Mr. Hugh McCrostie, Greendale, was born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1834. He was educated at a private school, and afterwards turned his attention to farming. In 1863 he sailed for New Zealand, and, shortly after landing at Lyttelton, made his way to Greendale, of which he was one of the earliest settlers. He took up land in its wild unimproved state, and now owns upwards of 1000 acres, on which sheep are kept and grain is grown. Mr. McCrostie is married, and has three sons.

Mr. George Rudd, sometime of “Ruddstone Croft,” Greendale, was one of the earliest settlers in the district. He was born in East Yorkshire, England, in 1816, and educated at the village of Elloughton. On leaving school he commenced farming, and followed that occupation till he left for New Zealand in 1866, by the ship “Victory.” After landing at Lyttelton he went to Yaldhurst, where he obtained employment as shepherd for Archdeacon Wilson. This position he occupied for about twelve months, and, in 1867, he took up land at Greendale, where he farmed till his death in 1897. Mr. Rudd added to the area of his property from time to time, and, at his death, he had 1000 acres in Greendale, and an extensive section at the Ashley Valley. In 1897 “Ruddstone Croft” was divided amongst the three sons of its founder, and is now conducted as three separate farms. Mr. Rudd was a man of high principle and strong personality. He was one of the founders of the Primitive Methodist church at Greendale, a consistent worker on behalf of Prohibition, and a member of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Mr. Rudd was married at Kirkella, near Elloughton, England, to Miss Dodsworth, in the same church in which, forty years previously, his father had been married. He left a grown-up family of three sons and one daughter.