Kent, Richard, Bicycle Manufacturer, Pioneer Bicycle Works, Bedford Row and Victoria Street. Telephone 709. Bankers, Union Bank of Australia, Ltd. Private residence, Victoria Street, Mr. Kent, who founded this business in 1879, employs a large staff of skilled workmen and has most modern machinery, including a nickel-plating plant. Every machine is subjected to the severest tests before turned out. His bicycles comprise frames made of best English steel, Westwood rims, Dunlop tyres, and the smaller accessories from the world-renowned Eadie of Birmingham. Mr. Kent was born and educated at Woolwich, England, and apprenticed to the engineering trade. He arrived in Lyttelton by the ship “Merope” in 1867, and was on the engineering staff of the Government railways for fourteen years. In partnership with Mr. E. W. Cunningham he exhibited the first electric light in Canterbury. Two years later, Mr. Oates Joined Mr. Kent and commenced the manufacture of bicycles. Mr. Kent takes an active interest in cycling, football, and tennis. He is a member of the Canterbury Industrial Association and of the Christchurch Musical Union. A splendid tepid swimming-bath, fitted up with dressing-rooms and showerbaths, has been built by Mr. Kent at his private grounds which he has turned into a cycling park, in the centre of which there are two tennis-courts. The park is nicely laid out, and contains three fountains, the basins of which are stocked with gold-fish; it is a delightful place of resort and is only about a mile out of Christchurch.