SHORT LIVED.
0£ course, wlieu the new agency was opened at Chaffborough (says HSgles in Uie “ Australasian”) it was the correct thing for the branch manager to go out on the market clay and give the new business a fillip. And when most of (he local farmers were collected at the inn dinner, what so natural as that the banker should call for the nectar necessary to drink prosperity to the district and success to agriculture? And again, when the 17 farmers (who had no money) wished to propose success in further liquor to the new bank agency, the artful- foresight of that young manager became apparent. In a few minutes every farmer was furnished with a cheque book, and everyone of them was promised a trilling overdraft
just to open the account. And thus it •ame about that when the returns periodically reached the head office, they persistently displayed 17 overdrawn iccouuts of £1 each. There was never mother transaction at that agency, and writing off £l7 began and ended the banking business of the Chuffborough 'gency.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2344, 21 September 1880, Page 2
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178SHORT LIVED. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2344, 21 September 1880, Page 2
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