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BankingMr. FREDERICK ORLANDO BRIDGEMAN BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, corner of Princes and Rattray Streets, Dunedin. The Dunedin branch of the Bank of New Zealand was one of the earliest in the history of the bank. Originally, it occupied a site in Rattray Street, where it was established in 1861. The present site has been occupied by the bank since 1863. and the imposing building now erected thereon is one of the finest in the mercantile quarters of the city. It has five floors, including the basement, and was finished in 1883. On the ground floor is the magnificent banking chamber, together with the offices of the manager, assistant manager, and accountant. On the first floor is the inspectors’ room, clerks’ offices, and stationery room. The manager’s residence occupies the second floor, and the messengers’ quarters are located on the upper story and basement. A staff of forty-five officials is employed in connection with the bank’s branches in Dunedin. Mr. ALEXANDER MICHIE, Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin, has had a large experience in banking pursuits, and is recognised as a very able financier. He was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1855, and commenced his banking career in England on the staff of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, and afterwards became accountant at the head office in London of the National Bank of New Zealand. After arriving in the Colony in 1884, Mr. Michie held the position of inspector for the same institution, and was subsequently appointed manager of the Dunedin branch of the bank. He joined the Bank of New Zealand in Dunedin as manager in 1891. Two years later, Mr. Michie paid a visit to Great Britain, and on his return to the Colony was offered the position of general manager of the Bank, which however he did not see his way to accept. In social life he is a member of the Fernhill club, and is keenly interested in golfing, being a member of the Otago golf club. Mr. Michie was married in Timaru to a daughter of the late Mr. H. J. LeCren of that district, and has three surviving children.
Mr. FREDERICK ORLANDO BRIDGEMAN, Assistant Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, was born In Devonshire in 1849. and was educated at the Tavistock Grammar School and by private tutors. Mr. Bridgeman commenced his banking career as a junior in 1867 in the West of England and South Wales District Bank, at Bristol. He joined the Oriental Banking Corporation in London in 1870, and went out to the East in 1873, serving eleven years in India and Ceylon. On the failure of the Oriental Bank. Mr. Bridgeman joined the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, taking up his duties in Dunedin in 1884 as assistant inspector. He was afterwards manager of the branch at Timaru, and left the service in 1888, having accepted the position of general manager of the Kauri Timber Company in Auckland. Five years later, Mr. Bridgeman joined the Bank of New Zealand as agent in Tauranga. and was transferred in 1895 to Dunedin as assistant manager. Mr. Bridgeman was married in 1886 to a daughter of Mr. P. C. Neill, of Dunedin, and has four sons. Mr. CECIL BAYLY PIKE, Accountant of Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin, was born in 1861, and joined the bank at Outram as a junior in 1875. Three years later Mr. Pike was transferred to the Dunedin branch, has passed through the various grades of the service, and was promoted to the position he now holds in 1891.
Mr. WILLIAM EDWARD McADAM, Gold Clerk and Assayer at the Bank of New Zealand. Dunedin. was born in 1843. at Hereford. England, and was educated principally at King’s College, London. Mr. McAdam is a great-grandson of the celebrated McAdam. inventor of the system of road-making known by that name. Since 1892 he has been life-owner of the estate of Ballochmorrie, in South Ayrshire. Mr. McAdam came ‘to New Zealand via Melbourne in 1862, in company with an uncle who bad a large property in Southland. After a short experience in the Colony, Mr. McAdam went to India, where he remained for one year, then returned to England to study at the Royal School of Mines in London. He settled in Dunedin in 1874, joining the Bank of New Zealand as gold clerk and assayer. He is a member of the Anderson’s Bay school committee, of which he has been treasurer for some time; he is also treasurer of St. Michael’s church, Anderson’s Bay. He was married in 1878 to a daughter of Mr. T. Whiting, of Gloucester, England, and has thirteen surviving children —seven sons and six daughters.
Mr. WILLIAM BROWN VIGERS, who has been engaged in banking in New Zealand for seventeen years, holds office as Liquidator of the Colonial Bank. He was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, in 1858, and was educated at local schools. He joined the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, in which he remained for over six years and gained his first banking experience. Mr. Vigers came to Lyttelton in 1880 per s.s. “Durham,” and after a short sojourn in the north of Auckland, was appointed accountant in the Colonial Bank, Cambridge, Waikato. Eighteen mouths later he was transferred to Gore, and after filling many positions in the bank’s service, was appointed manager of the Dunedin branch in 1890. Four years later, on the retirement of Mr. Watson, be was appointed inspector, which office he held until his appointment as liquidator. He is a partner in the Otago Malting Company, which is referred to elsewhere in these pages. Mr. Vigers is unmarried. |
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