FEILDINQ IN 1875.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 728, 29 January 1910, Page 12

FEILDINQ IN 1875.

• A VIEW OF THE SQXTAEB. j We reproduce on this page an .old-time photograph of- a portion of. the Square, Peilding,;; ■ taken thirty-five : • years ■ ago, from a. Bpot 1 near, the present location of 1 the;, Bank ■ of.'; New.. South'. Wales, : Man-. Chester Street . The foreground, .with its recumbent logs,:,and swampy : 'snibble and flux, plainly denotes: the roughness of the area in -those days. 1 In' the background,. .counting from the left, the double-chimneyed dwelling' VTts the offices

of/ the Manchester -Corporation./ The 'gen- ; eralistore./'was ?that' alsb'/owned'.;bf .-the ,cprpprbtion,'. and.--it':-was- herb'<;thb emigfanfa ..prooured their 'supplies.'/ It is/.in-, teresting: to "'note ■ that ■ this'-store-still exists -opposite; .the Manchester Hotel, arid js : ;obcupied..'by Mr.'C.'' Jacobspri,'-'iron-monger ... and' /tinsmith. •..' Farther" i along, just. past. the : store,, was the - residence : of Mr.VMnesmorb,.'who -managed/ the;business, for the-corporation. /Aniold resident, -stated that ,:the. fourths house, was Whisker's butcher's shbp.'/b'ut.iti.is. now. understood that the building was: that occupied.by, Mr. Douglas Hastings Mac-

arthur,; who. succeeded. Mr,. Halcombo . as Corporation -'■ superintendent,. and who later Vwas'Feilding's first Mayor, andalsp represented the Rangitikei district in ;two-"'Parliaments.. Mr, Macarthur died in'..Feilding;.in : 1892,- Messrs. Barr raud and Abraham's store and'offices'now occupy the site of his old residence. The fifth house: was Mr. G. Fowld's twostoried ,place,"while the big/two-storied

building on the right was the Denbigh Hotel, named after the Earl of Denbigh, brother; to Colonel Feilding, The Vshaped edifice opposite'was owned by a Mr. Wright. Tho little square packingcase immediately en the right' was the Bank pf Australasia. The Ban.k pf New Seuth Wales, the Bank ef Australasia, and Mr, Peter Thompson's shop now oocupy the spaces taken up in the' photograph by the logs, while a portion pf the unsightly bush patch: opposite ,is now taken up by Mr. John Cobbe's big de-

partment store. So far no pld resident has been able to name the, occupants of the horse and cart, or 'its: owner.'-,-