Mr. James Gibson, sometime of Makikihi, was a native of Ireland. He came out to New Zealand in the early days with his parents, in the ship “Strathmore,” and landed at Timaru, where he worked with his father as a contractor, and was engaged in the formation of the main roads about Timaru. On his father's death he started farming in the Claremont district, where he remained about eighteen months. In 1876 he married Miss Chalmers, of Otaio. They afterwards took over the Saltwater Creek Hotel, which they relinquished in 1880, when Mr. Gibson bought a farm at Makikihi. He subsequently sold a portion of this to Mr. McGimpsey, and worked on the remainder until his death in 1886. Mrs Gibson then carried on the farm until she died on the 30th of June, 1899. Mr. Gibson left a family of three sons and two daughters.

Mr. Samuel Simpson Rodgers was well known as a settler in the Makikihi district. He was born in 1837 in Leicestershire. England, and came out to Lyttelton in the ship “Joseph Fletcher.” For a time he served as a shepherd at Hunter's Hills, and subsequently became a carrier. As such he owned a bullock team, which he worked between Waimate, the Hook, and the back blocks for some years. For a time he worked his team also in Otago, between Oamaru and the Cardrona diggings. Finally, Mr. Rodgers settled at Makikihi, where he engaged in farming and contracting till his departure for England in 1900. Mr. Rodgers was married. in 1880, to a daughter of the late Mr. David Lundon, of Auckland. Mrs Rodgers died in 1887, leaving six sons and three daughters.