The Waihemo Public School , at Green Valley, occupies a site of four acres in extent, and is a wooden building containing one large room with seating accommodation for sixty-two pupils. There are eleven children on the roll, with an average attendance of eight. The teacher's residence of five rooms is also a portion of the school premises.

Miss Angusina Ross , formerly Headmistress of the Waihemo Public School, was born at Waianakarua, and educated at the Waianakarua and Otepopo public schools. She served four years as a pupil teacher in Herbert, and after a year's training at the Normal school, Dunedin, was appointed relieving teacher at Balclutha, where she served for three months before being appointed to the Waihemo School, in 1899. [After this article was in type, Miss Ross was married to Mr. Robertson, of Maheno]

Brown, Thomas , Farmer, Whitecliff, Green Valley. Mr. Brown was born on the 19th of April, 1822, in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was brought up to country pursuits, but subsequently engaged in coal mining, and came to New Zealand by the ship “Helenslea,” in 1868, when he settled in the Palmerston district. In 1878 he purchased land on the Shag River, and subsequently removed to Green Valley. Mr. Brown has served on the Green Valley Road Board, and school committee. He was married, in 1843, to a daughter of the late Mr. Robert Scott, of Lesmahagow, Scotland. Mrs Brown died in 1892, leaving six sons and three daughters, and there are now thirty-eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Mr. T. Brown.

Muir, David , “Oakhill,” Green Valley. Mr. Muir's property consists of 800 acres of freehold and 4000 acres of leasehold land. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1847, and accompanied his parents to Port Chalmers by the ship “Cornwall,” when he was two years of age; was educated at Green Island and Taieri schools, at the last of which the venerable Dr. Hislop was his teacher, and has been connected with country pursuits from his youth upwards. As a young man he was noted as an expert stockrider. Mr. Muir settled in Shag Valley in 1864, and was engaged in farming for some years. In 1879 he acquired his Green Valley property and has since resided on it. Mr. Muir has served as a member of the Green Valley school committee. He was married, in 1874, to a daughter of the late Mr. Alexander Gilmore, of Aberdeenshire, and has six sons and three daughters, and there are four grandchildren. Mr. Gilmore was noted in his own part of Scotland as a staunch and honoured supporter of the Free Church at the time of the Disruption in 1843.

Mr. and Mrs D. Muir.