The Bank Of New South Wales has been represented in Timaru since October, 1876. Its local business is conducted in a two-storey stone and brick building, which was completed in 1885. Six officers are stationed at Timaru.

Mr. Robert C. Tennent, Manager of the Timaru branch of the Bank of New South Wales, was born, in 1849, at Rio de Janiero. In 1864 he arrived in New Zealand, and entered the service of the Bank in the following year. Mr. Tennent was appointed to his page 992 present position in 1896. He was married, in 1874, to a daughter of Dr Boor, late of Nelson, and has six sons and four daughters.

The Union Bank Of Australia, Limited, has been represented in Timaru since 1867. The first building used by the bank was a small wooden one, which occupied the site of the office of the “Evening Post” in Stafford Street. Its present premises, which are in stone, and two stories in height, were completed in 1876. The staff of the Timaru branch consists of the manager and six officers.

Mr. Cecil Frederick Maurice Wroughton, Manager of the Union Bank at Timaru, was born in 1859, in India. He was educated in Nelson and Christchurch, and entered the service of the Union Bank in 1875. Mr. Wroughton was married, in April, 1891, to a daughter of the late Hon. A. de Bathe Brandon, of Wellington, and has one son and one daughter.

The Bank Of New Zealand at Timaru is centrally situated in Stafford Street. It is a two-storey grey stone building, and contains, besides the banking premises, the manager's residence. Eight officers are employed in connection with the branch, which is one of the Bank's principal offices, outside the four centres, and has clients throughout the surrounding districts, and as far back as the Mackenzie Country. The Bank of New Zealand was one of the first banking institutions represented in South Canterbury.

Mr. Arthur Pennefather Green has been manager of the Timaru branch of the Bank of New Zealand since September, 1902. He joined the service in 1875 at Picton, where he was stationed for eighteen months; he was also three years at Nelson, five years at Wellington, three years at Blenheim, and was manager at Reefton for three years. Mr. Green was transferred in 1830 to Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, which he left in 1894, to take charge at Gore, whence he moved to Blenheim in 1897. He was transferred to Oamaru in 1900 and to Timaru in 1902. Mr. Green was born in Victoria, and came to New Zealand when a youth.

Mr. A. P. Green.

The South Canterbury Branch Of The National Bank Of New Zealand, Limited, has been represented at Timaru since 1875, and the building it occupies was erected about 1882. It contains a banking chamber, the manager's office, stationery and strong rooms, besides three room on the first floor used for residential purposes by some of the staff. The nearest branch of the same bank to the north, is at Christchurch, and to the south, at Oamaru. There are five on the staff, in addition to the manager.

Mr. Alexander Ferrier Hamilton, Manager of the National Bank at Timaru, was born in Edinburgh, on the 27th of November, 1850. He was educated in his native city, and entered the service of the Royal Bank of Scotland at the age of seventeen. For four years afterwards he had experience in Edinburgh in a legal and chartered accountant's offices, where he practically qualified as an actuary, and then joined the staff of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in London. In 1873 Mr. Hamilton came to New Zealand as a member of the staff of the National Bank sent out to open the bank in the colony. Before becoming manager at Napier he was for a time accountant in the inspector's office in Wellington, and subsequently in Christchurch. Later on he became assistant manager at Dunedin, and was afterwards in charge of the Nelson branch, until he received his present appointment in 1892. Since his residence in Timaru Mr. Hamilton has taken a warm interest in agricultural and pastoral matters, and was instrumental in starting the local golf club. He was married, in 1887, to a daughter of the late Mr. James Renwick, a sheepfarmer of the south of Scotland, and niece of the late Hon. Dr Renwick, M.L.C., a large runholder in Marlborough.