Mr. John Ernest Lelliott Cull, B.Sc., was appointed Second Demonstrator at the School of Engineering, Electricity and Technical Science of the Canterbury College on the 1st of February, 1902. He was born in Christchurch, and educated at the public schools, the Boys' High School, and at Canterbury College, where he passed the final section of the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Science in November, 1898. In the early part of 1899 he proceeded to Dunedin, where he entered the firm of Messrs Cutten Bros., consulting engineers. There he occupied the post of draughtsman for two years, during which he was also lecturer on applied mechanics in the School of Mines at the Otago University, and lecturer on mechanical engineering at the Dunedin Technical School, Early in 1901 he was promoted to the position of inspector of dredges under construction by Messrs Cutten Bros, on the West Coast, where he was engaged until taking up his duties at Canterbury College.