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001 ocn153812172
003 OCoLC
005 20210710023800.0
008 160813s1997 nz ac 001 0 eng d
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050 4 $aHG3530.5.Z6C855F3 1997
082 04 $a332.120993$221
100 1 $aFarrington, Tony.
245 10 $aBuilding a bank :$bthe century that made Countrywide Bank /$cby Tony Farrington.
246 30 $aCentury that made Countrywide Bank
260 $aAuckland, N.Z. :$bViking,$c1997.
300 $a268 pages :$billustrations, portraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aAt head of title: Countrywide Bank centenary celebration, 1897-1997, 100 years.
500 $aIncludes index.
506 $aNot available for purchase.
520 $a"For the early pioneers in New Zealand saving for a home was difficult and the sum required was beyond the means of most people. To overcome this difficulty the early settlers turned to the practice followed in their home country. They formed co-operative saving organisations, known as building societies, into which they contributed a few hard earned pence each week to help one another accumulate sufficient funds to buy or build a home. In this way the Auckland Co-operative Terminating Building Society was born. Because the Society belonged to the pioneer/worker of the late nineteenth century, the building society story is as much a history of New Zealand's social and economic development as it is the history of the financial services organisation now known as Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited. This history of Countrywide Bank covers the one hundred years from 10 March 1897 to the preent day. It was a time in which both the quill pen and the desktop computer figure, in which counting cash was an end in itself and in which we entered the cashless society ..."--Inside front cover.
610 20 $aCountrywide Banking Corporation.
650 0 $aBanks and banking$zNew Zealand$xHistory.
650 0 $aSavings and loan associations$zNew Zealand$xHistory.
610 27 $aCountrywide Banking Corporation.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01912862
650 7 $aBanks and banking.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00826867
650 7 $aSavings and loan associations.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01105991
651 7 $aNew Zealand.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204542
655 7 $aHistory$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 19 OTHER HOLDINGS