Mr. Enoch Henry Banks, at one time a Member of the Christchurch City Council, was born in 1835 in Worcester, England, where he was educated. Arriving in Auckland in 1858, Mr. Banks established himself in business in Christchurch five years later as a grain and produce merchant, having travelled from Auckland by the ketch “Pegasus,” which was wrecked and abandoned at Summer. For six years Mr. Banks served in the Volunteer Fire Police Force, and was a member of No. 1 Christchurch Rifles, the earliest volunteer corps formed in Christchurch, and afterwards E Battery, from which he retired with the rank of sergeant after serving seven years. For many years Mr. Banks acted as judge at the agricultural and poultry shows. Though a staunch freetrader, he has always displayed practical sympathy with the country's local industries. Mr. Banks has been a prominent member of the Industrial Association, having held the position of its chairman and subsequently that of treasurer for many years. He was closely connected with three exhibitions held in Christchurch, on each occasion acting as treasurer. Mr. Banks has been an enterprising Colonist, and had the honour of being the first to send New Zealand produce to Philadelphia, where he was awarded at the International Exhibition held there in 1876, a bronze medal and certificate for pearl-barley, split-peas, and cereals, by the United States Centennial Commission; and at the Queensland, Sydney, and Melbourne Exhibitions of 1878 and 1881, respectively, Mr. Banks obtained a bronze and silver medal, besides fifteen certificates for cereals. In 1862, he was married to a daughter of Mr. John Cullen, of Langport, Somersetshire. Mrs. Banks died in 1896, leaving three sons and a daughter.