The C M Ross Building is seen here decorated to celebrate the coronation of King George VI in 1937. The main C M Ross Co building was built in 1927 to replace the ageing buildings used previously. This building has been owned by a variety of entit...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
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
These images are part of the Frank Goldingham collection and were possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the third quarter of 1960. Selections may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives. ...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: July 1960
In 1902 the firm of Millar and Giorgi was established by Maurice Millar and Arthur Giorgi. It was the first store to specialise exclusively in men's and boy's wear. It closed c1987.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
T Warnock, William Adkin and Mrs Kelly were formerly senior staff at Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd of Wellington. They left in 1885 and set up as Drapers and Clothiers in Palmerston North. Warnock, Kelly & Adkin was located on the corner of The Square a...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of Main Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1895
[Two women are discussing the fashionable coats in a shop, with help from the shop assistant.]
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 1961
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 su...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1990 to circa 1999
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
The Nonpareil Cycle and Motor Company was originally established in Ghuznee Street, Wellington. In November 1906 this company bought out the Palmerston North firm of Clarkson and Co. in order to establish its headquarters in Palmerston North. Mes...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906
When Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Palmerston North 6-7 January 1954 a Civic Dinner, organised by the Palmerston North City Council, was held for them in the Rosco's tearooms.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: January 6, 1954
H I Christensen outside his Pohangina store. See 2007n_poh8_rtl_0854 for an earlier view of the store.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Pohangina
Date: circa 1913
The City Council bought the Arthur Barnett department store in 1992, converting it into the new City Library, which opened in 1996. The building was originally constructed as the C M Ross Co Ltd department store in 1928, and was subsequently owned...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1996
The Northern Building Society building was designed by D Taylor, and built by Bodell and Company in 1969. It is situated on the western side of the Square between the Plaza and Strand Buildings.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 12, 1969
A new City Library was opened in Palmerston North in 1996. The building was originally constructed in The Square as the C M Ross Co Ltd department store. It was subsequently owned by Milne and Choyce, DIC and Arthur Barnett. It was bought by the C...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1996
An interior view of the Jackson and Sons shop on the corner of College and Fitzherbert streets. Gordon Jackson is on the right.
Creator: Unknown
Place: College Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
An interior view of the Jackson and Sons shop on the corner of College and Fitzherbert streets.
Creator: Unknown
Place: College Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
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 Zealandia Hall site. In the 1960s the store...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Between Main Street and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1959
The C M Ross department store is seen here at night during its celebrations, which included a Jubilee sale, to mark 50 years of trading 1883-1933. C M Ross began operating as the 'Bon Marche', on this site in The Square in 1883.
Creator: J E Lewis
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1933
Watchorns was formerly on the corner of Albert St and Broadway, Palmerston North. It was founded in 1923 as a partnership and known as Watchorn and McNaught. It specialised in crockery fancy goods and house hold items.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: 162 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1937
The business, located at 162-163 The Square (between Rangitikei Street and Broadway Avenue), was founded in 1923 as Watchorn and McNaught, but was soon taken over and operated solely by Mr G Watchorn as Watchhorns Ltd.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 162 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1926
The C M Ross building on the corner of George Street and Coleman Mall, was erected 1915. The buildings either side were also constructed for CM Ross. To the left in Coleman Mall, Norfolk House was constructed in 1925, and to the right on George St...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of Coleman Place and George Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1930s
Speechley's, Corset and Hosiery Specialists, operated at 415 Main Street, Palmerston North, between c1933 - 1981. Mrs Thelma Speechley, ran the business as a drapery in the 1930s. To the left can be seen the corner of George and Main Streets.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 415 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930 to circa 1939
Furniture Services Ltd was located at 124 Rangitikei Street, with Porter Motors Ltd's temporary premises next door. Porter Motors originally traded as Fowler & Porter but separated into two entities in 1935. In 1976 the company opened a new buildi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 124 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
Campbelltown (now Rongotea) Store was a six-roomed building. Charles Dahl, owner of the store, was born in Denmark in 1856 and arrived in New Zealand in 1878. He became an affluent business man. Dahl married and had a family of five sons and two d...
Creator: Charles Mariboe
Place: Rongotea, Manawatu
Date: May 1883
In 1878 George A Green owned the land and George Frederick Roe paid the rates, on Section 676, The Square.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1877 to circa 1879
In 1927 the business on this site became the Premier Drapery Co Ltd (PDC) and in 1929 the building was renovated and extended. In 1956 it was taken over by the Manawatu Co-Op Society and renamed the Premier Department Store, although was still kno...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of Church Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1929 to 1930
In 1927 the business on this site became the Premier Drapery Co Ltd (PDC) and in 1929 the building was renovated and extended. In 1956 it was taken over by the Manawatu Co-Op Society and renamed the Premier Department Store, although was still kno...
Creator: G F Framjee
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: September 7, 1929
J Rawlins was a pastrycook and caterer, and the business was sited between Coleman Mall and Rangitikei Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Looking from a height across the statue of Peeti Te Awe Awe to eastern side of The Square. Watson Bros commenced in the early 1860s as the "Ready Money Store" which in turn was purchased by Joseph Nathan & Co Ltd. In succeeding years it became par...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 7, 1933
Watchorns Ltd, located at 162-163 The Square, was founded in 1923 as Watchorn and McNaught, but was soon taken over and operated solely by Mr G Watchorn. This view is of the houseware department. The window display features Gillette products. Watc...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1930 to 1939