Little Akaloa, in the county of Akaroa, is a dairyfarming district on Banks' Peninsula. It has a population of about 300 persons, a cheese factory, and numerous private dairies. There is communication with Lyttelton by steamer, and there is a daily mail service with Christchurch, which is sixty-three miles distant. The local post office has a telephone service and a money order and savings bank branch, and there is a church, a public school, an accommodation house, and a general store in the district, the staple industries of which are dairying, sheepfarming, and the cultivation of grass seed. The mails between Little Akaloa and Little River are conveyed on horseback.

Wilson, S. L., Postmaster, Telephonist, Mail Contractor, and General Storekeeper, Little Akaloa.—Mr. Wilson was born in Tasmania, in 1872. In early years he followed agricultural and pastoral pursuits, but he became a mail contractor in 1893, and entered into storekeeping in 1897. As a storekeeper he does business for six miles around, with settlers, bushmen, fencers, contractors, and grass seeders. Mr. Wilson always takes an active interest in anything that tends to promote the welfare of his district.