Description | Illustrations include: "Plymouth" (pencil sketch by A J F Bond); Mr Leslie Lefeaux (photograph); sketch and short editorial on Henry Steed from 100 years ago; Portrait of Bartholomew Burton, governor 1760-1762, with short description; "A Venetian Night" (drawing by Michael Harvard); Photographs of the Consols Office and the £2 10s per cent Office (circa 1893-4) with correspondence; Cartoon story "Dalrymple-Ponsonby tells the tale" by Neil Nettleton, with acknowledgments to David Langdon. Articles include: editorial on new courtyards and "bank giant"; Appointment of Leslie Lefaux as First Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank; "Criminal Trials Concerning the Bank - Francis Fonton, forger of stock receipts"; Post Mortem article on Vanilla Ransome (female poet); Bank Clerks' Orphanage and Staff Medical Benefit Fund.
Obituary article: Stanley D B James (Formerly Principal, War Stock Office - entered Service 9 Sep 1886; pensioned 1 Dec 1929; died 24 Jan 1934). Other obituaries: Alfred Geer (Auxiliary Male Clerk - entered Service 16 Apr 1917, died 8 Jan 1934); Benjamin Whiteside (Formerly an Auxiliary Male Clerk - entered Service 17 May 1918, pensioned 6 Nov 1933, died 12 Feb 1934). Retirement articless: Herbert W Swears (1st Class Clerk [Star], Power of Attorney Office - entered Service 28 Jun 1888, pensioned 27 Dec 1933); H G Larcombe Superintended, Power of Attorney Office - entered Service12 Dec 1889, pensioned 1 Feb 1934); Retirement presentation to C E Phillips (Head Porter at Plymouth Branch, 32 years of service). Other Retirements: R H Prideaux (Principal, Securities Office - entered Service 22 May 1890, pensioned 1 Dec 1933); F S Eascott (3rd Class Clerk, Accountant's Dept - entered Service 5 Aug 1919, pensioned 1 Dec 1933); J H Scott (Chief Clek, Hull Branch - entered Service 21 Dec 1893, pensioned 21 Dec 1933); V C Palin (Cashier - entered Service 10 Nov 1887, pensioned 5 Jan 1934); C J White (Auxiliary Male Clerk - entered Service 28 Feb 1917, pensioned 10 Feb 1934); E A Hudson (3rd Class Clerk, Accountant's Dept - entered Service 6 Apr 1921, pensioned 15 Dec 1933); A Dawson Jones (Senior Clerk, Transfer by Deed Office No 2 - entered Service 14 May 1891, pensioned 14 Feb 1934). |