Perth Building Society

{{Short description|Building society in Perth, Western Australia}}

Perth Building Society was Western Australia’s first building society.{{Cite book|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110367b.htm|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter=Reilly, Joseph Thomas (1836–1915) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University}} It operated from 1862 to 1987, when it amalgamated with the Hotham Permanent Building Society to form Challenge Bank.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gabr.net.au/biogs/ABE0548b.htm|title = Perth Building Society - Corporate entry - Guide to Australian Business Records}}

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{{Cite web|url=http://www.gabr.net.au/biogs/ABE0548b.htm|title = Perth Building Society - Corporate entry - Guide to Australian Business Records}} and Joseph Thomas Reilly.{{Cite book|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110367b.htm|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter=Reilly, Joseph Thomas (1836–1915) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University}}

It proposed an earlier merger in 1981 with Bendigo Building Society, but Bendigo customers and shareholders opposed the move.{{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}}

Bryce Moore's history of the Perth Building Society was published in 1989.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.).