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Flesh Wound

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Flesh Wound

This small body-piercing studio in upper Cuba Street, Wellington, serves a specialist demand for a mainly youthful clientele. Shops selling specialist goods or services arise in cities, as the large populations can support them.

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Carl Walrond, Shops – Drapers and haberdashers, pharmacies and confectioners, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21237/flesh-wound (accessed 4 June 2026).

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