OBITUARY. 
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Mr. HUGH W. GORRIE. 
Tn is with much regret that we have to record the death of Mr. 
H. W. Gorrie, late Horticulturist at the Queensland Agricultural 
College. Mr. Gorrie, previous to joining the Agricultural Depart- 
Ment, was for six years in charge of the propagating and forwarding 
department of the Acclimatisation Society, and was an ex-student of 
the agricultural classes at the Watt College, Edinburgh. He was 
4ppointed horticulturist at the Queensland College in March, 1897, 
and in a very short time had formed the fine vegetable and fruit 
§arden which is always so much admired by visitors to the College. 
He also laid out and planted the various pretty flower gardens which 
eautify the main buildings, and planted the long avenues of trees 
from the railway siding to Lockyer Creek. As an instructor, he 
Was very successful both theoretically and practically. In him the 
€partment loses a valuable officer, and the students a painstaking 
teacher. Mr. Gorrie was 33 years of age at the time of his death, 
and leaves a wife and young family to mourn their loss. 
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