An interesting handbook connected with the Auckland Savings Bank, which was probably one of the first of its kind to be established in New Zealand, is in the possession of the present manager of the institution (M!r E. Sutherland), who is visiting Dunedin. This handbook, which is dated 1847, is printed in Maori, and draws the at ten .ion of the Maori people to the benefits of the savings bank system, and in the oratorical style beloved of the Native race at that time puts forward the many advantages to be gained by the entrusting of moneys to an organisation which had as its president the Governor of the Colony, and gave the depositors an opportunity of Increasing their savings by virtue of interest which the bank would pay on “deposits exceeding one shilling and not exceeding fifty pounds.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21126, 27 August 1938, Page 5
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