1931 Silver & Green

Mr . FRED. J. CATO, Ch a irman of the Adv iso ry Committee, and a G e n ero u s Frie n d of the College.

SILVER AND GREEN

W:q.e 2-1lfla:_ga:zine of tft.e 2-1lfl.etqouist 'lfia:bi.es' illolfog.e DECEMBER, 1931

" A m an's reach should exceed his g r asp, Or w h at's a heaven for? "

Lif e is, and should be, a co n tin ual reac hing towards the idea l, which , fading forever and forever as we move , draws us on higher and ever hi gher. No matter what resolutions we may make, most of us find that continual effor t is h ard to sustain; yet unless we make this effort we are failing in one of the aims of our ex is tence.

Failure and success a lternate in most lives We a r e n ot failure s when we are merely knoc ked down; we fail only when we cease to st r iv e No one n eed b e a failure. That is reasonable 'as well as stimulating optimism, and

it is confirmed by t h e experience and opp'o r tuni t y of a n ew begi nning

What is this n ew beginning to m ean for us? Nineteen thirty one, with its difficulties and strivin gs, has almost p assed. The new year, full of oppo rtunities, and, p~ssibly, difficulties, h a~ y e t to d awn. What shall we m a ke of these opportunities? The p a thway to success-in th e truest se n se of the word-is a resolution that, no matter what ma y com e to us, we shall r emain h opefu l , calm and aspiring to the e nd of our tim e; we shall develop o ur creative e nthusiasm; we shall d iscard the criti ca l ; we shall plan and build-not m a r and d e stroy.

We a re bountifu lly supplied wi t h opportunities for n e w beginn ing s. G od loving ly in vites and c h a lle n ges us to n ew e n terprise s o f herois m , which g ive us hope wh e n we are in the d e pths of fa ilure. Th e k ey n ote to success is c h ee rfulness in t he fa ce of adv ersity. 1f our ed uc atio n will lead us to th is g r e at j o y, we may pursue the path way to success and atta in th e h e ig h t s of c iti zenship.

Krome Memori al Gates at the M.L.C., Hawthorn , Vic.

AFTER FIFTY YEARS.

By the President.

At the e nd of the present year our S choo l will compl ete the first fifty years of its existence. It was founded and commenced at the beginning of 188 2. The late Dr Fitc h ett, who was its President for 46 years, wrote a history of the College t en years ago, h avin g as its title "Forty Years at the M.L.C." In it he has told the story of its inception. In the days when colleges for girls wz r e considered much more as luxuries than as n ecessities, the Doctor moved in the Methodist Conference of l 87 8 that a committee be appointed to work in: the direction of securing a college for girls under the auspices of the Methodist C hurc h. "Wesley him se lf," the Doctor said, " wa s a scholar, and h ad a sch ola r 's sense of the relation between r e li g ion and e ducation He lef t to his Church as a tradition o r an instinct the duty · of waging a perpe tual war with ignora n ce, and of m a king education the servant of r e ligion." This ideal in the heart and mind of the founder of the M.L.C. was the inspiration of a ll ·that has h appen ed since, and th e M .L.C. of 1931 is its realisation.

The Doctor kept his committee at work, and soon che Conference gave che committee an acre of ground in Carlton, on which had stood an Immigrants' H ome le was ulti mately sold for £7500 This s um was used in erecting che portion of the College west of the Central Tower. To complete even that, however, required a much larger sum, and when it was resolve d to go on w ith the enterprise, half th e members of the committee resi gned as a protest. The other half , however, showed confidence and courage, and in the first four years ove r £32,000 was s p en t in buildings, equipm e nt, and the purchase of additional l and. The capital expendit ure at the present time has reached well o ve r £80, 000

In th e early years of the College those who w e re able and willing to b e benefactors were f ew and far betwe en, and, when the depressi on which followed th e land boom came, it seemed as ;f the n ew proj ect m ight end in ignominious f ailure The faith and courage o f its founder a nd of his loyal colleagues saw it through, and from th e time of its recove r y it has

shown its ability co meet che ed ucational needs o f larger nu mbers of girls each year.

From the beginning it was not m erely a Melbourne or a Victorian school. Almost every year there are to be seen in its classes g irls from all the Australian States, and, at the present time , India, the Malay States, and the South Sea Islands h ave their representatives.

It is difficult to estimate the inf! u ence of a schoo l ch at draws its schola r s from so wide an area, and the e l e ment of va lu e that appea ls to many parents and many girls is the very face ch at it is so cosmopolitan in its reach. Its old scholars are now to be foun d widely spread over the world.

Such an institution in its early years gen erally has to fight hard for its existence, but, as the quality of its wor k has to ld and the School spirit has grown, b<;nefactors h ave not been slow to realise that their gene rous help is well placed. The names of H enry B erry, Fred. J. Cato and the N icholas brothers call to mind th e generous a p p r eciatio n in which the School is h e ld, and their names will always be associated with the expansion of t h e M L.C.

As che Jubilee approaches, two new d epartures are engag ing the attention of the Coun cil. The first is the opening of branch schools. These have been commenced at Elsternwick and Canterbury. Mr. F . J. Cato's generous gift of the " Ko oyong" property at Elsternwick at a time of depression, when we were rather appalled at our own courage in ope:1i.ng a new school, has greatly hearte ned us and set a fine example to the fri e nd s of the College, who are blessed with m eans, to look upon its Jubilee as an occasion when they can m ak" the work of the S choo l more effec tive by lessening its financial oblig ations. Our second wish is to build a Memorial Hall on a sca le that will enable us to p rovide for all occasions on which we wish to demonstrate the unity or the School. We hope that ihis will be m ad" possible during the Jubilee celebrations, whi c h wi ll take place in March a nd April of next year

In con n ection with the J ubilee a sustain e d effort is to b e made to get into touch with the thousands of old scholars, and to bring them back into touch with their School. If

che Jubilee celebrations can be carried out as they appear in o ur v isions, the great traditions of the School will be felt with a n ew force, and, not on ly in equipment, but in spirit, che future of the Scho o l will be worthy of its past

THE COLLEGE JUBILEE .

le is our Jubilee Year, and the song of jubilee is in our mouth. We are looking forward with great pleasure to th e many functions by which we shall celebrate it early next year. We have r eason to enter into these activities with hearts full of pride and gladness, for the College has a record that every girl mu st be proud of who has passe d through its portals.

le is the d es ire of the College Council to make our Jubilee the occasion of wiping off a considerable amount of our d ebt and of erecting a n ew hall which will serve as assembly hall and concert hall. The whole of the present school has come quickly to the help of the Council, and has offered co raise the first £! 000 towards this object.

The girls have commenced already to work for the Jubil ee F e ce, which will be h e ld in March nexr

They hope to enlist the help and sympathy of their p a r ents and friend s, and to make the fece one to be remembered for many years to come.

Old Collegians are being asked to make the erection of the hall their p articul a r task, but there are many who are willing a nd a nxious to assist the present girls in making our Jubilee Fece successful.

Any suggestion that will engender success, any gift or promises of gifts, or any help of any kind will b e gladly received and acknowledged by Mrs. J. W. Grove on behalf of the girls, and may be sent to the College at any time, in h er care.

If the same spirit of h elp and unselfishn ess permeates the work of our Jubilee Fete as was shown throughout the Sports Ground F e te, then success is a lready assured.

-D. B. Grove.

SCHOOL NOTES,

1931.

On ce more Time turns a page in his book of years, and on the page 19 3 1 have bee n written many very h appy things for us all.

At morning assem bly on 11th February the n ew gi rls were welcomed, and we welcomed also as new staff members Miss P arker, Miss Tarrant, Miss Jones and Mrs. Cameron. We were so rry chat Mrs Hump'i1reys, Misses Gawley, Cox and Irving were no longer with us, a nd r egretted losing Mi ss Rowlands at the end of first t erm.

Miss H ay' s r et urn from abroad a t the b e gi nn i n g of the year afforded much pleasure, and later s he gave us a very enjoyable talk on her travels. We were sorry to have to say farewell co Miss Harcourt during first term, when she left for England, but she is. b ac k with us again afte r a few months' a b sence.

An innovation of this yea r is the school orchestra, which, though still s mall , has enlive n ed some of our assemblies wit h its accompaniments.

