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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
Fielder, Henry
Fielder, Henry, Wholesale and Retail Manufacturing Cabinetmaker, Upholsterer, and General House Furnisher, 38, 40 and 42 Manners Street, Wellington. Telephone, 238. Bankers, Bank of Australasia. Private residence, Willis Street. Mr. Feilder established this business in 1880. The premises occupied consist of shop, showrooms and factory, which are all of iron and brick. The showrooms contain a great variety of household goods, sufficient to suit the tastes of all classes. The factory at the back is replete with machinery of all kinds needed in the business—lathes, circular, fret and band saws; planing, carving, and dove-tailing machines, etc. The motive power is obtained from a ten-horse-power steam engine. Mr. Fielder is a direct importer, from the leading London houses, of pianos, organs, English furniture, etc. In every part of Mr. Fielder's establishment there are objects of great interest, both among the imported goods and those of his own manufacture. Mr. Fielder is a native of London, but came to this Colony in 1854, arriving on his first birthday. He learned his business with his father, Mr. H. V. Fielder, of Christchurch.