Albany Street School at 50

Dunedin has always been recognised as the leading centre of education in the dominion. When, therefore, a school like Albany Street enters into the fiftieth year of its existence, and can look back on a splendid record, it is only right that as many old pupils as possible should foregather and take part in the celebrations. Is it to be wondered at that men as far north as Auckland have answered the call of "the old school." To them the invitation to join the celebrations is a school command. They hear the old school bell again, and they must not be late. The jubilee celebrations began yesterday morning in the Knox Church Sunday School when the present pupils were entertained with a number of musical and humorous selections. A reception to the ex-pupils was held in the afternoon, and in the evening an entertainment took place. The evening in the Early Settlers’ Hall was crowded to its utmost capacity. At the close of the formal proceedings supper was dispensed, and an interval for social intercourse was keenly enjoyed. Later the floor was cleared for dancing, for which the music was supplied by Mr Pizey’s orchestra.

 

The Plunket nurses for North and Central Dunedin districts reported for the month ended July 31: Babies on the list 620; babies breast-fed (including partly) 129; new cases for the month (babies only) 30; new cases breastfed (including partly) 29; visits to Plunket rooms, Stuart street (adults 212, children 203), 415; visits to Plunket rooms, Roslyn (adults 60, children 65), 125; advice given to expectant mothers 8; visits paid to homes 331; bottles of humanised milk sent out from the Taieri Dairy 6395.

 

At Tahuna Park on Saturday the Rugby League game was prefaced by a ceremonial playing of the National Anthem, during which the footballers, already in the field, threw the ball about, and a few hundred potential barrackers behaved as though the band were discoursing rag-time. Disloyalty no; thoughtlessness merely, — ignorance and bad taste. When "God save the King" is played or sung there are three things that should be remembered and are usually forgotten: first, that it is the sign and symbol of nationality, and in that appealing to our self-respect, if we have any, and to pride of race; next, that it is a prayer; thirdly and lastly, that it is great music. At any rate Beethoven was of that opinion. "I must show the English what a blessing they have in God save the King," he said, whereupon he wrote seven variations on it for the piano, and introduced it into his Battle Symphony. — by ‘Civis’

 

Auckland: "When I married again I had the full intention that McCoy was dead and buried drowned in a whaling boat off Norfolk Island, but afterwards he came behind me in the street and slapped me on the back, and I says, ‘Why, I thought you were dead and buried’." That was the statement sobbed out by a woman in the Supreme Court during the hearing of a petition for divorce. The circumstances were of an unusual nature. ln 1905, believing McCoy to be dead, respondent went through the form of marriage with another man. She had received a cutting from a newspaper stating that McCoy had been drowned. Evidently it referred to another man of the same name, for McCoy turned up again— ODT, 16.8.1924