MACHINES IN BANKS

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26633, 19 January 1952, Page 2

MACHINES IN BANKS

AUSTRALIAN OFFICER’S VISIT Few people connected machinery with banking, but nowadays complicated bookkeeping machinery and sysa most important part of the banks organisation, said Mr Gordon Pearson, mechanisation and sys- °? C £ r ° f the Australia and New Zealand Bank, who arrived at HareSk ymaster from Melbourne jesterday morning. Accompanied by Mr (?. E. Lawford, the bank’s New Zealand mechanisation officer, he will vUH e hl° a r , Wellington on Tuesday to \ isit branches of the bank in fhn to°Aus1 I r l^ d ' T F r I P earson will return to Austrara on February 14 sai< ? his bank had made extensive investigations overseas, both in America and England. *? s » a result bad not only adopted the best available machinery, but had turerc ln t UCed l be mQchine manufacP?rers to produce machinery espe- ' 7 adapted to the bank's require- £ « th’l a con semtenr-e he was able f ° Fav . that the bank vza.s not merely 'owing the latest practice throughwo. ! V i? r ?’ but in som e respects aotuallv leadin’, He said that one or the most important post-war adtk>n C h S ari n b the ld j° f bank mechanisation had been the development of machines suitable for installaffon in relatively small branches.