Ship’s Bell For School
1 A protracted search by the I board of St. Mattliew s Victory Memorial School for a warship’s bell has ended with one from the cruiser Royalist made from a 5.25 in shell case. As the school was built as a diosesan war memorial after World War I, the board had hoped for a bell from a warship of that period. But inquiries made with many organisations, including the Admiralty and Lloyds of London, failed to procure one. Captain J. N. Allan, R.N.Z.N.V.R. formerly commander of the Canterbury division of tlie reserve, was for a short while a member of the board and after fruitless search for a bell he presented the school with the one fashioned from a shell case. “The Victory Record,” a booklet annually published by the school, said die board intended the warship’s bell to be “a vocal reminder that nothing worthwhile is achieved without sacrifice, and that we in our generation owe all that we are to those who have gone before us.’’
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30316, 17 December 1963, Page 24
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