Mr Nash's Christmas Card

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 16

Mr Nash's Christmas Card

(From Our Own Reporter)

WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. For his Christmas card, which is now being sent out to a wide range of friends and acquaintances, the retiring Prime Minister (Mr Nash) has chosen a fine coloured study of Mount Sefton. Instead of the usual verse, there are two. One, entitled “The Mountain,” extols- the lure of climbing peaks, and ends: “Man has climbed the highest moun-tain-can he not attain the serene summit of peace?” The second verse, an extract from “In Memoriam,” by Tennyson. reads: “Ring out the old, ring tn the new. Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go: Ring out the false, ring in the true. “Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife. come down—Cr. Morrison said it was a pity the site had not been thought of sooner. “A lot of money will be wasted but you cannot get an empty site to the proper place in Wellington,*’ he said.

Ring tn the nobler modes of life, t With Sweeter manners, purer laws. ! ’’Riny out false pride in place and blood. The civic slander and the spite. Ring in the love of truth and riaht, : Ring in the common love of good. ’ “Ring in the valient man and free. The larger heart, the kindlier hand, ■ Ring out the darkness of the land, ' Ring in the Christ that is to be.” Dismission One of the youngest high schools in Christchurch brought into use an old and rarely used term last night when the Aranui High School held its first annual “dismission.” The headmaster (Mr W J. A. Brittenden), who found the word to a dictionary, said it conveyed a much better interpretation of the occasion than did "prize-giving” or “break-up.” When the school has a sixth form and pupils completing a full course, the dismission would be made a more ceremonial function.