GRAMMAR SCHOOL STATUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16822, 12 April 1918, Page 7

GRAMMAR SCHOOL STATUS.

OLD BOY AS CHAMPION. AN ENVIABLE RECORD. Strong exception to some remarks made by speakers at the King's College prizegiving gathering at the Town Hal] on Tuesday night was taken by the retiring president of the Grammar School Old Boys' Association, Mr. R. J. Gwynne, at the annual meeting of the latter body last night. Referring to Mr. V. J. Larner's statement to the effect that the principal city in the Dominion should not be without a school that would compare favourably with Christ's College and Wanganui Collegiate School, Mr. Gwynne maintained that such a school did exist in the Grammar School, which compared more than favourably with any in the Dominion, in Australia or in the Empire, (Applause.) Its achievements in the scholastic and athletic fields were second to none. The majority of the Rhodes scholars had passed through the Grammar School, and its cadets had shown their superiority in competition with the schools of the Empire. Mr. Gwynne said he had no wish to disparage anv" other school, but he thought it was a reflection on the city when a statement such as he had referred to was made. Referring to Dr. A. W. Averill's remarks Mr. Gwynne said he unhesitatingly asserted that for over 40 years the Auckland Grammar School had shown itself capable of turning out Godfearing, righteous, honourable men.