Manawatu District Heritage Inventory HERITAGE INVENTORY FOR THE MANAWATU DISTRICT COUNCIL 2013 Contents COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS - FEILDING FORMER NZ FARMER’S MOTOR COMPANY LTD 14 Macarthur Street and 79-81 Kimbolton Road ................................................................................... 7 TERRY URQUHART LAW(FMR COLONIST’S LAND AND LOAN COMPANY) 1 MacArthur Street ............................................................................................................................... 12 FEILDING COMMUNITY CENTRE 21 Stafford Street .................................................................................................................................. 15 FEILDING TOTALISATOR 47 South Street ..................................................................................................................................... 17 FEILDING CIVIC CENTRE 84 Aorangi Street .................................................................................................................................. 22 MCKINNON’S 39-41 Fergusson Street ......................................................................................................................... 26 FORMER BNZ 52 Fergusson Street .............................................................................................................................. 29 GRACIE BUILDING (Formerly Central Hotel and other names) 57 Fergusson Street .............................................................................................................................. 33 INK DIRECT/SHOPPE 62 62 Fergusson Street .............................................................................................................................. 39 DOMINION BUILDING 71 Fergusson Street .............................................................................................................................. 41 KEITH SMITH 86 Fergusson Street .............................................................................................................................. 43 FERGUSSON BUILDINGS 93 Fergusson Street .............................................................................................................................. 46 LEADER AND WATT BUILDING 97 Fergusson Street .............................................................................................................................. 48 TURNER’S GIFTS AND LUGGAGE 101 Fergusson Street ............................................................................................................................ 50 TURNER’S GIFTS AND LUGGAGE 103 Fergusson Street ............................................................................................................................ 53 MASONIC LODGE 21 Kimbolton Road................................................................................................................................ 55 HERITAGE INVENTORY FOR THE MANAWATU DISTRICT COUNCIL 2013 FEILDING CLUB 25 Kimbolton Road................................................................................................................................ 57 THE WHITE HOUSE 33 Kimbolton Road................................................................................................................................ 60 ART CENTRE (FORMER RANGITIKEI CLUB) 35 Kimbolton Road................................................................................................................................ 64 NEW WORLD BUILDING 37-41 Kimbolton Road .......................................................................................................................... 66 SANDILAND’S BUILDING 61 Kimbolton Road................................................................................................................................ 70 JOCKEY CLUB BUILDING 71 Kimbolton Road Feilding .................................................................................................................. 72 BIN INN 85 Kimbolton Road................................................................................................................................ 75 FEILDING COURTHOUSE 91 Kimbolton Road................................................................................................................................ 77 CARTHEW’S BUILDING 1 Manchester Square ............................................................................................................................ 80 COOPER RAPLEY BUILDING 4 Manchester Square ............................................................................................................................ 82 MY FARM (FORMER NZ POST OFFICE) 8 Manchester Square ............................................................................................................................ 85 FEILDING HOTEL 9 Manchester Square ............................................................................................................................ 89 AYLMER BUILDING (FEILDING INFORMATION CENTRE/NATIONAL MP OFFICE) 10- 11 Manchester Square .................................................................................................................... 91 FEILDING SALEYARDS 42 Manchester Street ........................................................................................................................... 93 LAWRIES BUILDING 47 Manchester Street ........................................................................................................................... 98 DENBIGH HOTEL 50 Manchester Street ......................................................................................................................... 101 SPILLARD’S 52-58 Manchester Street .................................................................................................................... 104 HERITAGE INVENTORY FOR THE MANAWATU DISTRICT COUNCIL 2013 WILLIAMSON BUILDING 60-62 Manchester Street .................................................................................................................... 108 JD’s LINEN (WILLIAMS BUILDING) 68 Manchester Street ......................................................................................................................... 110 THE HAIR COMPANY 70 Manchester Street ......................................................................................................................... 112 LOTTO SHOP 72 Manchester Street ......................................................................................................................... 114 FOCAL POINT CINEMA 81 Manchester Street ......................................................................................................................... 119 ROMNEY HOUSE 22-26 Stafford Street .......................................................................................................................... 122 HERITAGE INVENTORY FOR THE MANAWATU DISTRICT COUNCIL 2013 Feilding – Commercial Buildings Buildings Commercial PAGE 6 HERITAGE INVENTORY FOR THE MANAWATU DISTRICT COUNCIL 2013 FORMER NZ FARMER’S MOTOR COMPANY LTD. 14 Macarthur Street and 79-81 Kimbolton Road Feilding – Commercial Buildings Buildings Commercial Current Owner: Robert Francis Blake Williamson PAGE Architect: Alex James (1907) & C.L. Daniel (1912) Construction date: 1907-1912 7 Visible materials: Painted cement rendered brickwork, timber joinery Architectural style: Edwardian Free Classical Use/building type: Commercial Date and compiler: Ian Bowman, Val Burr, 2012 Proposed ranking: A PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY This building consists of part of the original New Zealand Farmers’ Motor Co. Ltd. premises erected in 1907 (the former showroom and the original garage) and also the extension built in 1912 that includes the present Macarthur Street façade. It appears likely that until 2009 that this building was always associated with the motor vehicle industry. It also has an additional significance due to what is now the Motor Trade Association Inc. - now known as the ‘MTA’ - having originated within this building in 1917. The original portion of this building (fronting Kimbolton Road) is likely to have been the subject of a tender notice published in the Feilding Star in June 1907. The notice invited tenders that closed on 10th June 1907 to erect a motor garage in Kimbolton Road. The architect concerned was Alex James. The official opening of the NZ Farmers’ Motor Company Ltd.’s new premises in Kimbolton Road, Feilding, occurred on the afternoon of Saturday, 21st December 1907. The Kimbolton Road end of this building is now the Lees Family Restaurant at 79-81 Kimbolton Road. The official opening of the Manawatu & Rangitikei Motor Club’s clubrooms within the building – and the holding of the club’s AGM - also marked the event. HERITAGE INVENTORY FOR THE MANAWATU DISTRICT COUNCIL 2013 In late 1908, NZ Farmers’ Motor Company Ltd. appears to have been thriving. The Wanganui Chronicle of 12 November 1908 (p. 3) praised its achievements and the makes of cars it was Feilding – promoting, in relation to its display at the Wanganui Agricultural Show. However, by mid-April 1910, the new Feilding Motor & Engineering Works, run by Messrs E.J. Wackrill and H. Stewart, was advertising that it had taken over the business formerly carried on by NZ Farmers’ Motor Co. Ltd. Ernest John Wackrill took care of the business end of the new undertaking, while Harold Stewart, the son of early Manawatu and Wanganui civil engineer, John Tiffin Stewart, took care of the mechanical department. Stewart was described