Mason Struthers & Company

Date: 1939

Reference: Eph-D-RETAIL-1939-01

Description: One side advertises and illustrates golf clubs, badminton rackets, footballs, golf bags and balls, putting equipment, torches, light bulbs, Hotdogge heaters, wire strainers (for fences), rabbit traps, lanterns, paint, clocks, knives and sharpeners, a life-size ceramic spaniel dog, Quikboil stove, aluminium steamers, kitchen grinding mill, the Imp soot destroyer. The other side illustrates and advertises woodworking tools, saws, shotgun, brooms, saucepans, knives, pesticides (squilltox, borers, ants, flies, fleas, silverfish, cabbage moth, white butterfly, moths), Phoenix improved oven glass. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on pink paper.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on two sides of poster, 445 x 580 mm.

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2148-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Taupo Quay, Victoria Avenue corner in Wanganui. Tramlines run from left and up Victoria Avenue into the distance. Foster's Hotel is on the right-hand corner and Mason Struthers & Co (Ironmongers, importers of British & American hardware) is on the opposite corner left centre. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Taupo Quay and The Avenue, Wanganui. N.Z. 28.7.23" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.3 cm

Date: 1930 - 1979

From: Miller, Adam, 1960-: Collection of New Zealand sound recordings and record sleeves

Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-Miller-J/M

Description: Includes sleeves for the following firms: W L Jenness, gramophone, piano and music dealer, Lower Hutt, Wellington. The big three: Brinsmead, HMV, Gulbransen (2 copies) K...'s, 223 Upper [Symon]ds? St., gramophone and record specialists. [Printed by] J E Jenkins & Co., printers, Auckland 33474. La Gloria Gramophones Ltd., 167 Cuba Street Wellington. The new La Gloria, the best toned gramophone in the world. Lamb's, HMV sales and services, 10 Moxham Avenue, Hataitai T G Liddington, High Street, Hawera (2 copies, slightly variant) Lockyer's, Emerson [Street] Napier, your leading music store Raymond Lusk & Co., 30 Irk Street, Gore. The world's finest music on His Master's Voice, Columbia, Parlophone, Regal Zonophone, M.G.M., Decca, London, Vogue, Beltona, Brunswick McCracken & Walls, 17 George Street, Dunedin. Gramophones His Master's Voice; records: His Master's Voice, Zonophone, Columbia, Regal McKenzies [Department store] (2 different) McKenzie & Willis Ltd. Record Rendezvous, ground floor, for all the latest recordings. Mason Struthers, Lichfield and Colombo Streets, Christchurch. The world's finest music on His Master's Voice, Columbia, Parlophone, Regal Zonophone, M.G.M., Decca, London, Vogue, Beltona, Brunswick Melrose's, 463 Colombo Street, Sydenham. New process Columbia Records Mercury; music for every mood. Sole NZ distributors Westco Distributors Ltd, Auckland; manufactured under license by Sound Reproductions Ltd, Pacific Buildings, Wellesley Street, Auckland, C.1. Max Mills Limited, cr. Oram Ave & Beresford St., telephone 68-751 New Brighton. Distributors of Prestcold Refrigerators, Easyway washing machines; stockists of radios, records and home appliances. [Printed by] Somerset Printing Company Limited, 153 Hereford Street, Christchurch - 3369. Milne & Choyce. Moar’s HMV Sales & Service, 131 Jackson Street Petone Moderne Electrical Co., 163 The Parade, Island Bay. The world's finest music on His Master's Voice, Columbia, Parlophone, Regal Zonophone, M.G.M., Decca, London, Vogue, Beltona, Brunswick Mores. K More & Co Ltd, gramophone and record specialists, 133 Manchester St, Christchurch. Rexonola no. 7; His Master's Voice (2 copies) Mores. K More & Co Ltd, gramophone and record specialists, 133 Manchester St, Christchurch, and at 134 Burnett Street Ashburton. Columbia portable; Rexonola no. 25 (2 copies) C Morrison records and books, Dunedin Music Shop, 323 Karangahape Road, Newton. Gramophones and all latest records, stationery and toys. [Printed by] Newmarket Printing House Ltd. MTA; Music Trades Association. [1960s?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset and relief prints on record sleeves, sizes ranging up to 400 mm.

Date: 1935

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-RETAIL-1935-01

Description: One side advertises "His Master's Voice" radios and radiogramophones, and "Kohynor Limbershafts" golf clubs. The other side advertises a range of English crystal, "Judge" brand British enamelware, electric cookers, toasters and heaters, cooking utensils, horse covers, Amner's garden lime, gorse knives. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on red paper.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on two sides of poster, 445 x 565 mm.

Date: 1932, 1934-1957

From: New Zealand Truth : Files of the Financial Editor

Reference: MS-Papers-1188-202

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1908 - 1909

From: The New Zealand dairyfarmers' account book including cash book, journal, and instructions in book-keeping specially adapted to their requirements. Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin N.Z.; Melbourne and London, Whitcombe and Tombs Limited [ca 1909].

Reference: Eph-B-DAIRY-INDUSTRY-1909-01-iii

Description: Advertisement for the Alfa-Laval cream separator shows at the top of the page a photograph of four cows in a paddock. Text elaborates on the merits of the Alfa-Laval separator and reproduces a testimonial letter from F R Cameron of Greenmeadows, dated 3rd March 1909. The sole New Zealand agent, Mason Struthers, has its head office in Christchurch and branches in Palmerston North, Auckland, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill. Extended Title - From New Zealand dairyfarmers' account book, 1909, preliminary page iii. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page, 330 x 210 mm.