Smith, William W., Builder and Contractor, 279 St. Asaph Street, Christchurch. Mr. Smith began business as a builder in Christchurch in 1878, and during his long and successful career he has erected many public buildings and large business premises throughout Canterbury, besides additions to the Post Office in Cathedral Square. He erected the Council Chambers at Woolston, and built the Jubilee Home there, and its later additions. Four shops in the Triangle were built by him for the late Mr. William Wilson. He also built the St. Albans Wesleyan Church, and the additions to the Lincoin Agricultural College. The Metropolitan Hotel in Cashel Street he first built, and, at a later date, altered it to make it fit the purposes of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company. He also built the company's woollen mills at Kaiapoi. Messrs W. Strange and Co.'s new buildings and their Lichfield Street premises, also their factory at the corner of the South Belt and Manchester Street, were built by Mr. Smith, who also erected additions to the premises of Messrs Mason, Struthers and Co., the Excelsior Boot Factory, Tabart's Wool Stores, and cooling chambers for the Lyttelton Harbour Board, Messrs Wardell Bros.'s store and the Central Dairy Factory. Mr. Smith also built additions to the Central Dairy Factory buildings, and the municipal buildings and fire brigade station at Lyttelton. In July, 1902, the Government accepted his tender (£11,208) for building in brick, with concrete foundations, the girls' wing of the Deaf and Mute Institute at Sumner. Mr Smith is a native of Glasgow, Scotland. He served a five years' apprenticeship with Messrs Allan and Mann, a large firm of builders and contractors and brickmakers. Mr. Smith then went to the United States of America, but returned to Glasgow, where he remained eight years before leaving for New Zealand.