OPINION: Yesterday Today with Alan McRae

January 22 2017 - 3:30pm
LANDMARK: The Bank of New South Wales on the corner of George and Russell streets in Bathurst.
LANDMARK: The Bank of New South Wales on the corner of George and Russell streets in Bathurst.

My column this week continues on from last week’s article. This week’s photo shows the Bank of New South Wales on the corner of George and Russell streets in Bathurst where the Western Advocate has its office today. It was here that the first of Bathurst’s superscribed bank notes were received in early 1911.

Large registers were kept by the Commonwealth Treasury on all the notes superscribed and superscribed numbers were assigned in batches to the various banks.

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