A TRAVELLING BANK.
A travelling bank for farmers is an innovation which has been tried with success in South Africa. It was inaugurated in order to induce the fanners of the upper districts of the Cape, Transvaal, and Orange River regions to appreciate the advantages of a banking system. Motor-cars arc used, each fitted with a desk and safe, and the clerk in charge of the car receives deposits and pays out funds. Trips are made regularly over established routes, so that the patrons know exactly when to expect the visit of the bank. At first considerable distrust of this system was evident anion? fanners, but time has proved the plan to l>e of great convenience and value. Tho farmers can now transact business nearly as well with "the travelling hank as with any other, and without leaving homo.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 15 September 1911, Page 8
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139A TRAVELLING BANK. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 15 September 1911, Page 8
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