PRINCIPAL GRAY FAREWELLED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1301, 2 December 1911, Page 7

PRINCIPAL GRAY FAREWELLED.

VALEDICTORY FUNCTIONS AT TUB TRAINING COLLEGE,

Tho annual vacntior.al brcaking-up functions at tho Tenchen' Training Collotro took'place yesterday, when Mr, W'ln. Gray, Principal of the oolloiro, who mis been appointed principal ol' tho Presbyterian Ladies' College at Melbourne, was farowellwl by the stndents. At tho lormal ceremony in the morning Mr. Robert Leo, chairman of tho WeJlineton Jiducation Board, presidod, and there wore also present Professor T. A. Hunter, chairman uf tho Professorial Roard at Victoria Col. lege, and Proftwor J. RanUine-llrowu, Chairman of Classics; Dr. Awkrcon, Assistant 1 nspcctor-Goneral Schools; Mr. J. G. W. Aitkin, member; Mr. I'. H. llakewoll, inspector; aiwl Mr. G, L. SUiwnrt, secretary of tho Wellington huucation Hoard. Thero was u largo gathering of students, and the proceedings were markod by tUo utmost good letlinir toivarus th« retiring.Principal of the collogo. In tho course of nn interesting address, Mr. Lee referred lo the loss sustained to education in Now Zealand bv tho departure of Mr. Gray, whoso administration as Principal of tho college lia<l been so eminently Boccofsfnl. He had been a •'strong"" man, pasf"cssing in ii marked degree tho capacity for government nnd organisation, which, eombined with a personality which ciuned f«t him tho affection 'ami confidence of. those with whom ho came in oontac.t, had assisted to mako tho Training College the cfll. ciont institution it now was. 110 wished Mr. Gray every success in his new sphero, (Applause.) Interesting luldwws hot w dclivorod bv Principal Gray, Profassor Hunter, and Dr. Anderson.