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Farmers’ catalogue

Click through the Farmers’ Trading Company’s 1932 catalogue. A wide variety of goods – including furniture, rolls of lino, small haberdashery items, prams, tricycles and pedal cars – could be ordered from Farmers, and would be delivered ‘freight free to your nearest port or railway station’.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932

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Helen Laurenson. 'Department stores and shopping malls', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 28-Sep-11
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