IN 71st YEAR
Wellington Anniversary
BANK OF NEW ZEALAND
The Bank of New Zealand is now well into the seventy-first year of its career, having first opened its doors for business at Auckland on October 16, 1861. To-day the Wellington branch will celebrate its seventieth birthday, since it was not until January 15, 1862, that the Bank of New Zealand started business here. Wellington has, of course, been the headquarters of the bank for years. The New Plymouth branch was opened on November 18, 1861, and the Dunedin branch on December 2 of that year. The Wellington business was actually started on January 13, 1862, in premises formerly known as the Steam Packet Hotel, which stood on part of the site of the present Empire Hotel, a move being made to the then newly-erected premises on the present site of the bank, which is now housed in the third building to stand at the junction of Lambton Quay with Willis Street.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 94, 15 January 1932, Page 10
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161IN 71st YEAR Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 94, 15 January 1932, Page 10
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