IN MEMORIAM.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20490, 8 March 1932, Page 8

IN MEMORIAM.

THE REV. C. A. FRAER. ENDOWMENT OF £4OO PROPOSED. A decision to provide an endowment of £4OO for the Opawa Cliurch of England Open Air School, as a memorial to the Rev. C. A. Fraer, was made yesterday by the standing committee of the Association of the Love' of God. Canon J. E. Wilford presided at the meeting, which was, held at College House, and the following resolution was passed*— - "That this meeting" of the standing committee of the Association of the Love of God desires to'place on record its high appreciation of the life and work of Charles Anderson Fraer, priest. In their opinion the whole Church, of the province has suffered an almost irreparable loss. "While recognising .with great admiration and gratitude to Almighty God the wonderful work he did for the Maori people, and his self-sacrificing labours for the work of the Church as a whole, they feel it incumbent upon them to recognise that part of his work which they knew best. Much as he was occupied with the education of the children of his beloved Maoris, lie throw himself in his own large-hearted. way into educational work as a whole. Perhaps no priest in the whole province had studied so carefully the educational needs of the people of New Zealand, and for those who knew him as did the Association of the Love of God, he was a recognised authority on the past history, of the primary education of t&e Dominion. He knew that no solution could be found for) the present, intolerable position in any system which divorced the Bible from the school and on all occasions was ready fearlessly to proclaim this his life long conviction. "The rraer Memorial." "Feeling that the work he did for education should always be remembered, we propose to leave his .name for ever connected with it, by providing jjin endowment of four hundred pounds for the Opawa Church of England / Open-Air School, to be called the Association of the Love of God Fraer Memorial. We hereby resolve that this money as noon as the full amount is in hand, shall .be paid to the proper authorities with, the request that the interest '': be giveb half yearly to the vicar Aid vestry of St. Mark's, Opawa, to be used by them for the aforesaid Open air school. 3 ' "In the unlikely event of the Opawa 1 School not continuing, or of. its being taken out of the hands of the Church of England, directions are to be given that the fund should be allowed to accumulate until the school be re-opened, or a similar Church school be started in the neighbourhood. The sum that has meanwhile accrued in interest 6hall then be added to the capital and the interest on the new sum shall thereafter be paid half-yearly to the fresh venture. "It is our ambition that as time goes on others may add to the capital sum, until such day as the school may be wholly self-supporting, and a memorial worthy of its name, completed."