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ment of India. was bom in Feb- mm 1833, an! was educate‘l in London at the University College Schnl and University College. He is a gradutte of L01 lon University.

He pissed into the Indian Civil Scn'ic: in 1879 and came out to India. to the Madras Presidency. n r881. He has filled various district appointments. lrom Assist- ant Collector to Collector and Dis~ tn'ct Magistrate in Madras, and has also been Under-Secretary to the Madras Government. Deputy Como mi§i0ner of Salt and Excise. and Secretary to the Madras Board or Revenue, both in the Separate Rove. nue and the Land Revenue Branch- es. Between the years 1806 and 190: he was for the most part cm~

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Ployed as Deputy Secretary to the .ovcrnment of India in the Finance Department. his services in this capacity being rewarded by the bestowal ol the C.I.E. In 1902 he was [heed on 1. 'al duty for the redistribution 0 District and Sub- Divisional charges in Madras, and later in the same year was appoint- ed Indian Editor at the new In» ﬁnial Carmen. He received his appointment as Financial Secretary to the Government of India in January 1 5. Mr. Meyer. in spite of his 0 cial duties, has found time to write interesting and sug- sstive brochures on Roman

istory. and was for several years Chairman of the Board of Examin» er: in History and Economics in

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the Madras University. Mr. Meyer's oﬂice is one that demands Wide experience.

)lr. PETER WILLIAM MOVIE. BA. (OxonJ. UnderoSecretary to Government, Political, Judicial and Legislative Departments. Bombay. was born at Rothesav. Bute. Scotland, in 1877. and educated at Glasgow University. and Balliol College, Oxford. He came to India in moo and served as Assistant Collector in the districts of Ahmed- nagar. Khandesh. Ratnagiri, Satara and Sholanur; and as Assistant Judge at Saturn.

Colonel JOHN WILLIAM AKERMAN MORGAN. lnspco torchneral oi the Indian Civil Veterinary Department is the eldest son of the late Captain Edward


 * educated at Bath and took

his diploma at the Royal Veterinary Colic c. London. in r877. Joinin the nrro Servicr he was attache to the Privv Council office for a year and then served in both the Zulu and Afghan Wars. Cumin out to India he was a pointe Surcrintendcnt, Horse err-edin Orr-rations. Bombay. in 1802: am Ingrectorﬂcncral. Civil Veterinary Drmrtmcnt,Siniln. in root. Mar- rud September 20th. r891), (‘nns- larrt‘. daughter of the late nhn Fritrr, Frq.. Thornc Hall. York- shire. He is it very keen sportsman and has shut nearly every variety of his game to he found in India. Burmah and the Himalayas. Ht: has also owned and raced some of the best Arabs and country-buds in India: amongst the lﬂllt‘l’ that very high class mare “Evensong.” which he bred himself.

Mr. WILLIAM BERNAR D MACCABI-T, Mlusn. (3.12” F.I.C. Lieutenant. C alcufla I‘or! Dc‘fem'a Volunteers). Chief Eugincct to Calrutta Municipality. was born in Ireland in 1864, and in a son of Sir Francis MucCahe, late Medical Commissioner of the Local Gaol Board for Ireland. He was educat- ed at Dublin University in the Engineering School. and on taking ha degree in 1889 was em iloyed on the new Limerick Water lvotk, and on the construction of various Railways. In 1891 he entered the

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service of th - Dublin Corooration in connection with the Drainage Scheme and served for two years. In 1893 he was appoinlt‘d Engineer- i1-Chiet of the Dublin Water Works and various other municipal undertakings. He fﬂ'tlved the appointment of Chief Eagirirer to the Calcutta Municipality in July 1903. and arrived in Calcutta ln Ottober of the same year to enter upon his duties. The Watersupply and damage schemes of Calcutta are hoth on a great scale and

Present many difﬁcult problems. The conditions to he faced in a citv that is partly European but mainly Indian are obviouslv com- plieated, and the Municipality has to deal with questions that are

hardly thought at elsewhere. The tiltch and unﬁltered water-supply to the enormous population 0! Calcutta is a matter of increasing dilliculty and one thnt is constantly being subjected to the severest criticism. There are under consi- deration big schemes that should make the water serviCc complete. and they involVe heavy work and the highest technical skill. The tinimge of a city subjected to seasons at tropical rain has naturally to he treated in a diluent way to that of a city subject to ordinary conditions, and the work of a Chief Engineer is diﬁcult and of necessary often experimental. It is hard to imagine a Municipality that makesso many on theresouroes of its engineeringstaﬁ.