MESSRS BAKER BROS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 838, 23 March 1888, Page 12

MESSRS BAKER BROS.

Elsewhere appears an advertisement relating to the sale of a valuable city property—by the Messrs Baker Bios. It will also be observed that the firm has extended its business by the addition of an auctioneer’s branch. “Baker Bros.” have been long and favorably known in Wellington for several years, and there is an interest attaohed to them in the facts that the family is essentially New Zealand, and that the “boys” have worked their way up from small beginnings by steady persistance in sound business practice. There are four of them in the firm, Messrs C. A., J. E., H. D. and W. W. Baker, all New Zealandborn, as is also their father Mr Ebenezer Baker, the well-known Sheriff of the Supreme Court. The father is one of the earliest of born New Zealand Anglo-Saxons; Anglo-Saxon by race, New Zealander by country, and we hold that this is something to be proud of, for the sun shines on no fairer, no more promising land than this, tbe oountry of our adoption and birth. The new firm, with which we ave dealing, began as debt oolleotors, and have gradually added department to department till now it stands out as a substantial land and estate agency in all the branches. It is not the intention of the Messrs Baker Bros, to, at present, apply auctioneering to anything tut land and estate. To the development of these they purpose bending all their energies, and intend having branches in the chief centres of the Colony. They have already established a representative in London in Mr Larkins, late partner in the well-known firm of McArthur and Co. We wish them much success.