All our usual sports events have been carried out. Owing to inclement weather, the swimmi ng sports had to be p ostpo ned, but they were h e ld successfully a few days later, in spite of heavy showe r s of rain , whic h were somewhat inconvenient to chose who were not in swimmin g costume.

The 5th of May was set aside for the athletic spores, and we were pleased to welcome m any parents and fri e nds. Mrs. Grove kindly pre;e nted the trophies to the winners.

Our days are not always en tirely given up to periods of lessons, and during this year interesting speakers have addressed us. During first term were were honoured by a visit from Dr. Koo, who not only spoke to us, but a lso delighted us w ith his playing of the Chinese flute.

A short programme of French nursery rhymes a nd English folk songs by t wo of the Theatre of Y ouch Pl ayers was anoth e r eve nt of firs t term which won gene ral accla m ation.

Others to w hom we h ave had the pleasure of liste n ing were Professor Osborne, on behalf of t he Rotary Club; Miss Collisson, from the L eague of Nations Union; Mrs. Cherry, from

the Kindergarten Union; the President of the Methodist Conference of New South Wal es, Rev. J. W. Burton, and Dr Brook r:,l°icholl.

Our former head m aster, Mr. Le Couteur, who w as passing through Melbourne on his way to take up his duties as head master of Newington College, Sydney, came, with Mrs. Le Couteur, to our morning assembly on the last day of second term, and we all enjoyed seeing him After speaking to us and giving us some examples of Western Austra lian schoolboy "howlers,'' Mr Le Couteur presented the new tennis cup to the victorious team, con • gratulating the girls on winning the premiership for the fifth consecutive year.

The School Concert this year was an un• qualified success, the attendance being excellent, and the standard of the programme even higher than usual. The programme consisted of choral work by the senior, intermediate and l ower middle school choirs, vocal items, two fantasies, and folk dances by the gymnastic classes.

On Back to School Day the senior school entertained the old scholars with a musical programme, which was much appreciated.

Auburn Church was again crowded fo r the School Service, which was held on the evening of Sunday, 27th September. · The President officiate d, and gave the address, and the singing was led by the school.

On 27th October the new buildings of the Elsternwick Branch of the Methodist Ladies' College were officially opened by Mr F. J. Cato, who, by presenting the property, gave us yet another example of his great generosity.

Much regret was felt throughout the School that illness necessitated Mrs. Landen' s absence for a fortnight of third term, and on her ret urn she was warmly welcomed by us all.

And so 1931 slips away, taking for some of us our last school days To the girls of 1932 who will have the good fortune of being at school for the Jubilee Year, we wish all happi• ness and success in the best School of all.

HOUSE N O TES.

Again we of the House have spent a happy year. On reassembling on 11th F e bruary we were g lad that almost all t.he Staff had re•

turned. We regretted that Miss Cox was no longer with us, and extended a welcome to Miss Tarrant. We are all sorry that illness has prevented Miss M c Gauchie from being with us during third term.

Early in the first term the House Prefects were appointed, the following girls being chosen:-Ursula Dugdale (Senior House), Cecile Goldie, Jean Aubrey and Minnie Rodger. Millie Johns, Gwe n Landry and Dorothy Payne were made Associate Prefects.

In sport, under Miss Shannon' s direction, we have, as usual, carried on a ·keen rivalry with School, special excitement being aroused by the running and the baske t b a ll. In the former, House carried the flag to victory, and the result of the basket ball match was for some time in the balance, as at first we were in the lead . Howeve r , School pulled up in the last quarter, and won by a narrow margin.

This year has seen the inaugurat ion of a gymnastic contest, the points for which count toward s the cup. We have been divided this year into houses , which temporarily bear the names of the first four letters of the Greek alphabet.

To chase dull care away, we entertained our selves by a mock p a rliament, when , in the presence of Mr. Grove, we debated the weighry question of the taxing of bachelors, the decision being in the negative.

During the year we were given the opportunity of h ea ring the different celebrated musicians who have visited Melbourne, and we have much enjoyed the concerts given by Mark Hambourg, Levitski, Pete r Dawson, Clara Butt, and Balokovic •

Our thanks for interesting social evenings are due also to Mr Whittaker, Mr. Porter and Mr. Ken. Grove.

Senior boarders spent an enjoyable afternoon at th e Elsternwick Branch, which they visited on the Saturday before the official opening A new and en tertaining experience was steering the motor lawn mower, a pastime in which we all indulged. We wish the best of luck to the girls of 1932, and feel sure that they will find, as we have done, that a boarder's life is quite a happy one.

SC HOOL O FFICERS

Seni or Prefect-Helen Eggleston.

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S enior House Prefect-Urs ula Dugda le

Full P refects School : B . A llen, R. Bennett, D. Champion, R. John stone, Y Miles, M. Shepherd, N. Smith, W South, M. Swan, L. Thomas.

Full Prefects House: J Aubrey, C. Goldie, M Rodger

Associate Prefects-Sch ool: J. Aubrey, J. Bennett, R Blair, N. Cerutty, L. Charlwood, A. Dight, R. Fry, M Fisher, M Fox, C. G o ldie, M. Moulton, M Rodge r, F. Shimmin, M. Wicks.

Associate Prefects-House: G. Landry , M. Johns, D. P ayn e

Form Captains-H. Eggleston (Hono ur VI.),-J. Nev i lle (Pass VI.a) , L. Amos (Pass VI.b), W. South (Dip.A), C. Jope (1st a nd 2nd term, Dip.B) , I Comport (3rd t er m , Dip .BJ, P. Yeo (V.a), G. Saunders (V.b), F. M arde ll (V.c), P . Ditchburn (V.e), G. Johnston (XX.), P Rule (L.V), N Ras hleigh (XX.a), E. Colli ns (IV.a), J Miers (R.a), H Gilbertson (IV.b), A. M o ,n (R.b), J. Barnett (IV.c), P. Ashton (R .c ) , M. Rendle (IV cl), T. Powers (Junior School), A. Hare (III.a), Y Reynolds (III.) , E. Stacey (Kindergarten).

Sports Committee--Mrs. Landen ( c h a ir woman), Miss P a r son s, Miss Wade, Miss Shannon , Miss Rowl ands (1st term), Miss Maling (2nd a nd 3 rd terms) , W. So uth (secretary), L. Charlwood, V. Cornell ( ! st term), T Cox, U. Dugdale, M. Dunn (2nd and 3rd terms) , He le n E gg leston, R . Johnstone, C. J ope ( I st and 2nd terms), R. Shaw (2nd an d 3rd terms), J ean Weller, S. Whittaker

Sports Captains S. Whittaker ( te nnis), C. J ope (basket-ball), U. Dugdale (baseba ll) , L. Chari wood (runnin g).

Editresses-Y. Miles, W. South.

Librarian R. Johnstone

House Libraria n s-U. Du g dal e, J Aubre y. D e bat ing Society Miss Dahle (president), Y. Miles (secretary), H. Eggleston, M. Shepherd, W. South, L Thomas.

S_C,U- Miss Betts (president) , W. South ( vice-pres id ent ) , B. Allen ( corr espondi n g sec-

retary) , L. Thomas ( recording secretary), M Fox (treasu r er ), Y. Miles, M. Shepherd

Walking Clu b-Miss H all (president), M . Swan (secretary), B. Allen, D. Champion (treasurer), L. Chari wood, F. Krizos.

EXAM INATION SUCCESS ES.

Pub lic Examinations, 1929 30.

At the University Public Examinations in D ~ cember, 1930, 5 2 separate honours and one exhibi tion were gained in the S chool L eav ing Honour Examination, 30 complete passes in th e School Leav ing Pass Examination, and 56 complete passes in the School Intermed iate Examination.

School Leaving Honours

The honours gained in this examination were five ! s t class, 20 2nd class, 28 3rd cl ass Indiv idual r esults were:-

Gloria Annois-3rd class European Histo ry

Joyce Ben nett-2 nd class English, 2nd cl ass British History, 3rd class Latin.

Doroth y Cerutty-2nd class English, 2nd class European History, 3rd class Frenc h , 3 rd cl ass British History.

Audrey Corr-3rd cl ass Chemistry, 3rd class Geography.

