His Worship The Mayor. Mr. George McIntyre, is a Canadian by birth. He was born in 1844 and educated in his native land, in England, and Tasmania, studied for his profession in the sister Colony, and became a qualified surveyor. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866, he was for a short time in Timaru, and for five years subsequently was on the Hansard staff in Wellington. After a short stay in Auckland, he settled in Christchurch in 1872, and held an appointment in the Survey Department for six years, when he established, in conjunction with Mr. A. J. Lewis, the firm of McIntyre and Lewis. He is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. Mr. McIntyre has taken an interest in the management of local governing bodies, and has been a member of the Christchurch Drainage Board since 1892, and of the New Brighton page 409 Borough Council since the incorporation of the borough. Mr. McIntyre was elected mayor for the year 1901–2. He has been continuously a member of the Diocesan Synod since 1873. Mr. McIntyre was married in 1870 to a daughter of Mr. James Smith, S.M., of Tasmania, and has three sons and four daughters. He is elsewhere referred to as chairman and managing director of the New Brighton Tramway Company.