Story: Banking and finance

‘The Bank, Wellington’

This S. C. Brees drawing of the Wellington waterfront, around 1847, shows bank premises in the foreground.

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Reference: A-109-034

by Samuel Charles Brees

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David Tripe, Banking and finance – Banking and finance to 1984, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/24623/the-bank-wellington (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Tripe, published 26 February 2010.