ANZ Bank, Formerly - Bank of Australasia, Corner of Spence and Lake Street, Cairns, Queensland

Bain, Jack (ca. 1956) ANZ Bank, Formerly - Bank of Australasia, Corner of Spence and Lake Street, Cairns, Queensland. [Image]

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Jack Bain worked for the Bank of Australasia and then the ANZ bank from October 1951. He worked in many branches over his career from the 1920s to his retirement in 1966. The architect of this bank building was Lange Powell. Erected in 1925/26.

Cairns is a city in Queensland, Australia on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. (Wikipedia)

Prior to British settlement, the Cairns area was inhabited by the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people, who still claim native title rights. Yidinji (also known as Yidinj, Yidiny, and Idindji) is an Indigenous Australian language whose traditional language region is within the local government area of the Cairns Region. The area in which the city is located is known in the local Yidiny language as "Gimuy", and the clan who inhabited the region before colonisation are the Gimuy-walubarra clan. (Wikipedia)