amount of each deposit account; the average sums paid in and drawn out; and the total number of persons who have deposited in single sums the entire amount allowed to be deposited during the year (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, no. 246 of session 1909)." [electronic resource].