Gunson, W., and Co., Grain and Produce Merchants and Commission Agents, Customs Street East, Auckland. Telephone 398. Mr. William Gunson was born in 1851, at Ayside, Lancashire, England, and is the son of Mr. James Gunson, timber merchant and bobbin manufacturer. He was educated at Stavely, and came to New Zealand in 1873. For some years Mr. Gunson was in the employ of the once well-known firm of Messrs. Jakins and Wilcox, grain and provision merchants, Customs Street, Auckland, and there he became familiar with the business which he has since followed. Establishing himself in 1881. Mr. Gunson has met with considerable success commercially, and socially is greatly respected. For twenty-one years he was a teacher in the Pitt Street Wesleyan Sunday School. He is now circuit steward of the Pitt Street Circuit, and trustee for several of the church properties. Mr. Gunson represented the same circuit at the annual conferences of 1896–97, and was a member of the general conference of the Wesleyan body, held in Auckland in 1897. As a member of the Mt. Eden School Committee and in a variety of other ways, Mr. Gunson has most unobtrusively done great service in promoting the welfare of the district in which he resides. Mr. Gunson was for several years a member of the Auckland Harbour Board. In 1877 he was married to Miss Burton, daughter of the late Mr Joseph Burton, of Bradbury, England, and has one daughter and three sons.