Hughes, Henry (late Hughes, Rayward, and Baldwin), Chartered Patent Agents and Consulting Engineers (Mr E. Brooke-Smith, page 1020 manager), 103 Queen Street, Auckland (page 312). Messrs Rayward and Baldwin have left the firm, which is now carried on under its original title.

Bartlett, William Henery, Art Photographer, Queen Street, Auckland; Branch at New Plymouth. Mr. Bartlett's studio in Queen Street might with safety be taken as an exhibition of all that is best in modern photography, and as a proof of the very remarkable progress which has been made in the art within recent years. The business has been in existence for about forty years, and has been in Mr. Bartlett's possession since 1894, and since then his experience and his special talent as a photographic artist have enable him to introduce many improvements. A collection of Mr. Bartlett's work received a first award and gold medal at the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition of 1898–1899. The excellence which won this distinction is characteristic of all Mr. Bartlett's work, for his photographs, while being faithful as likenesses, are also works of art in the best sense of that misused term. This is so genuinely the case that Mr. Bartlett's workmanship has made his studio as noted in New Zealand as that of Talma is in Melbourne, and of Falk, in Sydney. Mr. Bartlett uses three stories in connection with his business. The vestibule contains specimens which show his talent for bringing out details in costumes, posing figures, and remaining true to reality while giving the last finishing touches of art to his work. In reproduces everything that is characteristic in the figures and faces of the sitters, even to the expression in [unclear: th]e eye and the passing smile on the face. The success which marks single photographs is seen also in his reproduction of wedding, family, and other groups, generally, for some reason or other, dissociated from artistic effects. But the fact is that, in addition to being an experienced photographer, Mr. Bartlett is also an arest by instinct. Mr. Bartlett makes a specialty of enlargements, of which some very fine specimens are on view. The studio is upstairs, where every provision has been made for the comfort and convenience of visitors. There is a reception room, a ladies dressing room, and there are three lady assistants to attend to clients. In the studio itself special attention has been given to details. Skylights, fitted with different coloured blinds, give the operator complete control over the light, and artistic backgrounds are secured by means of fine paintings, specially imported by Mr. Bartlett for the purpose. The furniture, too, is artistically in harmony with the other decorations. The dark room and the finishing rooms are on the upper floor, where there is a staff of touchers-up, of page 1021 expert craftsmen, and of young women who mount and despatch the photographs after they come from the process-rooms. Mr. Bartlett keeps his large stock in a special apartment, designed with a view to all the materials used in photography being continuously maintained in a condition of first-class order; and, all through, his materials and appliances are of the highest excellence. Mr. Bartlett has sixteen assistants in constant employment throughout the year. Photographs taken at his New Plymouth branch are retouched and printed at Auckland, and all negatives are numbered, so that customers desiring to obtain copies can be sure of getting them. Mr. Bartlett's favourite process of production is in black and white, and the success which he has won places him in the front rank of art photographers.