SSH Notice Westpac Banking Corporation

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Disclosure of ceasing to have substantial holding
Section 279, Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
To: NZX Limited
and
To: NZME Limited
Date this disclosure made: 2 March 2017
Date last disclosure made: 11 October 2016
Date on which substantial holding ceased: 28 February 2017
Substantial product holder(s) giving disclosure
Full name(s): Westpac Banking Corporation (including the related bodies corporate specified
in the Annexure)
Summary of previous substantial holding
Class of quoted voting products: ordinary shares – security code NZM
Summary for Westpac Banking Corporation (including the related bodies corporate specified
in the Annexure)
For last disclosure,—
(a) total number held in class: 11,024,399
(b) total in class: 196,011,282
(c) total percentage held in class: 5.62%
For current holding after ceasing to have substantial holding,—
(a) total number held in class: 8,302,459
(b) total in class: 196,011,282
(c) total percentage held in class: 4.24%
Details of transactions and events giving rise to ceasing of substantial holding
Details of the transactions or other events requiring disclosure: Refer Annexure

Additional information
Address(es) of substantial product holder(s):
Westpac Banking Corporation, Level 20, Westpac Place, 275 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW
2000, Australia
Advance Asset Management Limited , Level 20, Westpac Place, 275 Kent Street, Sydney
NSW 2000
Asgard Capital Management Limited, Level 20, Westpac Place, 275 Kent Street, Sydney NSW
2000

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BT Funds Management Limited, Level 20, Westpac Place, 275 Kent Street, Sydney NSW
2000
BT Funds Management No. 2 Limited, Level 20, Westpac Place, 275 Kent Street, Sydney
NSW 2000
BT Investment Management (Fund Services) Limited, Level 14, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley
Square, Sydney NSW 2000
BT Investment Management (Institutional) Limited, Level 14, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley
Square, Sydney NSW 2000
Westpac RE Limited, Level 20, Westpac Place, 275 Kent Street, Sydney NSW 2000

Contact details:
Tim Hartin
Group Company Secretary
Phone: (+61 2) 8219 8990

Nature of connection between substantial product holders: The entities specified in the Annexure
are related bodies corporate of Westpac Banking Corporation.
Name of any other person believed to have given, or believed to be required to give, a disclosure under
the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 in relation to the financial products to which this disclosure
relates: Not applicable
Disclosure has effect for purposes of directors’ and senior managers’ disclosure: Not applicable

Certification
I, Tim Hartin, certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the information contained in this
disclosure is correct and that I am duly authorised to make this disclosure by all persons for whom it is
made.

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ANNEXURE 1
DISCLOSURE OF CEASING TO HAVE SUBSTANTIAL HOLDING
Westpac Banking Corporation and related bodies corporate
DATED 2 March 2017
Name of type of shares
NZME Limited Ordinary Shares
Percentage held
4.24%

Relevant related body corporate:
Westpac Banking Corporation
Registered holder 1: Advance Asset Management Limited
Holding 1:
1,231,849
Registered holder 2: Asgard Capital Management Limited
Holding 2:
72
Registered holder 3:
BT Funds Management Limited
Holding 3:
29,981
Registered holder 4:
BT Funds Management No. 2 Limited
Holding 4:
699,890
Registered holder 5:
BT Investment Management (Fund Services)
Limited
Holding 5:
4,070,977
Registered holder 6:
BT Investment Management (Institutional)
Limited
Holding 6:
2,268,618
Registered holder 7:
Westpac RE Limited
Holding 7:
1,072