New Zealand Post Office Directory 1902 (Wise)
Archive Digital Books Australasia
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- NZ0110-1902
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Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (2306 pages)
Author: H. Wise
Year: (1902) 2008
ISBN: 9781742220901
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia
Directories are one of the most effective ways of tracing members of a family, especially tradesmen. Many small businesses needed to ensure the public was aware of their activity and one of the better ways to do this in an age before media dominated was via a directory. The value of directories as a research tool is enhanced when no census material is available.
Researchers are likely to find names and addresses listed in the following sections:
- colony-wide alphabetical directory
- town and district directories
- city street directoriesAuckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Wellington
- trades directory
Names can be found in the following sections sometimes accompanied with additional information:
- manufacturers of English goods for export to New Zealand
- banking and financebank managers
- legaljudges and magistrates, court officials, coroners, crown prosecutors, sheriffs, barristers and solicitors, Justices of the Peace
- ecclesiastical clergy
- insurance company administrators
- educational administrators, tertiary educators, head teachers, private school teachers
- medical Otago University School of Medicine, medical associations, medical practitioners, hospital administrators, dentists, chemists
- pastoral and agricultural
- municipalcounty, town and borough clerks, harbour masters, road and river boards
- government directorieselected members, ministers and government departmental administrators
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
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