Mr. George Callender, Accountant to the New Zealand Shipping Company, in Christchurch, was born at St. Kilda, Melbourne, in 1861. He was educated at Mr. Gee's Grammar School in Christchurch, joined the service of the Shipping Company as a junor in 1875, and was promoted to the position he now holds in 1888. Mr. Callender has been Honorary Treasurer of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church for twelve years. In 1891 he married a daughter of Colonel Wroughton, C.B., of Her Majesty's Indian Army, Bengal.