{{Short description|Building society in Perth, Western Australia}} {{Infobox company | name = Perth Building Society | industry = Financial services | founded = 1862 | defunct = 1987 | fate = Amalgamated with Hotham Permanent Building Society to form Challenge Bank | founders = George Frederick Stone, J. Bruce, W. Knight, G. P. Pownall, H. Wakefield, Joseph Thomas Reilly | area_served = Western Australia | type = Building society }} '''Perth Building Society''' was Western Australia’s first building society.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/reilly-joseph-thomas-8178|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter=Reilly, Joseph Thomas (1836–1915) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University}}</ref> It operated from 1862 to 1987, when it amalgamated with the Hotham Permanent Building Society to form Challenge Bank.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gabr.net.au/biogs/ABE0548b.htm|title = Perth Building Society - Corporate entry - Guide to Australian Business Records}}</ref>
PBS was founded by WA Attorney General George Frederick Stone, Lt. Col. J. Bruce, Adjutant General W. Knight, Rev. G.P. Pownall, Magistrate H. Wakefield<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gabr.net.au/biogs/ABE0548b.htm|title = Perth Building Society - Corporate entry - Guide to Australian Business Records}}</ref> and Joseph Thomas Reilly.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/reilly-joseph-thomas-8178|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter=Reilly, Joseph Thomas (1836–1915) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University}}</ref>
It proposed an earlier merger in 1981 with Bendigo Building Society, but Bendigo customers and shareholders opposed the move.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bendigobank.com.au/public/about_us/pdf/150th_birthday_supplement/10.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.bendigobank.com.au |access-date=30 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080805100024/http://www.bendigobank.com.au/public/about_us/pdf/150th_birthday_supplement/10.pdf |archive-date=5 August 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
Bryce Moore's history of the Perth Building Society was published in 1989.<ref>Moore, Bryce, (1989) ''A superior kind of savings bank : Perth Building Society 1862-1987''. Perth, W.A : Challenge Bank in association with Centre for Western Australian History, University of Western Australia. {{ISBN|0-7316-5292-4}} (pbk.).</ref>
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==See also== * Timeline of banking in Western Australia
Category:Former building societies of Australia Category:Banks established in 1862 Category:Organizations established in 1862 Category:Banks disestablished in 1987 Category:Organisations based in Western Australia
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