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Kōrero: Banking and finance

The first bank in New Zealand

The first bank in New Zealand

In May 1840 news reached Wellington of the decision of the London-headquartered Union Bank of Australia to open a first branch in New Zealand.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, 9 May 1840, p. 1

Permission of the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

David Tripe, Banking and finance – Banking and finance to 1984, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24622/the-first-bank-in-new-zealand (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Tripe, i tāngia i te 26 February 2010.

Comments

jacoba francis
19 May 2023
I have bought this,what I think is pencil drawings.It says Auckland,s First Bank and then a short description of when it was opened(1841) It also says No.121 JET Thomas 75 which I take as the year this was done.The artist may even be JE Thomas but the way the T is incorporated between the E and the T for Thomas suggest JET.