Mr. Isaac Gibbs, General Manager in New Zealand of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd., was born in 1851 in Oxfordshire England, and educated at Cowley, near Oxford. He was trained to mercantile life, and before coming out to the Colonies in 1872 was in the office of Messrs. Woolley, Saunders, and Co., merchants, Wood Street, London. Mr. Gibbs spent four years in Sydney, where he was in the office of Messrs. Gilchrist and Weston, mine page 379 malingers. In 1876 he settled in Canterbury, and entered the service of the New Zealand Shipping Company as a clerk at the head office. On the retirement of the late general manager, Mr. Gibbs was promoted to the position of secretary to the company, and on the removal of the management to London, was appointed to his present post. Mr. Gibbs has been a member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board since 1892, and has for many years been a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he was president in the year 1895–6.