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A staff party was put on in the tearooms by the Management, to celebrate Miss Sylvia Haycock's 50th anniversary of working for C M Ross Co. Ltd. From left: Mrs Tindall (cook); Jessie Stevenson; Mrs Wilman (tea lady); Ethel Harris; Alva Anderson; Jean Griffin; Kath Kyle; C/Flo Boyle; B Johnson; ? Dewker; Gladys Whishnowski; Lola Leighton (later Butcher). C M Ross Co. Ltd was one of the foremost department stores of Palmerston North and operated in The Square from 1883 until it was sold to Milne and Choyce in 1959.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection. A175/237 C M Ross interviews
Date
1952
Digitisation ID
2009P_DIGITALCOPY_CMROSS_2162
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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