Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Date: 1956

From: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): [Ephemera of octavo size issued by and relating to the Post Office Savings Bank]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-POSB-1956-01

Description: Savings account pass book. Front cover shows an arrangement of text, with the word KAITAIA overprinted in the space provided for the branch name. The cover is rubber-stamped twice with the word "Cancelled". Each entry in the book is rubber-stamped and dated at the Kaitaia branch. The back cover shows an illustration of a POSB money-box to be used at home. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 140 x 105 mm.

Date: 1975 - 1979

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-BANK-POSB-1979-02

Description: Poster shows a photograph of a small brown paper pay packet lying on a patch of asphalt with coins and bank notes coming out of it. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 595 x 425 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1979.

Date: 1975 - 1979

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-BANK-POSB-1979-03

Description: Poster shows a photograph of a group of older people standing and seated, and singing around a piano. Other Titles - Sixty Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 495 x 712 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1979.

Date: 1933, 1991-1992

From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992 : Chatham Islands collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11614-16

Description: Includes New Zealand Post Office Savings-Bank Westport bank book for joint account of John W. Prout an Wm Beverland Burt (1933); programme booklet for the Bicentennial of European discovery Chatham Islands, Rekohu, Wharekauri (1791-1991); photograph of senior citizens (identified) at the bicentennial at Kaingaroa School on Mar 1991 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1975 - 1979

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-BANK-POSB-1979-01

Description: Poster in three panels shows photographs of three different workers wo bank with the Post Office Savings Bank (truck driver, laboratory worker, and construction worker), commenting on the advantages of employers crediting their workers' pay directly into bank accounts. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 455 x 555 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1979.

Date: [ca 1960-1973]

From: McLaughlin, Evelyn, 1916-1976 : Research papers relating to New Zealand post offices

Reference: MS-Papers-11389-31

Description: Receipts from registered letters and loose postal note receipts with Post Office Savings Bank hand date stamps Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1977 - Date unknown

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: EPH-A-DECEMBER-2020/3

Description: Comprises: One Red Rose Tea 1 penny coupon and two Red Rose Tea 1¼ penny coupons; One Daisy Coffee 1 penny coupon Two Post Office Savings Bank $5.00 gift tokens dated 8 December 1977. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 6 pieces of ephemera.

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-POSB

Description: See child records for details Related material may be housed at subject location: BANK Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-BANK-POSB

Description: See child records for details Related material may be housed at subject location: BANK Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1986-1999

From: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): [Ephemera of octavo size issued by and relating to the Post Office Savings Bank]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-POSB-1986/1999

Description: Not yet listed Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1970-1979

From: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): [Ephemera of octavo size issued by and relating to the Post Office Savings Bank]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-POSB-1980/1985

Description: Not fully described. Partial contents include savings account books as follows: Post Office Savings Bank account book 1983 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1970-1979

From: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): [Ephemera of octavo size issued by and relating to the Post Office Savings Bank]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-POSB-1970s

Description: Not fully described. Partial contents include savings account books as follows: Post Office Savings Bank Kaitaia account book 1971 Post Office Savings Bank Christchurch account book 1974 Post Office Savings Bank Wellington account book 1976 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1960-1969

From: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): [Ephemera of octavo size issued by and relating to the Post Office Savings Bank]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-POSB-1960s

Description: Includes: 1960s: Did you know? Withdrawals from your account can be made from any Post Office Savings Bank [Flier. 1960s?] The pataka, traditional storehouse of the Maori. [Envelope for Post Office Savings Bank account book, 1960s?] To the householder. The Post Office Savings Bank [Booklet. 1960s] 1960: Plan your savings ... Thrift club, Post Office Savings, school savings, national saving [Pamphlet. ca 1960] Post Office Savings Bank Investment Account [Pamphlet. ca 1960] Save for a home of your own through a Home lay-By account in the Post Office Savings bank. [Pamphlet ca 1960] 1963: Post Office Savings Bank Kaitaia account book Auckland [1963] 1964: Post Office Savings Bank of New Zealand. School Savings Branch. Account book [1964] 1965: Post Office Savings Bank Kaitaia account book Lower Hutt [1965] Post Office Savings Bank Investment account. [Pamphlet. ca 1965] Post Office Savings Bank Investment account. Wellington, no. 5069 [1965] 1966: Post Office Savings Bank of New Zealand. School Savings Branch. Account book [1966] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1950-1959

