DEATH OF MR. C. W. GARRARD

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 10

DEATH OF MR. C. W. GARRARD

SENIOR INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. AFTER SHORT ILLNESS. After 47 years' service with the Education Department, Mr. C. W. Garrard, senior inspector of schools of Auckland district, died suddenly last evening, after a very brief illness. It was only last month that the announcement was made that Mr. Garrard would retire on super-, animation on March .'ll. Mr. Garrard was born in Nelson, (>I years ago, his parents having come from England and settled in that district. Mr. Garrard was educated at the Normal School and the Boys' High' School, Christehurch. He joined the Education Department in JBS."i as a pupil teacher at the Richmond School, . Christehurch North, where he remained for four years. He next entered the Training College in the Cathedral City and obtained lii<s B.A. degree. He was assistant teacher at Kaiapoi for nine years, and then headmaster at Papanui for a similar term. Ke came to Auckland 23 years ago. During the iirst fourteen years he was a staii' inspector, and up till the present time has been the senior officer, attaining that position in 1921. For the past three years, Mr. Garrard had served on the Council of Education, having been appointed by the Minister for that Department. Mr. Garrard also made a name in the national sports lield. While in Canterbury he represented the province both as a cricketer and Rugby footballer, and also gained Dominion honours. His sons, Messrs. D. R. and W. R. Garrard, are the well-known Auckland representative cricketers, and his daughter is the wife of Mr. Warwick Smeeton, another representative cricketer. Mr. Garrard also took an active interest in bowling, and was for 10 years a member of the Auckland centre of the New .Zealand Bowling Association. Mrs. Garrard has taken a prominent part in the Y.W.C.A. organisation in Auckland. One of the most outstanding things in the career of Mr. Garrard, from the educational point of view, was his initiation of the system whereby the big city schools adopted small ones in the country. Samples of the work are forwarded, and every possible help given to t-!ic teachers a way from town. This has proved of great assistance in helping country teachers in the matter of modern up-to-date methods of tuition.