- Source: Australian Joint Stock Bank
The Australian Joint Stock Bank was a bank in Australia. It operated from 1852 to 1910, after which it became the Australian Bank of Commerce and then was taken over by the Bank of New South Wales in 1931.
History
The Australian Joint Stock Bank was created in 1852 by an Act of the New South Wales Parliament. It issued its first banknotes in 1862.
In 1910, the Australian Bank of Commerce was registered in New South Wales under the Joint Stock Companies Act to take over the Australian Joint Stock Bank. In 1917 it acquired the City Bank of Sydney.
In 1931, the Bank of New South Wales (now Westpac) acquired the Australian Bank of Commerce.
Heritage buildings
Some of the former bank's buildings are now heritage-listed, including:
Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Maryborough
Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Townsville
Gympie Stock Exchange (originally built for the Australian Joint Stock Bank)
Commonwealth Bank Building, Mackay (originally built for the Australian Joint Stock Bank)
References
External links
Media related to Australian Joint Stock Bank at Wikimedia Commons
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- Australian Joint Stock Bank
- Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Townsville
- Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Maryborough
- Gympie Stock Exchange
- Australian Bank of Commerce, Charters Towers
- Commonwealth Bank Building, Mackay
- Joint-stock company
- Townsville
- Francis Drummond Greville Stanley
- Commonwealth Bank
