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When in January, 1888, Mr. H. P. Woodward landed in Albany, 

 Western Australia was a Crown Colony; but on October 22, 1890, 

 the new Constitution was proclaimed, and the Colony is now 

 governed by a Parliament composed of two Houses, described as 

 a Legislative Council and a Legislative Assembly, both of which 

 are elected by the people, so that the Government, as well as the 

 prospects of the Colony, have alike undergone a great change in 

 the past ten years. 



In 1895 Mr. H. P. Woodward, after serving the Colony through 

 this very arduous period of its career, was induced to resign his 

 position of Government Geologist and enter the service of that old- 

 established firm of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing, and Co., of London 

 and Coolgardie. Mr. Woodward most successfully managed their 

 Coolgardie branch for a year and three months ; he then decided in 

 the present year to commence business for himself as a Mining 

 Engineer and Consulting Geologist in Perth and Coolgardie. 



It is gratifying to state that although the Ministry did not offer 

 any special inducement to Mr. H. P. Woodward to remain in their 

 employ, they yet recognized his past valuable services by conferring 

 upon him the title of Honorary Consulting Geologist and Mining 

 Engineer to the Colony of Western Australia. 



In 1883 Mr. H. P. Woodward was made a Justice of the Peace 

 for the Colony. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 

 1884, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He 

 is an Assoc. Memb. Inst. C.E., a member of the Institute of Mining 

 and Metallurgy ; a member of the North, of England Institute of 

 Mining and Mechanical Engineers, and President of the local 

 branch of that Society. His name is not unfamiliar as a contributor 

 to the pages of the Geological Magazine. 



On December 31, 1890, Mr. H. P. Woodward married Ellen 

 Maude, the second daughter of the Hon. J. F. T, Hassell, of Albany, 

 by whom he has three sons. 



Mr. Woodward some years ago, with two others, started a vineyard 

 of some 120 acres at Cooringa, about 50 miles from Perth, which is 

 one of the most admirably cultivated and successful undertakings 

 in the Colony. It is now managed by a Company, and the wines are 

 likely in a few years to be honourably recognized in European as 

 they have already been in Australian competitions. 



The Editor of the British Australasian, writing of Mr. Harry 

 Page Woodward, under date July 1, 1897, p. 1,180, says: — 



" When, the year before last, Mr. Harry Page Woodward resigned 

 the position of Government Geologist of the Colony of Western 

 Australia, I expressed my condolence v^^ith the Government on the 

 loss they were sustaining, and congratulated Messrs. Bewick, 

 Moreing, and Co. on the acquisition they were making in securing 

 tlie services of a gentleman of such high attainments, such extensive 

 local experience, and such sound, trustworthy character. I now 

 learn that Mr. Woodward has severed his connection with the firm 

 of Bewick, Moreing, and Co., and started 'on his own' as a 

 Mining Engineer, having his headquarters at Perth. Biography 



