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Stock and station agents in Fairlie

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Stock and station agents in Fairlie

Wright Stephenson and Pyne Gould Guinness (PGG) both had shops in the main street of Fairlie in 1964. Three other stock and station companies also had stores in the small South Canterbury town – the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Dalgety, and the National Mortgage & Agency Co. of New Zealand (NMA).

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Hugh Stringleman, Stock and station agencies – Role in the community, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17395/stock-and-station-agents-in-fairlie (accessed 5 July 2026).

Story by Hugh Stringleman, published 1 March 2009.