Pollard, Edwin , Storekeeper and Orchardist, Cliften. Mr. Pollard's store was established by himself in 1874. The building, which is of wood and iron, occupies a prominent position in the village, and two acres of land attached are devoted chiefly to fruit trees. Mr. Pollard was born in September, 1843, in Gloucestershire, England. While he was young, he travelled for some years, as a valet, with an old Waterloo veteran, with whom he visited most parts of the British Islands, and also travelled to France and Belgium. In 1874 Mr. Pollard arrived at Port Chalmers by the ship “Haddon Hall,” and then went by the small steamer “Wallaby” to the Bluff, and settled at once at Clifton, with which he has since been prominently associated. Mr. Pollard served for six years on the South Invercargill Borough Council. He was for twelve years a member of the Bluff Harbour Board, of which he was for one term chairman; and for many years he had a seat on the Clifton school committee, of which he was several times chairman. Mr. Pollard is a member of the Clifton Recreation Ground Committee, and had a good deal to do with the laying out of the Oval flat, below the terrace, near the railway station. He founded the post office at Clifton, and was postmaster for about fifteen years; and he has for many years been local agent for the New Zealand Insurance Company. Mr. Pollard was married, in 1874, to Miss M. Pumfrey, of Warmley, near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.