Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1897, Wellington

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Levi, Alfred, Consulting and Manufacturing Optician, 65 Lambton Quay, Wellington. Bankers, Colonial Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, 76 Ghuznee Street. Mr. Levi was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and learned his profession in Melbourne, Victoria, and in New Zealand. He has had a large and valuable experience in the Colony as New Zealand agent for Messrs. N. Lazarus and Co., the celebrated opticians, of London. The premises occupied by Mr. Levi on Lambton Quay consist of a one-story building constructed of wood, and affording a total floorage space of 600 square feet. A beautiful room has been specially fitted up with all the latest appliances in sight-testing, and Mr. Levi has a large stock of lenses of every description suitable to all ages, and ready to cope with every diversity of sight. He has, too, a special department for grinding lenses and adjusting spectacles. During the past nine years Mr. Levi has been largely engaged in connection with sight-testing, and the preparation of lenses. A very large proportion of colonists are troubled with weakness of the visual organs. On one occasion in Hawkes Bay page 760 Mr. Levi tested the sight of 550 children in the public school, the result of his investigation showing that while only two-and-a-half per cent. of them were short-sighted, a very large number were long-sighted or had weak eyesight. Residents of the City of Wellington are considered by Mr. Levi to be especially liable to have eye troubles, and this for no other reason than that the narrow and crooked streets, which are the rule and not the exception in the Empire City, limit the range of vision, and thereby injuriously affect the sight. Mr. Levi's business is a very extensive one, as he manufactures for the trade from one end of the Colony to the other— from Auckland to Invercargill. He is a direct importer of optical glasses, field and opera-glasses, lenses, mounted in gold, silver, steel, or nickel-plated, and his sight-testing arrangements are so accurate and so well understood that spectacles are made to correct all errors of vision that science can correct.