St Paul's College is a Catholic secondary school for boys owned by the Marist Brothers and located in the central Auckland suburb of Ponsonby on a spacious 7.3 hectare campus.[6][7] The college excels in sport, especially Rugby football[4] and in Polynesian and other cultural activities, notably in the annual ASB Polyfest competitions.[10] The school roll has grown as the college continues "exhorting students" to "exam success" and "altruistic action.By 1900 negotiations were underway with Bishop Lenihan who arranged for the brothers to lease part of a block of land of 48 acres (10 hectares) near Cox's Creek in Ponsonby.[21] The school operated as St Paul's College after Queen's Birthday 1955 (from Tuesday 7 June) under the same motto "Confortare esto vir".Many sons of former students of the Marist Brothers preferred to attend St Paul's in the following years, both because it was centrally located and because their fathers had been educated on the site.