NEW NELSON COLLEGE
FOUNDATION-STONE LAID
(By Telegraph—Press Association.* NELSON, October 21. The foundation-stone of the new Nelson College was laid by the GovernorGeneral, Lord Galway, who congratulated the college on securing such a fine building to replace that made unusable by the 1929 earthquake. The Minister of Education represented the : Government, other speakers being Mr. jC. R. Fell, chairman of the Board of I Governors. Mr. H. V. Searle, principal, and Mr. H. Atmore. M.P. Referring to the college as the largest boarding school in the Dominion, the Minister traced the roll in- , creases from 30 in 1856 to the present 629. •■ !
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 98, 22 October 1940, Page 7
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