Mr. Malcolm Robertson, Manager of the Saddlery Department of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Limited, is a native of the Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He was born in 1853, and educated in one of the Free Church schools in his nativeisland, and was apprenticed to the drapery trade in Portree, serving five years. He arrived at Lyttelton on the 1st of September, 1874, in the ship “Canterbury,” entered the service of Messrs Vaughan and Cordner, general storekeepers, of Saltwater Creek and Sefton, and remained in the employment of the firm for upwards of nine years. He was subsequently with Messrs W. S. Smith and Co., merchants, of Amberley and Waikari. In 1883, he commenced business on his own account at Sefton as a storekeeper, and joined the service of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association in 1890, taking charge of the saddlery, which was made a separate department in June, 1897. As a volunteer, Mr. Robertson served in the 8th Inverness Highland Rifles for a period of eighteen months before coming to the Colony. In 1876 he joined the Kowai Rifles Club (said to be the oldest rifle club south of the line), of which he is still a member. He has taken part in many competitions and won a number of trophies. Mr. Robertson joined the Honorary Reserve Corps, in page 332 which he is a corporal, in January, 1890. He was married in 1880, to a daughter of the late Mr. W. Scott, of Saltwater Creek, and has two daughters living.