A GOOD EDUCATION
ADDRESS TO SCHOOLBOYS
WELtikCTON, October 28. “A good,, education,,, such as. you are receiving here is worth far more than if £IOOO were' handed to you,” the Governor-General told the boys ot Wellington College when he paid a visit to the school. He said that good education enabled them to attain for themselves something that money could not p ircbme—a position among their, i How men throughout the British Furore, vl-ich -knowledge • alone .could .bring. His Excellency congratulated tne hoys on. their" extraordinarily fine ]h T . sieal appearance.; He had. been to many '-'schools but. fever Jmcl set rv s upon a- more .thoroughly fit lot of young men than he now saw be tee him. 'His Excellency enla. pl upon what lie consideerd were thro- 1 great factors in a schoolboy’s life—discipline, the formation "of character Vand the acquisition of character. He urged them to do well whatever they did. and. af; they had a particular bent in any- branch of knowledge, to develop that bent, so that.in after life they .would be . specialists . in that branch. .-. . ••
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1930, Page 3
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