OBITUARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13996, 3 September 1909, Page 7

OBITUARY.

"MR J. H. SMITH. t. . The death occurred at Christchurch : «i Itedty of Mr J. H. Smith, who- : had be« . for some years a master at ;the Cbratdrarch Boys'- High School, _ 'and who/was for some time assistant • masterat tho Timaru Boys' : School. -\' Mr Smith, says the "Press." lw« in Christcburcb in 1863, ,vw edocated in this city, and speni '■Kwt .of jhis life Jhere. He entered as I a'fqflilk the Boys' High School at . "the-age'Taf. thirteen years, when it was '1881: <•, boy. hef was . itij cratkra* much - of ; the first of a Junior University becamff 1« v atnnmtatCanterhury College, where, he scholarsliif" - for Latin, tlie following " jMr -he took the Sl. A* Vdegreer with ' first-classxboiianrs in-; Greek'. and: Tlatin.. 'Later on ;hc was - appointed ■ssisfant- • liwfi I»l Jill TinnrirlTnti' Ilifh School .iakler.3lr' G..*J3ogben,stbe present In- ; t l afe ctor-CCTerar of Schools. : He re-,-'t <•- nained in .that jmitkaifor soroolyears, } aad n/1891''was appointed assistant-, ' r *astcrathis old -pdled; )to isk for^leave' «f ihwnw, and it' was hoped then that, to, resume' work thi* , jemr>.H«f-was a very-fwinstakinß ,aiid --t uwmitatipwnisstcr, and bp »r?^ap 6 .practicallr all hB time to 1 school work., *• either inside or^outside tlie school' - "His ,disposition made him' - s. meat favnarite >with, .the- boys, and - '"with hi« fellow-teachers also he was - *«y dStfteTitthe lateMrJE. G. Kerr, of Timan.,