WELLINGTON COLLEGE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 6

WELLINGTON COLLEGE.

OLD BOYS' .DINNER. ' V : 'Old Boya of Wellington CoUego foregattwicd at the Hotel < Windsor last veiling, the ocea- . ; bemg th« Hixteenth imnual dianar of tlw WolWon. College OJ[d;Boyrf Association. Hr. "v H. Denton, (president) .was in the chair, end there was .a very.good attendance of membere. i.ho guestof th# evening was Mr. *11-" ?? Zealand Ehodee Scholar for 1903, and an old boy of Wellington College The .toast list was a fairly brief one, there bemg but fivaßubjeots, including tho loyal toast rfoboay. mado very, long or vary; portentous speeofl? 3 .' being ;more disposed to congenial -reminiscence than to erring serious attention .to wordy perorations.•'. . . "I'h? Old; School" was proposed by the chairman m a felicitous spoech, in which he re-' viewed, with evident pride,- the history and progress of the coHeao. • The toast viae- responded to by Mr. /. P. Firth, headmaster, who suggestively hinted that if "the sum of £181 Is. wero available the \ college sports gronnds could .be, completed and bTought fully ■ oompany smiled. .-. Mr. Firth '.concluded Jus.remarks with a felicitous refei- >?;• ™ ol d pnpfl, Mr. Allan' who was -the second ;.Wonington College Old Boy. tOj-be. ■ awarded the -distinction of representing Now Zealand at Oxford; Mr I> VW ' Robertson, being first. (Applause.) ' . ProfessOT_ Kirk_briefly!. proposed the health I ® ho( ' ra Scholar, and hoped that Mr. I ri 0t f S i ' I tn , ,ad °° m P'eted his courses ' at P x % all d:elsewhere;: would-return 'to"the ranks of .-New. Zealand citizens. He hinted that there were compelling influences that rendered ■ his.••-ultimate- return moro. than -probable. (Laughter.).- Mr. also spoke to the -toast,. and, expressed the opinion generally accepted that the. candidates for tho "Rhodes't.ii.s;year, were a; really .fine lot of young - fgl01V,; lf T P® iv-as enthusiastically honoured,: • and Mr. raodestlj* responded. - , P'!j? r '-toajf. w ore: "The. Navy r and' Arm v - and - proposed -by . Mr'. ' D J - •% .and :to 'by Messrs. E. C. r tv yy) r a-r B " i& Bhor (A ™y), antl W. ff'raSrV Forces);: "Beminiscencoj ?U? ,d '. C ?% e : ®*Jp . (?r- Martin and Mr. L Jraetme). > Musical and: other items were' conhibuted -by •-Mmw.-.-R Blow. ,A.- CumminS I' w o s '™ • K<mn7 ; F - : Pope,. B. and 'GEobertson, S. Tingey, and P. B. Young.'