NEW HEADMASTER

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 62, 14 March 1934, Page 7

NEW HEADMASTER

SCOTCH COLLEGE, MELBOURNE

MR. C: M. GILRAY SAID TO BE :..;. APPOINTED

' , . (By, Telegraph) ■; (Special;to the "Evening Post.") "• ". ; DUNEDrN,\Maich 13. ; "Unofficial cabled advice flvas received from Melbourne this afternoon that Mr. Colin M. Gilray, principal of the John McGlashan College, had been appointed headmaster of the famous Scotch. College, Melbourne, -which has a roll of over 1000 pupils. ' Mr. Gilray, •when approached, stated that he had no such intimation, and that the appointment was not to be'made until March 21, when the General Assembly of the Church would meet. ' There seems, however, no doubt that the information received, though unofficial, is authentic. Mr. Gilray, who is 49 years of age, has had a distinguished career,. academic, athletic, and military. Entering the Otago Boys' High School in 1898, he became junior university scholar in 1902 and 1903, and proceeded to the university in 1904, graduating B.A. in 1907, in whicli year he was president of the Students' Association. In 1907 he proceeded to Oxford University as New Zealand Rhodes scholar, and in 1910 he took his B.A. (Oxon.) with honours in Literae Humaniores, that is, the final classic school. From 1910 to 1912 Mr. Gilray was a master at Mill Hill School, near London, one of the many great public schools of England, and at the same time he read for the law, being called to the Bar in 1913. He then returned to New Zealand and pr-ffctised law until 1915, when he left for England and took a commission in the famous Rifle Brigade. From August, 1916, to September, 1917, he was on active service in France, and he was invalided to England and awarded the Military Cross. From December, 1917, until the Armistice he was engaged in training Cadets for commissions at Cookham, near Aldershot. ' Mr. Gilray's athletic career is well known. It began with his membership and captaincy of the Otago Boys' High School first fifteen. At the school, too, he held the athletic challenge cup for two years. At the university he was a Rugby and athletics representative and a member of the South Island and All Black fifteens. During his stay in England he added further laurels, for he gained his Blue at Oxford and his international cap for Scotland. In 1919 he returned to New Zealand and became a partner in the legal firm of Reid, Rutherford, and Gilray, of Milton. He was appointed principal of the John MeClashan. College in 1923.