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Press, Issue 30997, 1 March 1966, Page 7

110TH YEAR OF TRADING Minsons, Ltd., To Mark Anniversary The hardware firm of Minsons, Ltd., will next year mark the 110th anniversary of the business. Various events this year, including this supplement, will lead up to the celebrations of next year. Today the store will have on display a collection of hardware such as might have been sold in the shop last century. There is also a model kitchen of the years 1850 to 1860 which has been arranged by Mrs M. E. Orchard, the Canterbury provincial secretary of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers. An 1851 copy of the “Lyttelton Times” is included in the display. In May it is hoped to organise a display of children’s toys of about a century ago. s® ® «a In the same month the firm will take part in the Soroptomists’ Club’s competition of brides with a show of bridal wear of the 1850 s through to the Charleston period. A branch shop in Bishopdale is planned to open later this year. A history of the company is being written by Mr H. M. Minson, a director and former manager of the company. He has done extensive research on the early men in the business and the writer of this supplement has relied heavily on Mr Minson’s material.

Minsons Ltd., today, without doubt is one of the most modern stores of its "IN gpySwWfc'' kind Christchurch. An up-to-the-minute merchandising policy embracing extensive buying sources both in New Zealand and overseas, ensures that a !$• * <:* ~ L . ; | fi | |A’,~ most comprehensive range of goods is being continuously brought to the ". i B If ßwf I i public. I 1 Firt ■ The store display “ too > has peen designed on the modem “see and buy” PSBlBR;? ■£. Hl 3l * * 'll . ...' * principle to assist customers to make their purchases with ease and expediency. h' I 1 « I '* IllliB:ct■/“TJ* r /.‘lm Minsons Ltd. goes forward with pride in past achievement and continued I L 5; 14 Jl2 L ila I Li 1 v: yllllli confidence in the future. \ ‘ 1- Pn?W*j| Eff-ff'nwfl SsssS|eF J ■ □ , | . w r ~ —Hi ***l < fl I KH 7 -.4 it I ■ I'iin! J 1 J 1 _ "-" - , -> | ‘ »rMii lirrj The above is early picture the Colombo KsT nM *' mA < * WBai3l«p.l Street frontage of Minsons store taken m the 1892 •« **SSSS£3 ■ B§T ■■ ‘"'■’"■I’ s BBmZC 1 'Li2- afcaSEdmiamßi 1915 oerrod. It is interesting to note the method ' ’"WIMRBHBs hH BBS I WL of exterior display m those early days, much of 1 ; W: p e s to C k bemg spread along the window frontage *» W-_ , . J-A.-TT t ■• hung on the shop frontage ~ k_i, Sdn .■ ■■ L F" 1 ' ~ I ■ HI * 4 a this I i week !bo sure II s - ~ < z < w/ ;■ -KJl'" K* JU ML. * nostalgic ■old pieces” l j display TM Krtchew Bay of ttus display •» orr.nged by J ? ' th« Wonwi's Owtwn of FoderaMFvmn U'im || .. ~H . ... “ under tht direction •( Mrs L Ordiird. q At Left. — Above. 2 —. : A view of the present modern the Sectional of the main departments, which highlight Minsons fap -OOP * ; > 5 *ore. from a position just behmd the mam uptoda,e " see and buy ” SyS,em ° f m « rehBndisi "8 * in dows fronting Colombo Street. The departments illustrated are: (1) Kitchenware; (2) Cutlery; (3) Kitset g**' ? 6V6TVOne goes to Furniture; (4) Hardware; (5) Toys; (6) China. hi 1 1 1 Wlll L<nawffrw»fMM 746 COLOMBO STREET :: TELEPHONE 43-299 |