COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12395, 3 July 1902, Page 6

COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Wise's Traders', Manufacturers,' and Professional Directory of the Commonwealth ot Australia and New Zealand. It is, as a Scotchman would say, a -far cry fiom Normanton, iu the Gulf of Carpentaria, that northern seaport of Australia, to that southern port of New Zealand the Bluff, or to the pearl shores of Western Australia; and any publication which includes,, under one cover, a list of the trading community within such a vast triangle (three million square miics of territory) must certainly claim to bo" comprehensive and more. That the Traders' Directory of tho Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand, 1902-1903—the .Work wc refer to, and which has just, betn issued—is as authentic as it is novel, we' have no doubt when it bears tho name of Wise's Directories as publishers. As we learn from tho preface, the. work has supplied exactly what has been required by business men, and although doubtless the compilation has involved much labour and, expense we trust the publishers may bo repaid in tho future if not now. The work is a handsome volume of close on 1000 pages of ihe trades and professions of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, and Now Zealand—each State or colony being divided into Eeotiona for easy reference. The latest Customs tariffs for tho Federal Slates anil New Zealand complete this valuable work of reference, which is altogother worthy of tho firm of Messrs Wise and. Co. i ~