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Last day of floor trading

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Last day of floor trading

In June 1991 the stock exchange shifted to computer trading.  In Wellington the day was marked by the auction of company name plates.  Here, the retiring trading floor manager, Graeme Goss, holds a plate while Dunbar Sloane auctions it off.

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David Grant, Stock market – Institutional reform and technological change, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23695/last-day-of-floor-trading (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Grant, published 4 March 2010.