Waiuku museum has selected items from the collection and archive available online at https://archive.org/details/waiuku-museum
Today’s featured item from this digital archive is an information leaflet by NZ Forest Products about New Zealand’s national anthem. It can be found at the link below:
https://archive.org/details/goddefendnewzealand_201911
Take a look at the other items that are also available.
If you have been enjoying the brief history series and would like more information on any of the businesses featured, let us know on e-mail waiukumuseum@gmail.com and we can send you the information.
Waiuku museum has selected items from the collection and archive available online at https://archive.org/details/waiuku-museum.
Today’s featured item from this digital archive is How to Remove Stains. It can be found at the link below:
https://archive.org/details/howtoremovestains_201911.
Take a look at the other items that are also available.
For all those that have not seen our June 2019 newsletter, which has a satirical theme, the link to download it is below.
If you would like to receive the newsletter on time, you can join the Waiuku Museum. The December 2019 Newsletter has now been released. The link to the membership application form is also below.
Waiuku museum has selected items from the collection and archive available online at https://archive.org/details/waiuku-museum
Today’s featured item from this digital archive is Auckland Souvenir Cookery Book & Housewives Guide. It can be found at the link below:
https://archive.org/details/aucklandsouvenircookerybookhousewivesguide
Take a look at the other items that are also available.
In association with the Waiuku Business Association (WBA), Waiuku Museum is doing a series of brief histories about local businesses that were once in our community. The first was published in the Waiuku Wrap on the WBA website. Go and check it out and see what is happening in Waiuku.
https://mailchi.mp/290097f68452/the-waiuku-wbda-online-wrap-first-edition-993027?e=5fdc94cc9b
So here is the brief history of the J Black Store.
Mr J Black opened a Men’s Outfitting store on the corner of Bowen & Queen Streets in 1913. It was one of two businesses that were the first in Waiuku to run on a cash for goods system, rather than a credit system that the other businesses used. It was advertised initially as a place where their varied stock was at prices ranging from 30 per cent to 50 per cent lower than the same items would cost in Auckland. It is uncertain how long the business was operating. There is a photo of the store in 1917 as part of a street scene of Waiuku.
In association with the Waiuku Business Association (WBA), Waiuku Museum is doing a series of brief histories about local businesses that were once in our community. The first was published in the Waiuku Wrap on the WBA website. Go and check it out and see what is happening in Waiuku.
https://mailchi.mp/c825ae79d483/the-waiuku-wbda-online-wrap-first-edition-978515?e=b59237d2a2
So here is the brief history of the Beehive Store.
The Beehive store run by Stephen Perrin opened in the Flexman Building, on the corner of Bowen St and Queen St, in September 1905. The Beehive store closed and Stephen Perrin declared bankrupt in 1910. At this stage the Beehive Store was run by Stephen Perrin and his business partner Mr. Baker.
About a year after the store opened Stephen Perrin was in a bus accident on 10th October 1906. The horse drawn bus fell over an embankment and between Waipipi and Waiuku. He was badly bruised and considered that he should be confined to bed for some time.
Just before his bankruptcy trial at the Supreme Court in Auckland he fell of a train carriage platform.
This photo is of the Beehive Store in 1908. The owner Stephen Perrin is holding the young child.
If you would like more information on the Beehive Store or Stephen Perrin contact Waiuku Museum on their e-mail waiukumuseum@gmail.com
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