The foundation stone of the new High School and Technical College was laid on Thursday afternoon at Hamilton by Mr C. J. Parr, the chairman of the Auckland Education Board, and himself an old Waikato boy. The school is designed to provide technical and agricultural education for the district, and the buildings are to cost about £4OOO. A wrestling match conducted uy Mr 11. Pearce, a well-known ju-jitsu expert and wrestler, was held on Thursday night in the Town Hall before a large audience of people. Pearce challenged all-comers that, he could throw anyone within ten minuets, and Police Constable Mathews, who was greeted with applause, took up the gage. A hard tussle between the formidable constable and the challenger led to no resuits, and the time expired without anything being done. Pearce presented the doughty constable with a greenstone pendant as a trophy for his successful stand, and afterwards gave an exhibition of jujitsu.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 275, 9 July 1910, Page 2
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