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The Arthur Barnett department store, was bought by the Palmerston North City Council in 1992 and converted into the new City Library, opening 1996. The building was originally constructed as the C M Ross Co Ltd department store, in 1928. It was subsequently owned by Milne and Choyce and the DIC, before being bought by Arthur Barnett.

The King Edward VII Coronation Memorial Fountain, also known as the Coronation Monument. It was built in 1902 to mark the coronation of Edward VII. In 1925, it was combined with another feature of The Square, the concrete fish pond. The monument was moved in 2005 to the corner of The Square nearest to Broadway Avenue.

Identification

Object type
Image
Date
circa 1990 to circa 1999
Digitisation ID
2008P_PNCC-LIB_CMROSS_1652
Held In
PNCC Archives

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Taxonomy

Tags
1990s,
c m ross building,
roscos,
shop,
the square,
thematic collections,
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