HANDED TO TRUST

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 13

HANDED TO TRUST

ST. PETER'S SCHOOL. FOUNDER'S £100,000 GIFT. MR. BROADHURST'S DECISION. Kepreeenting a gift of over £100,000, Mr. A. F. B. Broadhurst has handed over to a board of four private trustees the whole of hie interests in St. Peter's School, Cambridge. In design, equipment and curriculum, St. Peter's is considered one of the outstanding preparatary schools of the Empire, and Mr. Broadhurst'e decision to perpetuate his ideals in the form of a trust k regarded as a munificent gesture to New Zealand education. Surrounded by a wealth of old trees on an elevated site, the main block is arranged in the form of a horse-shoe enclosing a quadrangle, and this group k flanked by the chapel on the one side and the gymnasium on the other. Cloisters in the rear of the main building lead to other essential blocks. The handsome cricket pavilion looks across a natural sports ground of eight acres, and a full-sized swimming bath, built on the most up-to-date principles, is also provided. The first trustee* are Mr. Broadhurst Mr. T. A. H. Oliphant, solicitor, of Auckland, Mr. X. M. P. Gibson, headmaster of Dilworth School, Auckland, and Professor W. Riddet, of Massey College, Palmereton North. Under the deed of trust and subject to reasonable conditions, each trustee has the right to nominate his successor. During hie lifetime or until he retires, Mr. Broadhurst will continue to be headmaster. Provision is made for the maintenance of the school as at present carried on by Mr. Broadhurst for the education of boye up to 14 years of age, and in special cases up to 15 years. Scholars are to obtain a sound, intellectual, classical, mathematical, manual, physical and general education of a junior nature. Provision k made also for nonsectarian religion* instruction for all scholars, subject, however, to special arrangements for religious instruction in accordance with the teaching of th< Chureh of England. Pull facilities ar« and will be granted foF the scholars oi other denominations to attend their re epective places of worship. The echool wae officially opened ir February, 1936, by the Minister ol Education, the Hon. P. Fraser. It repre

eented the fruits of the enthusiasm of Mr, Broadhuret who, 14 yeare ago, while a director of the Manchester firm of Tootal, Bcoadhurst, Lee, Limited, began to interest himself in the education of boye. He reeigned his directorship, and after eight years' teaching in English schools determined to found a school of hi* own and finally chose the site of Gwynnelands, near Cambridge.