Mr. Robert Russell was elected chairman of the Greymouth Harbour Board in the year 1905, and holds his seat on the Board as Mayor of Brunnerton. He was born in the year 1859, in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, where he was educated and learned coalmining. Mr. Russell came to New Zealand in 1877, and was for five years in the employment of the the Bay of Islands Coal Company at Kawakawa. On removing to Westport, he worked on Denniston Hill for nearly a year, and then went to Brunnerton, and worked in the Brunner and other mines. Mr. Russell afterwards became the proprietor of the Rainbow Hotel, in which he remained seven years. He takes a lively interest in musical matters, is bandmaster of the Brunner Brass Band, and is a cornet player of considerable ability. Mr. Russell was one of the promoters of the West Coast bands' contest. He is secretary of the Grey Valley Workers' Union, a society which he was instrumental in founding, and he is a prominent member of the Order of Druids, of which he was the first District President in Brunnerton. During the Brunner mine disaster Mr. Russell was one of the most willing volunteers in the rescuing parties, and one of the first to enter the mine after the explosion.

Mr. R. Russell.

Mr. Henry Beaumont Burnett has been secretary of the Greymouth Harbour Board since the year 1901. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1870, and came to New Zealand at an early age. Mr. Burnett was educated at, the Boys' High School, in Christchurch, and was afterwards for some time in the service of the Union Steamship Company. He subsequently acted as clerk for a local coal company before he received his present appointment.

Captain John Connor, Harbourmaster to the Greymouth Harbour Board, entered on his duties in the 1885. He is a native of Waterford, Ireland, and was born in 1839. Captain Connor came to New Zealand in 1858, and was for many years engaged in the inter-colonial trade.