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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Brown, J. T. And Son

Brown, J. T. And Son (John Thompson Brown and John Brown), Timber and Coal Merchants, 79 Colombo Street, corner of Tuam Street, Christchurch. Established in 1868 by the senior partner, the business has been conducted under its present style since 1889. Mr. Brown, who is a shipwright by trade, hails from Sunderland, and arrived in the Colony in 1858. For the first seven years of his Colonial experience, he was engaged as a shipwright at Port Levy, Banks' Peninsula, and for three years in Lyttelton. The firm is a direct importer of builders' ironmongery of all kinds, and supplies every description of building materials required by the trade. It keeps a large stock of New Zealand and foreign and Colonial timbers, coal, galvanised iron, fire-bricks, and tiles.