Mr. Arthur Cusworth , Master of Lorne Farm, was born near Barnsley, England, in 1852. Mr Cusworth started work at the Barnsley iron works at the age of twelve years, and page 916 was afterwards employed as a gardener. He arrived at Port Chalmers by the ship “Waipa,” in 1879, accompanied by his wife, and on the 1st of December, of the same year, Mr and Mrs Cusworth became assistant master and matron at the Caversham Industrial School. Mr Cusworth shortly afterwards removed to Cromwell, where he was engaged in gold mining till April, 1883. He then settled in Invercargill, where, after being employed for some years in farming and bacon-curing, he opened a fruit shop in Tay Street, and carried on business for nine years. On the opening of Lorne Farm, Mr. Cusworth was selected out of fifty-three applicants for the position of master of the institution. As an Oddfellow, he has been a member of the Pioneer Lodge, since 1888, was elected trustee in 1893, and has passed all the chairs. He has twice held office as District Deputy, and was representative of the Grand Lodge at Temuka. Mr Cusworth was married, in 1874, to a daughter of the late Mr William Brown, of Invercargill, and has one son, who is a music teacher in Invercargill.