Mr. John Charles Nattle Grigg, Proprietor of Longbeach Estate, is a son of the late Mr. John Grigg, the founder of the property. He was born in Auckland, in 1861, and educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, and the University of Cambridge, England. On his way back to the colony, he spent several months in visiting the various important centres of America, and landed in New Zealand in 1883. From that date he acted as overseer of “Longbeach” until 1901, when, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the ownership of the estate. Mr. Grigg was married, in 1891, to Miss A. M. Hutton, daughter of Captain F. W. Hutton, curator of the Christchurch Museum, and has three sons and two daughters.