When the Kershaw family opened their general store in the South Wairarapa town of Martinborough in 1872, there were no such things as electricity, cars or antibiotics.
Yet 150 years later, Pain and Kershaw is still in the same family.
David Kershaw started working at the store when his father Harry asked him to help out for six months.
"I said yes, and 40 years later, I retired," he said.
David's son Conor started packing veggies at the store when he was eight years old.
"I was the only employee in the place who got to have smoko before they started work. I finished school, had a cup of tea and then started work," he said.
The store has progressed from a quintessential small-town store that stocked everything to becoming a bit more refined over the years.
"We were haberdashery, but we had shoes, lino, curtaining, we sold stocking," said Marie, who's worked at the store since the 1950s.
In the store, they also used to sell firearms and even the explosive gelignite — the last retailers in the country to do so until government regulations in 2000 halted trade.
Marie has loved working at the store.
"It's like a family," she said.
After a century and a half, P&K has been through wars, recessions, and everything else you can imagine, standing strong as an anchor of provincial New Zealand.
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