BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19970, 3 July 1930, Page 12

BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL.

OLD BOYS' ASSOCIATION. ANNUAL REUNION. About seventy-five High School Old Boys gathered at the annual reunion of the Association at Dixieland last night. The president (Mr A. D. Tench) was in the chair, and there were also present Mr G. J. Lancaster, headmaster of the Boys' High School, Dr. H. G. Denham, representing the Canterbury College Board of Governors, and the following representatives of other 01(1 Boys' Associations: Mr K. S. Murchison (Christ's College), Dr. B. H. Baxter (Otago Boys' High School), Messrs D. I, Mac Donald (Timaru Boys' High School), L. B. Palmer (Kelson College), J. Dowling (St. Andrew's College), and B. J. G. Collins (Wellington College). Proposing the toast of "The School," Mr Tench said they would all agree that the School bad exercised a great influence for good. It was a matter for congratulation that an old boy (the Hon. G. W. Forbes) had recently been appointed Prime Minister of New Zealand. Nor was this all, for the majority of the professional and business men of the community .were old boys of Boys' High School.

The toast was honoured with enthusiasm andl the well-known school hakas were given, together with the chorus of the school song, "Altiora Peto."

Replying, Mr Lancaster congratulated the Christ's College fifteen on its display and on its win that day. Not that he did not think that School had a good team; they had a very good one, and what was more, they had over 400 boys at the School playing Rugby as it should be played. At Boys' High School they tried to give every boy a chance. He referred to Old Boys' day on Labour Day, uad the jubilee next year. They were arranging a very comprehensive programme of celebration, extending over some days. He hoped to see a record attendance of old boys at the jubilee, and as a preliminary, at the Old Boys' day in October.' Mr A. M. Hollander, proposing the toast of "The Board of Governors," acknowledged the debt of the School and of old boys to the Board of Governors of Canterbury College. Dr. Denham, in reply, said he was present as a member ol the College Board, and also as an old boy. There was one thing the Board suffered from, and that was lack of cash. There wem many things which ought to be done at the School, and if the Board had failed it in any particular they would realise why it was. He suggested that the two hundred old boys leaving school each year should get together and make some kind of gift to the School. This would do much to help the present generation to carry on the traditions of the past. What little success he had achieved in life he owed almost entirely to the solid grounding he had received at Boys' High School. The toast of "The Masters" was proposed by Mr W. B. Lascelles. Boys' High School, he could confidently say, had been well served by its masters. Mr J. T. Burrows replied. He said that of the twenty-six on the staff of the school eleven were old boys. Mr B. E. Boag sponsored the toast of "Kindred Associations," to which Mr Murchison replied on behalf of the representatives present. Items were given by the Old Boys' Quartette, and by Messrs J. Young, A. Dey, O. Williamson, F. Page, and B. Munro.