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Kōrero: Department stores and shopping malls

Department-store barbers

Department-store barbers

Barbers get to work in Milne & Choyce department store, Auckland, in the 1940s. Barbershops were one of a range of services that department stores offered to attract customers.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau

Reference: 34-M7G

by Clifton Firth

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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/22200/department-store-barbers (accessed 5 June 2026).

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