COLLEGE OLD BOYS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 122, 28 May 1929, Page 6

COLLEGE OLD BOYS

ANNUAL MEETING ofTih°n t \vtM:ni'i lth "n",!' al ecllcral meeti »B ol the Wellington Collecc Old Boys' \£ socia urn was J.etd in Kethune's Building last i,wlit. Dr. .T. S. Elliott presided. Apologies for absence were received from Hie Cruet Justice, tho Hon. 3d Slyer" Barnelt, and W. H. Den ton. remlrt'ThiVi! 0 a<l,°P ti? n ,of tho annual in 1 ■" li C\ »'' 1S already been published ' in .1 Ml* J/oat. the rnvsidrnf win. *iw,*- ' the IVllowship' of the $«£, wai veiv J ptoasant to those who were privileged to ' cmoy it Thank, .to Mr. Armour, oil I), the association, a splendid carnival th „ „lV ° lllln"? H lO year ' ;""1 with tin. us mil Government subsidy, would assist to add to the already lino playing fields J .he year was also notable for the visit ot n number of English Hclioolboys whi.'h ■ mn S- 1 li nWlth IU the ve Port- The Memoiml Hall was now completed from the association's point of view. There had licen a decline in the subscriptions, but there was no serious trouble in this respect. Jhe subscription was so email that it was rather hard to collect, but perham members could be induced to pay ttce or four years' subscriptions at the one tune Tn conclusion, Dr. Elliott said he nail been president of the association for many years but hi ß task had not only wl ,T y f b HI cxtl'.emc 'y Pleasurable on pnde n, the oflicc. but after cH^t years report and balance-sheet were adopt-

1 Tl'c election of officers resulted- President, Colonel 11. St. J. Beere, D.S 6 lion paiTocl.,ll. Desboroush, LM Geor^. <>. licn.luvillo; Memorial coininitlo,. J. 1\ Firth, CM.G JI ('• Barnelt, W Jf Denton, and A.' P, Meek! \otos of thanks to the ofliccrs, Bethune and Company, the Press, and to Dr. Klliott for his services aa president for the past eight years, concluded the nieetiiv