This early photograph of Ferguson Street was taken between Albert Street and Victoria Street, looking towards Fitzherbert Avenue. Ferguson Street was named after Alexander Ferguson, Mayor of Palmerston North 1885-86, and a Borough Councillor 1878-1884 and 1888. A Scotsman by birth, he came to New Zealand on the 'Star of Germany and arrived in Palmerston North about 1878. He bought George Snelson's store which he ran as a grocery and hardware business in The Square. He left Palmerston North c 1888 and is thought to have 'farmed beyond Feilding', lived in Whanganui for 14 years and ended up in Tauranga, where he died in August 1931. In 1925 he presented a Mayoral Chain of office to the Borough Council.