MR JAMES McRAE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25430, 11 January 1944, Page 4

MR JAMES McRAE

Mr James Mcßae, whose death has occurred, was headmaster of the Pleasant Point District High School. He was well known throughout the Dominion. Bom at Taieri 56 years ago, the son of Mr H. Mcßae, he moved with his parents to Hawke’s Bay when he .was a child, and received his education at Otane School and Napier Boys’ High School, later proceeding to Victoria University College. His first teaching appointment was at the Waipukurau District High School in 1906, and he served with the Hawke’s Bay Education Board at Matawai, Wairoa, Woodville, and Otane, and also at the Napier Boys’ High School. He was engaged in later years at' the Tapanul, Palmerston, and Pleasant Point District High Schools as headmaster. He held the last appointment for only a few months. Mr Mcßae served with the rank of captain in the Wellington Regiment in the last war. He married Miss Elizabeth Talt Montgomery in 1919 at Melrose, Scotland, and is survived by his widow and two sons. He was keenly interested in sport, and he also concerned himself with the welfare of the community in which he was residing. At the time of his leaving Palmerston, after a residence there of eight years, he was chief of the Highland Society, member of the Rugby Subunion, past president of the R.S.A., chairman of the Patriotic Entertainment Committee, and major in charge of the Home Guard. He had also served on the Palmerston Borough Council.