Mr. Frederick William Quaife, Junior , Manager of “Te Rangi Pai,” was born in Christchurch in 1880, and attended page 497 school at Halswell, where his father is a well known bacon-curer. He was brought up to farming in Canterbury, and became manager of “Te Rangi Pai” on the 1st of May, 1901. Mr. Quaife served as a volunteer in the Canterbury Mounted Rifles for five years.