Seager, Samuel Hurst, A.R.I.B.A., Architect, Australian Mutual Provident Buildings, Cathedral Square. Private residence, Sumner. Mr. Seager was born in London in 1858, and came to Lyttelton with his parents in 1870. He returned to England and studied at London University College, Royal Academy, and at the Architects' Association, and passed his examinations as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Returning to New Zealand in 1884, he established his present practice, and has designed and supervised many important buildings, including the City Council Offices, the Jubilee Home at Woolston. Strathmore Hospital, and the operating-room at the Christchurch Hospital, besides several private residences. Mr. Seager went to Sydney in 1891, and practised his profession, but came back in 1895 to Christchurch, where he resumed practice, and took up the lectureship of architecture at the Canterbury College School of Art.