PRIZE DAY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19724, 14 September 1929, Page 18

PRIZE DAY.

SPIRIT OF THE ROYAL NAVY. (raOJf OXTB. OVW COBBE3POJIMHT.) LONDON, Augiifst.,9. On Pris-.e Day at the Royal Hospital School, Green-wish, Earl Jellieoo i&spec' ted the boys and Lady Jellicoe distributed the prizes, one of which was offered by Mr E. E. Mills Joyce Uto. the boy held to be the most popular in the school." Mr Joyce was a scholar there from 1886-1891, and Lord Jellicoe recalled the fact that the donor of the prize had been a member of the Scott, the Shackleton, the Mawson, and the Endurance Antarctic Expeditions. Lord Jeilicoe referred to the pleasure it gave both Lady Jellicoe and himself to be present. For him there were special reasons. It brought back to him many old memories. He was at the Greenwich Naval College in 1879 50 years ago—and he recollected the pleasure it gave him as a sub-lieu-tenant to see the Greenwich Hospital School bovs inarching to the chapel on Sunday mornings headed by the grand drum-major; he noticed that the drummajor was as skilled in twirling his staff to-day as then. He also had one more opportunity of seeing the fine show put up by the boys at.the tournament at Olympic. This was due to several reasons; one was the keenness of the boys themselves, the splendid instruction given them, their sense of esprit de corps, and the desire to let people see what the school could turn out. Another reason he was pleased to be there was to hear of the great success which the school had achieved scholastically and athletically. During his 50 years in the Navy he (the Admiral) had had hundreds of boys under his command, and he had always found them to be the finest possible material. The boys of to-day had to carry on the great traditions of the school. If ever the spirit of the Roval Navy had been shown, it had been by the deeds of sailors during the Great War. Hte did not think that anvbodv could speak with greater knowledge of the men of the British Navy during the war years than himself, and he could only emphasis his pride in having* command of such men; they would remain in his memory as long as he lived.

"In so far as lam responsible for the educational side of the work of the Town Planning Department, I would like to take this opportunity," said Mr J. W. Mawson Director of Town Planning, in an address to the Xew Zealand Club at Wellington, "to refer to the whole-hearted help and support that I have had from the newspapers throughout the country I could not have wished for a better Press. On an average T get between twenty and thirtv Press cuttings per day, includ ing a considerable number of editorials Some of these editorials show a s:r;isp of the subject which leads me to believe that many competent town planners in the Dominion are to be found outside the ranks of the profession itself, and inasmuch as town planning depends entirely upon the creation of a sound public opinion. I face the future with unbounded confidence."