Australian Education Posts

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 159, 8 July 1938, Page 3

Australian Education Posts

NOTED NEW ZEALANDERS MELBOURNE, Juno 29. The recent appointment of Mr. Joseph Richard Sutcliffe, headmaster of Scots College, Wellington, to the important post of head of tho Church of England Grammar School in Melbourne is another evidence of tho high regard in which New Zealanders aro held by the educational authorities in Australia. Mr. Sutcliffe, a native of Bulls, is still in the early' forties. After a brilliant scholastic career at Palmerston North, ho won a bursary and entered Victoria College, Wellington, where he took his degree of Bachelor of Science. Melbourne has honoured several New Zealanders by choosing them for high educational appointments. Scotch College, Melbourne, with a roll of between 1200 and 1300, is the largest seat of learning in Australia, and ranks, it is said, as the second largest in tho Empire. The man who brought this college to the pinsacle of success was the late Dr. Littlejohn, a former teacher and later principal of that nursery of genius, Nelson College. On Dr. Littlejohn’s death the vacancy went to a New Zealander—Mr. Colin Gilray, of McGlashan College, Dunediu, a Rhodes Scholar for 1907.

Another of the bright constellation of New Zealanders in Melbourne is Mr. William Gray, former principal of the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. He is a native of Milton, Otago, and, following many' posts held by him in the educational system of Otago, he became chief inspector of schools at Wanganui and later principal of Wellington Training College in 1906. Mr. Gray had a distinguished career as head of Presby'terian Ladies’ College. Sydney is not behindhand in its appreciation of New Zealanders in the educational world. Scotch College, Sydney, cannot boast of the large roll of the college in its sister city, but the range of its buildings and appointments and its 500 pupils, establishes it as one of Australia’s great scats of learning. The man who controlled its destinies for many years was Mr. James Bee, a native of Oamaru. Mr. Bee was at one time a teacher in Wellington Boys’ College. On his retirement a few years ago another New Zealander was chosen to succeed him. Mr. A. K. Anderson is a native of Southland, and filled many important positions in Southland and Otago. In addition to his educational qualifications he was a. valuable coach in sport and shooting at the schools at which he held positions.