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Kōrero: Business failures and corporate fraud

Larnach castle

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Larnach castle

William Larnach intended his Gothic castle on Otago Peninsula to be ‘a monument to my enterprise’. But in Larnach’s later life his enterprise was not especially successful. A banker, a member of Parliament and a cabinet minister, he suffered severely with the collapse of the Colonial Bank. Overcome by depression, he died by suicide in Parliament Buildings.

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Larnach Castle

by Andris Apse

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Graeme Hunt, Business failures and corporate fraud – Government intervention, 1890–1940, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22339/larnach-castle (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Graeme Hunt, i tāngia i te 13 January 2010.