Description | The contents and dates of this volume is very varied. Memo on maintenance of electric cooking appliances in the Directors' kitchen; Memo giving dates of the major building developments of the Head Office site (inc. note on the introduction of gas in 1840 and telephones in 1889); duties of firemen; summary report on the Boer War and the Bank staff who volunteered to participate (written Feb 1902), it includes a list of the names of clerks granted a leave of absence to volunteer for the Boer War (South African War), these are: F G Ager, A J Collum, A W Gough, F Henderson, D M Mackenzie, H N Page, J A Ross, H A D Stephens, Regd. Burgess, R J Hutchinson, H S Law, R M Stephenson, A C Carey, L C Coventry, C R Covey, D H Deane, E F Webster, G H Wilkinson, J E Gerahty, F A R Bell, H C Bell, J W Clarke-Kennedy, W P Dean, C W Dent, H S Greensill, R G S Miller, V H Morshead, W E C Nunn, C G Stewart, P A Stutchbury and A P Ward. (Indexed) |