Date of birth

Died

25 August 1945 at Timaru

Parents

Nicholas and Jane Thomas

Married

Ethel Margaret Jones 1905

Education

• Union Street (Dunedin)
• Waimate Primary School
• Waimate District High School

Career

• School teacher in South Canterbury rural schools
• Headmaster Pleasant Point District High School 1906-10
• Headmaster Waimataitai School 1910-13
• Rector Timaru Boys’ High School 1913-35
• Member of a group that investigated and reported to the Government on the University Entrance examination
• Chaired the Government’s consultative committee on post-primary school curriculum producing the “Thomas Report”. The report was hailed as the most important contribution made to secondary education

Honours

• Inaugural President of Timaru Rotary
  
• Rotary District Governor for New Zealand and Fiji
  
• Inaugural President of the first Crippled Children’s Society in New Zealand
  
• Inaugural President of the Heritage Organisation in South Canterbury

Last updated: 16 Sep 2021