NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1924, Page 7

NELSON NEWS

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

NELSON, 30th September. The Nelson Education Board has been notified of a Government grant to erect a portable room at Hampden Street School to accommodate 56 children until the Auckland Point School is built, when the Department will take into consideration the question of remodelling and enlarging Hampden Street School.

The settlers of Rai Valley have requested that the name of their post offive be Eai Valley, instead of Flat Creek. The Post and Telegraph Department has replied that it will not object to the alteration.

Tho soriptorium erected by old boj-B of Nelson Collego and parents and friends of thono who fell in the Great Win1 was opened hy ths Oovernor-Oen-erol on Friday afternoon, ]jj 6 Excellenoy blbo unveiled the memorial tablet containing the names of 120 old boys who paid the supreme sacrifice, There was a, very large attendance, including a numbet 01 old boyg from varjoug parts of the Dominion, pr, H, S], Washr •baurne, chairman ef the Board of College Governors, who presided, referred to tli6 departure of Lord JelHcoe, Lqrd Jellicoe, before declaring the scriptorium open s.nd unveiling the memorial, said it was always a pleasure to visit th.B college, because nl the traditions associated with it, TII9 building in which they were standing housed a memorial which he hoped woilld eyer'aql as an incentive to the' boys in the ediege to do theh' duty to their- King p.nd cpuntry, not only in time of war but also in psace, After references, to the spirit of loyally existing throughout the great schools of the. Empire and the great soldiers they "had prodneed. His Escaliency said the citizens have rear son to be pcoud of jjhaiy city, firstly, because of its association with the greatest sailer the world ever had, and, secondly, because of its beautiful climate. The memorial tablet was an emblem of selfsacrifice and devotion to. duty, of which future generations of Nelson College boys wilj do well tn be proud. It remained for those whfl came afterwards to live up to the great ideals for which they fought and died. His Escellency then unveiled the tablet, and "The Last Post" was sounded, all present standing, Two wreaths were placed at the foot of the table by the Cadets ; Afterwards His Excellency planted a memorial oak near the scriptorium. In Sjb evening a vennipn ef the R.S.A, was held at the Paramount Theatre, when there was a, very large gathering of soldiers,' whp took 'part in the late way, and also the yeteranß ef other wars, Lord Jellioee was present,