W. M. Reid Becomes

Exporters Ltd.

SOME years ago, when Mr. W. M.

Reid was living in Tahiti, he began to import to Tahiti Australian food stuffs for various clients in French Oceania. In this way he worked up a considerable trade in such articles as flour, biscuits, preserved and canned fruit, canned meat, hardware and soft goods. Later, when he returned to live in Sydney, he traded there as W. M.

Reid and gradually worked up quite a considerable Islands connection.

Recently Mr. W. M. Reid took the place of his brother on the board of Messrs. Robert Reid and Co. Ltd., the old-established Australian softgoods warehouse, and he was, therefore, not able to give all his attention to the Aus tralian export business which he had worked up. Consequently, the firm of Exporters Pty. Ltd., was formed and this small comnany took over Mr. W. M.

Reid’s business in December last.

Exporters Pty. Ltd. have their office and warehouse at 35 Circular Quay West Sydney. The directors are Messrs. W.

M. Reid. D. Gillespie, and A. A. Haw orth. Mr. Haworth is the managing director of the business, which embraces all forms of buying and selling on behalf of Island residents.

Master Alan (“Bill”) Imlay, son of Captain and Mrs. N. G. Imlay, late of the Treasury, Port Moresby. Papua, created a record for the Willoughby Primary School, N.S.W., at the recent High School Entrance examinations by being the only boy under 11 years of age to win the coveted position of Dux. He will continue his studies at

North Sydney Boys’ High School.