Bank employees

Date: 22 May - 30 Jun 1998 - 22 May 1998 - 30 Jun 1998

By: Brash, Donald Thomas (Dr), 1940-; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Westpac Banking Corporation

Reference: OHColl-1147

Description: Interviews with 11 people who have had a close association with the New Zealand savings bank movement and the evolution of Trust Bank. Describes their working and personal relationships, the origins and development of Trust Bank, the bank's relationships with local communities and other banking organisations, and the purchase of the bank by Westpac Banking Corporation in 1996. Some material describes the bank and its people after the sale. The interviewees worked in a range of places, including Whakatane, Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Hastings, Wairarapa, Wellington, Canterbury, Geraldine, Otago and Southland. They describe their banking careers during the 1950s-1990s, including roles as juniors and clerks, branch managers, general managers and managing directors, and as head typist. Others describe working in clerical and computer services roles, supervising electronic data processing, the help desk, and in marketing. Interviewees are Sylvia Baxter, Craig Arthur Blennerhassett, Donald Thomas Brash, Bruce William Peter Cronin, Frank Dickson, Dawn Marie Geange, Caroline Hera Graham, Gordon Thomas Hutchins, Stuart Ross McRobie, Graeme Stanley Pentecost, and Lesley Katrine Pope. Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-013319 - OHC-013339, OHC-013348 - OHC-013372 Abstracts: OHA-8194 - OHA-8204 This collection is stage one of a project commissioned by Westpac through its archives. Stage two interviews with employees of the merged bank can be found at OHColl-1150 Westpac oral history project. Quantity: 42 C60 cassette(s). 11 printed abstract(s). 11 interview(s). 41.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Westpac Banking Corporation. Search dates: 1998 Processing information: Interviews not yet described

Date: [1934-1971]

From: Searle, Roland James 1904-1984 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5663-4

Description: Comprises small mounted maps of the Solomon Islands (nd); Hutt Methodist Church newsletter re church extension at Avalon and Naenae (1954); circular re Photographic Society of NZ (nd); recommended hotels in Noumea (nd); `New Caledonia - Island of light' (nd); National Bank of NZ staff list (Jan 1971); annual NZ Interclub photographic competition (1934); City of Wellington information package (ca 1950s); and publicity sheets re Felix Mermet's `The France Libre overprint of New Caldeonia' (1946) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1956-1995

By: Grant, Alister Alan Keith, 1920-

Reference: MS-Group-1380

Description: Comprises reminiscences by Grant, `A Merry banker in the South Pacific', and correspondence between the Grant and Samuels families from 1956 to 1995. The correspondence relates to their mutual interests and family matters. Most of the correspondence is between Alister Grant and Reg Samuels and concentrates on the affairs of the National Bank of New Zealand and related banking and economic matters Accompanying material - Biographical information on Grant's career, provided by Grant in back file. Alister Grant was a senior officer with the National Bank of New Zealand in Wellington and Reg Samuels was a senior officer with the bank's London office Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Provenance: In addition to National Bank positions held a wide range of professional and other positions, all listed in document provided by him. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by A A K Grant, Wellington, 2001

Date: 1906

By: Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974; Love, Honiana, active 2000-

Reference: A-350-008

Description: Shows a full length portrait of Mr Wood Jones, identified as such on the published version of this sketch, in the "Exhibition sketcher", 8 December 1906, page 3. Notes on the published version indicate that Mr Wood Jones acted such parts as Captain Hawtrey, and was also a banker. He was said to be leaving for England shortly. He may be John Wood Jones 1854-1935 (NZ Biographies, and electoral roll 1905, bank clerk/officer). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 320 x 117 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Honiana Love, in 2000. Donor is a great-great niece of the artist. Her grandmother (Carol Holland nee Booth) was the artist's niece.

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1888-1896

By: Hurley, Henry Albert Eaton, 1858-1928

Reference: MS-Papers-5305

Description: The log book begins on 1 Jan 1891 and finishes on 15 May 1894; Hurley tended to note important events rather than record daily entries. It is a record of both his private life and his working life as a Bank of New South Wales inspector. Also included are two sections at the back of the log, Funny sayings of children, 1896, and Dates: Great events in history (1888-1895). Hurley's area as an inspector included the South Island (he lived in Nelson with his family) and the lower half of the North Island, from Taranaki to Hawke's Bay. He was deaf and describes situations relating to this. Relationship complexity - MS-Papers-3582: Letter from Albert Hurley to Ada and Charles A E Ferguson, 1906 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs W Lynch, Thorndon, Wellington, 1995, who has included additional family information

Date: 18 Nov 1999-16 Aug 2007

By: Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Porteous, Pauline, active 2003; Westpac Banking Corporation

