South Australia - Banking and Finance
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Banking
Bank of South Australia
For a history of banking and bank unionism in South Australia seeG.H. & H.R. Manning, Worth Fighting For
A concise history of the bank is in the Register,
11 and 19 April 1892, pages 6a and 6a,
Advertiser,
19 April 1892, page 6d; also see
3 May 1892, page 7a and
G.H. & H.R. Manning, Worth Fighting For and
Observer,
16 April 1892, page 30b.
Some facets of its early history are in the Advertiser,
21 June 1899, page 4i.
The Editor of the Register turned his attention to the SA Company's bank on 15 September 1838, page 3a:
Its twenty per cent extortions on the one hand, and its pawnbroking propensities on the other, are fast working out a result the proprietors in England will be the first to suffer from... Add to this its best servants complaining of ill-treatment and leaving in dudgeon... a great proportion complaining of promises broken and agreements violated...
Also see Southern Australian, 22 September 1838, page 4b-d,
1 December 1838, page 4b.
Information on its new building on North Terrace is in the
Register,
8 May 1841, page 3c.
Plans for a new building are discussed in the Observer,
13 June 1874, page 7f; also see
15 January 1876, page 11a,
Chronicle,
13 January 1877, page 7a.
Also see Adelaide - Buildings - Bank Buildings.
Banking statistics are in the SA Newsletter on
14 December 1841, page 4a.
"The Government and the Bank of South Australia" is in the Southern Australian,
28 February 1843, page 2a,
Chronicle,
2 October 1869, page 12b; also see
South Australian,
15 June 1849, page 2a,
7 October 1850, page 2b and
Register,
22 March 1845, page 2f,
7 February 1895, page 6f,
10 April 1895, page 6c.
"Grandmamma's Idea of Banking" is in the Register,
23 May 1846, page 3a.
A complaint about customer service conditions in the banking
chamber is made on
14 December 1852, page 3c.
The departure of Edward Stephens for England is reported in the Observer,
11 and 18 January 1851, pages 2d and 1a (supp.),
Register,
20 December 1855, page 2e.
A sketch of the bank is in the Mercury & SA Sporting Chronicle,
5 April 1851, page 847.
Letters to and from the bank in respect of a weekly half-holiday for its employees are in the Register, 6 July 1854, page 3b.
"Note Currency in the Past" is in the Advertiser,8 January 1915, page 8i.
The issue of bank notes is discussed in the Observer,
25 April 1868, page 9e.
The Bank of South Australia is discussed in the Observer,
29 August 1891, page 30c,
2 January 1892, page 31a,
19 March 1892, page 36a,
Register,
8 and 17 October 1891, pages 4f-5a and 4h,
3 February 1892, page 5f;
for its history see
11 April 1892, page 6a.
A proposed amalgamation with the Union Bank of A/asia is reported upon in the Register,
17 March 1892, pages 4g-6d,
Observer,
23 April 1892, page 6c,
Register,
12 May 1892, page 7d; also see
31 May 1894, page 7c.
An obituary of George Bundey is in the Observer, 28 April 1928, page 56e.
Banking and Finance - Choose again
Banking
Commercial Bank of South Australia
Also see Adelaide - Buildings - Bank Buildings
"A New Banking Institution" is in the Observer,
6 July 1878, page 10f; also see
17 August 1878, page 12a.
The opening of the Commercial Bank of South Australia is reported in the Observer,
9 November 1878, page 14b; also see
8 November 1879, page 12e.
10 May 1884, page 38,
Register,
5 November 1885, page 6f and
the stoppage of it on
25, 26 and 27 February 1886, pages 4f-g-5g, 4e-5e and 3a-5c,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 March 1886, pages 4f-6e, 4g-5g-6b, 4e-5g, 4e-5g, 4e-5g, 5h and 4g,
9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 31 March 1886, pages 6c, 4f-5h, 4f-5a-f, 4g-6a, 4g-5h, 4f-6a-7a, 6g, 6f, 7a, 6d, 4g-6b, 6e, 4f-5b, 6c, 6a, 4f-5g and 6c.
Sketches are in the Pictorial Australian in
March 1886, page 45.
Poems, cartoons and comment are in The Lantern,
27 February 1886, pages 7-10-14 and 24,
6, 20 and 27 March 1886, pages 9, 14 and 24,
14 and 1, 9 and 16,
10 April 1886, page 14,
4 June 1887, page 14,
10 March 1888, page 14,
4 August 1889, page 19.
Also see Register,
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 April 1886, pages 6f, 6a, 7d, 4g, 4f-5a-6c, 4f-5c, 3b, 7f and 4f,
4 and 5 May 1886, pages 5b and 4g,
Advertiser,
17 and 20 June 1890, pages 7d and 4e,
Register,
26 July 1890, pages 5e-6c,
11 July 1891, page 5g,
28 and 30 September 1891, pages 4g-6b,
1 October 1891, page 6c.
On 21 February 1888 at page 7a in the Register a letter from a disgruntled shareholder of this bank was published:
I would suggest that an in memoriam of the unhappy shareholders be held... Its attendants to be clothed in white aprons and gloves as emblems of innocence... A legal maxim concerning a body corporate is that it has neither a body to be kicked nor a soul to destroy, but it is none the less the fact that its members should be sensitive as to their duty in permitting such a body to remain in purgatory so long.
Also see Register,
29 February 1888, page 6d,
4 May 1888, page 7b,
9 and 12 August 1889, pages 4h and 7d,
30 April 1890, page 7e,
1, 2, 13 and 17 May 1890, pages 4e-6b. 5b, 3a and 4f,
11 June 1890, page 3e,
26 July 1890, page 4e,
23 August 1890, page 4g,
4 October 1890, page 6b,
22 December 1891, pages 5b-6e,
5 May 1892, page 3g,
6 August 1892, page 4e,
16 November 1892, page 4f,
Chronicle,
19 November 1892, page 8c,
Register,
16 February 1893, pages 4h-6h,
5 April 1893, page 4g.
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A vision of rack and ruin will be called up whenever [it] is mentioned... A vision which will make the reminiscent man in fancy to blighted homes, lunatic asylums, prisons and graveyards in gruesome succession... We cannot alter human nature but we ought to amend the law which has made such a melancholy history possible...
(Register, 16 November 1892, pages 4f-6f.)