Joyce Findlay I st class English, 3rd class European History.

Alison Frazer-2nd class Economics, 2nd class Engl is h , 2nd class European History , 3rd class French.

Enid Gray-2nd class British History, 2 nd cl a ss European History, 3rd class English.

Helen Egglesto n 3 rd class Drawing.

Jean McRae--2nd class English, 3rd class British History.

Marion McLennan-1st class French, 1st cl a ss Economics, 2nd class European History, 2 nd class British His t ory.

Yvonne Miles 3rd class Eng li s h Winsome McDonald 3 rd class European Hi story.

J ean Padgett 3rd class English, 3 rd class French.

Marjorie Pearce-3rd class English, 3rd class Commercial Practice

SCHOOL AND HOUSE FULL PREFECTS.

B ack Row : Ruth B e nn e tt, Ro salind Johnstone, M avi s Swan, Dorcithy Champion, Yvonne Miles. Ce"ntre Row : Norm a Smith, Ursula Dugdale (Se nior House Prefect), H e len Eggleston (S e nior Prefec t). Winnie South , L e na Thomas. F ron t Row : B e tty All e n , M a ry Shepherd .

Ethe l Shackell-2nd class Ge'? graphy, 3rd class French, 3rd class Chemistry, 3rd class B o tany

Mary Shepherd-1st class Drawing and the Exhibition, 2nd class Eng l ish, 2nd class Ca l culus, 3rd class Algebra.

Winnie South-2nd class E uropean History, 3rd class Drawing, 3rd class Economics.

Lena Thomas- 2 nd class En g lis h , 3rd class Botany, 3rd class Drawing, 3rd class Phys io l ogy.

Nancy Tra ngmar 2nd class European History.

E unice Westphalen 2nd class Geograph y, 3rd class English.

Mavis Wicks-2nd class European Hi sto ry.

A Sen io r Government Scholarship was gamed by Marion McLennan, and five fre e

pl aces were gained by Dorothy C e rutty, Alison Frazer , Enid Gray, E t he l Shacke ll , Winnie South and L ena Thom as.

Que en 's Non Resident Exhib itions were gained by Enid Gray, M. McLennan a nd L e na Thomas Dorothea Cerutty gained a Trinity Non-Res id ent Ex hi bit ion.

School L e aving C ertifi cates.

Those who obtained the Sc h oo l L eavi n g Certificate were: G lo ri a Annois, J ean Aubrey, B er tha Barl ey, M a rgare t Barley, Ruth Bennett, Nellie Binns, Rita Blair, Nancy Cerutty, Dorothy Champion, Dorothy Co le, · Phyllis Collin s, Joyce Findlay, Molly Fishe r, Rosie Fraze r , Ruth Hay , Leil a Holding, D ulci e Hollyo ck, Ada J ohns, Rosa lind J oh n ston, M av is Moulton , Je a n P ate rson, Mavis Poysden, Frey Shimmi n , Norma Smith, Mavis Swan, Nancy Trangmar, Valmai Trigge, Merle Wainwright, Mavis Wi cks

SCHOOL ASSOCIATE PREFECTS

Back Row: Jean Aubrey, Rita Blair, Joyce B e nnett , A.Ima Dight , Minnie Rod ge r, Frey Shimmin '

Centre Row: Mavis Moulton, Mavi s Wick s , Lorraine Cb a rlwood, Nancy Ce rutty, Mollie Fishc.-.

Front Row : Mary Fox , Cecile Goldie.

Inte rform Trophies.

S e nior School trophies were awarde d as follow: Swimming t r ophy, Diplom a A; T en nis tr ophy, Honour VI.; Athletic trophy, Hon ou r V I .; Basket-ball trophy , Pass V1 b. Upper Middle S c hool trophi es we r e awarded as follow: -S wimming troph y, Lower V.; T e nnis troph y, L ower V.; Athletic tr ophy, XX.a; Basket ball trophy, Remove A L owe r Middle Sch ool trop hi e s were award ed as follow:-Swimmin g ~roph y, I V.b; Tennis trophy, I V.b; Basket-ball t r ophy, R e mo ve B ; Athl etic troph y, Re mov ll B

Intermediate Certificates. yer, Winnie Sewell (Feb.), Mavis Swan, Adele Th orn e, Dorothy Trangmar (Feb.), Valmai Thos e who obtained the In te rmedia te Cer· Trigge, Nancy Vickers , Anne Watkins, Shirley tificate we r e:-Mwyn Anderson, Marjorie Ban- Whittake r, Elva W illiams, Joan Young. nister , K a thl ee n Bowring, Joyce Brown, Eunice Canavan, Grace Cartwright, Lorra ine Chariwood, Lilian Christ ie, M ario n Cranwell, Vera Curtis, Tasm a Dav e y , Dorothy Du gdale, Vera Eddy, Carol Edmunds, Joyce Findlay, Gwen Frazer, Verona Fromholrz, Gwenda Grant, MuriJa l H arris, Ruth Hair, Rita H o lmes, Ena Jones, Lois Kin g, Winnie L ee, Marjori e M cConc hie, Joy Mills, Phyllis Minns (Feb.) , Mary M o nsbourgh (Feb.), Joyc e Nevile, Dor o thy Nicholas, J oy O sbo rne, Elv a Ou th r e d , Dorothy P ayne, Margaret Phillips, N e llie Pithy, Lyndall Pl e dge, Eva Porter (Feb.), Muriel R ayson, Bon R oberts (Feb. ) , Norma Robinson (Feb.), Minnie Rodger, Qorothy Ri c hards (Fe b ), Ira Richardso n , I sabel Saw-

Base b a ll m atches h a v e no ~ yet bee n p layed.

Acknowledgment of Contemporaries.

The Editresses wish to acknowledge the receipt of the following schoo l magazines:' '.The Wyvern," " The Mitre," "P rince Alfred College Chr onicle," "Girls ' Grammar School Notes," " The Carey Chronicle," " The Brook," "Patchwork," " Wesley Chronicle," "The Mel burnian," ttChronicle of St. Peter's," uThe Ruytonian,'' ttThe Michaelian,'' ccPegasus," uCoo-ee," uExcelsior,'' ccWood l ands,'' cc G ir ls' Gramma r School Notes, Ballara t ," "Th e Lucernian," "Th e I vanar ian ," uThe Lau ris tonian," " T he Sphinx," " The C luth an," "St. Andrew's Collegian," "Lowther Hall Chronicle," ccSt. Catheri n e's Magazine," uFin tonian."

List of Daughters of Old Collegians m the School.

Miss Luke (Maggie Thodey).

Helen and J oan Eggleston (Gladys Gault).

L esia Blansha rd (Ivy Richards)

Beryl Edgar (Lily Spaven).

J ea n and Phyllis Minns ( Marian Retallick)

Viva Berkefield (Daisy Hu ghes) Berna Nairn (Margare t Robins). H eathe r Rentoul (Ivy Comben).

P at Evans (Margery Powe rs) Yvonne R eynolds (Mer yl Scott) Joy ce Tully (Hilda Petty). Margaret and Elspeth Little (Frances Thomas).

P at Phillips (Grace Watsford) Lorna Carter ( Doris Bowring). Gwe n Oldham (Evelyn Bignall) Jean Hoadley (Marian Powe rs) Lynette Bull ( Eva Stoddart). P eggy Ashton (grandmother, Ida Hurlstone) Gwen Stanbrook (Eve lyn Warne). Cara Heath (Elsie Fitchett).

In loving memory of our schoolfellow, Ira Richardson, who passed away on Monday, 25th October The College extends to the members of her family its deepest sympathy in their bereavement

HOUSE ASSOCIAT E PR EFECTS

St

and ing: Dorothy Payn e. Sitti n g: Milli e Johns, Gwen Landry.

Athletic Sports.

The athlet ic sports for 19 31 were held on 5th May, having bee n postpo n ed from the previous day because of the rain. Although the day was su nny, the g round was very h eavy, and no n ew records were c r eated.

Owing to t h e postponemen t o f the sports, many schoo ls were unable to take part in the Invitation Flag Race and the B ase ball Throw ing on the Diamond The Inv itation Flag Race was very exciting, Ruyton first being eq ual with M.L.C., a nd th en winning by a narrow margin. Th e Baseball T h rowing on the Diamond was first introduced las t year, and h as proved an interesting addition. M.L.C. was victorious .

