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Story: Banking and finance

Banking day, 1956

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Primary school pupils in an Ohakune classroom record deposits in their saving bank passbooks, under the supervision of their teacher

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Reference: Their town. National Film Unit, 1956

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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/video/24627/banking-day-1956 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by David Tripe, published 26 February 2010.