Topic: Arawa Street
Topic type:
Business hub for Rotorua in the early years
The Post Office
The following is a list by street number of businesses and other residents of Arawa Street from the 1955 Wises Post Office Directory held on the 2nd Floor of Rotorua District Library.
Business or other ... | Old Street Number | Other Information | New Street Number |
Princes Gate Hotel | 1 | 1057 | |
Mayfair Flats | 7 | ||
RDC Staff Carpark | |||
Convention Centre | |||
NZ Broadcasting Station IYZ | 9 | 1089 | |
Fenton Street | |||
Rbt. Miller Clothier | 17 | ||
Mrs Barrowman's Tearooms | 19 | ||
Mrs Elliott's Book Exchange & Singer Sewing Machine Co. | 21 | ||
Post Office | 22 | ||
Arch Curve - Shoe Store | 25 | Freedom Carpark | |
Macks (Rotorua) Ltd | 27 | Carpark | |
Elwd. H. Crawford : Chemist | 31 | Carpark | |
Hy. Musgrave : Hairdresser | 33 | ||
Dingwall | 34a | 1106 | |
Gainsboro Shoe Salon | 37 | 1125 | |
J. H. Blencowe : Phto Stk dlr | 39 | ||
Empire Restaurant & Milk Bar | 41 | 1131 Zen Centre | |
Farmers Trading Co - Grocers | 43 | 1135 Zen Centre | |
Smith's Topper Restaurant | 45 | ||
Rest Rooms | 48 | ||
Mrs R. Solly - Bookseller | 51 | ||
Urquhart, Roe & Keane - Barristers & Solicitors | 53 | Arawa Buildings Ltd & Tutanekai Buildings Ltd | |
Arawa District Trust Board | 53 | Fenton Buildings Ltd | |
Rotorua Borough Council | 54 | Victoria Institute | |
Rotorua Public Library | 54 | Victoria Institute | |
Eric Salt - Jeweller | 55 | ||
David & Co. Fruiterer | 57 | ||
Hannah & Co. | 63 | 1135 | |
Griffiths & Partner Hairdresser | 65 | & R. Gray Billard Saloon | |
Native Land Court | 66 | 1136 | |
Jno Robinson -- Painter? | 67 | 1143 | |
Adams Bruce Bakers | 69 | 1147 | |
NZ Timber Workers -- Union | 69 | Dannefaerds Bldng Upstairs | 1155 |
H.P. Randall -- Secretary | 69 | Upstairs? | 1155 |
Mrs E. Dannefaerd -- Curio Dealer | 69 | Dannefaerds Building street lvl | 1155 |
Adams Bruce Bakers Ltd | 69 | 1155 | |
Dept Of Maori Affairs | 70 | Rotorua High & District Courthouse | |
Rehabilitation Office | 71 | Rotorua High & District Courthouse | |
O.H. Coleman's (Kusabs Building) | 75 | Cnr Arawa & Tutanekai opp Diane Dairy | |
Magistrates Court & Registrar of BDM | 76 | ||
Tutanekai Street | |||
Palace Tavern / Hotel | SW Cnr Tutanekai & Arawa Street | 1179 | |
McGill Ltd : Rotorua Wine & Spirit Merchants | 81 | 1179 | |
Mrs Lillas Richardson | 83 | ||
Salvation Army Hall | 88 | ||
Druids Hall | 90 | ||
V. J. McMasters | 92 | Palace Hotel | |
Palace Hotel | 1184-1200 | ||
Henry Chase - Taxi | 94 | ||
William J Woolliams | 96 | 1210 | |
Ern E Leaning | 98 | 1216 | |
1246 | |||
Rotorua Primary School | 1249 | ||
Amohia Street | |||
Arawa House Nurses Hostel | 110 | 1268 | |
Wltr H. Russell -- Dispenser | 114 | ||
Mrs Frncs McArthur | 116 | ||
Jno L. Coote -- Clerk | 118 |