Mr. William Mcgill , who has been Permanent Secretary of Lodge Loyal Waikaka since June, 1902, carries on farming on 183 acres of freehold and 320 of leasehold, near Waikaka township. He was born in the parish of Bargrennan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, in 1868, and came to New Zealand in 1879, with his parents, who settled in the Waikaka district in 1884. Mr McGill was brought up on his father's farm, and in 1897 took up the leasehold portion of his present property, acquiring the freehold portion in the following year. He was a member of the Wendon Valley school committee for two years, and is secretary of the Gore-Kelso Railway League. Mr McGill was married, in 1902, to a daughter of Mr Robert Scobie, sheepfarmer, Manapouri, and has one son.