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Kōrero: Banking and finance

The arrival of ATMs

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The arrival of ATMs

Automatic teller machines (ATMs) first came into widespread use internationally in the 1970s. The Auckland-based Northern Building Society opened this ATM in Wellington in May 1981. Westpac introduced its first ATMs in 1982 and the National Bank in 1984.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1981/1906/20A

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

David Tripe, Banking and finance – The business of banking, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24636/the-arrival-of-atms (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Tripe, i tāngia i te 26 February 2010.