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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Rumble, G. S.

Rumble, G. S., Butcher, Ashurst Butchery, Main Street, Ashurst. Telegraphic address, “Rumble, Ashurst.” Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, adjoining business premises. Mr. Rumble was born in Victoria, his parents arriving on the Bendigo diggings in the year 1853. He was educated at Epsom, near Bendigo, and for some time worked in the mines there. In 1878 he came to New Zealand, and the following five years were spent in Carterton, for the last twelve months of which he was in business on his own account. In 1883 he established himself as above, and has since that time made a good name for himself throughout the district. He is widely respected, and has been more than ordinarily successful as a business man. His premises are freehold, the buildings being erected by Mr. John Vile, from plans by Mr. Rumble himself. The sausage-machine is driven by a four-horsepower horizontal steam-engine. His trade extends throughout the Ashurst-Pohangina district. Mr. Rumble has a freehold receiving paddock, and also a freehold farm of some twenty-seven acres, at a distance of about two miles from Ashurst, where he grows his own horse-feed and otherwise carries on the business of a farmer. It is here that he does his slaughtering. Mr. Rumble is, at the time of writing (1895), treasurer of the local Foresters' Lodge, and holds the same honourable position in the Ashurst-Pohangina Racing Club.