NELSON COLLEGE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 August 1931, Page 5

NELSON COLLEGE

OLD BOYS’ ASSOCIATION GATHERING AT AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Special to “The Mail") AUCKLAND. This Day. Representatives of Auckland Grammar School, King’s College, and Wellington College were present by invitation at a smoke concert held on Saturday by the Auckland branch of the Nelson College Old Boys’ Association. The gathering was the second of its kind in recent months, and it is intended to hold others at fairly frequent intervals. The chairman, Dr. T. 11. Pettit, president of the branch, in proposing “The Old School,” mentioned that Nelson College, which celebrated its 75th birthday this year, had been the alma mater of no fewer than seven men who were now, or recently had been, headmasters of New Zealand secondary schools. Mr A. F. Grace responded to the toast.

Professor F. P. Worley, who proposed “Kindred Institutions,” said that it was for the secondary schools to do their share in providing enlightened and able men who were needed to shape the destiny of New Zealand. Mr F. McGovern (Wellington College), and Mr F. E. McCallum (King’s College), l’eplied. A brief description of the building programme undertaken to make good the damage done to the college buildings in the 1929 earthquake was given by the secretary, Mr 11. C. Sidford, who stated that the two new houses were the most modern structures of their kind in New Zealand.