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 | ||
