FOUR MASTERS WHO DID NOT LIVE TO SEE THE JUBILEE.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 197, 20 August 1919, Page 9

FOUR MASTERS WHO DID NOT LIVE TO SEE THE JUBILEE.

being- a lack oi playing space, a. drawback from which the school suffered for 37 years, till a move was made to the present site. ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY. Until the end of 1872 tlie governing body of the school consisted of the Superintendent of the Province, the Speaker of the Provincial Council, the members of the Provincial Executive Council, and three members a-ppiinted by the judge of the Supreme Court at Auckland. In 1872 it became merged in the Board of Education, the Act of that year constituting the Superintendent chairman of the Board. It also provided that the Crammar School funds should be kept separate from the Education Board's funds. The abolition of the Provincial Legislatures in 157(5 led to important alterations in the laws affecting Education Boards and the governing body of the Grammar School. Several Acts were in turn passed and repealed, and in 1877 the Auckland College and Grammar School Act dissociated the school from the Board of Education and restored a separate governing body. The lew Board was brought into a closn , -iesiree of connection with the primary school system by enabling the Education Board to appoint three of the Grammar School Board's seven members. Three

Ijoc-ame headmaatar. Meanwhile the school roll was steadily growing, and i" ISS'J girt were admitted, the Girls' High School having been lunalgamated the year before. A gills' side was maintained at the school in Symonds Street Tiiit.il about ten y<-J.rs ago, when the Girls" Grammar School was established at Howe Street. In lS'.Hi the number of boys attending the. school had riw?n to 20S. and since the school bt>caine mure uloisely nesociated with the [>riinar\ ii_vs:teni by having its ranks recruited largely by scholarship and free-plaiv pupils, the growth has been remarkable. La;vt year the school attendance over SfiO, ajid it will not be long before the roll contains v. thousand names.

t When, in 1!)17, the s;'hool made its move, and took possession of the splendidly situated pile of buildings at .Mountain Koad, it was confidfntly anticipated that ample provision had been made for a good many years, but already the demands for admission threaten a congestion, and tho board is now deliberating upon the erection of a supplementary school in one of tjie suburbs. Under its present chief the Auckland Grammar School has won a very high place among the scholastic institutions of the DoD'Jnion. aud its record of honours hotli in the firhoolroom aad on the playing field, is one, of which its old boys'and

'BARRING OUT" OCCURRENCE IJKADMASTKR OUSTS BAILIFFS. Tin- incident known as Hie ''Barring Out" is reported at length in the "Star" on .Fmie 14. IS7S. The previous day there had been a meeting of the Grammar School Hoard of Governors, the members present being Dr. J. 1,. Campbell, in the chair, and .Mesrs. ORorke, Haultain and 11. Brett. At this meeting the following resolution, moved by .Mr. O'Rorke. and seconded by Air. Brett, 'Was carried: — '"That tho Governors direct that the Grammar Scftool be closed for the winter holidays for a fortnight, from Friday, the 14th inst., the intimation to be made in ■the Auckland newspapers in the usual manner, the secretary to notify the same in the Auckland newspapers and to the headmaster.*' This resolution followed a somewhat contentious discussion respecting the proposed temporary occupation of the Choral Hall until a new building could be erected for the school, as the improvement commissioners had I

appears to have been anxiously looking lor. Alter the -chool luul "been dismissed last evening one of tho "men in pos*e*»«>n" went .'mine to get his tea. leaving his companion on guard and in possession of the keys. The latter had oivamon. to go out to the rear of the building for a few minutes. This circumstance did not escape the watchful eye of the -headmaster, who instantly seized the opportunity t<. barricade -the- Jours, thus shutting out both bailiffs. Mr. Macrae, however, did not suoceed in em-tiring the keys, t.h,e<k> having been carried out. by the second bail ill. A few minutes aiterw-a,rds the. other man. having refreshed the inner man, returned tr> tho scene, and was dismayed at finding his companion outside, while Mr. Macrae, with a triumphant Hush of victory on his intellectual brow wa-

reconnoitring the exterior through one of the, Ijarred windows. The. kiilifl's. naturally indignant at the position of affairs, reproached Mr. Macrae for the trick he Jm.d played them an.l munnioned him in the name, of Her Majesty tho Queen aaid the Improvement CVmimis-sionea-.s to open the dooirs, to all of which Mr. .Macrae merely smiled in a manner that was cbildli\jt and bland. 'Hie bailiiTs then the buildinc with the ohjoct «.f discovering some means of ingress, but failing in this, one of 'them, on the t*ptir of Ulo moment.