The Rev. Albany Charles Hoggins, B.A., Vicar of St. John's, Woolston, was born near London. He was primarily educated in a London school, and afterwards entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1869. After his ordination in 1872, Mr. Hoggins went to Demerara, British Guiana, where for about two years he was second master at the Georgetown Grammar School, and fulfilled at the same time the duties of curate at the Pro-Cathedral. From 1873 till 1878 he was Vicar of Betterverwagting, in British Guiana. Mr. Hoggins returned to England in 1879, and was for five years engaged as a curate and a teacher in Yorkshire and London, besides lecturing for the S.P.G. Society. In 1884 he arrived in Australia, where he had charge of the Northern Areas Mission, Adelaide. He was appointed Rector of Cassilis, New South Wales, in 1887, and five years later held a similar appointment at St. Barnabas, Brisbane, which he left in 1896. Mr. Hoggins arrived in Christchurch in 1897, and after, acting as locum tenens at Phillipstown, he became Diocesan Inspector of Schools, and received his present appointment in July, 1902. He has published several papers on economic and social questions, and during his residence in Brisbane was Extension Lecturer on Sociology for the Sydney University. He has given special attention to and given lectures on educational subjects. Mr. Hoggins is a widower, with one son and two daughters.