Heenan, Michael , Farmer, “Brooklands,” Pyramid. Mr Heenan was born at Burr, King's County, Ireland, in 1849, and was brought by his parents to Port Chalmers in 1851 in the ship “Mariner.” The family settled at North East Valley, and later on removed to the Taieri. After some years spent on his father's farm, and on other farms, Mr Heenan took up “Brooklands,” which comprises 300 acres, close to Pyramid siding, and which he devotes to dairying. He also owns “Bannockburn,” of 146 acres, in the same district, which is occupied by one of his sons, and a third farm of 200 acres in the Rivers-dale district, named “Ballyhooley,” is let to a tenant for dairying. Mr Heenan was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church committee at Riversdale, and also of the school committee there, and he now is a member of the Pyramid school committee. He was married, in 1870, to a daughter of the late Mr John Styles, of page 1052 Otago Peninsula, and has six daughters and five sons.

Reid, William , Farmer, Pyramid. Mr Reid was born in 1857 at Eday, one of the Orkney Islands, and was brought up to farming. He came to Southland about 1876, and spent the first few years after his arrival in farm work and nursery gardening. In 1881 he took up a farm of 210 acres, under the deferred payment system, and afterwards acquired his present property of 155 acres of leasehold. Mr Reid has thoroughly cultivated his farm, and in his garden he has a splendid grape vine, which ripens its fruit in the open air. There are also about twenty bushes of heather, two of which produce white flowers, although taken off the ordinary pink heather. Mr Reid paid a flying visit to the Old Country some years ago. He is chairman of the Riversdale branch of the Farmers' Union, and a member of the Southland Executive of the same organisation, and he has been a member of Loyal Riversdale Lodge, Manchester Unity. Independent Order of Oddfellows, since its inception. He was at one time a lieutenant in the Riversdale Rifles, and was a member of the first Riversdale school committee, and of the first Presbyterian church committee in the same district. Mr Reid was married, in 1898, to a daughter of the late Mr Donald Munro, an old settler in the Riversdale district, and has two daughters.