Another Bank for Carterton.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1864, 30 July 1886, Page 2

Another Bank for Carterton.

To the Editor of the Simidurd. Sih,—As the Greytown tradesmen are moviug for another bank lot ihct town, I may say that many persona n CarUr'ou am anxious to see no additional hank planted here. I believe we me really more io wnnt of extra banking accommodation than the people of Urey town. I don’t profess to pass large sums of money through the bank. *>ut 1 think wlieu a man is in a good financial con. ditiou and doing s good business he should, wlieo occasion requires, find a friend in bis b inker.

I will give you an instance of how we are treated—! sty " we." for the treatment ia common. Some months ago I had to take up a bill for goods su: pile 1 me three m uilb*' before by a Wellington hou-e. Ihe nmount was over £3O, and as the Jay approached for meeting the annuid I did ii"i ospl ct t > beat np among my customers. Two I litbfnl promisee to pay failed me on the last day, and every businessman know* bow vexatious this is when a bill has to Is* met. Three _ o'clock came and 1 had succeeded in getting the amount required with the rxoeption of fifty seven shillings. IF* you think the B ink helped me to that amount to save the di«hor or of the Bill? No. Itwssdishonored. On# day would have been sufficient time for me to have paid the paltry advance wanted book to tbe bank, but it was not granted. That mim night I made up the amount and sent a cheque down to my merchants by tbe earn* mail m took tbe notice of dishonor. Mow, Sir, I again say this is common treatment by tbe bank of Mew Zealand, and so von oaneot wonder at a fealing of dissatisfaction growing and a spirit of independence shewing iteell. I can speak for Carterton, and jndgiagby the letters which have appeared in year journal from Greytown correspondent*, it U the same there. If another bank open* in cither place there will be each a shitting of accounts aa tie Bank of New Zealand little drooms of. It ie (he Bink of Mew Zealand iteell that to ia reality censing the movement to bo male: lam, Ae., Oantaßioaua. Cutoton, July 19.