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Kōrero: Stock and station agencies

Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association store

Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association store

This is the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association’s grain and wool store in Heaton Street, Timaru, in 1899. The building was next to the main trunk railway line from Christchurch to Bluff – a vital link between wool and grain stores and the ports.

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PGG Wrightson

Reference: Eulla Williamson, Farmers in business, 1880-1980: one hundred years of trading by the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association Limited, Timaru and branches. Timaru:

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Hugh Stringleman, Stock and station agencies – Farmers’ co-operatives, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17387/canterbury-farmers-co-operative-association-store (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hugh Stringleman, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.

Comments

Andrew McPhedran
11 March 2022
Good to see this article as the CFCA was my first place of employment after leaving school. Very good place to work and great bunch of people. Like one big happy family.