! The value of tradition in relation | school life was emphasised by Dr. | Bernard Myers, of London, at the j ouarterly luncheon of the Auckland I Grammar School Old Boys' AssociaI I lon this wool;. "It. is of tho utmost | -nportanee that, you build up a tradition," the speaker remarked, reJerri I';.:: to the traditions of the great English public schools. Eton, Harrow, Westminster, and Winchester. "I still think the Maoris arc less Europoanised in some of the fundamental rituals, than the people of the other Pacific islands," said Dr. P. II Buck, in an interview in Wellington. "New Zealand is the only place, for instance, where the people rub noses still as a general greeting. Mr BaLoeavis (secretary to the Minister for Native Affairs') met. me this morning and we rubbed noses. Goodness knows, both he and I haw had enough contact with European life." Dr. Buck admitVr 1 lha: |,r got quite a thrill to reali.se that the old custom survived.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21418, 9 March 1935, Page 14
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