Street scene, Timaru, 1900-1903, Timaru, by Muir & Moodie studio. Purchased 1998 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa (PS.002141)
In 1871 the Gabites brothers took over the business of D Clarkson who operated a drapery business in an earlier building on the site. From 1888 the firm dealt exclusively in menswear and traded for over 100 years.
One landscape format black and white glass plate negative depicting an area of Timaru, including the bank. Canterbury Museum ACB246/1/2
1915 Shows Stafford Street, Timaru. Some of the buildings on the left going down are, Refreshment rooms, Ice cream parlour, Nisbet Ltd and Edwards pictures. On the corner of the right side is a tailor shop with a policeman standing on the footpath outside. A few horse drawn carts, two motor cars and some pedestrians and cyclists can be seen. In the early 1900's, ice cream was also sold, along with milkshakes, sodas, fruit drinks, fruit salads, coffee and confectionery, in American-styled ice cream parlours and "marble bars" Ref: 1/2-107025-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
Pictorial postcard of Stafford Street entitled "The Cabstand Stafford St Timaru," circa 1910. Depicts a line of horse-drawn carriages on the side of the road outside the Bank of New Zealand and the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency. In the background the Club Hotel can be seen on the corner of George and Stafford Streets and 'A Gabites' on the opposite corner. South Canterbury Museum 2006/104.114