WANGANUI COLLEGE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 85, 10 April 1912, Page 3

WANGANUI COLLEGE.

DEDICATION OF NEW CHAPEL. The new chapel of Wanganui College was dedicated on Easter Sunday by the Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Sprott). The ceremony was performed with impressive solemnity. The* building was crowded with present and former staff and pupils, and many visitors and friends. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Empson, Airs. Gordon-Williams, and Mr. Arthur Empson, of the 7th Cavalry from Janei. The form of the initial ceremony was a procession of choir, school cnaplain, headmaster, and the Bishop, with the Rev. B. D. Ashcroft a 6 chaplain. The procession was met at the great weat door by the president of the Old Boys' Association (Mr. Cecil <{• Wray), who read the petition for dedication. After entering tho chapel the Bishop proceeded with the dedication service. He preached' from the opening words of the epistle for Easter Day, with his subject as the perfection of the manly life. H© advocated the establishment of ideals which boys- should aim at to become good k and true men. Without the chapel the schooMraining would be incomplete ; the thing wanted had been added. Tt was the gift of old-boys of all generations ■throughout the world to the school which they loved. The building itself is in -red* brick, with windows, of Oamaru stone, the architecture being in dignified Gothic «tyle. The cost exceeded £5500, tho -whole being raised by old boys of tho college as a present to the school of their boyhood. The architect ie Mr. Gray Young, of Wellington, and the contractors Messrs. X. Menli and Sons- and John Jones, of Wanganui.