CHRIST'S COLLEGE OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12014, 15 October 1904, Page 8

CHRIST'S COLLEGE OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION.

Nearly one liundred members of ttw Cl/ri.st'.s' College Old lioyb . Association, attuided tho annual meeting held in the big schoolroom evening. Ttia chair was occupied by the Key. \V. S. Jfean. 'l'ne annual report, a summary of which has bfcn publL«lte<l, was adopted. "!...-> hilanee-yhtvt. (adopted) showed that the receipts for the year had bcfii £130 (Xs Id, ;«nd tho expenditure £122 17s 2d, leaving a credit balance of £7 2s lid. The following officers were elected: — President, -Mr (.i. Harris.; Couunitteo. Mwsrs T. D. Coiukll, A." i:. Flower, ¥. I. CowliMhaw. .7. C. X. Urigg, J. 1 , . Wa< hsmann, W. A. Duy. R. "Vincent, I' , . S. Harley, K. R, Webb, and tho Rev. W. S. Bean." 'Ihe okction of the secret.-iry and tivasurer, and the assistant secretary, was left to tho Committee. Tho Rev. \V. S. Bean, in proposing tho toast of '■Chrisfs College," sketched the history of tliu College from its commencement, in 1857 to tho present day. The Rev. C. H. Morelatid, headmaster, in replying to the toast, said that he had appreciated very much the cordiality with which the old* boys of the school lina always received him. When he lin?t came, he was very much struck by tho good feeling that existed at the school, and fey tho intense feeling of Inanity towards the school on t'lio . part of tbo ■ hoys. Sometimes ho h.-id allowed a vrwion to preisenti itself to his mind of tho splendid quodrangl* rather changed from its present state. He had pictured in his mind a large library, which* would really bo worthy of the 3chool, and a> place that -would really eiicourago boys to develop nioro tlvs intellectual side of their life, and he ventured to picture beyond that library a couple of good boarding-houses. The cost would be great, but it, seemed to him that a unit-ed effort emild produce r*>methin<r. Ho belii'ved that -wris a su?s:o*tioti whicli lie should like to lnt sink into the miiute f>f eomo of those who were roally interested in the .school. It would be a great delight to all those, who were interested in the school to see •'the quadrangle completed in the way which he believed tlie original founders must have hnd before their mind's eye. For the last twenty years he had been present at school sports in England, and he-could «iy that thenumber of entries for each race he-Id at the sporte that afternoon was very much in excess, considering the number of lwys at the schoo.l, of tlse entries which he ha/i seen at the different sports for ycairs past. A numheT of lantern views, tlluttrating tho early history of the school, were shown by >[r E. R. Webb. , Tho toa-'t of 'Tho Masters" was pro-jTOse-.l by Mr George Harper, and responded to by Mr Moreland, Canon Hare, and ollht niasterc. Upon the motion of Mr E. B. Milltoii, p resolution was adopted asking tho commitdeo to take into consideration the question of establishing a challenge cup for 'ho encouragement of shooting among the Cadet Corpa of tho colony.