Longstaff, George Markham, Farmer, “Riverton,” Tarurutangi. “Riverton” is a farm of 111 acres of freehold land, on which dairying is the chief industry. Mr. Longstaff was born in Bell Block, in the year 1877, and was educated at the Upland road school, Tarurutangi. After working on his father's farm for some years he joined the Permanent Artillery for twelve months. He then returned to farming, and in 1903 took over his father's farm. Mr. Longstaff is a director of the Tarurutangi Cooperative Dairy Factory Company, Limited. He is married, and has one daughter.

Rowe, Thomas, “Willow Farm,” Tarurutangi. Mr. Rowe's farm consists of 200 acres of freehold land, which he devotes chiefly to dairying. Mr. Rowe was born in Essex, England, in the year 1857, and came to New Zealand with his parents in 1860 by the ship “Joseph Fletcher.” He was educated in New Plymouth, and was brought up to farming. Later, he started business on his own account as a building contractor, and erected several prominent buildings in New Plymouth. About 1886 he settled in Tarurutangi, and acquired his present farm. Mr. Rowe is a member of the Egmont Road Board, of which he has been chairman for five years. He has been chairman of directors of the Tarurutangi Dairy Factory Company since 1898, is a director of the Taranaki Bacon Factory Company, Limited; and, as a Freemason, is a member of Lodge Waitara, New Zealand page 131 Constitution. Mr. Rowe married a daughter of the late Mr. J. H. M. Good, an old Taranaki settler, and a Past Master of Lodge Caledonian, Royal Arch, No. 204, and has six children.