The Maungatautari Bank was one of several set up by Māori in the decades after the New Zealand Wars to handle the money they were receiving from land sales.
Banking
Events In History
5 June 1847
The New Zealand Banking Company, Auckland’s first bank, had been wound up two years earlier.
Main image: BNZ Façade
The facade on Auckland's Queen Street is all that survives of one of New Zealand's most important early banks.
