Simms, W. H. And Sons (Henry George Simms), Commission Merchants, Manufacturers' Agents and Indentors, 141 Hereford Street, Christchurch. Telephone 800; P.O. Box 273. Bankers, Bank of Australasia. Private residence, Fendalton. The business was established in 1887 by the late Mr. W. H. Simms, and has been conducted by the present proprietor since 1892. The firm has large transactions throughout the Colony in Queensland sugars, and holds the following important sole agencies for the Colony:—Bengera Sugar Plantation, Queensland; Neumann and Hennig, Berlin, picture find room mouldings; Mauri Brothers, cork-growers, Spain; Rautenberg, Forbes and Co., Calcutta, Indian teas, cornsacks, woolpacks; Grosvenor, Chater and Co. Ltd., London, paper-makers; Felten and Guilleaume, Germany, makers of every description of wire; Walter H. Hindley and Co., exporters, London and New York; and Lipton Limited, Colombo and Calcutta, etc., etc.