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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 691, 12 February 1881, Page 3

Kemikiscekoeb ns wbhuiumk.—ln the year 1845 a worthy citizen pioaded his way with some ailfieulty through fern and ti-treo . to Ta Aro flat being in search of the Burveyr s opeg which had been driven in at the corner of what is now Cubfv and Dixon : ' this spot was erected a small house, m which a very successful drapery business ww carried on by two ladies of remarkable, talent and energy, who lmve long since retired {rom gQenfl tl)fl j j of their births " Land o* the mountain and the flood, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. In the year 1866 it passed into the hands of . Mb Jamf.s Smith, the presont proprietor, who gave to the premises the appropriate name of Te Aro House,. and under whose management business has steadily proi gressed with the rising .fortunes of the city, l until at length it was found that a considerable enlargement was necessary, and the result was, To Aro House, as at. present, one of the most complete and Extensive • Drapery Establishments in tlie' colony ol Now Zealand. The jeneral Drapery occu- « P"s alarge space, being 49. feet by 25 feet, amply sufficient for all Manchester goods, ; 'Silfa,. / 5 T? 1 b ' TKe Aloti'fl, Boy's, and louths. Olothiiig' Department'! measures 24