The ANZ bank building was constructed in 1910 – 1911 after a smaller wooden building on the site burnt down in 1910. It was originally named “The Bank of Australasia” and then “The Union Bank of Australia”. The ANZ occupied the ground floor, leasi...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1982
Garners began in The Square, Palmerston North 7 February 1906 with a small drapery business. Three years later Miss M M Garner went into business with her brothers and they became “Garner and Garner'. In 1923 K M Garner joined the firm, later bec...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960
This register contains details of the following licenses: Goods Carts; Goods Carts Drivers; Hackney Carriages (including early motor vehicles); Hackney Carriage Drivers; Hawkers; Plumbers; Pig Owners; Drain Connectors; Chimney Sweeps; Second-hand ...
Creator: Palmerston North Borough Council, Treasurer's Department
Date: 1912 to 1921
A J Berryman purchased the music shop business of J P Leary in The Square in 1920, carrying on this business. In 1932 he purchased a section in Broadway Avenue and constructed new premises. Two years later these were enlarged to cover practically ...
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
The Bank of Australasia, constructed around 1878, was located on the corner of The Square and Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue)
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Corner of Broadway Avenue and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890 to circa 1899
A branch of John Chambers and Son was set up at 24 King Street, Palmerston North in the 1930s. The business was established in New Zealand in 1893, with the Head Office in Auckland.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: 24 King Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
Hutchins' Furniture Warehouse was established in 1919. In April 1925 the business moved into larger premises in Main Street. The photograph shows the interior of the shop.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
Henry Garner opened a drapery store in 1906 under the name ‘Kash’, with the first premises being in The Square and later, Cuba Street. In 1937 the store moved to a new building in Broadway, on the former Zelandia Hall site. In the 1960s the store...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1959
The former Manawatu Daily Times building being converted for use by the Hopwood Hardware Co. The building connected through to their premises in Main Street East. Hopwood Hardware Co. was established in 1898 by Messrs Beale and Bros and traded for...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: March 24, 1962
Henry Garner opened a drapery store in 1906 under the name ‘Kash’, with the first premises being in The Square and later, Cuba Street. In 1937 the store moved to a new building in Broadway, on the former Zelandia Hall site. In the 1960s the store...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Between Main Street and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1959
A group of men and women outside the Rongotea shop, standing, sitting in horse drawn buggies and on horseback. This shop was established by the Amesbury Brothers in the 1890s. It was taken over by John Bletchley in 1895. The front sign of the buil...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1894
Albert Cooksley Cycles, shop and workshop, was established c1910 at 3 Rangitikei Street. In the 1930s Albert Cooksley's son, L Cooksley, was also involved in the business.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
This building was situated at 11 Rangitikei Street. The National Bank first began business in Palmerston North in 1910 in a two-storeyed wooden building on this site managed by Mr Norman Blackmore. Mr Alex Grigor became manager in 1920 and this co...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
Cuba Street businesses situated between Rangitikei and Taonui Streets, from left: Dressmaker; Shuttles Electrical Service; R E Small, Stationers; Back entrance to Selwyn Motors on Rangitikei Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940
This newly constructed building was built in 1935 for Leary’s Pharmacies Ltd, to replace the original building built by Richard Leary in 1885. Richard Leary established his business in 1875 and continued in business until his death in 1901. A J G...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1935
This shop was established by the Amesbury Brothers in the 1890s. It was taken over by John Bletchley (d.1919) in 1895, who worked the store until he retired in 1914. Photograph shows Gordon Bleakley (b. 22 December 1900, d. 6 September 1981) with ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1908
W H Wilson commenced business in Palmerston North on April 4th 1922, catering solely for womens' needs by specialising in all forms of "Ladies Wear".
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
Slaters Gown Salon began business in Palmerston North in August 1931. In 1935 they moved into more spacious premises adjacent to Watchorn's in The Square, and opened branches in Wanganui, Hamilton and Wangarei
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
A building under construction in 1935 for Leary’s Pharmacies Ltd, to replace the original building built by Richard Leary in 1885. Richard Leary established his business in 1875 and continued in business until his death in 1901. A J Graham, an e...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1935
John and Thomas Watson purchased the grocery, hardware, produce and crockery departments of Palmerston North's United Farmers' Co-Operative Association in 1910, and began trading as Watson Brothers. Sometime later, before 1937, it was taken over b...
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
Schneideman and Sons Ltd, tailors of Wellington, established a branch in at 136 The Square, Palmerston North c1922.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
C M Ross (1852-1924) was born in Scotland, at Tain in Ross-shire. He worked as a draper for four years in London at Marshall and Snelgrove, before leaving for New Zealand in 1878 on the ‘Leucadia’. He was first employed in Wellington by Turnbull S...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
This bank was constructed in 1910 – 1911, as the “Bank of Australasia”, after a smaller wooden building on the site burnt down in 1910. It later became the “The Union Bank of Australia”, then the ANZ bank. In 1981 the ANZ moved and Coombe, Hughes ...
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
John Bleakley's Rongotea shop. This is not the same shop as in 2014P_IMCA-Coolstore_008422
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
This postcard shows a view of the intersection between Main Street and Broadway Avenue, in The Square, Palmerston North. Visible are: C. Smith Draper; Dresden Piano Company; E Gascoigne: Grocer, Baker, Caterer; Barry Ironmonger; F.C. Hatch Porter;...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
The Palmerston North branch of The Bank of New South Wales was established in Main Street in October of 1901. In 1914 the bank moved to th is site on Rangitikei Street.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
Palmerston North's first BNZ was situated on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square. In 1914-15 this building was built on the corner of Rangitikei Street and The Square (the site of the old Royal Hotel), on the opposite side of The Squar...
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Corner of The The Square and Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1937