Mr. William Lindsay Craig , J.P., District Valuer for the counties of Waikouaiti, Waihemo, and Maniototo; the boroughs of Naseby, Palmerston, and Hawksbury, and Government Valuer under the Land and Income Tax, Advances to Settlers, and page 441 Land Purchase Department, was born in Wigtonshire, Scotland, in 1849. He arrived in Port Chalmers with his parents by the ship “Maori,” on the 20th of April, 1857, and was educated at the Dunedin High School during the rectorship of Mr. A. Livingston. His father having purchased land in the Goodwood district, the family removed thither in 1862, and in October, 1869, William, with two of his brothers, purchased land in Shag Valley and in 1874 he bought out his brothers' interests. Since October 1882 he has been connected with the work of valuation, and has made many important valuations for the Government. He became a Justice of the Peace in 1896. Mr. Craig was for twenty-five years connected with the Inch Valley school committee, either as secretary and treasurer, or chairman, and he has been an elder of the Palmerston Presbyterian church since 1890. He was married in 1873 to the eldest daughter of Mr. G. Lindsay, a very old settler, of Berkenshaw, Tokomairiro, and has three sons and two daughters. In December, 1897, he purchased “Rosebank,” in Palmerston South, where he now resides. The farm “Annisfield,” in Shag Valley which he still retains, is worked by his two sons, assisted by one of his daughters.