New Business Firm.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 17, 20 July 1894, Page 2

New Business Firm.

The earlier settlers of Feilding and the surrounding districts will be pleased to welcome back to their midst a gentleman whose name is very familiar to them, and a household word indeed in all the Wellington Province. We refer to Mr A. Follett Halcombe, who, with his eldest son, has commenced business as land, insurance, and general commission agents. The style of the firoi is uA. F. Halcombe and Son," and its oflices ure in Manchester street, next door to Messrs Warnock and Adkin. The new firm has our best wishes for its future prosperity, and we venture to think that its members possess a combination of qualities which should command success. Mr A. F. Halcombe has been a resident in this neighborhood for 40 years — as Provincial Treasurer and Secretary for Wellington from 1864 to 1870, as Immigration Officer to the General Government from 1871 to 1872, and as Principal Agent to the E. and C. Aid Corporation (with the sole responsibility for the arduous and complex work entailed in settling tbe Manchester Block) from 1872 to 1881 — he has done yeoman service to this part of New Zealand, and to write his history would be to write the history of the Manawatu. Mr Halcombe's large experience — especially in land transfer dealings and finance — his long and intimate acquaintance with all the leading business men and settlers trom Wellington to New Plymouth, and the high character he has always held as a large-hearted and cultivated gentleman of strict integrity and great business capacity, is a guarantee to future clients that his firm will honorably and ably perform the business entrusted to them, while the junior partner (Mr J. W. F. Halcombe) brings to his work an immense reserve store of energy and a dash of American " hustle," the result of six years' business-training in the United States, which gives promise of his intention not to allow the " grass to grow under his feet." We conclude by wishing tbe new firm every success, and we refer our readers to Messrs Halcombe and Son's advertisement for the further information it contains.