WELLINGTON COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 16

WELLINGTON COLLEGE

LAMPS OF REMEMBRANCE

Wet weather caused the cancellation of all the usual athletic activities yesterday, which was Old Boys' Day at Wellington College, and the foremost feature of the day was the presentation to the college of four lamps of 'remembrance by Mr. L. McKenzie, chairman of the Wellington branch of the Old Boys' Association, on behalf of the London branch, the Auckland branch, and individual old boys of the college. Four lamps had already been dedicated, and there are now eight lamps forming a crescent with the lawn in front of the college building. In thanking the old boys for their generous gifts, the principal (Mr. W. A. Armour) said that the lights would be of great and permanent benefit to the college—a reminder to old and young pupils alike of the men who had fallen in the Great War and of the generosity of their old boys. A school, he said, that received such gifts, whose old boys gave so generously and displayed so well the principles and ways of thought that the school had always tried to teach, was certain to prosper and sure to progress. Mr. McKenzie, in presenting the lamps to the college through the acting chairman of the Board of Governors (Mr. W. H. Denton) said that the importance of the gift from the London branch was that it showed how the spirit of the school had spread and how its old boys remained loyal to the old school and its traditions. 1 Colonel R. St. J. Beerc supported Mr. McKenzie. Mr. Armour then accepted the lamps and presented them to Mr. Denton, and Mrs. Armour lit the lamps for the first time.