BANKS AND HOLIDAYS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 538, 8 June 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)

BANKS AND HOLIDAYS

That the banking institutions of this Dominion have more holidays in the year than any other business will be generally acknowledged. Sometimes it happens shat they are closed for four days in succession, as was the case in Paeroa recently. Some of the days on which the banks deem fit to bar their doors are quite unknown to some business men, but the heads of (Uiese money institutions do not seem to care what inconvenience they cause their customers. It is true they post a notice on, or near, their main entrance, but the said notice is probably only observed by a very few of the patrons who happen to pass by and see it. It seems very evident that bank authorities do not care a " Twopenny top " their customers' business, or they would notify through the papers their intention of closing. By adopting these means business people and others would be informed of the closing days, and thus a deal of inconvenience and annoyance would be obviated. The Te Aroha News, speaking of ithe inconvenience caused i to business men of its tof by the banks not advertising their closing days, says: Surely the banking institutions are wealthy enough to spend a few shillings in advertising more prominently the intention to close their premises! Last Saturday quite a number of employers sent along to the banks to secure cash with which to pay wages, only to find there was "nothing doing. The employees were, as a result, greatly inconvenienced. The banks certainly posted a notice in thein windows. The biggest banking institution in the town had a notice in a position where it would be seen by only about six or eight of its regular customers, for the notice was beyond the main entrance and farthest from the business portion of the town. We hope the powers that be will in future be a little more considerate to clients.