Cuddon, William, Maltster, Miller, and Grain Merchant, Christchurch. Malthouses and Mills, Fendalton. Telephone 395; P.O. Box 278. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales. Private residence, Fendalton. This business was established in 1869 by the present proprietor, who holds ten acres of land on which the works are situated, as well as a large and convenient residence. There are two malthouses and two kilns, each of two stories, built in brick and stone. Two steeps of 45 and 30 sacks capacity are in use, and 30,000 bushels can be stored in the buildings. The output of the works is equal to 30,000 bushels per annum. The mill is a threestorey building of iron, erected on concrete foundations four feet high. Mr. Cuddon has all the necessary plant for turning out pearl barley, roasted and ground chicory, ground pepper, rice, ginger, coffee, brose-meal, peameal, patent groats, split peas, crystallized amber, and porter malts. He deals with merchants only, and his clients are found in all parts of New Zealand and Australia. Agencies are established in Wellington, Dunedin, and Auckland. Mr. William Cuddon, the proprietor, is an old Colonist, who, arrived in Lyttelton in the ship “Egmont” in 1856. He was born at Nayland, near Colchester, England, in 1835, educated at Wolverhampton and Kenny College, Richmond, Surrey, and brought up as a brewer and maltster under his father, who owned a large brewery and maltings in Suffolk. When he came to New Zealand in 1856, Mr. Cuddon brought with him the first engine and boiler imported into Canterbury, and started sawmilling in Le Bon's Bay, where he carried on the business very successfully; afterwards starting his present business. Mr. Cuddon was married in 1858 to a daughter of the late George Boggis, of Stoke by Nayland. Essex, and has three sons and seven daughters. Mrs. Cuddon died on the 24th of February, 1898.