The Rev. C. Laurence Tuke, Vicar of St. Augustine's Church, Napier, is a native of Kent, England, and was educated at Haileybury College, and the United Services College, Westward Ho, and in New Zealand, at St. John's College, Auckland. He has since ministered in various parts of Hawke's Bay, and was appointed to his present incumbency in 1900. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Tuke is chaplain of Lodges Scinde and Victoria.