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History of Hong Yuen Hardware

The business was founded in 1899 in Byron Street Inverell and was then comprised of various departments based around the core areas of Grocery and Crockery. The store sold everything “from a packet of needles to a bale of hay”. Harry Fay I, did not wait for business to come to him, as he travelled throughout the district in a horse drawn vehicle accepting orders. Through his devotion and hard work the business flourished and expanded along Byron Street , and later to encompass stores in the towns of Moree, Warialda, and Texas . 109 years later it is controlled by the third generation of the Fay family and still is guided by the same basic principle that “the customer is always right” …

Hong Yuen - A Century of Service

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