James Thomas Hall

Hall, James Thomas Grocer, 11 Riddiford Street (corner of Green Street), Wellington. Telephone 497. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. This business was established in 1895. Mr. Hall got his experience with Mr. C. Hudson, of Port Chalmers, Messrs. Eather and Lows, Dunedin, the Co-Operative Society, Cuba Street, Mr. G. E. Jansen, and Mr. A. Smith, of Wellington. His premises are large and convenient, and afford about 200 feet floorage space. Mr. Hall has several specialties —Hall's beef ham, cured by himself, and Hall's butter, which is packed up to his order in Palmerston, and gives general satisfaction. His regular shipments of Invercargill cured hams and bacon find a ready sale. Hall's lifeboat teas are much appreciated. The business is steadily increasing in volume as customers and their wants are well and promptly supplied.

James Hall may have come to NZ from Australia on the SS Otago in July 1867 with a Mrs Hall aged 24, not his mother.