A Good Innings

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 6

A Good Innings

EX-PUPILS of the Christchurch Boys' High School will all, with one accord, wish J. R. Montgomery the best of everything. For J.R.M. has retired. At last he Is able to enjoy the leisure to which his years of solid, hard work have entitled him. There's more than six feet of Montgomery — and he's built to match his height. A sportsman, too. You can be sure of the fact that now, with plenty of time to spare, he'll wear out a few pairs of shoes tramping around after the wee white ball. Mathematics constituted his star line. He knew figures and tamed them to, resolve themselves into weird problems for his entertainment. "Big Dick" has finished teaching, but the knowledge he has imparted and the help he has been to hundreds of boys have done much to make Christchurch the go -ahead -'place it is to-day. For Montgomery believes, and rightly so. that the schoolboy of to-day is the citizen of to-morrow; that the duties of a schoolmaster are more than teaching writing and arithmetic. He has produced good citizens.