Shops

AUCKLAND. Smith & Caugheys, 253-261 Queen Street. Wire system installed in 1890 ("an ingenious American invention" - New Zealand Herald). Upgraded to pneumatic tube system in 1904. Retired in favour of the electronic cash register, 1975. Scoop, 3 Dec. 2001

CAMBRIDGE. Calverts (drapers and mercers), Victoria Street. Rapid Wire System. "By now [1965] the Lamson Cash Railway had become a tourist attraction." In 1985 the building was sold to the Post Office. The cash railway was acquired for Cambridge Museum in 1988. Two stations went to The Grapevine in Alpha Street. In 2003 two stations were installed in the Museum by Lamson Engineering NZ, Auckland. Cambridge Museum website.
Building dates from 1904 and shop closed 1985. Cash railway was installed ca. 1908. Now used by children's book and toy wholesalers. Annual Report of NZ Historic Places Trust, 2005. "A drapers store in Cambridge" seen in 1980 is also mentioned in the Brentford: a town to remember website.

CANTERBURY. Ballantynes. "The time when your docket and cah or the record of your account entry rattled along the Lampson [sic] tubes to the office and returned with the change". (Nzine website). The shop burned down.

CHRISTCHURCH (?). Ballantynes. "An overhead mini cable which was spring operated up until they rebuilt their premises in 1974".Posting to soc.culture.new-zealand newsgroup, 22/11/1997

CHRISTCHURCH. D.I.C. (Drapery Importing Company - now Arthur Barnetts). Wire system. Posting to soc.culture.new-zealand newsgroup, Nov. 1997

COLLINGWOOD. Foy and Gibson. "Foy and Gibson .. have an apparatus in their establishment with no less than 64 stations, and the cash run through this - chiefly in small sums - during three days of one of their fairs amounted to £10,000." Otago Witness, 16 May 1889, p.15

DUNEDIN (?) . D.I.C. (Drapery Importing Company), High Street. "Another American invention, the cash railway, has been introduced to the colony, and the D.I.C. Company has been the first to adopt it, having had a 10-station cash railway fitted up in their warehouse... A species of light aerial tramway is adopted, and small wooden cash boxes are propelled along it to and from the cashier's desk. The motive power is given by means of india-rubber springs. Slender steel wires radiate from the cashier's desk to the sales stations... An easy downward pull of a few inches upon a cord pendant from the machine puts the spring in operation and automatically releases the car... The apparatus in D.I.C's premises has been fitted up by Mr E.G.Emery. " Otago Witness, 16 May 1889, p. 15
The D.I.C. was originally formed in Dunedin by Mr B. Hallenstein in 1884 and later expanded to Christchurch and Wellington. It was bought out by Arthur Barnett in the 1980s and the site is now occupied by the Public Art Gallery. (Wikepedia article)

HAMILTON. Hamilton Hardware. "Discusses unusual overhead cash system." Hamilton Public Library Youth Oral History Colection

INVERCARGILL. H & J Smiths Ltd. Pneumatic tube system in 1950s-60s. (David Macdonald)

PALMERSTON NORTH. Collinson and Cunninghame (drapers). "By 1920 the store had its own electricity generator and a pneumatic cash system." Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Still there in 1960s. NZ Historic Places Trust Magazine, Winter 2004

TIMARU. C.F.C.A. department store. Wire system until it closed in 1984. Posting to soc.culture.new-zealand newsgroup, 22/11/1997

WANGANUI. R.H.White (drapers). "Messrs R.H.White & Co. have just introduced into Wanganui 'The Lamson Ball Cash Railway System', admittedly the commonsense cash carrier for all busy shops. The system .. consists of light hard-wood tracks graded to and from the cash desk in such a manner that hollow balls carry cash and change by rolling down hill from assistant to cashier and vice versa. The cash railway runs from room to room, around corners with the greatest ease, also from floor to floor, and carries the cash and returns change in half the time that it cn be done by hand. Those interested in such an economiser of labour should certainly pay a visit to Messrs R.H.White and Co.'s drapery establishment (opposite the new Post Office) where it can be seen in constant and rapid working order." Wanganui Herald, 16 Oct. 1902, p.3

WELLINGTON. Farmers. Cash carrier. (Gavin Sowry in posting to the Gnatterbox, 13/1/07)

WELLINGTON. Leiberziets (model trains), High Street, where Books and More are. Cash carrier. (Gavin Sowry in posting to the Gnatterbox, 13/1/07)

Museums

CAMBRIDGE. Cambridge Museum. See above. Cambridge Museum website

indicates systems which are still there (as far as I know) though they may not be working.