CYCLOPEDIA OF NZ 1897
Wellington Province
WELLINGTON:
COOK, A. H.
Page 624
OAKLEY, RICKARD AND CHAPMAN: [Francis William Oakley, Frederick Walter
Rickard and Arthur Walter Chapman], Tailors, successors to Cook and Oakley, 227
Lambton Quay. Bankers: Bank of New South Wales. The firm claims that this business,
which was established in 1842, was the first tailor's shop in Wellington, and that Messrs.
Sloan, Poulson and Gamble, who have since been prominent tailors in the Empire City,
originally worked in the old building on the present site which was shaken down by one
of
the old-fashioned earthquakes. Mr John Cook, the founder, conducted a large business
for thirty years. From 1878 to 1888 , Mr A H Cook - afterwards senior partner of the
firm of Cook and Oakley - and his father, the son of the founder, carried on the trade.
The present proprietors have had the business since April 1895...
[The rest of the item refers to the later owners]
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