Holmes Brothers (Ernest M. Holmes and Henry Holmes), Painters, Paperhangers, Oil and Colour Merchants, corner of Tainui and Mackay Strects, Greymouth. The premises comprise a one-and-two storey building, with a frontage of twenty-four feet by a depth of fifty feet. The partners are direct importers of all descriptions of painters' and paperhangers' requisites, of which they keep a large stock for the wholesale and retail trade.

Mr. Ernest Holmes was born at Hokitika in 1869, and was brought up to the painters' and paperhanging trade by his father. He afterwards removed to Greymouth, and worked for Mr. John O'Hogan until the latter's death. His father then bought Mr. O'Hogan's business, of which Mr. Ernest Holmes and his brother took charge in 1884. Later on, the business became their own property, and they now (1906) conduct it in partnership.