TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 10

TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

A simple ceremony took place in tho hall of the Technical Collego yesterday morning when tho Dominion Day Medals wero presented to tho pupils. ■Mr T. W. Rowo, a member of the Board of Governors, who presided in the absence of the chairman, apologised for the absence both of tho Chairman of the Board and of the Mayor, who also had intended to bo present. Before presenting tho medals, he said thai. a year ago Sow Zealand had been raised to the status of a Dominion, and was no longer a little colony, depending on tho Motherland. Now Zealand had for many years been a self-governing colony, but it had grown beyond that, and was now a dominion. Tho Dominion, however, would only become great if tho peoplo exercised those qualities of self-restraint, justice, and fairness of dealing that had made tho Mother Country so great. If tho boys and girls of New Zealand wero endowed with those qualities, then the country would become really groat. The medals wero then presented to the pupils, and the ceremony camo to an end. His Worship tho Mayor, through a misunderstanding as to tho dato of the* presentation cf medals to the day ."scholars at the Technical College, was not present yesterday to, mako tho presentation! Tho Mayor explains that he understood that tho distribution was fixed for to-day. Ho regro.ts tho mistake, as he intended to havo made it clear that no discourtesy to tho Prime Minister was intended • by the CityCouncil in declining to proclaim a holiday to-day.