Mr. John Blue , sometime of Waianiwa, was born in 1843, at West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland, where he was educated. He was apprenticed as a carpenter at Saltcoats, and in 1863 arrived at the Bluff by the ship “New Great Britain.” Mr Blue settled at Waianiwa, where he acquired sixty-five page 924 acres of land, which area he afterwards doubled. He carried on the trade of a builder, and erected a number of buildings at Wallacetown and other places, including the Wallace-town Presbyterian church, of which he was for many years precentor. He was married, in 1867, to a daughter of the late Mr James Strang, of Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and at his death, in January, 1902, left a surviving family of six sons and three daughters.