TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 308, 22 September 1908, Page 8

TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

PROPOSED OLD: BOYS' ASSOCIATION.

School spirit is beginning to manifest itselfin the Technical School in tho same manner as in other secondary • institutions. At - a dinner held by the old boys of the school last Friday, Mr. La Trobe announced that tho matter of forming an oldy boys'' asso-' ciation was being kept steadily ;in view. Speaking to a Dominion representative yesterday, he; said that the idcri, of forming. the old boys' association, which will bo'a body' largely for the fostering of school sport, was first conceived ■•when it was noticed that a ' number of old pupils of the Technical School were joining outside football" clubs. -It 1 was thought a pity that-good material should be ■' lost in this manner, and tho, idea suggested itself,-i why should these boys who: wero brought together for study; not iiijito also for sport? Now is the. time for the matter to be started, when there.arc h number of changes in regard to tho school site, buildings, etc. A largo, number-. of boys who attended tho .-school in ■ the daytime-•■ con- : tinued on at the night classes when they went to work. These boys, it will be who will . be the nucleus of tho proposed association, - others, scholars, past and present, will join in good timo when once a start, is made. There .is, no reason why such, a body should ' not dovelop into one, active, both in .sport. and social life. If the. land can be secured, and thero is a large area vacant hear th«' now site, grounds can bo formed and. build-, ings, a gymnasium, etc., can be crcctod. • With over a thousand presrrlt-scholar* and . a largo number of' ex-students, 116' difficulty. l ' should bo experienced in obtaining 'the n«i>s- • sary support and funds for tho undertaking,, Mr. La Trobe said that now the si'iy^is'tinn l had been made, he thought tho boyx u mild carry tho ma'A-er through without much thor" hi4p frwn tJu*