ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 122, 25 May 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE.

A WORTHY RECORD. Jubilees are precious in New Zealand, in which scarcely an institution may yet 'boast a hundred years of life, and it was not to be thought that the jubilee of St. Patrick's College, c\cbrated in Wellington recently, should pass without an adequate permanent memento. "St. Patrick's College, 18S319:55: The Record of Fifty Years," a book of 200 pages, which has been produced by the Old Boys' Association, may, without exaggeration, be described as a model for all similar publications. It will be treasured most by old boys of the college who will read between the lines, but an outsider can admire its literary quality, its completeness, and, more than anything else, the spirit, at once devoted and joyful, which permeates its pages. The book contains not only an account of the circumstances in which the college (the first Catholic secondary school in the Dominion) was founded, full records of the principal events in its life year by year, chapters devoted to the personal character and influence of each of its rectors, and contributions by Archbishop O'Shca and Father Martindale, but also a roll of all its students, with particulars of each, including his present occupation and address. The compilation of such a roll, an exceedingly difficult feat, indicates sufficiently the enthusiasm and thoroughness of Hi" editors. There are in addition finelyreproduced photographs of every rector and of Archbishop O'Shea, and etchings of the late Archbishop Redwood, done in his ninety-sixth year, and others of the old college and tho now. These etchings, as also various appropriate decorative pieces in the book, are by Mr. F. V. Ellis, A.R.C.A., whose portrait of Archbishop Redwood has been presented by the Old Boys' Association to the National Art Gallery. In all, it is a volume rich both in interest and in quality, of which any school in any part of the world might bo proud. '