25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 301, 16 September 1936, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Plunket Medal Debate

(From “The Dominion,” Sept. 18, 1911.) Oratory—students’ oratory —and some little distortion of history formed the piece de resistance at the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall on Saturday evening It was the seventh annual struggle for the Plunket Medal, open to members of the Victoria College Debating Society. Mr. M. H, Oram, president of the Victoria College Debating Society, wa» in the chair, ;and the speeches were judged by a board of five. These were Messrs. H. D. Bell. K.C., J. P. Firth, A. L. Herdman, M.P.. R. McNab and Dr. A. K. Newman. The speakers were Mr. E. M. Mackersey (subject, the Duke of Wellington), Mr. W. J. McEldowney (Richard Cobden), Mr. J. McL. Hogben (Lord Lawrence), Mr. G. G. G. Watson (Sir Thomas More). Mr. F. G. HallJones (Napoleon), Mr. G.'C. Jackson (General Gordon). Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell (Sir Henry Lawrence) and Mr. G. H.' Robertson (John Nicholson). The award was announced as follows: Mr Hall-Jones, 1; Mr. McEldowney, 2; Mr Tfeadwell, 3. Sir Joseph Ward presented the medal to the winner. » ♦ » Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener has departed "for Egypt to take up his duties as British Agent, in succession to the late Sir Elsdon Gorst. * * * Mr. James Ward, the aviator, who is journeying by aeroplane from New York to San Francisco for a prize of £lO,OOO. is making good progress. He has covered 138 miles a day.