Mr. Richard Jones , Enginedriver of the United No. 1 Dredge, holds a second-class certificate for driving stationary engines. He was born at Otakaia, on the Taieri, in 1869, and educated at the Mosgiel and Pinnacle schools. Mr Jones was brought up on his father's farm, in the Chatton district, and when the dredging boom started in Waikaka he began work on the dredges. He was successively on Ibbotson and Party's dredge, the Premier, the Globe, and the Celtic (now the Phoenix) before receiving his present appointment. Mr Jones was married, page 1100 in 1897, to a daughter of Mr D. Lamb, an old settler in the district, and has two daughters.