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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3711, 21 December 1912, Page 17

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% COMMON; SHELTON & 00^ I IMI TED Auctioneers, Stockland Station / /1 Agents, Wodf Brokers, Shipping and Insurance fAgents, and M ' M r i & »' • ° general - - rpHIS is thh oldest-established having been started in 1878 at the junction of the Wai present Bandstand. As trj@e exp. til ed irm dfling business in Gisborne, . Common, in a building situated aruheruipßivers, on the site of the largerfnremises became necessary, and thefbusiness was mojfed to itjjpiresent pos||ion. Peel Street end of the faruheru BridgsT In 1892 the business into a Limited im Common, Shelton <fc Q|?s. Buildings ISS3. # V Liability Company, with Mr Sheltoapas Managing Director. The latter retired in 1902, and Mr Common ajpun took up the management. Giving to failing health, however, the latter found it necessary to retire in 1906, his place being taken by Sir J. B. jjells, who had been for S years previously in the Company’s employ as Auctioneer and Stock Agent, and under whose management the business is still being conducted.The Share List is a large and steadily increasing one, and the business is conducted on Co-onerative Lines, rebates on business done beimr made to Shareholders at the end of each financial Country settlers find it a great convenience to lie able to do all tbeimjlmsiness under one roof. They

•-■o* MMtMM Bszsesr&r ss^! 7 * t=Tq «®lsi *? aattHCBCM&aSSg - ‘ : 357 &r~ 3& 3*2 Kip Eg; i Mrit iMiM-LgySS Common, Shfjton & Co’s. Buildings 120 - can arrange the sale of their Wool, Fat and Store Stock, and General Produce; purchase all their requirements in the way of Woolpacks, 'Wire. Grass Seed, Wines and Spirits, General Stores, Furniture. Drapery aud Boots; Insure their Lives. JDlips and Buildings, and as a wind-up to a successful season, book their passages to the Old Country and back in the well-known Shaw. Savill and Albion Company’s steamers. And all this under the one roof. Jj DEPARTMENTS. JJ The Stock and Wool Departments are under the personal of Mr Kells, assisted in the former by Mr A. H. Harding, and mth^ latter Nisbett the way, |6as almost completed irm’s empfe) The General Office ijsin charge df&fr A. S. by Mr J. C year in the fir Evans, the General S|bve aficl Depji Ska ment under'!Mr W. C. l§l|j <-.•432r23Z5C m Common, Shelton it Co’s. Buildings 1906. McLean (who has also been about thirty years with the Company), and tl Soft Goods Department under Mr F. J. Teat. Each head having uj; an efficieht staff, clients may rely upon prompt attention Ujspwtr requirements. The progress of the Company eannoLsgSe better illustrated than by giving the following figures, showinajSlHre comparison, between the end of the Company’s first fin anei al\*«slir and 1912 ’aid up capital Nett profit Reserve fund