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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Lees, Thomas, and Sons

Lees, Thomas, and Sons, General Storekeepers, Gum and Produce Merchants, Family Butchers and Bakers, Wade. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand, Auckland. Telegraphic address, “Lees, Wade.” This firm was established in 1883 by Mr. Thomas Lees, the senior partner, and the business assumed such proportions that they found it necessary to extend their operations as universal providers and caterers. Each department is under separate management and contains complete stocks of every class of merchandise procurable in the Colony, at prices which compare favourably with those ruling in larger cities. A reading-room is attached to the premises for the use of the surrounding settlers, and is furnished with a good supply of English and Colonial periodicals. The Wade Accommodation House, also the property of Messrs. Lees and Sons, is fitted up with all the comforts of a home and has an excellent table. Mr. Thomas Lees, the senior partner of the firm, was born in Worcestershire in 1839. and brought up to the gunsmiths' trade in Birmingham. After a few months' experience in Canada, he arrived in Auckland per ship “John Duncan” in 1865. Mr. Lees was engaged in store-keeping in Auckland for a time and in Waikato for two years. In 1870, he took up his residence in the Wade district, where he has a farm of 200 acres, a few miles from the township, and has cultivated it for the last eighteen years, giving special attention to fruitgrowing, the soil being found very suitable.

Mr. T. Lees.

Mr. T. Lees.