From: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): [Ephemera of octavo size issued by and relating to the Post Office Savings Bank]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-POSB-1950s

Description: Includes: 1954: Post Office Savings Bank of New Zealand. School Savings Branch. Account book [1954] The pataka, traditional storehouse of the Maori. [Envelope for Post Office Savings Bank account book, ca 1954] 1956: Post Office Savings Bank Kaitaia account book [1956] 1957: Post Office Savings Bank Christchurch account book [1957] 1958: The thrift clubs of the Post Office Saving Bank [1958] 1959: Post Office Savings Bank cheque system [1959] Post Office Savings Bank Wellington account book [1959] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklet and relief prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1965

From: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): [Ephemera of octavo size issued by and relating to the Post Office Savings Bank]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-POSB-1964-01

Description: Saving account record book for a school pupil. Front cover shows a squirrel wearing a mortar board and using a pointer to emphasis the saving message. The back cover shows a squirrel pushing a wheelbarrow of nuts to its storeroom in a hollow tree trunk, and girls and boys saving for things they want to buy, such as balls, cricket bats, watches and bicycles. This copy was owned by a pupil at West School, Masterton, and used from 1964 to 1969. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 140 x 105 mm.

Date: 1963

From: Farmers' Trading Company: [Sales catalogues of octavo size. 1920-1960s]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); Farmers' Trading Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-Farmers-1963-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue. The first twelve pages are devoted to outdoor and sporting equipment: tents, camping gear, lanterns, inflatable mattresses, camp stretchers, rucksacks, sleeping bags, camp and deck chairs, outdoor tables, beach umbrellas, life jackets, fishing tackle, lawn bowls sets, cricket gear, underwater swimming gear, tennis raquets. The rest of the catalogue shows women's casual fashion, children's wear, pedal cars, scooters, tricycles and bicycles, toys, dolls, train sets, toy trucks, cash registers, and cowboy dress-ups, paddling pools, swings and see-saws. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 140 x 105 mm. Provenance: Donated by Philippa Conway, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: [19--]

From: Huggins, Herbert Augustus, 1867-1962 : Papers

Reference: 75-141-2/18

Description: History of Post Office Savings Bank; `Scientific research; its pleasures and benefits applied to every day life' (printed by Psychic Science and Art Institute, Nelson), undated; supplement to New Zealand Tablet re Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, 10 May 1906 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1961 - 1962

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); C M Banks Ltd; Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1962-01

Description: A single sheet calendar shows a picture by E Mervyn Taylor, of a group of Maori in traditional dress, conducting a bartering arrangement. The attached text sheet discusses pre-European times, ceremonial feasts, trival possessions, food, spare time pursuits, canoe builders, tattooing, property ownership, tohungas, exchange, the coming of the white man, tattooed heads, trade for muskets and land, British coinage. The text sheet also has small illustrations by E Mervyn Taylor. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, on sheet with attached calendar, 570 x 335 mm, and black and white sheet of text overlaid, attached at top by metal bar and hanging loop. Provenance: Donated by Brian de Joux, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 1960 - 1961

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); C M Banks Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-WEATHER-1961-01

Description: A single sheet calendar as a wall chart shows a picture of the globe of the Earth with a weather satellite above it. At top right is a chart showing relative altitudes of the troposphere, stratosphere and ionosphere, the height of the Russian sputnik and the Echo I, the auroro borealis and australis, and the heights of flight of planes, sounding balloons, anti-aircraft shells, and cloud types. Another chart at centre right shows wind patterns around the globe, and at lower left is a weather map of Australia and New Zealand. At lower ledft are illustrations of the covers of Post Office Savings Bank account pass books. An attached sheet of text discusses ascents into space, the developing science of meteorology, movements in the atmosphere, jet streams of the upper air, the ozone layer and its effect on sound waves, and the ionosphere. Other Titles - Meteorology Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on sheet 560 x 330 mm, with attached offset print of same size Provenance: Donated by Brian de Joux, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 1954

From: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): [Ephemera of octavo size issued by and relating to the Post Office Savings Bank]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); Megget, Shirley, active 1981

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-POSB-1954-01

Description: Saving account record book for a school pupil. Front cover shows a squirrel storing nuts in a hollow log. There is a CANCELLED stamp across the front cover image. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 204 x 108 mm.