“BLUE AND WHITE"

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 68, 13 December 1939, Page 5

“BLUE AND WHITE"

Magazine Of St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream

Though not devoted to au historical review, for the reason that such matter has been well covered in recent years, the 1939 issue of “Blue and White,” the magazine of St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream, is well worthy of the centennial period. There are 168 pages of . art paper with more than 120 illustrations. The college activities, cultural and sporting, are well covered, and there .are good literary contributions from pupils. The verse, in particular, is of a promising standard for schoolboys. It is recorded that one school activity, the stamp club, has cleaned 60,000 stam.ps to be sold for foreign missions. An interesting illustration is that of 15 .pupils, 14 of whose fathers were at St. Patrick’s before them; the other is T. J. Hodgins, whose father, C. H. Hodgins, Eketahuna, is an old boy of 1907-14, and his father in turn, T. Hodgins, Pahiatua, an old 1 boy of 1885-87. T. J. Hpdgins is thus the first of the third generation of “Patricians.” The present war is dealt with and tribute paid to the first old boy casualty, the late Pilot Officer B. L. G. Harker, killed on active service with the Royal Air Force on October 5, 1939, and buried in Newport Cemetery, Lincoln, beside airmen who fell in 1917-18. Mention is made of other old boys serving with tlie Royal Air Force in England, those training in New Zealand, a number on the New Zealand Permanent Staff, and many with the Special Force.