JUBILEE DINNER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 5

JUBILEE DINNER

Ex-Pupils of Hastings Street School NIGHT OF REMINISCENCE "The destiny of the Empire and its communities depehds entirely on the education of the youth. The Hastings Street School has provided a full education for its boys and girls under conditions that were most fayourable for that education." Thus the chairman of the Hawke's Bay Education Board, Mr. • G. A. Maddison, in prop.osing a toaet to the school at a jubilee 'dinner attended by 350 ex-pupils of. tfie Hastings Street Sehool, Napier, to celebrate the golden jubilee of the schoOl. Mr. Maddison congratulated the school on attaining its jubilee, and referred to the great service the school had rendered during the past 50 years. He comrnented that the jubilee had been the means of renewing many old friendships which had done much in forming the basis of a sound social order. A tribute was paid to the teachers and headmasters, past and present, of the school. Letters of apology for non-attend-ance were read from the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, who had been invited to attond in his capacity of Minister of Education, and the Hon. W. E. Barnard, M.P. - As speaker followed speaker- on the toast list, the faces of many of the expupils bore a smile at the cnany incidents brought to memory by their addresses, and from one period or another of the visiting ex-scholars could be heard shouts of laughter as some speaker searched back in- his memory for some anecdote of school life that had occurred to him. At the conclusion of the toast list, the toastmaster, Mr. A. Renouf, called for an additional toast to the work of the jubilee committee, who had worked hard .for the past year in order to bring about the week's celebrations. Warm applause followed in appreciation of the work of the committee, and thp gathering concluded with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne. ' '