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Government Life office staff, 1960s

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Government Life office staff, 1960s

The addressograph machines on the right were already old technology in the 1960s, when this photo of the Government Life head office in Wellington was taken.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Reference: C. W. Vennell, Tower of Strength, 1869-1969: a centennial history of the NZ government life insurance office, Auckland: Wilson and Horton, 1969, p. 202.

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Alan Henderson, Insurance – Transforming the insurance industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24143/government-life-office-staff-1960s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Alan Henderson, published 4 March 2010.