Wraytt, Josiah Alvey , Farmer, Garston. Mr Wryatt is the owner of Grasmere Farm of 360 acres, on which he resides at Garston, and another farm of 527 acres at Balfour. The latter is a sheep farm, but “Grasmere” is devoted to mixed farming. Mr Wraytt was born in Nottingham, England, in 1841, and came to Nelson with his parents, by the ship “Clifford,” page 1019 in the following year. He learned carpentering, and worked as a master builder for ten years, and was then employed in rafting timber down the Molyneux for some years. Mr Wraytt afterwards had considerable experience on the diggings at Dunstan, Cromwell, and at Mount Pisa, where he was connected with the cutting of a large water race. In 1877, he took up “Grasmere,” then in its natural state, but now fully cultivated; and he bought the farm at Balfour in 1900. Mr Wraytt served on the Garston school committee for a term, and was at one time a member of the Licensing Committee. He was married, in 1876, to a daughter of the late Mr George Munro, farmer, Warepa, and has one son and one daughter. Mrs Wraytt is elsewhere referred to as headmistress of the Mossburn school.