Potter & Son (Thomas Potter), 213, Lambton Quay. Telephone No. 111; Bankers, Bank of Australasia. The business now carried on under the style of Potter and Son, boot importers, &c., was established in 1883 by Mr. J. E. Potter, brother of the present proprietor. It was then wholesale and retail, but on the retirement of the founder the branches were separated, and Mr. Thomas Potter bought the retail branch, and has during the last five years carried it on with considerable success. For a good deal of that time Mr. J. H. Farquhar was a partner. Mr. Potter, who is a native of Kent, was for some years in business in Peckham, London, but left there to come to this colony in 1885. He is a well-liked and widely-respected tradesman, thoroughly attentive to his business, and patient and obliging with customers. The premises are of two stories and commodious, as shown by the illustrations. The ladies' department is under able management, the principal lady assistant having been with the firm over eight years. Altogether, Messrs. Potter and Son's is a favourite shoe store, and it is admirably situated for a high-class trade, being just opposite the Government Buildings, quite bandy to Government House and the Houses of Parliament, and the first boot shop on “the Quay” as entered from the Thorndon end. The imports of the firm, which include every requirement of the trade, are mainly purchased from Flatau and Co., London; Cave and West and Pollard and Co., of Northampton; Bostock and Co. and Edwin Bostock of Staffordshire; Howlett and White, of Norwich; Stead and Simpson, of Leicester; Pinet, of Paris, and Otto Herz, of Frankfort. The several brands of these well-known houses give an excellent variety, from which the most fastidious may page 700 be well served. Those customers who patriotically, and perhaps wisely, prefer colonial goods have also a splendid assortment from which to choose. The New Zealand lines are principally manufactured by the Southern Boot and Shoe Company, of Wellington, and of these Messrs. Potter and Son speak in the highest terms of praise.