Mr. Roadley Swanwick , who formerly carried on business as a cordial and aerated water manufacturer, in Auckland Street, Picton, was born in Picton in 1878, and loarned the trade with his father, who, upon his death, left him the whole estate, including three orchards and five houses. Mr. Swanwick is not now (1905) in business.

Brunsell, Charles Johanna, Boatbuilder and Cordial Manufacturer, York Street, Picton. Mr. Brunsell conducts an extensive trade in both departments of his business. His factory is a wooden building measuring forty-five feet, and is divided into two departments, one for boat building, and the other for the manufacture of cordials. Excellent cordials are produced, and the factory supplies the chief hotels in Picton. As a boat builder, Mr. Brunsell is one of the foremost tradesmen in the province, and builds small vessels of all classes, from oil launches to racing skiffs. Mr. Brunsell was born in the year 1871, at Stockholm, Sweden, where he was educated. He afterwards served an apprenticeship of five years in the carpentry department of the naval workshops, where he received a thorough training in building and repairing boats. Mr Brunsell then went to sea as chief carpenter on a man-of-war, and subsequently for several years occupied the same position on board large oceangoing merchant vessels. In the year 1895 he came to New Zealand and shortly afterwards settled at Picton, where for some time he was variously employed. Mr. Brunsell established the cordial department of his present business in the early part of 1903, and added boat building six months later.