OLD BOYS' VISIT

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1935, Page 6

OLD BOYS' VISIT

FO- BSNQOTAi? COLLEGE

; f Members of the Hongotai College Old i'Jßoys' Association yesterday paid a (•'visit to the college. In an interesting and inspiring address to the as- [■ sefribled boys,_ Mr. .W^F. .Tuck-well, preisidentibi'^e^SsSbciation, compared Ji3o%SchodV|liietit<s- > a game of football, the; .importance of having J: an ,!i'dej|l or a goalDlb play for. "Kick i off,-Tiei said,,"tc^a^ds- that goal. In f spite;of •pjbstg.glSSlJin; spite of reverses ,head^|)ach:Hin the direction- of hithe^aLvYo^re^ißound -to achieve it Jit y(6iistji3k^|o6it|;t3'here are two kinds. ,b£ peopl^tt^&^iworld;' the stickers !and^the^far^e)|s):v\B^s at this college [ate db\sliUins«iti& best^ype of training •jtiS be stidkersV'.-^ :-■:■ •'!; He then exhorted them to take ad•yantage of that training after leaving school, ,M£:;Tuckw;ell then Spoke of ihe vOldfl Boys';;Ass6ciatioii and of its value bo^b ifo ;6l'o! "boys and the schooL '; Mr.'E. C. Miller followed, stated .that he was on ari''«|ectioneering campaign .tin ••beh|lt; of tfi'e Old Boys' Assojciatiori/, He;wantedVail the boys who ,were leaiSnfcthe college to join the associati(snlii^«;:"fi,iy;v-; ■'•. !■' "One*of'itheriflost^wonderful things about rhe'mbei's'of the association," he feaidi "is theit lb^ai#;'t6 the school and their interest, in all its activities." Mr. Miller'prophesied that those boys who V/ere So anxious to leave school would \vithin- three- weeks, of:, leaving wish they wefe;,back 'dgafik.- "Well," he said,; '^you!Jl: t firid the association the next; ljest'thing." '. /'%& X i Both-/speakers,.,were'.; warmly aplilaude'dj ■ Slid, ehei&slwere: called for the association". -Mr.. W." F> Tuckwell thenpfesentedi a cricket, .feat to A'Court, wild had ;%hbwrt:'lie^best ;all-round perfprmance'/!it)n"' ;tHe.v.cricket field during the yeah^ijfcfls bjfbUgl^t-:forth another . round Mr. F. M. Henrier, ffieVh^admast^fi thanked the old bdys fbr'the visit.