The Bank of North Queensland was formed in 1887 in Townsville with branches in Sydney and London.
In 1893 there were branches in: Ayr, Cairns, Charters Towers, Cooktown, Herberton, Normanton, Rockhampton and Thursday Island and agencies at Mareeba, Limestone, and Muldiva. London agents, the London and Westminster Bank. [1] In 1910 it had branches in Northern, Central, and Southern Queensland, including Atherton, [2] Childers [3] and Warwick. [4] There were also branches in the New England area of New South Wales and the vicinity of Sydney, and Agencies throughout Australasia, Great Britain, America, and the East, [5]
In 1917 the Bank of North Queensland merged with The Royal Bank of Queensland to form the Bank of Queensland