have been honoured, relates to the ICearsney College lUning Room Blocks It is to be a bulldingconstrueed on the best approved modem lines, and consists of a hall - which will bo used meantime as a dining hall and a generally assembly hall - a masters' dining room, and all necessaiy accommodation for the culinary department. It would be wrbngy ■hcd.vever, tp ihink and speak of cnly one section of this splendid enterprise. It ia necessary to ha-ve in the Mnd^s eye the . College buildings as a whole, and to remember w^at they represent of courageous thought, vfhat a venture of faith they s tand for, and what progress thi^ adtimbrate. The Rrovinoial Administration is very conscioxAs of, and highly appreciates, the excellence of the service rendered to Natal by the establishment of such fine buildings as are to be completed hero within the next few months, at an expense of between £40,000 and £50,000, Kearsney College in its present premises is a Government aided school, and presumably that link of Administration inspection and subsicfy- will be retained in the now buildingSo With a guarantee of official inspection, with a carefully selected Board of Governors and Committee of Management,with modem buildings so beautifully and healthily sit uated, with a fully qualified principal and staff, all under the aegis of the Methodist Church of South Africa, this College has every right to ex pect that Methodist parents from all parts of Africa will send their sons here to be educated,and Itrust that in this respect the College Authorities will not be disappointed, and that the entire accommodation for 120 pupils will be fully occupied. It would be but fitting, Ithink, for me to bear grateful public testimony to the fine spirit and wholehearted generosiiy evinced by Mr, Clement H, Stott and Mr,George J,Crookes, who are the joint donois of this magnificent 53 acre site. It is most
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