The House v. School Race, as usu a l, cap ed forth the frantic cheers of t h e whole School. House is to be con g r a tulated on its victory.

We h ave an additional runnin g cup, pre sented by Mrs. Landen, for the S e nior Interfo rm Flag Race. Honour VI. is the first Fo r m to h o ld this c u p.

The School congratulates the three winners, Ursul a Dugdale, Frances Parker and Nellie Smith, eac h of whom r eceived a silve r cup, presented by Mrs. Grove.

T he tha nks of th e School are due to Miss Parsons, the Prefects a nd members of the Sports Committee, and a ll those who ass isted in making the meeting a pleasure to spectators and compet ito r s L.C

T h e following are the r es ufrs of the various even ts:-

Open Championship, 100 y a rds I°, M. F isher; 2, U. Dugd a le; 3, J. Aubrey.

50 Yards, Under 1 2 1, J . P ar k er; 2. G . Gadsden ; 3, L. Clarke.

Sack Race, Under 16 (30 yards)-!, D. Mitc hell ; 2, L. H amer; 3, J. Cornel l.

Jun ior R ace, 50 Yards (Championshi p)-! , N. Smith; 2, L. Holland; 3, G Gadsden.

Senior Egg and S poon Race (30 yards)! , N. Allan; 2, L. Thoma s ; 3, M. Swan.

Sack Race, Und e r 12 (20 yards)-!, J. Pearce; 2, A. Moon; 3, J. Thorpe.

Senior R ace, 180 Yards (Ch ampions hip)!, M . Fi sh er; 2, U. Dugda le; 3, J. Aubrey.

Juni or Race, 75 Yards (Championship)!, L. Allan; 2 , V Carter; 3, L. B ower, J Hall, eq ual.

Senior Sack Ra ce, 30 Yards- I , J McCrea ; 2, 0. Ghe n t; 3, B. Vick.

Int er m ediate Race, 75 Yards (Championsh ip) -!, F. Parker; 2, P. Brown ; 3, G Jones.

Junior Siamese R ace, 25 Yards !, B. Chitty, P. Cohen; 2, L. A ll a n , N. McMullen; 3, M. Smi th, N. Irvine.

Senior Potato Race (Championship), 30 Yards ! , U. Dugdale; 2, M F isher

J unior Potato Race (Championship), 2 0 Ya rds-!, V. Pike; 2, N Smith, W C h a mpion , equal.

Hurdle R ace (Intermediate Championship), 75 Y a rds ! , J Cornell; 2, V. Berkefeld ; 3, G. Jones.

Hurdle Race ( S e nior Championship), 100 Yard s-! , U. Dugdale; 2, M. F is h er; ' 3, J McDonald.

Ju nior S ack Race (Champion ship ), 25 Yards 1, W. Champion; 2, H Brown ell; 3, L. Ho lland.

Potato Race ( Inte rmed iate C h ampionship), 30 Yards-!, F P a rker; 2, J Corne ll ; 3, D. Mitchell.

Junior Egg and Spoon Race, 20 Yards-!, WI. Champion; 2, H. Brownell. S e nior Siamese Race, 3 0 Y a rds 1, J. Aubrey, U. Dugdale; 2, V. Cornell, C Jope; 3 , L. Marks, F. Krizos.

l 00 Yards Intermediate Championship-!, F. Parker; 2, P. Brown; 3, V. Berkefeld Baseball Throwing on the D iamond-I, M.L.C.; 2, Ru y ton; 3, F intona.

Senior Obstacle R ace, 75 Y a rds-1, J. Osborne; 2, M. Swan; 3, J McCrea.

Intermediate Obstacle Race, 75 Yards- I , P. Brown ; 2, D. Mitche ll ; 3, E. L ath am.

Inv itation Flag Race, 75 Yards-! , Ruyton; 2, M.L.C.; 3, Fincona.

Wheelbarrow Race, Under I 2, 20 Yards!, J. E llis , M Collocott ; 2, S. Phillips, P. P hilli ps, Carisbrook ; 3, G. Gadsd e n , J Barker.

Lower Middle School Form Flag Race, 50 Yards I , Remove B ; 2, IV.b; 3, IV.c.

Senior Forms' Flag R ace, 50 Yards-I, Honour VI.; 2, V b; 3 , Diploma A

Upper Middle School Form Flag Race, 50 Yards-I, XX.a; 2, IV.a; 3, XX.

lnt'l rm ed iate Egg a nd Spoon Race, 30 Yards -1, D. Mitch e ll ; 2, V. B e rke f e lc;I; 3, J Corne ll.

Intermediate Siamese Race, 30 Yards-I , L. Anlezark, A M a rshall ; 2, M. Rogers, C. Heath; 3, R . Reseigh, D . Mitchell.

House v. School, 75 Yards-House. S e nior Champion-Ursula Dugdale.

Inl:e rmedia re Champion-Frances Parker. Junior Champion-Nellie Smith. -L.C.

Swimming Sports.

The s~imming sports were held this year on Friday, 13th March; after having been postponed from the preceding Tuesday o wing to wet weather. Even on the day chosen _ the weather was not favourabJ-e, and the programme was interrupted several times because of tl:,e rain .

The sp orts this year were held for the first time in the Kew City Baths. Specta tors regarded this as a great improvement, as more seating accommodation was available.

During one of the junior events a Cromarty representative got into difficulties, but her cries for help were quickly answered by one of the attendants

The usual keen interest was taken in the House v. School race, School being again victorious.

Owing to the rain, the presentation of the cups was postponed until the following Mon day morning, when the winners received them from Mrs. Grove.

The r esults were as follow :-

Under 12 (20 yards) 1, P. Chinner; 2, A. Moon; 3, L. Neale.

Under 16 (one leng th)-! , M. Bannister; 2, M. Thorpe.

Senior Breast Stroke (one length)-!, P Duff ; 2, M. Shepherd ; 3, E. F arhood

Under 14 (one l e n g th) !, J. Dick; 2, H. Brownell; 3, G. Guy.

lntPrmediate Overarm (one length)-!, N. Hayler ; 2, M. Thorpe; 3, M. Uunn

Life Saving (open}-!, J. Dick, M. Thorpe; 2, D. Mitchell, E. McLennan.

Junior Diving-I, J Dick; 2, B Lever; 3, N. Hayler, H. Brownell, equal.

Obstacle Race-- 1, F Krizos.

Senior O ve r ar m ( o ne length)-1, E. Farhood; 2, L. Charlwood; 3 , P Duff.

Inte rmediate Di ving- I, M. Thorpe, N. H a yle r , equal; 3, M. Gray.

S enio r Diving-I, M. Shepherd; 2, E. Farhood; 3, P. Duff.

Interform R elay School, IV.b; Upper Senior School, Dip.A.

Races-Lower Middle Middle School, LV.;

Hou se v. School-School. -L.C.

Baseball Notes, 1931.

As soon as school commenced Miss Parsons set to work training girls for the b'lseball team, in order th at we might win back the Austin Cup.

Although practically all last year's team r e turn e d , many keen young players were discovered who will prove very valuable in the n ea r future The team for the first round of matches was as follows: Rita Blair, pitcher; Helen Eggleston, catcher; Dorothy Dugdale, first bas e ; Joa n Cornell, second base; Violet Cornell, third base; Winnie South, short stop; Ursula Dugdale, l.o.f ; Maisie Dunn, c.o.f.; Shirley Whittaker, r.o f.

After earnest practice until 11th April , we played our first Association match against M.C.E.G.G.S. The result was a win for M.L.C with 19 runs to 5. We knew our struggle against G.C.E.G.G.S. a nd P.L.C. would be even harder, but we were able to succeed, defeating G.C.E.G. G.S., 13-2, and P.L.C., 16-6.

This position we were anxious to carry even further in the third term As our third base l e ft, our t eam's positions in the field had to be slightly altered , Frances Parker, the emergency, making the ninth player in the match against M.C.E.G.G.S. This resulted i n another win for M L .C., 14--6. The following S aturday we visited Geelong, Lorraine Cha rlwood, who had been una ble to play in the four previous matches, taking up more But, alas, G eelong and d .,f p:,ted us, 23- 10.

her position once proved too strong, The premiership

BASEBALL TEAM .

