Mr. Alexander Findlay Morrison, Demonstrator in the Engineering and Techuical Science Department, Canterbury College, was born at Keith. Banffshire, Scotland, in 1870. He arrived in the Colony when quite young and was educated at the primary and Waitaki High Schools, Oamaru, and at Canterbury College. During his scholastic career he gained the dux medal at the South school. Oamaru, and the Waitaki High School scholarship, and on leaving was at the head of that school in classics and mathematics. He also gained the engineering entrance and second year scholarships at Canterbury College. Mr. Morrison served his apprenticeship at the Government railway workshops, Addington, and having passed the junior and senior Civil Service examinations, received the benefit of the regulation providing that apprentices who qualified thus should be enabled to take advantage of the facilities offered by the Department for the training of a mechanical engineer. After a period of five years at Addington, he was transferred to the drawing office of the locomotive superintendent at Wellington, and resigned that position on receiving his present appointment.