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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13698, 31 May 1915, Page 8

It was reported that the steamer Biir-' riurnbeet, of the Huddart,..? Parker line, has been sold to a Japanese buyer. j King's College boys are sad to-day. .Major R. H. R, Bayly, killed 'in action, was their idol. Colonel' Major, head- J master of King's, speaking to an Obs'er- J ver man, sadly remarked that the "boys worshipped him." He h&i in a very .remarkable degree the affection of the •boys, and he gained it by exacting, discipline of tho best type; He permitted no deviation from his rule that the boys should "play the game,'' ho suffered nothing that was not clean and wholesome, and lie expected that boys .should be gentlemen, as he himself could be nothing else. Colonel Major * saysvthat^ as a schoolmaster the. late Major Bayly was exceptionally capable, and he' had. a real talent for organisation. He was born in. Auckland, and was only 35 years old. He' was schooled at King's and at the Auckland Univejfsity College, taught -under the Auckland Education Board, in 'the North of England, and then came back to his old school. He has always been a keen soldier. A.^King's College boy seen on the day his death was reported didn't

trquble to keep Ins eyes dry, "I'll bet," he*" «aid; "old Bayly played the game." And that's the finest thing you can snr about any man.-— Observer.