Sitting: Ursula, Dugdale (capta in) Sta.ndiirg : J oan Cor nell, Dorothy Dug dale, Maisie Dunn, Viol et Cornell, Lorraine Charlwood, Helen Eggleston, Shirl ey Whittaker, Rita Blair, Winnie South .

still hangs in the b alance till after our match against P.L.C. For these successes we are greatly indebted to Miss Parsons for all th e time she has spent with us , and on behalf of the team I wish to thank h er very mu ch.

This year the in terform b aseball m atch es h a d to b e pl ayed in the quad' with a t e nnis ba ll. For the first time in the School's history IV.cl h as won a c up for sport by winning th e Lower Middle School Baseball Cup Th e Upper Middle School Cup was won by Form R e move A. The S e nior School a nd Hou se v. School m a tche s h ave n ot y e t be en played.

Criticism of the T earn

Ursul a Dugdale (captain ) , in L.O.F. , has played wond e rful baseball rig ht through th e season. She took many good catches, and scored more runs than any other m e mber of th e t eam, a nd is th e best b a se runn e r th e School h as e ver had .

Rita Blair (pitche r) has puzz led many opponents with h er cu r ves, and put great pace on the ball a t times H e r batting h as i mproved, and her fi e lding is very good.

H e le n Eggleston (catcher) played well in this position, and will b e very difficult t o r e place. She combined well with Rita to make the batte ry powerful, and h e r hitting showed great improve m e nt

Dor o thy Dug d ale (first base) played a m ost reli a bl e ga m e, and showed improve m ent in both batting and throwing

Joan Cornell (s econd base ) m a intained her reputation as a good hitter, a nd fi e lde d spl e ndidly, her g round work being es p ec ia ll y good

M a isie Dunn ( th ird base) h as a strong throw and safe h a nds. S he took many good catches, and improved g r ea tly in batt ing

Win ni e South (short stop) a ga in p layed m agn ifi cently. She co ve red seco nd a nd third

bases, and backed up the outfield with unfailing accuracy. She has the strongest throw in the team, and batted well in each match.

Lorraine Charlwood (C.0.F.) improved in a ll branches of the game, especially in hitting. She has a good throw, and has learnt to run bases well.

Shirley Whittaker (R.O.F.) is a most reliable player. Her catching a nd hitting have been very good, and she is one of the best baserunners in the team.

Violet Cornell played on third base during the first round of th~ matches. She made six run s, t ook three catc h es, and disposed of one runner.

Conclusion

Although this year we have again been liampered by want of a suitabl e practice g ro u nd , n o thin g daunted the ardour of the baseba lle rs, the inte rform matches, which were play e d in the quadrangle, arousing unprece dented enthusias m We hav e practised on t h e ; ports ground when it resembled a Flanders

battle fi e ld, in Xavier's padd-ock undaunted by the interest taken by the numerous cows, in the quadrangle endangeri n g passers-by a nd overhead wires, and occasionally on the Glenferrie Oval, hindered by footballers, cricketers and track runne r s. We practised in mud, in dust, in blazing hea t, and in r ain. We were interfered with by sickness, botany a nd geograp hy excursions, examinati ons and festivities. We are like the regiment whom the Colonel never saw together e:Xcept on pay day Yet, in spite of all these drawbacks, we fo ught o ur way into the fina ls

This will show the teams of the future, who will enjoy the benefit of a perfect s ports ground, that the will to wi n may triumph in spite of adverse circumstances

It i s th e t eam spirit of the 1931 girls that has enabled them to achi eve success, so that in the years to come there will a lways be pleasant memories of, " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."

-B.P.

RUNNING TEAM

Sta nding: Myra Smitten, Jean Weller, Frances P ark er, Con s ie Jope, Ursul a Dugdale Sittin g: Molli2 Fisher, Lorr aine Ch rlwn,:ul (ra r t;::r,i.n) , J ec\n Aubrey, Peggy Brown .

Running T eam.

Although the running team has not won as many trophies this year as in previous years, we are hopef u l of r ega ining our laur els.

Six of las t year's team r e turned }. Aubrey, U. Dugdale, M. Fisher, F. P a rker, J Weller, L Char lwood. The lastnamed was not able to run during the first term. The followi n g girls were chosen to fill the three vacancies:-P. Brown, C. Jope, and M. Smitten We were very sorry to lose C. J ope after second term, but L. Charlwood th en took her pl ace.

During first term we were just defeated by Ruy to n at our ow n spo rts. We w e re victorious at Ruyto n , and M. Fisher, our representa tive, won a t St. Cath e rine's sports.

During the s econ d term M .L.C. ran i n the most im portant race of the year, th e I nter• school Flag Race, at University. Although we fin ished fir s t, we were disqualifie d , and so lost the shield, w h ich h ad been h eld for t he las t fou r years by M.L.C.

Our _j uni o r team won a cup at Ruyto n sports during first term The r e are many p r omising ru nners in this team.

W e wis!-, the 19 32 team the b est of luck.

Criticism of th e- Running

T eam .

Lorraine Charlwo od (captain), al th ough unable to run during the first term, s h owed splen did form , and kept the lead in all r aces.

J ean A ub rey ran i n good style, and ca ptained the t eam well in the absence of Lorr ai n e.

Ursula Dugdale gave the team a good lead in ever y rac e , as s h e gets off th e mark a t once .

P eggy Brown is a keen r unn er, and h as lea rn t t o hold the fl ag correctly.

Mo lli e Fisher is one of the best runners in t h e team , and r eprese n ted the School successfully.

Cons ie J ope showed great im provement, and ran well each time.

Frances Parker is very quick on her feet, and is deve lop ing into an excelle nt runne r.

Myra Sm itten gets away at once, and has shown im provement in each race.

J ean W e ller is a reliable runner, and ran well each time.

C onclusion.

In divid uall y, the members of the team h ave done g ood work, but they must all r eme mb er that it is only by r egular practice as a team rhat they can carry the flag to victory.

B.P

B as ket-ball, 1931.

Basket-ball commenced early in second term, when prac ti ces we r e b egun in earn est As on ly two members of last year's team returned, sev era l weeks elapsed b; fore the team was fin ally chosen, and, after much conside r atio n , the followin g choice was made: Firs t Team : Consie Jope (captai n) , Jo an Corne ll (vice-captain), Lois Burke, Ursula Du gdale, Maisie Dunn, Mav is Gray, Fran ces Parker.

The second tea m co nsisted of J ean We ller (captain), Lesia Blanshard, J ean Bryant, P eggy Brown, J oyce Lowry, Freda Mardell , Margaret Roge rs

The fo ll owing girls p layed in the j uni or team :-Gwen Johnston (captain), Lil y Allan, Valda Carter , Winnie Champion, Ena Hazel hurst, Phyllis M artin, a nd Phyllis Stevenson. i

The sco r es fo r th e matches played throughout th~ s~aso n we r e as fo ll o w: M.L.C. v. Fintona, 27-3 8 M L.C v. P L.C., 19-1 7. M.L.C. v St. An drew's, 45 18 M.L.C. v . Fintona, 28--35. M.L.C. v. St r atherne, 24-2 4. M.L.C. v. P.L.C., 14-1 7. M.L.C. v. Korowa, 19 25.

The second t eam playe d five matc h es, two of which it won. Several of the m ember s of t h is t ea m are very keen p layers, and should be elig i ble for inclusion in n ext y ear's first team.

The juniors won both of the matches they p layed against "Carisbrooke."

M u ch interest was t ake n in the interform basket-ball m a tches, and, after many hardf o u g ht games, the following teams were s u ccessful:--Senior Form Cup, P ass Vl.b; Intermediate, Remove A; Junior Form C u p, IV.c.

The most exc i ting match of t h e season was the House v. School, when for a time House seemed su r e of victo r y. Towards the e nd of the game, h owever, School fought hard , and was successf u l in winn in g, 3 1 goals t o 28.

