280 pages. The main issue with the book is that it is riddled with foxing, else solid and unmarked. First published in November 1916; reprinted December 1916; Second edition in 1919. This copy is a third edition. F.W. Strack was the General Manager of the Primary Producer's Bank of Australia. " In the annals of Australian banking histories, one bank is rarely mentioned-The Primary Producers Bank of Australia, Limited. Operating from 1923 to 1931, it was based on European co-operative banks that serviced rural communities and was probably inspired, to some extent, by a revival of this type of banking in the United States of America in the early twentieth century. Co-operative banks took deposits from farmers and then provided rural or land credits exclusively to farmers, and this was the aim of The Primary Producers Bank...." (Peter Symes)