THE Temuka Leader. THURSDAY, JUNE 16th, 1921. COMMEMORATION DAY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10196, 16 June 1921, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader. THURSDAY, JUNE 16th, 1921. COMMEMORATION DAY.

All sTent public schools of England have their Commentorition Day, and to-morrow will be the inauguration of Ike Oommeir.nratlon Day for the Tcnnika School. On thai, day, in these .schools, the names of past pupils whose fame has .spread lustre on their .school, are read aloud and eommeniorued by ljie present generation of school boys.' To-morrow the names of the school-buys who spent the whole, or part of their school lives in the Tei.in.ka School, and who, in the hour of their country's need paid the supretnc sacrifice, will be unveiled and registered on their SehocRoll of fame. It is a pretty ci; ton, full of memories of those who have passed Beyond., and full of stimii la ting- thoughts for those vrhost

feet tread the same floors of knoiP- J ledge. Our Illustrious Dead have i folloAved Carlyle's injunction :j "Let a man do his work; the fruit j of it is the care of Another than he." These natural, modest, and healthy types of our nation's manhood verify Ruskin, when he wrote : "The weakest amongst us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is .peculiar to him, and which, worthily usejd, will be ' a gift also to his race for ever." The gift of those on the School's Roll of Honour was their lives. Words are almost our only instrujment to convey our thoughts, and [ poor tilings at the best they are. 'Yet at that solemn gathering ...ofschool children and relatives, of those who have gone, we have only the Honour Roll and the fitting spoken word to create that atmosphere in which we can recall these Old School Boys. They died for us in a glorious cause. They gave their lives freely and unselfishly that our land and theirs might be untrammelled by shackles of slayery. To their honour and to their memory we stand uncovered in a solemn hour. We mourn not their passing for their hour of passing must 'have some time come. Their passing was glorious, and we take some consolation from the words : "Dearest, afflict not overmuch thine heart. No man at all can send me agaimst fate to Hades, And his hour can no man fly. None, good or bad, that ever yet "was born." To the relatives of all those whose wounds of sorrow are again re-opened, we tend our sincerest sympathy and rejoice with them in having the nam'es of their beloved enrolled on the School's Roll of Honour. ' .