Banking Under Difficulties
Author: first_name: George Ogilvy
last_name: Preshaw
Language: English
Year: 1888

An account of life on the Goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand by a Bank Official.

At the present time—1888—it may appear almost impossible to many that a bank agency should have been in a tent; that bankers should have, often on foot, gone long distances to purchase gold from small storekeepers, the said gold often being carried by them on their backs, till the security (?) of some rough bush shanty had been reached; that instead of cedar counters, massive ledgers, impreg