LATE MR GRUNDY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 6

LATE MR GRUNDY

STRIKING TRIBUTE PAID AT FUNERAL. “PASSING OF A GREAT MAN.” A striking tribute to the esteem in which the late Mr W. T. Grundy was held by the community was paid at his funeral, which took place yesterday. The service at the residence of Mr and Mrs W. G. Lamb, Herbert Street, was conducted by the Rev E. J. Rich. There was a large and representative attendance of residents. The pall-bearers at Masterton were DrArcher Hosking, Messrs G, R. Sykes, R. A. Cameron, E. W. Payton, and H. M. Boddington (all old pupils of Mr Grundy during his term in Masterton) and Mr E. G. Eton. The chief mourners were Mrs Grundy, Miss F. Evans (half-sister), Mrs Foden, Senr. (sister-in-law), Dr N. A. Foden (nephew), Mr E. Foden (nephew) and Mr J. P. Perry (Alfredton). The children of the Central School lined the road on each side outside the school as the hearse passed by on its way to the Crematorium, Karori.

Headmasters and ex-headmasters, school inspectors and ex-school inspectors, old boys and “old girls” from the Masterton and the Clyde Quay Schools assembled at the crematorium to pay their last tributes to Mr Grundy, who was for 27 years headmaster of the Clyde Quay School. After the hearse arrived from Masterton, the old boys of the Clyde Quay School formed into lines on either side of the pathway to the crematorium chapel, so that the remains passed through a lane of mourners.

The pall-bearers were Dr D. Macdonald Wilson (president of the Clyde Quay Ex-pupils’ Association), Mr J. J. Rogers (present headmaster of the Clyde Quay School), Mr W. H. Phillips (chairman of the Clyde Quay School Committee), Messrs A. R. Hislop, W. lorns, and Frank Wilson (ex-pupils of Clyde Quay School). At the conclusion of the service, the Rev N. F. E. Robertshawe said that they had gathered to see the passing from this world of a great man whose example and teaching no doubt had helped many present to mould their lives and characters. His life was at once a lesson and an ideal. Members of tne teaching profession would do veil to live up to that ideal, and to value the virtues of personal example and manners, manners particularly, as they helped so much to form a correct attitude toward life. They had to thank God for having given them a man of such character.

Among those present were the Hon W. Perry, M.L.C., Messrs G. G. G. Watson/W. Wilson, W. Duncan, D. Griffen (secretary of the ex-pupils’ association), C. M. Luke, C. H. Bellamore, E. W. Kellow, H. S. Fairchild, H. A. Parkinson, P. Costin Webb, R. Darroch, W. Hildreth, J. Howarth (president of the headmasters’ association), J. H. O’Donnell (representing the Wellington Bowling Club), C. H. Nicholls, W. H. Jackson and A. C. Blake (members of the Wellington Education Board), F. R. Coombs, J. B. Hopkirk. D. H. Wilmot, R. Kean. R. W. Jacobs. A. Burns (ex-school inspectors), H. Plimmer, W. W. Bird (exschool inspector), P. J. G. Smith (secretary to the Minister of Education, now in the south), Dr C. E. Beeby (assistant Director of Education), J. W. Mcllraith (Education Department), Mesdames Oakes, Turner and Tracy (ex-Clyde Quay School pupils), H. M. Boddington (representing the ex-pupils of the Masterton School), Mr and Mrs W. Burton, J. K. Eadie, A. B. Chartres.