QUIZ: Business by cclstaffMay 1, 2024 Quiz: Business It's all business for the Ōtautahi Christchurch Quiz this month! What product was Edwin Trent the first person in Australasia to grow, becoming a big industry in Ōtautahi Christchurch in the 1870s? Barley Chicory Potatoes Wheat By 1912 how many tins of Baking Powder had been sold by Edmonds in Aotearoa New Zealand? 50,000 1 million 200,000 750,000 If you were looking in the Wises Post Office Directory 1938 for ‘Smiths, Blacksmiths and Farriers’ which other category would you be directed to look in: Wheelwrights Saddlers & Saddlers’ ironmongers Motor body builders’ & Upholsterers Merchants Ōtautahi Christchurch is an agricultural business centre for the South Island. When did Pyne Gould Guinness (established in 1851) and Wrightson (established in 1868) merge to form PGG Wrightson? 2005 1999 1938 1962 When did Nurse Sybilla Emily Maude begin district nursing services in Ōtautahi Christchurch? 1900 1896 1880 1920 Which suburb had the monopoly on Saturday shopping in the 1960s and 1970s? New Brighton Papanui Sumner Lyttelton Woolston, positioned near the river and the railway, became a prominent industrial area in Ōtautahi Christchurch with many wool scourers and tanneries setting up in the 1870s and 1880s. The largest, owned by Gustav Lindstrom became known as? Garlands Rd Tannery The Tannery Christchurch Leather The Works Which store in Ōtautahi Christchurch, that opened in 1929, had the advertising slogan ‘the friendly store where everything is different!’ Hays Ltd Armstrong and Co Briscoes & Co Millers The Millers Building in Tuam St was built in the Bauhaus style and completed in 1939. It was the first building in the South Island to have? A mezzanine floor An observatory An escalator A cafeteria Local company Lane Walker Rudkin produced which brand of clothing? Style Canterbury Swanndri Rodd & Gunn PhoneThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Find out more Local history resources focusing on organisations and businesses Business resources at the Library Add a comment
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