Page 19 Advertisements Column 1

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22725, 11 May 1937, Page 19 (Supplement)

1937 1866... the curtain goes up ... Queen Victoria is in the twenty-ninth year of her long and successful reign . . . a sturdy pioneer spirit is manifested in the departure from Britain's shores of sailing craft on long and hazardous journeys to the outposts of the British Empire. And so, in the farthest flung Colony of all is laid the foundation of a commercial enterprise . . . which, today, seventy-one years later ... is proud to be associated with kindred peoples throughout the British Empire in the celebrations attendant upoirthe Coronation of Their Beloved Majesties . . . King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth. LONG MAY THEY REIGN i/i Mmi m M 1866 ■ m in* MSW m r 4 I Wyndham Street —the original building (still standing) in the lower portion of which the business was commenced in 1866 by the Misses M. and C. Milne. ~,, il K I k St 11 m # ! Si I II a is it?! $ I i:K Si lr - •, i m m '•V, II m m m aip iii-v w M m. SSt m Ml m i v.*,. m m : :" a il ■ m MS & ti : il W i '■ I: ® , mi m rr -s, '/ v , * -?■ m ■ • II: # 1 if* ? I t J to ~ » " : i ■!-' i i'.' aaaif rzm s ■ ■■■ 1 .r I mm i W m M %;'■ —v, p' . ~ -i ?; „ v to ? ...s . K ■ U L. inirtnOn im.naiii »| liH El V AM \ - z-r*z : n <S lj; I •m li.' i'i m i , H 4 m 'mSmmy-K -5 SsJ'4 V? 4. m il m <r ' i y- > v - II; y f .'.^.'u : !■■ Oi< Queen Street... the original building in which business tL'<2s conducted until the XV If: i vvO^ v' rebuilding operations were completed in 1922. H £ 5! • > I ii w " »< i HM i ■ " x f. ~J>- <«>. />; I, v^--^ > I«wv ■ | isl# y i>«|« WellesUv Street i a * S*3 ' i ill :. s again, in 1909, when these 8 7iV ■ 1 plilllllllll 1 ■« IR% n wik ■B 1 J_ premises were vacated for the present site in Queen Street. WIMMTA V V. gi wx< i fi ra - Bmmm &ISm 'i f f 1 * v ' iilP m n f — 'it !#x< b. •-' " .1 —v. W;''"-: !y>: ill 11^ At Right Looking up Queen Street, showing the business premises in 1880 on the corner of Wellesley Street East. i -j m I wwmm. m mm®