Opened in BSI
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Commonwealth Bank Opened in BSI
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, July 24.
THE Honiara, Branch of the Com monwealth Bank of Australia opened in* Honiara, BSI, on July 23.
There was a short ceremony in the morning at the opening of the Bank in its just-completed new building, a converted Quonset hut. In the evening the manager, Mr. D. Wiley, the Bank staff, and Mrs. Wiley in vited Honiara residents to a cocktail party.
The Bank of New Zealand cele brated the 75th anniversary of its •establishment in Fiji on July 17.
On that day in 1876, a bfanch of the bank was opened at Levuka. A branch was opened in Suva in 1878.
The bank’s newest Fiji branch is at Lautoka—opened at the end of July, 1951. •