PIONEERS’ TRADITIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1923, Page 6

PIONEERS’ TRADITIONS

EXAMPLE FOR ALL. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 5. The foundation stone of the new Christchurch Boys’ High School, which is being erected in Straven Road, Riccarton, was laid to-day by Lord Jellicoe, in the presence of a large gathering. The members of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, masters and old boys were present, also the boys of the school, parents, and friends and representatives of other secondary schools. Addressing the gathering, Lord Jellicoe said that the boys of the schools of New Zealand had a great tradition to keep up—the tradition of the pioneers. It was the spirit and enterprise of pioneers that had made New Zealand and Christchurch what they were to-day, and if that spirit and enterprise were carried on, New Zealand and Christchurch would continue to increase in greatness and prosperity. The previous day he had been reading about the early pioneers, and how one, Mr John Studholm, had -walked from Christchurch to Dunedin in order to buy cattle. One could realise the spirit of the man when one read that -when he got to Dunedin, and found his cheque was not acceptable, because there was no bank in Otago, he tossed up with his brother as to- who should walk back to Lyttelton to get the money. History did not record who made the journey back io Lvttelton, but one of the brothers did, and returned to Dunedin with the money. His Excellency said that this was a typical story of the courage and enterprise of the pioneers.