A FAMOUS SCHOOL
75TH ANNIVERSARY In 1863, two years after me rush | to Gabriel's Gully and fifteen years , after the arrival of the first settlers . from Scotland, the Otago Boys' High; . School was first opened. This year the school celebrates its seventy-fifth an- ! niversary. Since its foundation it has L contributed many leaders to the business. farming, professional, and politi- > cal life of New Zealand am? the Em- • pire. If it were possiblfe to particu- ' larise. New Zealand's first native-born [ Prime Minister, an international jurist, I a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Cam- , bridge don, a Harley Streef specialist would all have to be mentioned. As • mining engineers former pupils have penetrated into the most remote cor--1 ners of the world, as representatives of . the Dominion they have commanded I respect at Versailles, London, and L Ottawa. During the next term holif days, from August 20 to 23, special . celebrations will be held in Dunedin. I Details are published in this issue. It . is of interest, in these days of high ; construction costs, to note that the > building, one of the finest south of the t Equator, was erected in 1885 at a cost of less than £15.000.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 150, 28 June 1938, Page 12
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199A FAMOUS SCHOOL Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 150, 28 June 1938, Page 12
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