Gibb, James L., Farmer, Heathfield Farm, Motunau. Mr. Gibb was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1858, and came to Lyttelton in the ship “Accrington,” in 1863. He was brought up to farm work at Motunau, and engaged in shearing for eleven seasons about the district, and was for three seasons similarly employed in Australia. While in Australia Mr. Gibb travelled 700 miles inland, and saw carcases of cattle and sheep lying in every direction—the result of the drought of 1885. On returning to New Zealand he engaged in farm work and contracting, and began on his own account in 1891 at Motunau, where he has a freehold property of 300 acres, on which he keeps sheep. Since 1897 Mr. Gibb has been a shareholder of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association. He was married, in 1891, to a daughter of Mr. R. M. Roberts, of Waikari Valley, and has one son and three daughters.