10 Shillings Bank of Australasia

The Bank of Australasia was a British-chartered trading bank operating across Australia and New Zealand, not an Australian central institution — its notes circulated privately alongside those of rival trading banks until the Commonwealth Bank progressively squeezed out private note issue through the 1910 Australian Notes Act and subsequent legislative pressure. By 1932 the bank was operating well past the practical end of private note issuance in Australia, which had been effectively prohibited for circulation since 1910; notes of this period were transitional instruments more likely used in New Zealand branches, where the regulatory framework differed.

De La Rue's production records for the Bank of Australasia series are among the better-documented in their archive, but individual print runs for the 1930s issues were small.