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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Banking

Banking.

The Bank Of New South Wales at Naseby is situated at the corner of Ness and Leven Streets. It is a wooden building on a freehold section, and contains the banking chamber, manager's room and residence. The bank has been represented in Naseby since 1862, and the staff consists of the manager and accountant. Mr. H. A. Boddington is now (1904) manager.

Mr. E. C. Cutten.

Mr. E. C. Cutten.

Mr. John Lundon , J.P., formerly Manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Naseby, is a son of the late Mr. David Lundon, ex-collector of Customs at Wanganui and Auck page 614
Mr. J. Lundon.

Mr. J. Lundon.

land, who died on the 1st of November, 1898. He was born in 1859 at Auckland, and received his early education there, at the Thames and at Greymouth, where he entered the bank's service as a junior, in 1876. In 1878 he was transferred to Lawrence, was subsequently stationed in Dunedin, acted as accountant at Cromwell, Naseby, Dunedin and Westport, and was promoted to the managership of the Charleston branch in 1888. Three years later Mr. Lundon was transferred to the managership at Naseby. He was treasurer of the Mount Ida Curling Club, honorary secretary of the local school committee, and also a member of the committee of the Naseby Athenaeum and Maniototo Jockey Club. Mr. Lundon is now (1904), Manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Pahiatna, in the North Island.

Mr. Joseph Morton Lightfoot , formerly Manager of the Naseby branch of the Bank of New South Wales, is a son of the late Mr. W. Lightfoot, city engineer at Nelson, where he was born in 1865. He was educated at Nelson College, and joined the staff of the Bank of New South Wales in June, 1885, after having had three years' experience in the National Bank of New Zealand. Mr. Lightfoot held office as accountant New Plymouth for four years, and in 1894 went to Timaru as accountant, remaining there till March, 1898, when he was transferred to Ophir, whence he was promoted to Naseby. He has generally taken a keen interest in local clubs and societies, wherever he has been stationed. Mr. Lightfoot was married in April, 1895, to a daughter of Mr. Wilfred Rennel, Reserves Trustee of New Plymouth, and has one daughter. In 1904 Mr. Lightfoot was transferred to Carterton in the North Island.