Mr Frank King may (?) have worked for the Shannon Meat Company until he opened his own shop. As there is no accompanying information (especially a date and names of persons pictured) it is uncertain if any of the King family are pictured.
Information in reminiscence of Mrs Patrick (see Acc.#2003.015.0005) states: ... Mr Frank King opened his own Butchers Shop {no date given} ... thriving little business until the Depression in the mid 1920’s … moved to Hawkes Bay in 1929 …
Information in book – “From Bush & Swamp”, pages 179, states: ... a buther shop was situated on Plimmer Terrace, near the Albion Hotel … had closed down by the 1930’s … [could this have been Mr King’s shop?]
Shannon Meat Company, c.1920’s (?) 1 Colour photocopy
4 men & 3 women (woman at right is holding a baby) standing in front of shop. Man (2nd from left) could be Mr J.T. Bovis.
Information in book – “From Bush & Swamp”, pages 178 & 179, states: ... S.W. Carter began trading as Shannon Meat Company in 1896, Nathan Terrace from James Gardner’s former Butcher Shop … moved to Ballance Street (near Club Hotel) about 1900, these premises were occupied from 1902 by the Bank of New South Wales when Carter Bros. built a new shop nearby … business was sold to Fred Peach in the early 1930’s … upon his death in 1964, the business was taken over by his son, Ted Peach …
Information on page 207 & 234, indicates that Mr J.T Bovis {born 1887} moved to Shannon in 1909 and began work as secretary-accountant to Carter Bros., and in 1919 may (?) have become an owner of the Shannon Meat Company.
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Update provided by Jim Beech, November 2010:
The Fred Peach family owned and ran the Shannon Butchery for some 80 years or so. The shop was in Ballance Street, their residence was in Ballance Street East and the stock yards and abbitor for the butchery was on rural land off the east end of Ballance Street.