BASKET BALL TEAM. Standing: Mavi s Grey, Mais ie Dunn , Frances Parker, Ur s ula Dug d a le Sittin g: Joan Cornell, Cons ie Jope (captain), Lois Burke

We d esi r e t o express ou r g r atitude and appreciation to Miss Parsons, who spent much of her time in coaching us, a nd we wish the 193 2 team a very ha ppy and successfu l season.

J.C., M.D.

Criticism of the T eam.

Cons ie Jope ( captai n) played sp lendid ly in her position as centre def ence, and teamed well with the other centre players.

Ursula Dugdale (centr e) covered _ the centre court with g r eat speed, and passed acc u rately i n every m atch .

Joan Cornell ( centre a ttack) p layed well in chis positio n H er passing is accurate, and she anticipates the ball we ll.

Lois B urke (goal -shoote r) shot well at times, but n eeds to be m o r e r e li a ble to b e s u ccess ful.

Mav is Gray (goa l -shoo t er) 1s very quick coming out to the b a ll , but n eeds to be more acc ur ate in s h ooti n g

Maisie Dunn and F r ances P a rker {goa l defenders) fought hard and playe d well to gether in all matches.

Conclusion.

Th e basket-b all team has not been very suc -::essf ul this season, chiefly owing to the abse nce of a s uitable ground for practice. In di vid ual m embers played well, but team co-ordi nati on is e sse ntial before victo r y can be o b tained.

-B. P

Tennis Notes.

This year has proved a successful one, and we have now been premiers for five successive years. After d esperate struggles, and many a nxious moments, M.L.C. is now the first school to hold the new interschoo l tennis cup.

At the beginning of the year there was very k een competi tion for the one vacant place in t h e team. As Helen Eggleston had to resign, the r e were the n two places to b e filled. Finally

the following t eam was select ed:-Shirl ey Whittaker (captain), Truda Cox, Rosi e Shaw, Lena Thomas, R osa lind Johnstone, Lola Enniss, Winni e South, Roma R ese igh.

The first three matches were played on our own courts.

Results:-

First Round-M .L.C. v C.E.G G S.: M.L.C., 2 rubbers, 5 sets, 43 games; C.E.G.G.S., 2 rubbers, 4 sets, 41 games. M.L.C. v. P .L. C.: M.L.C., 3 rubbers, 7 sets, 55 games; P.L.C., 1 rubb e r , 3 sets, 51 ga m es. M.L.C. v. Geelong : M.L.C., 3 rubbers, 7 sets, 48 games; Geelong, 1 rubber, 3 sets, 40 games.

S eco nd Round M.L.C. v. C.E.G.G S .: M.L.C. , I rubber, 3 sets, 40 games; C.E.G.G.S., 3 rubbers, 6 sets , 41 games. P.L.C. v. M.L.C.: M.L.C., 3 rubbers, 6 sets, 45 games; P L.C., 1 rubber, 3 sets, 37 games. M.L.C. v. Gee long: M.L.C., 2 rubbe rs, 5 sets, 46 games; G eelong, 2 rubbers, 4 sets, 3 6 games.

The interform matches provided some inter esting contests. Honour VI. won the Senior Cup; Lower V. was successful in the Upper Middle School, whi le IV.b gained th e Lower Middle School Cup.

The school championships h ave yet to be played. W e expect m a ny keen matches The following are the results of the championships held for the past four years:-

1927-Junior Ch ampion, Truda Cox; Intermediate Champion, Shirley Whittaker; Senior Champion, Alvie D avies.

1928--Junior Champion, Truda Cox; Intermediate Ch a mpion, Shirley Whittaker; Senior Champion, Nancy Chitty.

1929-Junior Champion-Roma R ese igh; Intermediate Champion, Shirtey Whittaker; S e nior Champion, Edna Harry.

19 30-Junior Champion, Roma R eseigh; Intermediate Champion, Lola Enniss; Senior Champion, Truda Cox.

\X1 e are glad to see so many juniors taking such an interest in tennis. Many of them wi ll make splendid players .

We g reatly appreciate all that Miss Parsons has done for the team this year, an d we r ea li se that we owe our success to h er effic ient coaching. -S.W.

Criticism

of the Team.

Shirley Whittaker (captain) and Truda Cox (vice-captain) played splendidly in every

match, and were the mainstay of the team. Th ey have mad e great progress in a ll s t ages of the game, and are bo t h li kely to go far in big tennis

Rosie Shaw h as many good strokes, but is liable to fail at critical moments H er service is strong, and h e r driving good.

L e n a Thomas has shown all-round improvement, and will do well when she is able to attack more strongly.

Rosal ind Johnsto n again played a steady, reli ab le game, and showed general impro vement.

Lola Enniss h as a strong service and a good forehand drive, but she needs to play more consistently to achieve success in matches.

Winnie South played well throu g hout the year, h e r n e t play being especially good. When she develops a stronger service she will be a difficu lt player to defeat.

"Roma Reseigh proved to be a most reliable player, her steadiness wearin g down most opponents. She possesses all the strokes , and has a promisin g t e nnis career b efo re her.

Conclusion.

Once again we have won the t e nnis premiership of the public schools, and, although our beloved shield has returned to Geelong, we now hold the new tennis cup, which repos~s in a glass case in Fitchett Hall We hope its shining pre sence will urge the teams of the fut ure to keep it in its present position for many years, and to maintain the high standard of M.L.C. tennis.

Schoolgirls' Championships.

The School entered two pairs for the doubles and four players for the singles. Of these, Shirley Whittaker and Truda Cox reached the semi fina ls, where they were defeated by the strong P.L.C. first p air, who afterwards wo n the event.

In the semi-fina ls of the singles, Shirley was defeated by Elaine Speed, of the C.E.G.G.S., afte r a long-drawn-out struggle, which lasted for over two hours. Shirley fought every inch of th e way, and was n ever be aten till the l ast point, the final scores being 6-1, 3-6, 3-6.

Truda met Elaine in the finals, and defeated her, 6-1, 6-3, th us b ringing back the title of schoolgirl c hampion t o M.L.C., the third time we have won the honour in five years.

TENNIS

With two such players as Shirley and Truda in the School to inspire others, we have g r eat hopes for the future.

I t is encouraging to see the keen in terest taken b y the younger players, especially by the members of the second and junior teams , who have played several practice !nat ches. The School h as supported the first eight most nobly in the ir matches, and the standard of tennis has never been higher The. School Championships should provid e some keen contests at the end of the term, and should help to decide the team positions for 1932. -B.P

Walking Club Notes.

The Walking Club has again been active t his year. At the general meeting, held in first term, Miss Hall was unanimously reelected as president, and kindly consented to hold this office. Office-bearers were elected as fo ll ows:-Committee, Betty Allen, Lorraine Char lwood, Fiffi e Krizos , Dorothy Champion ( treas urer ), Mavis Swan (secretary).

We have had on an average three walks each term, and several holiday walks , the average a ttendance being abou t twelve. Several old gir ls attended the afternoon walk from East Kew to Heidelberg and back. We are always g lad to welcome o l d girls on our walks.

An unfortunate accident happened to one of our committee on the walk from Berwick t o Belgrave, but we are glad to say that she has fully r ecovered.

We hope that next year 's club will have as enjoyable a year as we have had. -M.S.

Debating Notes.

The School Debating Society has completed anot h e r very successfu l year, having held regular debates in the Auditorium period.

At the first meeting, under the direction of the president, Miss Dahle, the officers for the y ear we r e elected The president explaine d the aims of the society, and welcomed new members.

The society shudde red for our possihlP fRte when Honour VI. presumed to affirm that

TEAM. ShirleY Whittaker (captain), Roma R ese igh, Lola Ennis, Rosalind Johnsto11e, Rosie Shaw, Trud n Cox, Winnie South, Lena Thomas.

"Australia Needs a M u sso lini," a nd g r eat was the relief when a vic tory fo r the negative was proclaime d. At the next meetin g __ a l ist was drawn up by the committee, and girls offe red co speak on subjects they themselves c h ose from it " Mussolini" was r evea led in all his g lory ; lif e " T en Years H e n ce" will be ve ry d esirab le if t h e info rmation o f the speake rs is r e li a ble. D ip l oma B , w ho affirmed chat " Large F am ili es A r e D esirable," were narrowly defeated by Diploma A , who h eld chat memb e rs of large families usually murde r ed a p erso n o r rwo, while members of small families u su ally marri ed well, and "were r espected by th e w h o le communi ty."

