LATE MR JAMES McRAE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22785, 8 January 1944, Page 6

LATE MR JAMES McRAE

Well-known Teacher

Mr James Mcßae, who was headmaster of the Pleasant Point District High School at the time of his death recently. w T as well known throughout the Dominion.

Bom at Taieri. Otago, 56 years ago, the son of Mr M. Mcßae, he moved with his parents to Hawke’s Bav when a child, and received his education at Otane School and Napier Boys’ High School. later proceeding to Victoria University College. His first teaching appointment w’as 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 Bovs’ High School, being engaged in later years at Tapanui. Palmerston and Pleasant Point District High Schools as headmaster. He held this last appointment for a few months onlv. Mr Mcßae served with the rank of captain in the Wellington Regiment during the last war. He married Miss Elizabeth Tait Montgomery in 1919 at Melrose. Scotland, and is survived by his widow and two sons.

Keenly interested in sport, Mr Mcßae also concerned himself in 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 Union, 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.

A large and representative gathering of Otago and South Canterbury residents attended the funeral at Pleasant Point cemetery when the Rev. I. Dixon, assisted by the Rev. W. French, of Palmerston, conducted the service. Piper J. Munro played a lament.