Para Rubber Opened – 12th September 1910
On 12 September 1910, at 175 Manchester Street, the first Para Rubber shop opened. George Waldemar Skjellerup was born in Cobden, Victoria, Australia in 1881. In 1902, just before his 21st birthday, he arrived in New Zealand and began working in Dunedin at a bicycle shop. Within a year, it was another change of scenery …
