New Zealand's towns overflowed with businesswomen, as this picture of Whanganui indicates. Just in the two blocks back from Taupo Quay on the river, between Market Place and Victoria Avenue, numerous businesswomen's premises can be identified. And this does not include any in Victoria Avenue itself, nor those such as the recently widowed Mrs Louisa Morris and the undertaker's daughter Miss Mary Elizabeth Bush (later Mrs T. D. Cummins) who opened a very short-lived dressmaking business somewhere in Taupo Quay in 1873. There may be even more... and I would love to hear about them. Please contact me so we can add to this picture and to the database more generally.