• Banking Under Difficulties by George Ogilvy Preshaw (1839 - 1890)

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Banking Under Difficulties by George Ogilvy Preshaw (1839 - 1890)

By: Mentor New York
  • Summary

  • An account of life on the Goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand by a Bank Official. At the present time—1888—it may appear almost impossible to many that a bank agency should have been in a tent; that bankers should have, often on foot, gone long distances to purchase gold from small storekeepers, the said gold often being carried by them on their backs, till the security (?) of some rough bush shanty had been reached; that instead of cedar counters, massive ledgers, impregnable strong-rooms, and all the appliances of modern banking, a gin case to write on, a note-book or piece of wrapping paper, and a saddle-bag should then have been considered quite the correct thing; yet that such was often the case is a fact. - Summary taken from the book by George Ogilvy Preshaw
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Episodes
  • Chapter 28
    Jul 16 2023
    15 mins
  • Chapter 27
    Jul 16 2023
    14 mins
  • Chapter 26
    Jul 16 2023
    18 mins

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