Mr. David Calder , one of the Pioneers of Otago, arrived by the ship “Mariner” in June, 1849, accompanied by Mrs Calder, and a family of five sons and three daughters. Mr. Calder was a stone mason and builder by trade and erected for the late Mr. Valpy the first stone building in Dunedin, and the teacher's residence in connection with First Church, where Messrs Sargood's large warehouse now stands. He erected many other buildings, portions of which are still in existence, and was engaged by the Provincial Government in forming and metalling the main road from Normanby. North East Valley, to Saddle Hill, the first metal road in Otago. He also superintended the erection of the suspension bridge at West Taieri. in the early sixties. Mr. Calder died in 1873, at the age of seventy-nine. Mrs Calder having predeceased him in 1878.