Mr. John Welsh , who has been Manager of the Pine Bush estate since 1901, was born in July, 1855, in Kincardineshire, Scotland, where he was brought up as a shepherd. He came to Port Chalmers by the ship “Timaru,” in 1879. After being storekeeper on Morton Mains station for two years, he removed to the Wairarapa, where he was for seven years head shepherd on Bowland's station. On returning to Southland, in 1893, he became head shepherd on Morton Mains for four years, and afterwards managed a farm for Mr Fairweather at One Tree Point, for six years. He was then head shepherd on Clifton estate for two years. Mr Welsh is owner of a dairy farm at Gorge Road, and is a member of Pine Bush and Morton Mains school committee. He was judge of Romney Marsh sheep at the Dunedin Agricultural and Pastoral show of 1903, and a judge at Invercargill show, and at the Gore show, in 1901. Mr Welsh was married, in 1893, to a daughter of the late Mr Peter Stewart, farmer, Gorge Road, and has two sons and two daughters.