Queensland National Bank building, Millchester, Queensland, ca.1873. People on the veranda of the Queensland National Bank building, Millchester, near Charters Towers. The branch operated from the 15 July, 1873 until the 14 December 1874. It reopened again as an agency for the Charters Towers branch of the Queensland National Bank Limited. Founded in 1872, the bank was established in Brisbane and soon has branches all over Queensland. In 1948, the bank was taken over by the National Bank of Australasia (with the NBA established in 1858, and in 1982 the bank merged with the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney to form National Australia Bank).