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Kōrero: Department stores and shopping malls

Fabric department

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Fabric department

The fabric department was a colourful section of the Smith & Caughey store in Auckland. Department stores were divided into sections (departments) selling different types of goods, with the most popular and enticing departments on the ground floor.

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Smith & Caughey's

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Helen Laurenson, Department stores and shopping malls – The heyday of department stores, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22198/fabric-department (accessed 5 June 2026).

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