THE OLD UNION BANK.
Mr R. E. Green writes:—lt may interest some of the many people who are now passing to and fro in Cashel Street, west, that the building now being demolished next the Zetland Hotel was the original Union Bank of Australia in Christchurch. It was erected about the year 1857 for the bank and was built partly in front of Dr Gundry’s house, which extended to the east of the bank. The doctor’s residence was there some time before the bank, so now the sits is being brought back to light after being in darkness for over seventy years. The busines of the bank was conducted there till Saturday, September 17, 1864, when it was transferred to Hereford Street, on the site of the present bank, but the bank of 1864 was destroyed by fire about tho middle eighties, and the present bank is the third Union Bank I have seen in Christchurch.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18550, 25 August 1928, Page 2
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