LORD ISLINGTON'S TOUR SOUTH.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 962, 1 November 1910, Page 4

LORD ISLINGTON'S TOUR SOUTH.

SPEECH AT CHRIST'S COLLEGE.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Christchurch, October 3L . His Excellency the Governor continued his inspection of 'the educational institutions of the city this morning when he visited Christ's College School, which came into being with the foundation of the province. in the. course of his speech his Excellency said that by visiting the various educational ■ institutions of the city, he was aitaining the ciuef object of his visit to Cimstunurch which was to become acquainted as iutiniately as possible with the present generation of New Zealand, and also, as was equally important, with the future generation. He realised that he was speaking to many who would take, an important part in the future liie of the Dominion, and speaking to tfiem as a public schoolboy hiinseli, he wished them to appreciate the importance of the training whioh they were acquiring. Its value, was not confined to Greek and Latin and mathematics, for there were qualities which could be acquired in a public school to a degree that were difficult to cultivate in any other circumstances. In the corporate association of their 6chool, with its prestige, its traditions, its ideals, and its. standards, they were acquiring qualities which would equip them to carry out their lives with credit to themselves, and benefit to their country. The quality which they could best learn in a puhlic, school was what he might term."Playing for the team." They were doing that in upholding the honour and prestige of their school, and in a few years they would have to play with a larger team drawn from the whole area of the Dominion. During his travels in many parti of the Empire nothing had struck him more than the influence for good and for strength that had, for many yearn, past, been' brought to bear upon the destinies of the Empire by the public schoolboys who had gone : out into remote regions to serve their country. In the selfgoverning Dominions of Canada. South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and. in the greater dependencies of the Crown, there were puhlic schoolboys "playing fot the team" as administrators or servants _ of the Crown, working together in tha interests of the Empire. The boys o{ Christ's College were - preparing themselves to work in harmony for the good of the Dominion, and' they had a great incentive to "play up." New . Zealand . was one of the States of the Empire which had, throughout its history, heen prom-' inent in its endeavours on behalf of the Empire. No other part of. the Empire had shown such practical loyalty and tangible evidence of its desire to promote the Empire as had been done by New Zealand upon all occasions.