Mr. John Cadzow Mckenzie , who acts as Postmaster at Mandeville, carries on business as a general merchant, and is also agent for the district for the New Zealand Insurance Company, and for the Otago Daily Times, Otago Witness, and Weekly Press. He was born in 1877, at Pukerau, where his father was a farmer, and after leaving school was employed for four years with Mr Joseph Heherr, baker, Gore. He then worked for three years on Knapdale station, and for a like period on Wantwood station; and was afterwards employed with a boring machine in gold prospecting on the West Coast. On leaving the West Coast, Mr McKenzie settled at Mandeville and bought his present business, in which he has been very successful. Mr McKenzie is a vice-president of the Mandeville Cricket Club, and is also a member of the local school committee.