Mr. Thomas Carlisle Thomson , who has been manager of the Wallacetown Freezing Works since 1899, was born at Alexandra, Scotland, in 1856, and accompanied his parents to Port Chalmers in 1874. He was educated at Temuka, and worked for some years with his grandfather, Mr Boyd Thomson, of Temuka, who was afterwards drowned while fishing in the Rangitata river. Mr Thomson then went to Australia, where he was engaged for a time in mining; but afterwards returned to New Zealand and worked as a slaughterman at Longburn, and later at Wanganui and Tomoana. He then went to Woodville, as head butcher under Messrs Nelson Brothers, was afterwards transferred to Blenheim, and six years later was appointed manager of the Wairau Freezing Company. In 1899, Mr Thomson obtained his present appointment. He served for three years as a volunteer in the Temuka Rifles. Mr Thomson was married, in 1886, to a daughter of the late Mr Thomas Monahan, of Dunedin, and has two sons and one daughter.