COLONIAL BANK BOOKS.
PROTEST AGAINST DESTRUCTION. , [bt telegraph:. CORRESPONDENT.] ~ Dcnedix, Tuesday. Lv a letter to the Gtago Daily Times, Mr. ."«.' R. Gilkison, the well-known solicitor, pro-' - • tests on.behalf of the business "community against the proposal to destroy the Colonial Bank books, Mr. Gilkison says that the gp? books contain a valuable record of mercantile business and i legal transactions, and lie contends that a great wrong will be done if their destruction is permitted. The writer also says that every legal" petitioner in the ". . "course of his practice-must many, times have to hunt up old bank- records to explain trust •dealings or trace moneys of a deceased testator. In the case of Howler v. Street, the y , .only accounts the trustees possessed of their dealings were the accounts kept-by the old ' Bank of Otago (some 20 years before the Ijti- ., 'gat-ion), which at the time of the case was • . in liquidation. Yet the books had not been /'destroyed, but wero available in London, '. -Mr, Gilkison feels sure that the Colonial - Bank books will yet be Wanted by many. In concluding, he urges the Chamber, of Commerce to take the matter up.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13488, 15 May 1907, Page 7
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