The In term ediate girls debated the question, "Cats Should Be Taxe d , " a nd, t o the h orror of all language studen ts, P ass VI a conclusively proved th at " A!" Inte rnationa l Language Is Necessary. " V ario u s other subj e cts were e nthusiasticall y d e b a t ed during the course of the y ear, a nd at one m eeting it was conclusive l y p roved tha~ "Ch ewing Gum Plays an A ll Important P art in Modern Civi lisati o n and the Economic Wo rld ."

On 13th M ay t h e S ociety was v isi ted by Miss L eeper, w h en an interesting address on the League of Nations a nd the great disar ma m e nt quest io n was given. On 23rd Sep tember Miss C o llisson k i ndly gave us further information on these sub jects.

Duri n g this year fewer interschoo l debates v,ere h e ld In the first round of the tourney a rranged by t h e L eague of Nation s Union, we we r e d efeated by t he Melbourne B oys' High School, the s ubject for discussion being that " The Leag u e of Nations is a M e r e Instrument for R ea lis ing the Policy of the Grea t Powers."

On behalf of the Debating Soc iety, I wish to take this op p ort unity of thanking Miss D ah le for h er assis tance, kind l y interest and e nthusiasm th r o u g h o ut the year.

We h ope that next year's D ebating Society will h ave a year equally happy and successful. - Y.I.M.

S .C.U. Notes.

Under the l eadership of Miss Betts, th e Christian Uni on for 1931 has proved an im portant factor in t he School life

The execut iv e e l ected at the beginning of the year consisted of-Vice-pres id e nt, Winnie

South; corres pond i n g sec r eta r y, B etty Allen ; recording secretary, Lena Th omas; tr eas urer, Mary Fox ; with Dorothy Champion, Yvonne Miles and Mary Shepherd as s uppor tin g memb e rs

The meetings were h e ld fo r tnighcly i n Audi torium pe ri od, about ZOO gi rls attending. Thi s year we h ave b een f avou r ed with add r esses up o n many 'and varied top ics.

At the fi r st m eeting of rhe year an i n trodu ction to C U. work was given by Miss B et ts, assis t ed by two other m e mbe r s. In ·March Miss E llis gave an interesting talk o n Mission Life in Korea Mr. P ope gave a spi rite d a ddress o n his work i n Nor th Africa, w h(le· M r s. Tregaskis revealed many sid el ig hts on missionary wo rk in Borneo

We are a lso very grateful to Mr. Benson, who was a ble to come and talk to us in a way that was appreciated by everyo ne O ch e r speak ers were Miss MacDonald, who to ld u s of th e " Pass ion Pl <;iy" a t Obe r a mme rgau; Miss Hay, who spoke 6f the Bible in· art and l itera ture; M is~ Joyce a nd : Mr G a cnsey, rhe . t r ave llin g secretaries of the A.S.C.M.; a nd Rev. C. W. Kong, from the Church of the Epiphany.

We were fortunate enough t o r e c e i ve a visit from Dr. T . Z. Ko o, of the World S t ude nt Christian Fede ration, who interes te d us in his address, and amused us with his flute.

About 80 memb e rs attended Bible Circles chis year, the book stu d ied b e ing " J es u s of Nazareth," by the Misses I. W. Mill e r a nd L. L. S c hol es.

We are indebted t o rh e president and the Misses Beres, Hunt, MacDonald, Rowlands, McKay, H ay and K e lla way, a nd thank th e m ve ry much for their help as leaders o f Bible Circles

A s rhe result of a play g i ven by the executive £3 / 9 / was take n , and o f chis £2 was co n tributed t o the funds of the A.S.C.M., the res t of the mone y to be given to the City Miss ion.

On 14th Nove mb er an outing was g i ven to 60 City Mission c h ildre n , and was thorou g hly enjoyed by che m all.

The two Schools' D ays h e ld this year h ave b ee n well attended, while M L.C has also b een we ll r e prese nted at the C .U. C am p , which

takes a promine nt place in Christian Union li fe.

We take this opportunity of thanking Miss Betts for her untiring effo rts as president of the Christian Union during 1931. -L.T.

Red Cross Notes .

The Red Cross Committees hav e again been active this year, and, owing to the widespread distress , many calls have been made upon us.

Appeals made during the year h ave evoked praiseworthy responses Large quantities of jam and eggs were sent to various hospitals, and we contri buted eight dozen secondhand books to the Refuge Home and Inla nd Mis sion. We also make weekly contributions of fr esh Rowers t o the hospitals, these being collected by Mrs. Nevile.

In eve ry Form each girl makes a small contribu tion per week, and in this way, and by spec ia l effo rts, £30/ 18/ 4 was co llected in the Senior Scho o l, £2)/0 /6 in the Middle School, and £7 /3/- in the Lower Middle School.

Each Form works for a special institution, to which a visit is paid during the year. To these institutions 700 garments, four patchwork quilts, toys, groceries, a nd a Fowler outfit have been donated

Throughout the year Red Cross work has aroused the interest and the enthusiasm of a ll, and we hope that next year will be as pleasant and successful i'IS t his o n e has been.

-Y.I.M.

elects its own pianiste and conductress, who train it in the singing of a selected song and hymn, and in sight reading. The song chosen fo r the contest this year is " Ring Out, Wild Bells," and the hymn is " Praise My Soul."

The results of this year' s examinations in pianoforte, singing and h armony are as fo llow :

PianofQrte--Grade II.: Jean Macdonald (honours), Jean McNair (honours), Dorothy Payne (honours), Vera Eddy (honours), Winnie Lee (honours), Eunice Canavan (credit), Loma Amos (pass). Grade III.: Thelma Every ( honours) , Winnie Lee (honours), B e tty Nicholas (honours), Ethel Sanders (credit), Gwen Landry (credit), Winnie Holdsworth (c redit), Ada Marshall (credit), Mavis San ders (credit), Christina Porter (pass), Gladys S au nders (pass). Grade IV : Flora Lancas ter (honours), Alice Marshall (honou rs), Jean Johnstone ( credi~), B e r yl Lever ( c r ed it), Ruth Watson ( credit), Lorna Sander (pass), Margaret Little (pass). Grade V . : Betty Hislop (honours), Lorna Carter (honours), Ethel Templ e ton (honours) , Elspeth Little (credit) , Joyce Lowry (credit), Irene McFarlane (credi t) , Nola Nicholas (credit) , Joyce Lacey (pass). Grade VI : Helen Brownell ( honou r s), Jean Hodge (credit), Barbara Russell (honours), Elaine Semmens (honours), Fay Godbehear (pass).

Violin-Grade III.: Gwen Fraser (pass ) , Lloys McNair (pass).

Music Notes.

During the year very exce ll e n t musica l work has been done throughout the School. The scholarship for instrumental work was awarded to Frey Shimmin, and that for singing to Pat Ja ckson.

Much has been accomplished by the Senior C h oir, unde r Miss Fiockart, and the Junior C h oir, under Miss McKay, and both contributed enjoyable numbers to our annual concert programme.

This year the Senior School is holding its second Form choral contest, in which all the sen ior Forms compete for the shie ld , presented by Mr G R. Nicho las. Each Form

Singi11g-Grtde II.: Elsie Dugdale (pass). Grade IV.: Dorothy Champion (honours), Mary Fox (honours). Grade V.: Ruth Bennett (h onours), Betty N icho las (credit).

Harmony Grade II.: Eunice Canavan (honours), Dorothy Payne (honours), Frey Shimmin (honours), Vera Eddy (credit) , Joyce Lawson (c r ed it) , Jean Macdonald (credit). Grad e III.: Loma Amos (honours), Ada Marshall (honours), Jean McNair (honours), Elsie Dugdale (credit ), Christin a Porter (pass). Grade IV. : Thelma Every ( pass), Winnie Holdsworth (pass), Lloys McNair (pass), Winnie Lee (credit), Betty Nicholas {credit), Jean McNair (cred it), Gladys Saunders (honours) Grade V.: Lorna Carter (credit). -Y.I.M.

Library Notes.

