Mr. James Bibb Borthwick, Headmaster of the Southbrook Public School, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1860. He arrived with his mother in Lyttelton by the ship “Canterbury,” in 1866, and finished his primary school education at the West Christchurch School, where he served his pupilteachership. After a year at the Normal Training College, he entered the service of the Board of Education, and was appointed to Southbrook in 1900. Mr. Borthwick was married, in 1896, to a daughter of Mr. Dorman, of Springfield and has two daughters.