HAROLD WILLIAMS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21709, 17 February 1936, Page 9

HAROLD WILLIAMS

' T9 O, *» I’RESS. * letter appearing in The ' Sir-r A f Monday February 10. .over press of M a^ }d ximaruvian. has signafure oi not i C e. your corfeen has suggested by inference V h d f Lfe Harold Williams altlia { - l h nne 0 f the world s greatest Imoerhaps its greatest £9l- - a ™Jg correspondent, was igold school, which prenpred hjy i+s athletes. This I canP,,lTgo uSallenged. The not being mentioned W en iubfee of his old school is. as at rpiff ascertain, quite accurate; jar a® l fnfprnr elation of the reasons U tbe J ik3on is far from correct. for the policy of all spea . kel ? at 11 wa fri t ous functions to refrain from the various achievements of old lhc S es . l thc Wriwsoapers an d find that there local PWjffrP bv Mr Thomas, the i 9 of theboard of governors, Coresident of the Old Boys’ Asor of individual old boys. The 60C the jubilee of the school, was rightly placed on and; happened within the school. was madS only to boys and B !^*rs C and their doings when at All were placed on the one There were no distinguished just so many masters and boys Cl A Sal of I the' files of the school A peruSß * ‘trimaruvian, will rewaf the fact that the doings of Harold Williams* have been closely followed Williams d r ven t U re to sug- °^ r fhKn examination of the foU , ge lliLes;-AuguU. 1907. pages 25ir&ecember, 1917. pages 35-37; and s,ril 1929 pages 8-11. will supply the i P M Complete record of his life that jm been published in New Zealand. Sthcr reference will be found m this year’s magazine which is now .in Ihi hands of the printer. May I point S that by reference at school assemSs and by articles in the schools SJ publieationa, the Timwu Boy.' Hieh School has done its part to hon--2 a Seat man much more decorously Zn if it had used his name to draw Stlon to itself. It should be reSobered, too. that the achievements of Harold Williams, though of greater worth than those of distinguished athlete? were of a type that does not admit of spectacular attention. In consequence of this and of the innate modesty of the man, the doings of Harold Williams did not occupy much space in the daily press. We acknowledge Harold Williams to be our most renowned old boy, and future geneiations of pupils will continue to read his name op the school honours board and his record in the bound copies of the "Timaruvian.”—Yours, etc.. A. G. TAIT. Rector, Timaru Boys’ High School. Timaru. February 16, 1936.