Reference: OHColl-1150

Description: Interviews with people who have had a close association with the development of Westpac Banking Corporation from 1960 to 2000s. Subjects discussed include early life and family, career choices, banking careers, leadership, government banking, information technology in banking, deregulation of New Zealand banking environment, managing changes to corporate culture, effects of being an Australian-owned bank in New Zealand. Specific topics include: 1982 merger of Bank of New South Wales and the Commercial Bank of Australia to form Westpac, 1985-86 rural debt crisis, 1987 sharemarket crash, 1996 merger of Trust Bank and Westpac to form WestpacTrust, formation of ETSL (Electronic Transaction Services Ltd) EFTPOS network and Databank. The interviewees worked in personnel, marketing, credit, strategic planning, as an economist, and as Chief Executive. Interviewees are Harry Maffey Price, Paul Christopher Bayliss, Yvonne Codde, and Ann Sherry. Abstracted by - Hugo Manson, Kay Sanderson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson, Pauline Porteous, Judith Fyfe. This collection continues on from the OHColl-1147 Trust Bank oral history project, which recorded interviews with Trust Bank employees to 1998, just after the bank was bought by Westpac Banking Corporation in 1996 and merged to become WestpacTrust. Arrangement: Abstracts: OHA-8086, OHA-8205 Quantity: 12 C60 cassette(s). 4 C90 cassette(s). 2 printed abstract(s). 3 interview(s). Search dates: 1999 - 2007 Processing information: Interviews not yet described

Date: 1947

From: Westpac New Zealand Archive: Photographic prints

By: Elite Studio (Rotorua, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10593

Description: A group portrait of around 40 people, standing and seated in front of the mahau of the whare of Hinemihi ki Whakarewarewa (Hinemihi II), at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua. The card mount bears a stamp for Elite Studio, Fenton St., Rotorua. Inscriptions: Mount verso - top left - Taken at Rotorua. June 1947. Part of Centennial Celebrations of Auckland Savings Bank. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photograph

Date: 2009

By: Gilbert, Peter Guy, 1926-

Reference: MS-Group-1797

Description: Brief history of the Gilbert and Wilkes family, with particular regard to the life and career of Peter Guy Gilbert. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matters (Desktop publishing) Textual and image file - PDF Illustrated with printed copies of photographs

Date: 7 Jun 1984 - 27 Jun 1984 - 3 Jul 1984

From: NZOHA New Zealand Computer Society Silver Jubilee Oral History Project

By: Hogg, Gordon Henry James, 1930-2018

Reference: OHInt-0093/08

Description: Gordon Hogg was born in 1930 at Nelson. Describes family background, childhood, education, religion, politics, career possibilities, first job at the Bank of New Zealand. Details career with the bank, possibilities to improve manual systems, variety of experience gained, bank personnel. Talks about first contact with computing while posted to London, 1963. Recalls investigations into English and Scottish banks' electronic data processing. Speaks of differences in approach to the computer industry by the Americans, return to New Zealand, idea for New Zealand banks to share a joint computer banking facility. Describes the IBM 360/30 used to develop the Bank of New Zealand's EDP facility, trial at Vivian Street branch, conversion of 100 branches just prior to 1967 decimalisation. Describes beginning of Databank Systems Ltd, sharing electronic data processing between the 5 main banks - Bank of New Zealand, National Bank, Bank of New South Wales and Commercial Bank of Australia (later combined as Westpac) and the ANZ. Talks about a shared money transfer system, similar to United Kingdom Post Office Giro, point of sale systems and remote banking. Recalls use of different hardware vendors - IBM, Amdahl, DEC (?). Discusses effect of joint computing on the banks' business, negative aspects of Databank, diversification of company's services, impact of technology on society, changes in computing. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mr Hogg's office, Databank, Wellington Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0243. Search dates: 1984

Date: 1952 - 1962

From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]

By: Mitchell, Victor Leonard William, 1925-1980

Reference: B-125-027

Description: Quantity: 3 drawing(s) on one sheet, two on recto, one on verso. Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 373 x 264 mm

Date: 1960 - 1962

By: Bank's Staff Action Movement

Reference: Eph-B-ASSOCIATION-BSAM

Description: Includes: "Something new!!! a political pamphlet for a non-political body. BSAM: Beware Socialism's Approaching Menace. [1960] Letterhead (2 sheets) Confidential circulars dated: 31/10/60; 4/11/60; 15/11/60; 16/12/60; 17/2/61; 9/4/62; 25/7/62 Press release 25/7/62 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript and offset prints, sizes varying up to 350 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Eileen McLeod, Wellington, in 2010.

