His Worship The Mayor, Mr David Richardson , was born at Dalkeith, Edinburgh, in 1872, and came to New Zealand about 1878. He was educated at Green Island, brought up as a blacksmith in Dunedin, and followed his trade in various parts of Otago, before buying the Ballarat Hotel in 1903. Mr Richardson also owns, in partnership with Mr William Murphy, a prosperous general blacksmithing and coachbuilding business at Arrowtown. page 1032 He served as a councillor for five years before being elected Mayor of the borough. He is a member of the Arrow Hospital Trust, Sergeant-Bugler of the Wakatipu Mounted Rifles, Steward of the Arrow Racing Club, and a vice-president of the Cricket Club and also of the Caledonian Society. Mr Richardson was married, in 1897, to a daughter of Mr S. Pringle, of Green Island, and has three daughters.