KING'S COLLEGE

Evening Post, Issue 11, 13 July 1936, Page 18

KING'S COLLEGE

■♦ OLD BOYS' BRANCH

To commemorate tin formation of the Wellington branch of the King's College , Old Boys' Association, Auckland, a dinner was held in the Empire Hotel on Saturday night, the function being arranged so as to coincide with the main reunion at Auckland. Telegrams of good wishes were exchanged between the parent body and the Wellington branch. The following were present at the dinner:—Rev. N. F. E. Robertshawe, Wmg Commander T. M Wilkes Messrs. H. R. H. Chalmers, R g' ißuckleton, J. Buckleton, F. E. McCalI lum, B. Sinclair-Lockhart, A P B Watson, C. Foster, G. Sherwin' L Mitchell, W. G. Rutherfurd, E R Somerville, C. R. B. Wilson, R. T. Malyon C. 7 Gould, P. L. Histed, J. Manton K. E. Hopkins, E. C. Fussell, D H I Tovey, B. G. Watson, L. G. Recce Yesterday the old boys drove out to Scots College and returned to Wellington College, the headmasters conducting the visitors through their respective schools. The final event of the reunion was a parade at the 11 a.m. service at St. Mark's Anglican Church where the Rev. N. F. E. Robertshawe' a former master at King's College, Auckland, welcomed them. A disastrous explosion was. prevented at the town of Somerville New Jersey, recently, by the courage ;Of George Creely, who put out a fire on a tank which had been struck by lightning, and which contained 100,000 gallons of petrol. Creely, who was superintendent of the company that owned the tank, seized a raincoat and, climbing a ladder to the top of the tank, single-handed boat out the flames, which each minute might have exploded the store of petrol within.