Tiger Tea Shop - Koputai Manufacturing Jewellers - Sutton Brothers

World Famous in Port Chalmers and maybe a little further afield. The former Sutton Brothers premises evokes an almost hysterical level of nostalgia for some who grew up in an era when Tiger Tea was advertised upon many a grocery store via a variety or painted on murals featuring tigers.

This particular premises, by Mason and Wales, dates to 1874 and was always an institution of Port Chalmers as it was a popular grocery store, known as Suttons, then Emersons.

Now the occupant is a manufacturing jeweller who as been there since 1986.

The print is by Hamish Allan.