Hannam, William, Wholesale and Retail Butcher, Revell Street, Hokitika. Branch at Greymouth. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales. This business, which was founded by the present proprietor in the year 1865, has a very extensive town and country trade. Mr. Hannam is a cash buyer of stock, and is in a position to supply goods at a most reasonable price. He enjoys the reputation of allowing nothing but the primest meats and small goods to leave his establishment. He was born in Islington, London, in 1836, and brought up to the trade of a butcher. He came out to the colonies by the ship “Donald McLean,” in 1856, and worked at his page 517 trade in Victoria for a few years. He then crossed to New Zealand, and when the West Coast gold “rush” set in he established himself in business in Hokitika. Mr. Hannam takes no part in local politics, as his business requires all his time and attention. He has a family of three sons and two daughters, and two of the former assist him in the business.

Mr. Frederick Robert Bust , formerly in business as a butcher in Revell Street, Hokitika, is a son of the late Mr. R. D. Bust, who was eredited with owning the first shop in Melbourne in the year 1849, and was born at Hull, Yorkshire, England, in 1846. He worked at his trade in Collingwood, and subsequently joined his father in business. In 1860 he was in Dunedin, and in 1867 in Auckland, where he was employed by Messrs Hellaby Bros., the leading butchers in the city. Mr. Bush then removed to the West Coast, where he did much to expose the evils arising from want of properly strict inspection of all stock slaughtered for human consumption. After leaving Hokitika, Mr Bust was in business in Vivian Street, Wellington.