Mr. William Hamilton Clark , B.A., Headmaster of the Lumsden School, is third son of Mr. John Clark, of Portobello, Dunedin. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, where he received his primary education, arrived in New Zealand with his parents by the ship “Jessie Readman” in 1882, and took his degree at the New Zealand University. In 1884 he entered the service of the Southland Board of Education, and was appointed headmaster at the Dipton school, whence he was transferred to Wyndham. He became first assistant at the Central School, Invercargill, and was finally transferred to his present position in 1896. Mr. Clark is an enthusiastic Freemason, and was initiated in Lodge Mokoreta, No. 63, Wyndham, of which he was secretary and junior warden. He afterwards affiliated with Lodge Southern Cross, Invercargill, and was installed worshipful master of that lodge in 1894. He is secretary of the Lumsden lodge, and has acted in a similar capacity for the Southland branch of the Teachers' Institute for many years. Mr. Clark has considerable literary taste, and possesses a valuable library, which contains many works of some rarity.