Henderson, Frank and Co., Limited, Engineers, Manufacturers of Gas, Oil, and Marine Oil Engines, Oil and Gas Winches, Stamping and Hydraulic Presses, Dynamos, and Motors, Customs Street West, Auckland. Managing Director, Mr Frank Henderson; secretary, Mr William Murray. This firm's workshops have a frontage to Customs Street West, and extend to the Waitemata harbour at the back, where engines can be most conveniently fitted into the steam launches. The shops are furnished with machinery, specially manufactured in England to the order of the company. It comprises pattern workers' machinery, large lathes, drilling and slotting machines, planing and shaping machines, and is driven by a powerful gas engine manufactured by the firm. Oil and gas engines are designed and manufactured, and the firm's reputation for this class of work is such that considerable difficulty is experienced in carrying out its numerous orders. The firm supplies designs and estimates for any style of steam launch engines.