OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19459, 5 November 1928, Page 9

OBITUARY.

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■-—» MR J. C. ADAMS. The death occurred on Saturday or Mr. J. C. Adama, at the ago of SI years. . Mr Jonathan Charles Adams was born at St. Paul's Vicarage, Devonport, England, in 1847. He obtained an open scholarship at "Winchester College and remained there for five years. He then proceeded to Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated as a Bacheidi of Arts. After spending some little time i:i coaching for the University, he came to New Zealand and settled in New Plymouth, where he estnWished with no small success a secondary school. Several of his pupils gained high positions in the junior and senior Civil Service examinations. From New "' Plymouth 'Mr Adams went to Auckland, where he taught for two years in the Parnell and Wellesley * street Schools. He was then: appointed headmaster at the Riverton District High School, holding that position for five years. Next he moved to a similar position at the Waimate District High School, where he also stayed for five years. " • , Mr Adams was afterwards appointed headmaster at the Normal School, Christchurch, a position from which he resigned after ten years' service. In 1903 he was elected as a member of the Canterbury College Board of Governors, being chairman of that body from 1908 to 1918 From 1918 until his resignation in 1924; Mr Adams acted as deputy-chairman of the Board. He also represented the Board on the Senate of the University of New Zealand. For a time he was a member of the Diocesan Board of Education and the Standing Committee of the diocese. Up to 1917 he was editor of tho "Church of England Men's Magazine (N Z. Edition)." He was also interested in athletics, being one of three men who introduced Rugby football into Tarariaki.' As an oarsman he rowed in the first whaleboat race in that province Mr Adams did sterling work during the war period, when he was actively engaged m managing the C.E.M.S. recreation marquees in Canterbury. He also helped at times in the C.E-M S. Institutes at Trentham and at Rotorua, where an institute wa* conducted for wounded men there. In conjunction with two other men in. Christchurch ,Mr Adams commpneed a campaign for building and eqipping the. C E.M.S. Institutes at Trenthn'm and Featherston, a campaign which resulted in the establishment of the Military Affairs Committee for the Dominion, with headquarters in Wellington.