OBITUARY.
MR. JAMES REID.
There passed away at Dunedin recently Mr. James Reid,, one of New Zealand's pioneers, who was associated with the early history of secondary education in Auckland, and who later was well known in the educational world in Otago. Mr. Reid was a native of Forfarshire, Scotland, and was educated at the Arbroath High School. He was afterwards assistant to Mr. F. McCrae, of the Auckland Grammar School, and then for a time manager of a quartz-crushing company at Thames. He resumed teaching at Taieri Beach, Otago, and .later went to the North-East Valley, Dunedin. Mr. Reid was then appointed rector of the Milton High- School. He was one of the first, if not the first, to start woodwork and agricultural chemistry classes in connection with a Government school. Mr. Reid was an elder of the Presbyterian Church.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17649, 9 December 1920, Page 8
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