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Children with bank books

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Children with bank books

Children have often been encouraged to save their money. These school pupils from Kelburn, Wellington, have bank books from several different banks. They were featured in the news because from 1 April 1992 any savings accounts for which the saver did not supply a tax number were to be taxed at 33 cents in the dollar. Very few school students had tax numbers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1992/2072/16

by John Nicholson

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David Tripe, Banking and finance – Banking and finance since 1984, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24630/children-with-bank-books (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by David Tripe, published 26 February 2010.