Otago High School Reunion.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 5

Otago High School Reunion.

, Reminiscence, and especially tlia praise •of . "famous men, .Masters of the Col< lego," were the order of-tho evening af a raunioil of Otago,High School "Old Boys," held in 3 VEooms, Cuba Street, last evening: There wero about seventy old boys present, and apologies wore read from naif as many mora Those present represented every year of the school's' history,' from: the foundation, year, 18G3, when tho.Mayor,,o f Welling, 'ton, the Hon. T. : Wi, Hielop', chairman of tho gathering, 'was, a scnokir, until 1906. < Colqnel Robin, C.8., who commenced his military career, in the Otago High Sohool'- Cadet Corps, and Lieut.-Colonel Bauchop. C.M.G., responded to tho toast f of "The Imperial' Forces," raovjd by . Mr. ,K. D.. Bell. Colonel Robmfound significance in this new name for a toast which. several years ago., would,' havo been called " The Army,. Navy, and Volunteers."' We'wfcre low part of,,an. Imperial whole, a fact which could ltbb be' too woll remembered. What waa' needed now was to: instil - a patnotiofeeling into 1 the people of New Zealand, which should lead to sacrifice if need bey. ■ ' Lioutonant-Colonel Baucliop also urges the point ,that our sOktierß in Ne\r;Zeiy land were as, truly part of, the EmpireV forces 'as any . soldiers that had , eve/ shipped out .of England, lie described . his meeting with an old, Otago Higk ' School boy on the banks of the Lim< popo, and--reminiscences that wore ex* . changed.■, ' V.;.;, 7 ; Tho Chairman, in proposing the toasS/ of the Otago High Scliool, went tails of its early history, and extolled* the sense of fairness and high-minded-ncss that had beo.n' instilled into , its scholars. Messrs. G. N. Morris .and G; Hendry responded:to this toast, ' Mr. J?. H: Bakowell', in proposing ths health of "Our Guests," made special . roferonco to Sir Robert Stout; K.C.M.G., of whom it might ; be said that in education,; letters, politics, l and law, thera' was nothing that he had not touched; and he had touched nothing ho had not adorned. '• i ; . Sir Robert, in replying to , the toast, said that lie though it wonderful that , there should bo so many old Dimodin Iligh School hoys in Wellington. When lie Jsnow Wellington first, thirty yottre-j. ago, thero .were hardly anv Duncdm;< people in it. Now, if lie might, put- it, that way,, liesupposed that thero,woro |' mofo Ohigo/"people ' in this city ' than \ the'ro^'ere'Wellington people. 116 cor-, • dially endorsed a previous remark, thai . it was the masters who made a school and said that certainly they had ma'dt -the Otago High School, which had bet>n second ,to none , in the prodilction-of. scholars and men .of weight in the 7 'countrv. 1 "Out-"of the four Bhodci-ScholnW'-frott'-.Non'.i&sal.attd, three , had como from tho High' School of Duiicdin, Sir Robert stilted that he )unisel£ hod-, never- bcefi'.out•of office, ill somo educational capacity since his laiiding 111 tho 'Colony. It'was'not wealth or size that made a nation, but its educated men.v , Tho Hon. J. K. Sinclair, SI.L.C. (Chairmhn'of tho Board of Governors-of-tho pohool) hnd Mr.:A. Wilsoli, a past rector, ( . also responded to the toast. ■ •> Other 1 healths wero honoured, and several sonss and recitations givor : by "old boys" '