Houses
The houses of Westlake Boys are:
- Hood - (Maroon)
It represents Academia. It is named after John Hood who is a vice chancellor of Oxford University.
- Murchison - (White)
It represents Leadership. It is named after Peter Murchison for his 11 years' loyal service in Westlake Boys High School. He has now gone into retirement.
- Pupuke - (Blue)
It represents Landmark. The school is at the west of Lake Pupuke.
- Smale - (Green)
It represents Enterprise. It is named after Bill Smale, a successful property developer, who is an owner and director of Smales Farm Technology Office Park Next to Westlake Girls High School.
- Stanley - (Red)
It represents Sport. It is named after Mike Stanley who is a two time rowing world champion in 1982 and 1983. He is also the head rowing coach for the schools rowing squad.
- Ururoto - (Black)
It represents Culture. Uru=West, Roto=Lake (Maori translation)
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)