OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1937, Page 13

OBITUARY

tVJR. F. G. A. STUCKEY

The death took place at Dunedin recently of Mr. Frederick George Albert Stuckey, late senior inspector of schools in the Otago district, and former teacher in schools under the control of the Wellington Education Board. . _ . , Mr. Stuckey was born in England, and was the son of the owner of Stuckey's Bank, Bristol. He was educated at Brecon, one of the wellknown public schools, and while there won a mathematical scholarship which entitled him to go to 'Cambridge. Mr. Stuckey, however, was unable to avail I himself of this-opportunity, as, at the age of 19, he accompanied,his parents to New Zealand, where they took up farming near Levin. Mr. Stuckey unfortunately met with an accident there, and was forced to turn his attention to some other less strenuous form of occupation; so he studied with a view to taking up teaching. , „ . " , i After six months at the Levin School, Mr. Stuckey came to Clyde Quay as assistant master and remained there for two years. In 1893 he was transferred to Kaitara, Greytown, as headmaster/ and he occupied that position for six and a half years, until he received his last appointment with the Wellington Education Board, that of headmaster at Island Bay in February, 1000." ' . In later life he was appointed to the position of inspector, occupying that of senior inspector in the nui educational district before coming to Dunedin. In Dunedin he completed four and a half years of service before retiring in 1930. During his term of office Mr. Stuckey was able to realise one of his .greatest ambition? -wthe. reorganisation *of the. Port Chalmers School with, a staff of specialist teachers. He was a man of engaging personality, and successfully combined his'intellectual gifts with ability as an organiser aw administrator. He was a tireless worker in the cause of education, and his intimate knowledge of educational movements made his career a distinguished one. MR. A. R. HOGGARD One of Wellington's well-known citizens, Mr. A. H. Hoggard, died at his residence, Clarembnt Grove, yesterday. A son of Mr. John Farr Hoggard, who was Chief Postmaster, Mr. Hoggard was born in Wellington seventythree years ago. There is a wellknown print of Wellington in the sixties, showing the Hoggard house on The Terrace, standing in its town acre, surrounded by trees and looking down on the narrow beach where Whitcombe and Tombs'B building is today. Mr. Hoggard spent all his life in Wellington, and saw it change from the village of his youth to the city of hin old age. He was educated at the Terrace School and entered the office of the Union Steam Ship Company, remaining with the company -until his retirement seven years.ago. As a young man he was one of the founders of the Wellesley Club, of which he subsequently be-, came a life member. In 1883 he married Miss Louise Jennie Veal, who survives him, Messrs. E. and A. W, Hoggard, of Wellington; and C. Hoggard, of Dunedin, are sons, and Miss Bertha Hoggard and Mrs. A. D. Monro, daughters. MRS. R. S. GRAY i The death of Mrs. Mary Alice Gray occurred on Monday at her residence, 74 Salamanca Road. Born in Ballarat, Victoria,' she came to New Zealand with her late husband, the Rev. B. S. Gray, about forty-five years ago. During her husband's ministries at the Baptist churches in Nelson, Christchurch, and Dunedin, she endeared herself to a wide circle of friends throughout New Zealand. Her chief interests, outside her own home life, were the Girls* Bible Class movement and the Women's Missionary Union. .

Her eldest son, Mr. R. N. Gray, died in Melbourne last year, and a daughter, Miss Nora Gray (Wellington), and three sons, Mr.. Alan K. Gray (Wellington), Dr. Malcolm K, Gray (Christchurch), and Mr. W. Nelson Gray (Sydney) are the remaining members of her family. Miss L. B. Kersley (Wellington) is a sister and Mr. H. W. Kersley (Lower Hutt) a brother; there are eight grandchildren. The' interment took place at Karori this afternoon and was preceded by a service conducted by the Rev. L. Boulton Smith and the Rev. H. E. Edrldge. - :'