Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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The Seaward Moss Post Office is conducted at the store of Mr. Thomas Hall. Woodend. In addition to his local trade, Mr. Hall delivers goods in various other parts of Southland. He was born at St. Ives, Cornwall, England, in 1867, and left for New Zealand in 1879, landing at the Bluff. At first he entered Price and Bulleid's drapery establishment in Invercargill, and went thence to Lawlor's drapery house in Dee Street, in 1881. After managing Mr. Lawlor's branch at Wyndham for some time he went to Otautau, and was in Gardiner's store there from 1885 to 1889. On coming back to Invercargill he entered the service of Mr. D. Roche for a year, and then left to take charge of his present store, then run by the New Zealand Pine Company. He took over the business himself in 1892, and has greatly extended it. Mr. Hall was married, in 1893, to a daughter of an old colonist, Mr. D. McKenzie, farmer, Seaward Moss, and has a family of two sons and two daughters.