First published 1917 by ES Cliff & Co. Ltd, 18 x 28 cm, unpaged

From the title page – As indicated in the original, this 1917 publication was published by ES Cliff & Co. Ltd to raise funds for wounded soldiers

Ninety years later “Hastings – The Hub of Hawke’s Bay” is reprinted facsimile for another worthy cause, the Cranford Hospice.

Contents – The Tomoana Freezing Works – A flourishing Hawke’s Bay stock and station agency: Williams & Kettle Limited – Wonderful progress of the nursery industry: Thomas Horton Limited – [The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd., Market Street (photos but no text)] – Meat supply and cool storage enterprise: Lowe’s Ltd., Stortford Lodge – The motor engineering industry: Davis & Boyd – Sunny Hawke’s Bay, the fruitgrowers’ paradise : how the product is handled by the Hawke’s Bay Fruit, Produce and Cool Storage Co. Ltd. – The freezing industry in Hawke’s Bay: Thomas Borthwick & Sons (Australasia) Limited – A progressive mercantile house: de Pelichet, McLeod & Co., Ltd. – The rennet and margarine industry: The Vello Company, Limited – The Hawke’s Bay Tribune : the leading provincial newspaper, the advertiser’s `gate’ to popular, prosperous Hawke’s Bay – Hydraulic and electrical engineering and plumbing: Thomas Ritchie & Co. – A high-class printing, bookbinding and stationery establishment, the pioneer photo-process house: ES Cliff & Co. – The tobacco industry: The New Zealand Tobacco Company, Ltd. Cover type Paperback ISBN 0-473-12565-3 Pages 150 Dimensions 15 x 21 cm

Chiefly illustrations, portraits Publisher Cliff Press Year published 2007 Place of publication Hastings