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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1956Vol. XXVI, No.7

Private Savings

p. 41 · Read in the full issue

Banks Open in P.NG

SAVINGS Bank RranpVioc fu A Swlnfh k w!i! h . the New South Wales and ANZ Banks opened in P-NG at ten o’clock on January 19.

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and replaced by another photograph.

The New South Wales Bank Supervisor for Papua-New Guinea, Mr> Davi s s ’ explained to-day that many natives could not write and that it was often difficult for Bank Cl^ s to identify native clients.

This system would be given a trial in Port Moresby and later extended to other NSW Branches and Agencies throughout the Territory if found satisfactory -■ If Pastor W. Clark, of the South Sea Evangelical Mission, left Honiara, BSIP ’ on January 3, after more than 20 years of missionary work in the Solomons, to take up an appomt ment with the Mission in New Zea land.