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BANK ACCOUNT PASSBOOK IN CASE

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Overview

The passbook is a rectangular grey coloured book with two wire staples to hold the pages in place and rounded corners on the front edge opposite the binding. It has 10 pages of banking details of the Mobile Meals Development Account from 1967 to 1997. Inside the front cover are a list of services the bank runs, inside the back cover, hours of business and list of services with book no [C 235162]. The book has a plastic folder with a clear front and a blue back.
Title text in blue in front. Blue text inside a blue boarder on back cover [MANAGERS, STAFF AND AGENTS / OF THE / COMMONWEALTH SAVING BANK / ARE AT YOUR SERVICE / THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA AND / ITS TERRITORIES SURROUNDING / ISLANDS AND IN LONDON]

Historical information

Armadale Kelmscott Mobile Meals Inc ran a food delivery service in the Armadale-Kelmscott area from 1965 until 2016 when it came under the broader state Meals on Wheels network. In 2016 the food delivery service was taken over and run by the Rise Network.
Meals on Wheels started in Western Australia in the 1960s. Today the organisation delivers around 930,000 meals to about 10,000 clients in a year through Community Care Centres. The majority of clients who receive Meals on Wheels age aged between 50 and 99. Volunteers cook and deliver the food to the organisations clients.
The bank book was issued by the Armadale branch of the Commonwealth Bank.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2017.41

Item type

Documents

Themes

People
Social History

Material

Cardboard

Width

105 mm

Height or length

2 mm

Inscriptions and markings

cover [COMMONWEALTH / SAVINGS BANK / OF AUSTRALIA / DEPOSITOR'S PASSBOOK / ARMADALE / WESTERN AUSTRALIA]

Keywords

Armadale

Kelmscott

Armadale Kelmscott Mobile Meals Inc

Statement of significance

MEDIUM
The passbook was issues in 1985 by the Armadale branch of the Commonwealth Bank to the Armadale Kelmscott Mobile Meals branch who had an account with the bank.
The Armadale Kelmscott Mobile Meals started in 1965 and was a part of the Meals on Wheels network where volunteers made and delivered meals to vulnerable members of the community. The passbook represents the role volunteers and community members play in caring for vulnerable members of the community.

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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