This was the day to get a few basic things setup such as bank accounts and mobile phone numbers.

The first stop was HSBC but unfortunately we met one of those people who keep adding additional barriers, so it was not possible to setup an account at that stage.

We then made an appointment with Westpac for 2PM and then bought a couple of pre-pay sims and mobile router from Telstra.

Back to Westpac and there were no hitches in setting up the bank accounts, our kindly personal banker who was also a fellow kiwi did all the hard graft by keying in all the details and all we had to do was sign a few signatures and enter some passwords. Though this did take a couple of hours.

At the end of the day we were semi legit with bank accounts and mobile numbers.