Happy and contented, Mr and Mrs J. E. Hills, the first residents of Patutahi, find much to interest them and occupy their attention. Their family is now more or less scattered, one daughter living as far abroad as Palestine, but, as of yore, their friends are legion and hospitality is never stinted in their snug home. Mr Hills came out to New Zealand in the Waitangi and a shipmate was Mr Coppins, a shepherd on Opou. On her part Mrs Hills journeyed out in the Orari. Her shipmates included the late Mr P. Malone, also Mr Owen Gallagher, Mrs Muldoon and Mr Mitchell, of the firm of Davys, Third and Mitchell, who was then but a child of six years.