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The machine age

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The machine age

Miss J. Gifford operates a cheque-calculating and sorting machine at the Bank of New South Wales in the late 1950s.

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David Tripe, Banking and finance – Working in banks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24657/the-machine-age (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by David Tripe, published 26 February 2010.