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Mr. Horace Daniel Pine was born in Dover, England, in 1856, and arrived at Lyttelton with his parents by the ship “Cameo,” in 1859. He was educated at the St. Albans school under the late Mr. John Broughton, and at Durham Street school, and served an apprenticeship as a printer with the Lyttelton Times Company, with which he remained for twelve years. Subsequently he had charge of the jobbing department of the Telegraph newspaper office, and afterwards of the business of the Union Printing Office. In 1890 Mr. Pine accepted his present position as manager of the printing department of the Press Company, and since then the business has grown at a remarkable rate. Mr. Pine is at present (1902) chairman of the New Brighton school committee. He served for three years as a member of the St. Albans Borough Council, and was for one year on the New Brighton Borough Council. He was also a member of the St. Albans school committee for about ten years, and chairman during the latter portion of that time. Mr. Pine helped to establish the Christchurch and St. Albans Money Club, of which he was president for several years. For the past ten years he has been chairman of the Industrial Building Society of Canterbury, and has been on the directorate of several other build ing societies. He was one of the original promoters of the New Brighton Pier Company, of which he was chairman of directors for several years, and is still a director. As a Forester he has been a member of the Court Star of Canterbury since 1887. He was for one year chairman of the Canterbury branch of the Association of Master Printers, and has for the past three years been warden of the Beach church at New Brighton. In 1882 Mr. Pine married Miss Elizabeth Hunt, of Hull. Yorkshire, and has a family of two sons and six daughters.