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How Come New Zealand’s Oldest Bank is having a Tenth Anniversary? 134 years ago-a year after the crowning of Queen Victoria ~~TT »■ and a month before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi-a group of Maoris stood on Port Nicholson’s shore and watched a strange to- - y /. ; sight: a huge safe, weighing two tons, was being transported , .WjM ashore on a raft. And atop the safe sat a man called Smith. ’ jfc*’ J’WrRTI Ji I lita-i 1 I w a f. SwW iTzT . . .MSB UNION BANK, LAMBTON QUAY, WELLINGTON 1903. important as the country’s economy grew, as life became more M '* ", ILO Ifc complicated, and as individual needs increased. So 10 years ago /J mlFvcT* jifr - ANZ became a savings bank as well. V W I k w? Ten years may not seem a long time, but when you consider ' g g MM the success and popularity of ANZ savings banks all over the & W . w i\\ kl|r Al . countrv, it appears we have done pretty well for all concerned. < >ll Il Our vigorous planning, progressive ideas and 10 years' growth on the savings front seem to prove that New Zealand s ’ ” West bank is still New Zcaland s .' oun s est bank - in all thc " a - s that matter. / He was so determined that the Union Bank (now known as A ANZ) would get off to a certain and secure start as New Zealand's ' < ; gqjfch first bank, that he was taking no chances except with himself! The Maoris watching him called him Jacky Box Smith: and the name stuck. The Union was here as part of New Zealand-and it intended to Slav, two-ton safe and all. The bank was re-named ANZ in 1951 and now we’re having TIB a tenth anniversary'. Tenth? After 134 years? hXwB The explanation is quite simple: much of New Zealand's I.IVal • LjM progress has depended on the security and the continuing high IS living standard of its people. Personal savings became more am BANK AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED Tip first iifNewZealaitf
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33653, 1 October 1974, Page 11
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