Photograph - Attendees at Bank Officials Association Ball; St Kilda Town Hall; Melbourne; 1923; Framed photograph of men and women at the Bank Officials Association (B.O.A) Ball; held at the St Kilda town hall in Melbourne; 1923. Banking unions began emerging after the First World War; in 1918. E.C. Peverill from the National Bank of Australasia in Victoria was instrumental in establishing the Bank Officials' Association in 1919. The Bank Officials' Association was renamed the Australian