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Kōrero: Department stores and shopping malls

Drapery to department store

Drapery to department store

Charles Mackintosh Ross (centre, with his thumbs in his pockets) stands outside his Palmerston North drapery in 1896. Ross started the business in 1882, moving to a site in the Square the following year. For more than a century C. M. Ross was Palmerston North’s premier department store. Many department stores began as small draper’s shops like this.

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Palmerston North City Library

Reference: 2008N_Bc48_CMROSS_1949

by A. E. Hobbs

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Helen Laurenson, Department stores and shopping malls – The rise of department stores, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22193/drapery-to-department-store (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Helen Laurenson, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.