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Farmers’ catalogue

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Farmers’ catalogue

The cover of the Farmers’ Trading Company’s 1925 catalogue featured illustrations of a farmer, a farm, a factory, and the store’s Auckland branch – encouraging readers to link the city to the country. Travel was largely expensive and impractical for rural people at the time, and many purchases were made through mail-order catalogues.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1925-cover

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Carl Walrond, Shops – Small-town and suburban shopping, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/21211/farmers-catalogue (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 6 April 2010, updated 19 February 2026.