Date: 1992

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] 1949 - :New Zealand Herald cartoons. 1 - 31 October 1992

Reference: H-099-008

Description: Shows a staff member of the BNZ at the inquiries desk. Refers to the inquiry into the BNZ Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1961

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-409

Description: Cartoon shows four vignettes using different meanings of the word "squeeze" - meaning a constriction or restriction, but also referring to a woman as a girlfriend. A man tells his fur-draped girlfriend that the bank is not longer lending so readily; a bank typist rebukes "Mr Matthews" and tells him to "keep the squeeze for the clients"; two office workers comment on the tight-waist of a secretary; and a teller tells a prospective bank robber that there is a limit to the amount he can steal. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone 232 x 345 mm, on sheet 282 x 382 mm. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1973

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-460

Description: This cartoon features an attempted but unsuccessful bank robbery at the ANZ. An armed burglar has come out of the bank and reports to the driver of the getaway car that the staff wouldn't pay out as they were having a strike. A male pedestrian and a woman shopper look on in surprise. A newspaper cutting in the corner of the cartoon reports staff bans on certain duties in protest at an increase in staff loan interest rates. This cartoon is on thick cardboard. Extended Title - Australia and New Zealand bank staff throughout the country today imposed bans on certain duties in protest at increases in staff loan interest rates. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, newspaper cutting and crayon on board, 294 x 367 mm

Date: 1985

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-377

Description: Shows three scenes. In the first a man is bartering with vegetables for a glass of beer. In the second a man is trying to place a bet using eggs. In the final scene a service station attendant is explaining to a motorist that a litre of petrol is worth half a kilo of butter. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 338 x 390 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: October 1956

From: Lewis, Marjory, fl 2006: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8814

Description: Group portrait of attendees at a second bank officers' course, Paraparaumu, taken October 1956 by an unidentified photographer. Includes Gordon Duff (father of Marjory Lewis). Back row: S N S Crump, R O Smellie, L J Jarvis Fifth row: W E St A McLeod, G Scott, A J Bryant, R M Campbell, A L Williams, D T Scott Fourth row: G Duff, J A Dickens, J M Dickson, D M Robson, G W Finch, J H Shaw Third row: C M H Blakiston, J T Williamson, B A Spear, N G Collins Second row: J M Urguhart, L S Ormandy, J A Mace, R I Elliott, J H Garland, I C Rowe Front row: R J Hogan, T M Scott, A S Hely, Professor J O Shearer, H M Buchanan Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Second bank officers' course Paraparaumu, October, 1956; Mount recto - beneath image - Back Row: S. N. S. Crump (B.N.Z.), R. O. Smellie (C.B.A.), L. J. Jarvis (R.B.),; Mount recto - beneath image - Fifth Row: W. E. St.A. McLeod (R.B.), G. Scott (B.N.Z.), A. J. Bryant (N.B.N.Z.), R. M. Campbell (A.N.Z.), A. L. Williams (B.N.Z.), D. T. Scott (A.N.Z.).; Mount recto - beneath image - Fourth Row: G. Duff (N.B.N.Z.), J. A. Dickens (B.N.Z.), J. M. Dickson (B.N.Z.), D. M. Robson (C.B.A.), G. W. Finch (B.N.S.W.), J. H. Shaw (B.N.S.W.).; Mount recto - beneath image - Third Row: C. M. H. Blakiston (A.N.Z.), J. T. Williamson (B.N.Z.), B. A. Spear (C.B.A.), N. G. Collins (N.B.N.Z.).; Mount recto - beneath image - Second Row: J. M. Urquhart (B.N.Z.), L. S. Ormandy (N.B.N.Z.), J. A. Mace (A.N.Z.), R. I. Elliott (N.B.N.Z.), J. H. Garland (A.N.Z.), I. C. Rowe (B.N.Z.).; Mount recto - beneath image - Front Row: R. J. Hogan (A.N.Z.), T. M. Scott (B.N.Z.), A. S. Hely, Deputy Study Director, Professor J. O. Shearer, Course Study Director, H. M. Buchanan (B.N.Z.), Deputy Study Director. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 18.4 x 25.3 cm, on mount 27.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1978

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-360

Description: This cartoon relates to a number of industrial disputes that are going on including banking and flying personnel. Minister Aussie Malcolm and Jim Bolger are meeting resistance from FOL head Jim Knox and in another scene Muldoon declines to comment to the media. In the final scene a motorist is being breathtested on one side and greeted with a Happy New Year by an Arab (representing the oil industry) on the other Label on recto dated 19/12/78 Extended Title - Don't bank on banking over Christmas or flying Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 320 x 460 mm

Date: 1952 - 1962

From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]

Reference: B-125-027-1

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a middle-aged man. Study of his right hand, holding a pencil Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 373 x 264 mm

Date: 1860-1869, 1929

By: Cooper, Thornhill, 1840-1940

Reference: Micro-MS-0557

Description: Reminiscences, 1860-1869, written for his grandson describing voyage from England to Melbourne, and back 1860-1861; arrival at Port Chalmers as sailor aboard `Lady Young', 1863; experiences as bank clerk and gold buyer at Otago and Westland goldfields: impressions of New Zealand towns at the time. Returned to England by `Ruahine', 1868. Includes newspaper clippings Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 257 pages).