OLD RESIDENT LEAVES.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 328, 8 January 1937, Page 6

OLD RESIDENT LEAVES.

Mr. R. Richardson Departs For Auckland. A residence of 30 years in Stratford will be terminated to-night when Mr. R. Richardson, of Victoria Road, will leave by the express for Auckland to rejoin Mrs. Richardson who left Stratford last month. Mr and Mrs. Richardson will live in retirement at Milford. For 27 ye:»rt Mt Richardson was farming at Victoria Road and at intervals .was engaged in the grocery trade. He was very well known as an employee of the Central! Co-op. Store, Which stood on tlhe site now occupied by the new Union Bank buildings. On his own account he was engaged in business as a storekeeper in the buildings known, as York chambers. These were erected on a portion of the land now occupied by tjie Post Office and were destroyed by fire.

Many great changes have occurred in the development of the town during thei period Mr. Richardson resided at Stratford. Now motor cars park where bullock drays used to stand. In the short stretch between Fenton Street and thei railway slation entrance in Broadway, Mr. Richardson has seen as 'many as three bullock teams lying on the roadway. In winter Broadway w’as

a soa of mud and in the sumnnier cloudy of duyt made conditions unpleasant. However, in those days iTfe was much more sterner and such difficulties were accepted as part of the daily round.