Mr. James Anderson was born in 1840, in Calcutta, India, where his father and mother died. He was brought up by an uncle and aunt (brother and sister) in Scotland, and came to Wellington by the barque “Clara” in 1851. Mr. Anderson has always been engaged in country pursuits, and had a dairy farm at Ferry Road, Christchurch, for twenty-three years, for ten or fifteen of which he was a member of the Woolston Borough Council and school committee. He retired in 1899, and has since resided on his property of twenty acres at Ashley. Mr. Anderson was married, in 1869, to a daughter of the late Mr. J. Dixon, of Ashley, and has four daughters and two sons.

Mr. William Cone arrived at Lyttelton with his parents in the ship “Bangalore” in 1851. He was brought up to country pursuits, in which he was engaged until compelled by declining health to retire from active life. Mr. Cone served as a member of the Ashley Road Board for about three years. He was married, in 1890, to a daughter of the late Mr. Walton, of Bristol, England.