Summary

State Savings Bank of Victoria passbook for account number 89187, issued to Mr Harold K Morter and Mrs Wilma J Morter by the Hawthorn branch. Keith Morter, an employee of the State Savings Bank of Victoria, was transferred to the Hawthorn branch in 1959, where he stayed for one year. In that time he was promoted to Accountant. In the early 1960s a number of small regional branches were opened across the state, and because Keith and Wilma both came from rural Victoria, he decided to apply for a manager's position at the Meeniyan Branch. The transactions recorded in this passbook were made during the year that Keith worked in Hawthorn. It was cancelled in May 1965, the funds transferred to a new passbook issued by the Meeniyan branch.

Harold 'Keith' Morter spent his whole working life at the State Savings Bank of Victoria. Through the course of his long and successful career and subsequent retirement, Keith saved a number of mementos of the bank. Keith's collection not only provides insight into one man's working life, it also covers some important periods in Australian banking history, including the introduction of cheque accounts, the opening of small branches across the State, and the adoption of decimal currency.

Physical Description

Blue-grey cover, printed with an image of the SSBV logo: a coat of arms with a lion and unicorn. A number of pages inside, printed, with deposit and withdrawal information handwritten in ink.

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