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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Bates, Sise and Co
Bates, Sise and Co. (George Lyman Sise), General Merchants, Importers, and Commission Agents, 7 Bond Street, Dunedin. Telephone, 77. Bankers: Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, Queen Street. This business was founded in 1865, and has ever since its establishment been conducted under the present style. The firm is agent for the Eastern and Australian steamship company, whose steamers trade between Sydney, China, and Japan; and for Messrs. W. H. Peabody and Co.'s line of sailing vessels, trading between New York and New Zealand. It also acts on behalf of the North China insurance company. The leading lines of Messrs. Bates, Sise and Co.'s business are in British, American, and Eastern goods, which they import in almost endless varieties. They hold special agencies for Noonday oil (kerosene), Watson and McGtts tobaccos, Rambler bicycles, Pasiem niters, Brown's Glasgow corn-flour, and numerous other English and American agencies. The business extends throughout the Colony, but lies chiefly in the South Island, and the firm is represented by agents and travellers. Mr. Sise, who settled in Dunedin in 1863, is a director of Donaghy's Rope and Twine Company, Ltd., and is a member of the Otago and Southland Industrial Conciliation Board.