New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd. (Timaru Branch), Stafford Street, Timaru. Telephone 18. Agent for Timaru and district, Mr. W. J. Cotterill. All the large cargo and the principal mall and passenger boats of the New Zealand Shipping Company call at the port of Timaru. Owing to the extension of the refrigerating trade, the service has been greatly increased.

Mr. William John Cotterill, Agent for the New Zealand Shipping Company at Timaru, is a son of the late Canon Cotterill, formerly a master at Christ's College, Christchurch. He was born at the college, where also he was educated, afterwards entering the Christchurch office of the New Zealand Shipping Company, being stationed subsequently at Lyttelton and Wellington, respectively. In 1896 he was appointed to represent the company at Timaru. Mr. Cotterill has interested himself in football, and is well known as a referee, as being associated with the United Cricket Club in Christchurch, and as captain of the Timaru Club. He has played for Canterbury province in interprovincial matches for a number of years. Mr. Cotterill was married in 1892 to a daughter of the late Dr. Rouse, of Lyttelton.