Mr. James Clunie Wilkin, Manager and Secretary of the Lyttelton Times Company, Limited, was born in London in 1843. He came to the colony with his parents in the ship “Travancore,” which arrived at Lyttelton in March, 1851. Mr. Wilkin entered the office of the Lyttelton Times in 1857, since which he has been continuously associated with the paper, and for the past twenty years has filled his present position. Mr. Wilkin is president of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association of New Zealand. He was married in 1870, and has six sons and four daughters.