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Weber

East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 148, 150, 152

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Two shops and seven roomed brick villa

History: 

150 was one in from the SW corner of Powlett Street. It was a pharmacy from about 1896 to 1924. The first chemist there was Patrick McLean; he was followed about two years later by Edward Maurice Gibbs; then for about ten years from 1903 by Harry J. Massey, chemist and dentist; and finally Walter J. Williams, chemist and optician, purchased the business about 1913.

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Real estate agencies merge

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Newspaper clipping about the merger of East Melbourne real estate agency, Carmichael & Weber with Bennison Mackinnon.

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