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 452 ADELAIDK AND VICINITY The Hardy Family vear of the original vineyard — is vice-president of the Vinegrowers' Association. This gentleman takes a very active part in the management of the company founded by his father. Having obtained a clear insight into the industry in Australia, he has given much-appreciated advice to wine-growers in South Australia and, recently, in Western Australia ; and, with his brothers, may be considered as a leader in a promising colonial industry. With suitable soil and climate, the future of wine-making in the Province is assured ; and the industry is bound to become a source of wealth to the community at large as well as to individuals. As successful pioneers of this industry in South Australia, Mr. Thomas Hardy and his sons deserve well of the Province and all the great prosperity they now derive from their business. Mr. Frederic Chappie, B.A., B.Sc. WITH the foremost of the chief educational establishments of South Australia — one might almost say of Australia generally — Prince Alfred College must take rank, -Some 32 years ago, in January, 1869, this great school was opened ; and it has since come to be almost a national institution in the Province. The memorial-stone of the College was laid on November 5, 1867, by His Royal Highness the late Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, whose name the establishment bears. Mr. F. Chappie, B.A., B.Sc, came from Elngland, fresh from a short and bright career in London. He has since fully maintained the efficiency of the curriculum, and has constantly improved upon it, so that now Prince Alfred College can offer educational advantages equal to those of any other scholastic establishment in Australia. Mr. Chappie was born in London in 1845, and, as a young man, he studied at the London University, where he obtained honors in Physiology (Human and Comparative), in Logic, and Mental Philosophy, studying for the last-named at King's College, London. After completing his collegiate course, he became tutor at the We.sleyan Training College, Westminster ; and during his leisure hours he followed the Science Course at the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. In 1873 he took the degree of Bachelor of Science in the first class, his Arts degree having been ' achieved with similar success. Mr. Chappie early evinced singular ability as a schoolmaster, and under him Prince Alfred College from the first began to attain fresh fame. The success of Prince Alfred boys at the University is an earnest of the high standard of the academical curriculum of the College. Since 1883, Mr. Chaj)ple has been Warden of the Senate of the University of Adelaide, and he was Vice-president of the Royal Society for some years. He has been prominently as.sociated with the Young Men's Christian Association movement, was President of the Council of Churches, and has held all the offices open to a layman in Methodism. Mr. Chappie's career in this Province has been uniformly Ijeneficial. His services to the communit) have been many, and by his large-minded sympathy and knowledge, he has proved a highly valuable colonist. In a young country, whose children are not ungifted with brains, there is a great deal of room for educated men such as Mr. Chap|jle. The Prince Alfred boys, old and young, hold a warm place in their hearts for him, for he has governed them with a kindly, paternal dignity.