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Tellers

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Tellers

Tellers were, and still are, the bank’s ‘front line’ – the people that most customers see. They handle all regular customer transactions, though these were not as frequent in the 2000s as when this picture was taken in 1974.

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

Reference: EP/1974/4566/5

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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David Tripe, Banking and finance – Working in banks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24656/tellers (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by David Tripe, published 26 February 2010.