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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Lawrence And Kircher

Lawrence And Kircher (George Kent Fisher Lawrence and Henry Williams Kircher), Furnishing Warehousemen, 182 and 184 High Street, Christchurch. Bankers, Union Bank of Australia. Private residences: Mr. Lawrence, New Brighton; Mr. Kircher, 117 Cashel Street, Linwood. The business conducted by this well-known firm was founded by the senior partner in 1893. The premises, which are centrally situated in a brick building of two stories in High Street, one of the busiest streets of the city, have a floor space of nearly 6000 square feet. Messrs Lawrence and Kircher are direct importers of iron bedsteads, over-mantels, and other goods, and manufacture the larger proportion of the furniture with which their handsome show-rooms are tastefully stocked. The fine plate glass windows disclose a magnificent display of cabinet ware and dining and drawing-room suites. The senior partner, who hails from London, arrived in the Colony with his parents in the ship “Balaclava” in 1863. He was apprenticed to Mr. A. J. White in Christchurch, and after completing his apprenticeship was employed as a journeyman until he established the present business. It may be remarked that the drawing-room suite which took the first prize at the Christchurch Exhibition of 1882 was entirely his work.