Morris, Charles Barham , Chemist and Druggist, Waitaki Pharmacy, Thames Street, Oamaru. This business was established in 1903, and a general up-to-date stock of drugs and druggists' sundries is maintained. Mr. Morris, who is a son of Colonel Morris, a retired Indian officer, now of Dunedin, was born at tea in 1862. He was educated at the Ootacamund Grammar School, India, studied for his profession and passed his examination in Dunedin. Mr. Morris is captain of the Duntroon Rifles and Oamaru Royal Cadets, and as a Freemason, he is attached to Lodges Ngapara. No. 68, and Waitaki, No. 11, New Zealand Constitution. Mr. Morris was married, in 1885, to a daughter of Mr. George Tuke, late civil engineer, in India and has three sons and one daughter.

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Mr. C. B. Morris
(As a Volunteer officer.)

Procter, George Milton , Pharmaceutical Chemist, Medical Hall, Itchen Street, Oamaru. Telephone 37. P.O. Box 7. Bankers. Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, Wharfe Street. This business, which is one of the oldest in Oamaru, was established about 1870 by Mr. H. H. Coggins, and was subsequently conducted by Mr. J. R. Hayne till 1884, when it was bought by the present proprietor, who conducted it for some time under the style of Dodds and Co. The premises, which adjoin the Star and Garter Hotel, now consist of a stone building erected on freehold land. The shop is excellently appointed with glass show-cases and handsome mirrors, and contains a large and well-assorted stock of toilet requisites, patent medicines, and other classes of goods maintained in a first-class business. Mr. Procter is proprietor of Dr. Mantell's Cough Syrup, Dr W. R. Hayne's celebrated Indigestion Mixture, Effervescing Fruit Saline, White Pine Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil With Hypophosphites and Creasote, also Healing Oil for horses. Mr. Procter has a family and dispensing business. He was born in 1865 in Dunedin, where he was educated and commenced to gain experience in the drug business with Mr. T. M. Wilkinson, and afterwards served an apprenticeship to Mr. J. R. Hayne in Oamaru. When the latter gentleman left the business Mr. Procter became its purchaser. He is a member of the Loyal Oamaru Lodge of Oddfellows, M.U.I.O.O.F., and of Lodge Alfred, I.O.O.F., and also of Lodge Oamaru Kilwinning, No. 82, New Zealand Constitution. Mr. Procter has for many years been a director of the Oamaru Caledonian Society, and was president in 1896–7. He has long been connected with the Phœnix Bowling Club, of which he has been president, secretary, and treasurer. Mr. Procter was married in April, 1893, to the daughter of Mr. Thomas Fairley, of Oamaru.

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Mr. G. M. Procter.

Sewell, John Rule , Registered Pharmaceutical Chemist and Druggist, Thames Street, Oamaru (also by special appointment to His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand). Telephone, 52. P.O. Box, 128. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales. Private residence, Thames Street North. Mr. Sewell established his business in 1882, in a shop in Tees Street. The building now occupied is erected in Totara Tree stone, and page 529 was completed to the order of Mr. Sewell in June, 1889. It is a one-storey building with a cellar, and the ground floor is used as a shop and consulting room. The premises are handsomely finished with plateglass show cases and mirrors, and contain everything pertaining to a first-class business. Mr. Sewell's window is one of the best in New Zealand, as it is not only nicely dressed, but backed with bevelled mirrors and mirror stands. The cellar is used for storage and manufacturing purposes. Mr. Sewell is an importer of drugs and druggists' sundries, and maintains a choice selection of toilet and other accessories, as well as patent medicines He has a large number of proprietary articles, including Pulmonic cough mixture, Aperient Liver pills, Pure white oil, Hair washes, Gripe drenches, Worm powders, Horse embrocation and many other lines. Mr. Sewell was born at Portobello, near Dunedin, and was educated in Oamaru, where he served his apprenticeship with Mr. H. Hoggins. For three years prior to 1880, he acted as dispenser in the shop of Mr B. Isaacs, in Dunedin, and returned to Oamaru as dispenser to the gentleman with whom he had served his apprenticeship. He afterwards founded his own business in 1882. Mr. Sewell is a member of the Oamaru Lodge, A.O.F. He has long taken part in horse racing, always keeps three or four horses in training, and has been fairly successful in connection with the sport. Mr. Sewell is a good horseman himself. He is a member of the North Otago Jockey Club, North Otago Cycling Club, Athletic Club, Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Association, North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association and of the Waitaki Coursing Club, in which he takes a deep interest, and has acted as judge in connection with the local contests. Mr. Sewell was married, in May, 1888, to the youngest daughter of Mr. John Graham, of Dunedin.

Mr. J. R. Sewell.