OTAKI SCHOLAR HERE

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 2

OTAKI SCHOLAR HERE

St. Andrew’s College

Welcome

When he welcomed Grant A. T. Allan, the 1960 Otaki scholar, to St. Andrew’s College yesterday, the rector, Mr L. W. Stewart, said it was a red letter day for the school for also with them was Mr J. S. Rumbold, an old boy of St Andrew’s and a 1940 Rhodes Scholar. Grant Allan and Mr Rumbold travelled to New Zealand on the same ship, the Rangitan e, about three weeks ago; The 18-year-old Scot who was wearing a kilt of Fraser tartan, was met at the college gate by the college pipe band and piped up the driveway to the main entrance, where the school was assembled. After the welcome he was enterained at morning tea. Later he and Mr Rumbold each planted a tree in the grounds of the college chapel. Grant Allan is the guest of a college prefect while he is in Christchurch. Mr Stewart said that Grant Allan was school captain at Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, and had been a school prefect in 1958 and 1959. He intended going to Aberdeen University where he would specialise in mathematics and physics.

In acknowledging the welcome. Grant Allan told the assembled school of Robert Gordon’s College with its roll of about 1000. He was agreeably surprised at the weather here. At this stage of the winter in Scotland there would be six or seven feet of snow. Yesterday Grant Allan visited the Christchurch airport and later was taken on a trip to North Canterbury Today he will call on the Mdyor (Mr G. Maiming) and the local manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd. (Mr G. F. Phillips). He will be taken to Akaroa and in the evening will visit units of the Boys’ Brigade in Christchurch. Tomorrow morning he will leave Christchurch for Dunedin and Invercargill.