Moir and Co. (William Moir), Millers and Grain Merchants, 108 Manchester Street, Christchurch. Telephone 835; P.O. Box 289. Bankers, Union Bank of Australia. Private residence, Styx; Mills, South brook. This firm's large milling business was established in 1869 by Mr. Moir, who arrived in Otago in the ship “Alpine” in 1858. He had a short gold-mining experience, and was for two years in the trade before settling in Christchurch. The mill at South-brook is built of wood and iron, five stories in height, and contains about 15,000 square feet of floor space. The mill is driven by an eighty horse-power steam-engine, together with a fourteen horse-power water-wheel, and the plant comprises both stone and roller and oatmeal machinery. The firm's brands are “Zealandia” in flour and “Moir and Co.” in outmeal, and first prizes were gained against all comers at Sydney and melbourne Exhibitions for the latter, and at the Christchurch Exhibition of 1882 for flour. The Southbrook mill will produce about ten tons of roller flour and four tons of stone dressed flour each twenty-four hours, and about four tons of oatmeal. The product of the mill is shipped to all parts of New Zealand and to the Australasian Colonies. Mr. Moir, the proprietor, was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1833, and brought up to the trade by his father. He was married in 1863 to a daughter of Mr. John Kain, of Carlow, County Wicklow, Ireland, and has four sons and six daughters.