TERRACE SCHOOL

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10286, 22 May 1919, Page 3

TERRACE SCHOOL

HEAD-MASTER RETIRES. '

Mr G. MacMorraa, headmaster of ths Terrace School, has resigned, after an association of thirty-five years wiuh the school, where he entered on’ his duties so long ago as May, 1884. Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Mr MacMorran was educated at the Biggar Town School, and at the Free Church Training College and the Andersonian University, Glasgow. He was for some time tutor iuvihe Mlowoston Training College, London, and afterwards junioi master in' tho Highland Society School, Glasgow. Coming to New,. Zealand in 1881, he acted ior two years-hs assist-ant-master at tho Mount Cook Boys' School, and was then transferred to tho Terrace School. -Mr MacMorran is r.n active member of the Educational Institute. of which he was president iu 1889. ,

Referring, at yesterday’s meeting of the Education Board, to Mr MacMor* rail’s retirement, the chairman (Mr T. Forsy-Ji). stated that it could not te accepted without special notice, as Mr Jlac-Momm was exceedingly well known in the city and his work was very highly appreciated. The number of names on the Terrace School’s honour board, he added, showed more plainly than anything else the value of Mr MacMorran’s scholastic training. They also had evidence of his popularity ot frequent occasions, when old, students had rallied round him in connection with patriotic and other movements. Mr MacMorran had been highly successful in every way, and he moved that the secretary be asked to frame a motion embodying the_ sentiments he had expressed, the motion to be minuted mid a copy to be sent to Mr MacMorran.

Mr E. A. Wright, M.P.; said that the retiring headmaster was beloved and respected by all who had passed through his hands. The people of Wellington, ho was sure, would eu> dorse the chairman’s motion'.

Mr R. McCallum, 31. P., also paid a high tribute to Mr MacMorran. H« had known him for more than thirty years, and ho was* kindly and intelligent man who hatF won the confidence of the education authorities. Wellington had been particularly fortunate in having such headmasters as Messrs Grundy, Clement Watson, and M»c--3lorran. It was.upon men like these that the Government should bestow honours, not on the military men. The motion was carried unanimously.