TAPANUI SCHOOL

Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 12

TAPANUI SCHOOL

DIAMOND JUBILEE SOUVENIR The Tapanui School celebrated its jubilee in 1918. The success of the celebrations was largely due to the formation somo months previously oi an Old Boys’ Association, which was the outcome of a meeting of ex-pupils to consider what steps were to be taken to mark this epoch of the school’s existence. The Old Boys’ Association successfully carried out the jubilee celebrations. These festivities, celebrated under favourable circumstances, helped to create for the Tapanui' School that spirit which, at its best ; is known as the “ public school traditijn ’’—the tradition that transcends mere distance. And now the Old Boys’ Association, having taken in hand the celebration of the diamond jubilee of the school, has the valued assistance of another organisation formed just fifteen months ago—the Old Girls’ Association. These two associations, combining the best traditions of Tapanui school life, considered that the time was opportune to issue a souvenir in booklet form, with a short history of the school and such other information connected wholly or in part with the school as might be thought worthy of record. The publication, the compilers say, does not pretend to be of any literary value, but rather a harbour, as it were, for ail the derelict records, stories, and reminiscences which, isolated in the memories of a few of the older generation, might be wrecked on the rocks ti circumstances and be lost for ever. The publication is excellently printed, bound, and illustrated, some of the illustrations being of historic interest.