In opening this chapter recently I have been reminded of some of the social elements of those early days and I hope that many of you here will help in the coming months to paint in these aspects of the picture with anecdotes from times past.
For example, we have been reminded by the longest-serving members of staff, of the initial days when there was not one building for the Bank of Mauritius as now; the staff were scattered in as many as five different locations. In 1967 there were no computers, no electric accounting machines, no electric calculators nor even electric typewriters.