Captain Edward Weston Andrews, of the 1st Company High School Cadets, who has been connected with volunteer affairs for many years, was born in February, 1861, at The Manor House, Buckland, Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at the Hastings University School, where he remained ten years; he subsequently took his B.A. degree, and returned to the institution as a resident master. In 1888 he resigned his position in order to come to New Zealand. For fourteen years he was English master at the Wanganui College, and in 1902 he succeeded Mr A. S. M. Polson as first assistant master of the Napier Boys' High School. Mr. Andrews takes a keen interest in athletics. He is captain of the Old Boys' Cricket Club (one of the senior Napier teams), secretary of the Hawke's Bay Referees' Association, a member of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union, and of the provincial Cricket Association; and he was captain of the Ruahine Association Football Team in 1897, when it carried off the New Zealand Challenge Shield. As a Freemason he is a past master of Lodge Tongariro, No. 705, E.C., a Mark Mason, a Companion of the page 333 Royal Arch, and a member of the Lathom Chapter, Rose Croix, 18th Degree. He is also a lay reader at the Napier Cathedral, and a member of the Diocesan Synod.