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R.S. McKenzie & J. Willis Form Historic Partnership – 1906
McKenzie & Willis, the South Island’s leading home furnishing retailer, began as a house and land agency that also dabbled in auctioning of second-hand furniture as a side business. They took up the first floor of the one year old Royal Exchange Building (now demolished but was located at the western cnr of Cathedral Square and …