Gray, George Henry, Butcher, Great North Road, Auckland. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, adjoining the premises. This business, said to be one of the oldest on the Great North Road, was established about 1877, and taken over by Mr. Gray in 1892. Small goods are manufactured on the premises in an adjoining room, where salting operations are carried on. Mr. Gray was born in Great Chesterford in 1854, educated and brought up in Essex, and learned the butchery business in Derbyshire with his father-in-law. In 1883 he came to New Zealand by the ship “Aorangi,” landed at Wellington, and subsequently removed to Auckland, where he was for three years in the employment of Mr. Hume, of Queen Street. He then entered into business as a family butcher in Karangahape Road, but four years later removed to the Great North Road, where he purchased his present business.