Gilbert, Edward Ellery, Pianoforte Importer and Repairer, Aramoho. As a tuner Mr. Gilbert established himself in Wanganui in 1880, and has for years dealt in musical instruments, but about 1894 he commenced to import pianos and organs, and has done a considerable and growing business. Mr. Gilbert drives regularly over the large and fertile districts lying between Opunake and Palmerston North, visiting the various small settlements as well as the larger places. As a tuner and repairer, his connection is very large, he having made a name for himself by his skill in those departments of his business. In 1895 Mr. Gilbert put up a suitable showroom at Aramoho on his four-acre freehold, which faces the river. The building is already too small for the requirements of his trade, and considerable additions will soon be a necessity. Country settlers find it very convenient to give Mr. Gilbert a call when passing north or south by rail, as his place is not far from the Aramoho Junction Station. Arrangements exist for regular shipments of such well-known instruments as those of Messrs. W. G. Evestaff and Sons, Cons and Cons, and J. Spencer, of London, Hirschfield, Gors and Hallman, G. Schwecten, C. Schumann, and Waldman, of Berlin, in pianos, and of the Bell Organ Company and Messrs. Wilcocks and White, in organs. Mr. Gilbert, the enterprising founder of this developing business, is a son of the late Mr. Thomas Gilbert, who came in 1851 to Nelson, where he died in 1885. Born in 1848 in Brighton, England, educated in Nelson, and apprenticed to the cabinetmaking business, he took up the musical line in Sydney, where he became expert as a repairer and tuner. In 1876 Mr. Gilbert was married to a daughter of the late Mr. C. Sampson, settler, of New Plymouth, and has three sons and three daughters.