Riccarton Roller Flour Mills (Richard Allen, proprietor). Telephone 858. P.O. Box 163a. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales. Private residence, Riccarton. This mill was erected by Mr. W. D. Wood in the early sixties, and was subsequently conducted by the firm of Wood Bros., Limited, the present proprietor purchasing the business in 1895. It is a four-storey wooden building, prettily situated on the river Avon, and is driven by a turbine wheel of about forty horse-power. The plant has a capacity of six sacks per hour, and about nine hands are employed. Mr. Allen's trade brand is “Snowball,” and he does business throughout the Colony. Messrs. Quane and Co., of Christchurch, act as manufacturers' agent.