This colour photograph is of the corner of Church Street East and The Square. The large three-storey building in the centre of the photograph is the PDC building. This building was constructed 1929-1930. In 1956 the PDC was taken over by the Manawatu Co-Operative Society and renamed the Premier Department Store - the branding must have changed soon after this photograph was taken. In 1988 the company went into receivership and this building was demolished in 1990. It is now the site of the Plaza shopping mall. The white marble statue in the centre of the photograph is the Statue of Te Awe Awe, which still stands in the same location today [2016].

This photograph shows the section of the Square from the corner of Rangitikei Street to the beginning of Coleman Place. Included in the Clarendon Hotel on the corner; Lyon's Hairdresser, Tobacconist and Billiard Room; W Knox Boot Depot; J Williams Beehive Store; Boon and Cole Store and Bakery; Law Chambers; unidentified "manufacturers and confectioners" store; the Theatre Royal; unidentified building; the City Butchers; a "Working Men's Club"; and the fire station tower. The Clarendon Hotel was building in 1874. The owner and licensee was Mr James Carroll. Fire destroyed the first Clarendon Hotel on January 28, 1904. At the time the council's water supply was inadequate and shut off at night to conserve water. As a result, when the fire occurred there was no water with which to fight the blaze and a whole row of shops was lost.