The library has continued to be popular among the girls this year, and members of the staff h ave been very helpful in advising the girls in their choice of books New volumes have been added both to the lending and reference libraries, among the number being the plays of John Galsworthy, and some of the pfays of Bernard Shaw, also three travel books by H. V. Morton, which have achieved immense popularity. A special senior section , exclusively for the girls of Honour Sixth, was added at the beginning of the year. Thanks are due to Miss Hay for her energetic cooperation and indefatigable activity in all mat • ters connected with the library. R .J.

Birthday Night.

After we had =pent a long afternoon decorating, from which not even our own p e rsons had escaped, the tea b e ll summoned a breathless throng to the dining h a ll. It was a fairyland transformed, a paradise of flowers and streamers, of bright lights and colours. Only those who have taken part can ever realis e th e gaiety of the tea which begins this mostlonge d-for eveni ng of all the year.

The hour of dancing, which followed it, was soon over, and hostesses sped down to Fitchett Hall to greet the stream of arriving guests. The warm afternoon had clouded to misty rain, but it would have taken little less than a blizza rd to damp our , enth u siasm.

The h a ll began to fill steadily with chattering groups, and at last th e curtain went up.

In the throes of the last term of a year's hard work some of us had forgotten a bout doll s and go llyw ogs, but "Cissie in Toyland" r ev i ved , their delights; nor did we overlook the moral virtu e's reward .

In a c harming du <aet, " The Proposal," two of the baby boarders warned us that true love must n eve r be t inged with ava rice, and, after

witnessing an hilarious shadow show, we firmly resolved never to sneeze in the presence of royalty. Three most successful plays, " No Followe r s Permitted," " Buying a Birthday Present, " and "Archibald ," revealed still furth er talent, hitherto unsu spected.

Then came a pause Hard-working resident mistresse s do not rise ea rly and secrete themselves together for nothing. B esides, illuminating s natches of sound had frequently filtered from the staff sitting-room at night, when we were disposed of, but not asleep. As the c ur tain rose, the buzz of conversation instantly subsided, chocolate boxes were forgo tten; we held our breath. We hav e sometimes g u essed at testy a nd perverse traits in the composition of our superiors, and even the appea l of a born h ero ine and the pathetic masculine qualities of a lo ve-lorn h ero. But never had we dreamed of anything like this. No op e ra, no whirlwind comedy ever received such a storm of enthusiasm And then it w as over.

Th e dining hall was again crowded, bright eyes and laughter and happy faces were proof of expectations more than fulfilled.

Supper over, the votes of thanks came, and finally " Auld Lang Syne" and " God S ave the King ."

Miss Tarrant, still the dashi n g h e ro of the moustache and the immaculately creased trousers , evoked screams of delight from the depa rting guests by capturing and kissing the protesting or resignedly submissive members of the staff It was a reve lation to observe that even te aching d oes not destroy a capacity for blushes.

We did not say that it was the best Birthday Night we had kriown-it was b eyond all com parison Besides, without it we should never have met Ralph.

The Church Service.

Our second Annual Church S ervice, con ducted by the Pres ident ( R ev. J. W . Grove), was held on 27th S eptember at the Auburn Methodist Church

The serv ice was led by the girls, the School Choir s in ging the Introit a nd two anthems. " O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go" and "Nearer, My God, t o Thee," were s ung by

the School Quartette-D. Champion, P. J ackson, B. Nicholas, and M. Fox. The Te Deum Laudamus was sung by the congregation, led by the School Choir. The sermon was an appeal to the school spirit of the girls , the text being the school motto, "For God and for Home."

The School Concert.

On 23rd Jul y Malvern Town Hall was c r owded with an interested audience, which showed in no uncertain manner _ its appreciation of th e programme. The Juni o r cho irs, trained by Miss McKay, and the Seniors, under Miss Flockart, sang sweetly and spiritedly, and gave most enjoyab le numbers. By th e courtesy of Professor Bernard Heinze, the Senior girls were accompanied in some of their so ngs by a violin orchestra, other songs being unaccompanied. The School Quartette rendered two songs without accompaniment , and its members were heard also in duets and solos

Instrumental music of a very high standard was given by the girls, especially praiseworthy b eing Chopin's Rondo, Op. 73, which was played on two pianos.

Two plays by Netta Syrett-"The Drea.m Lady" and "Romance of the China Cabinet" were charmingly performed, and obviously gave great pleasure.

The programme concluded with a splendid rendering of "The Gathering Song of Donald th e Black, " which evoked such e n thusiastic app lau se that Miss Flockart acceded to the demands of the audience, and allowed an encore.

The whole concert was most enjoyable, and r eflected the greates t credit on a:11 those responsible for the organisati o n of the performance.

The School Choir.

The aim of every gi rl of M.L.C. is come a member of the School Choir. to beUnder the direction of Miss Flockart, c h oir rehearsa ls

are a constant joy, th e greatest proof of this oemg, perhaps, that all these are held in leisure hours--either before or after school.

At the beginning of the year the choir elected three conductresses and three pianistes to assist Miss Flockart, some practices being dir ected so lely by the girls.

The earnestn ess of each girl has enabled some ambitious works to be attempted, and ~naccompanied, three-part songs are extremely popul ar.

The School Concert was the first great musical funct ion of the year Miss Flockart, in choosing attractive and contrasting pieces, aroused the e n thusiasm of the whole choir, each member considering the success of the concert her own success.

Different from the beautiful works given at the concert were the sacred songs rende red at the Annual Church Service, when the School Choir provided the anthems and other musical items.

An i nterest ing programme was prepared for the "Back to School" D ay celebrations, on which occasion the Te Deum Laudamus was given.

Speech Night work is now in hand, and unaccompa ni ed, three-part carol s will be a fe a ture of the programme. These carols afford the greatest joy to the entire choir.

The most ambitious work yet attempted is t he "Hallelujah Chorus." which is being p repared for the Ju bilee celebrations.

The School Quartette has done excellent and much -a ppreciated work throughout the year. Dorothy Champion, Betty Nicholas, Mary Fox, and Pat J ackson hav e given many items at School functions.

A certain bond is formed betwee n the members of the School Choir, a bond which all hope will be lasting. -Y.M.

The College Church, Auburn.

Ver§e

SENIOR SCHOOL VERSE.

Statue.

H e r e where the shadows cling about your feet, Mute with our thoughts we linger, yo u and I, While one thin streak of crimson still divides The hills' dark outline from the sky.

Is there no warm response in you r dim hand, No pitying heart beneath its lo vely hu sk Of scu lprured marble? ... Only memory stirs, Stirs in th e plaintive l eaves of thoug ht at dusk

I like to watch you, still, and tall , and p ale, No lifeless ch is el ca rved so pure a face, Your lifted throat against the rising moon , · Sure ly no breathing body knew such grace.

I s this not idl e? Dark against the pane The i vy whispe r s its undyin g tune, The white magnolia s glimmer in the dusk, The fountain lips drip silver to the moon.

-Wynwode Macdonald.

Flower Shop.

I would be following the road to nig ht To where the lights run d a n ci ng up the hill, To where the moon com es, gold again st the green, The bright mouth p e tal of a d a ffodil!

I would be goi n g to the s hop I love, The little twisted shop whe r e fl owers are sold, To bu y the heart' s r ed of japonica, And bells of brown boronia, lined with g old.

Frail irises, b lu e-p a le as ev e nin g mis t, S weet incense from the d ap hne's crimson soul , Gree n , mottle d or c hid s, cased in s c ented sand, Wet jonquils cluste r ed in a W ed g wood bowl.

And yl'llow, crin k led poppies a nd pa le ferns, L o n g dr i ppin g fronds , still r ea min g, h a lf asleep,

Of m oonlit hills, where by unfathomed

streams

The star-like flowers of white cl e m at is creep.

I wou ld b e following the road to-night To where the l ights run dancing up the hill, To where the moon co mes, gold aga inst the green, The b rig ht mouth-pe t a l of a daffodil! W y nwode M acdonald.

Painting.

Drunk with the fir e lighc, in the s il ent hall , I h eld the gilded cand le to her face, And , in the gloom, those painte d lips and eyes, The swelling curve of throat, t h e ruffled lace, L eapt out to m eet m e from thei r s ilver frame .

Hot on the carpet dripped the scented wax, And , as the r ed flame quivered, f or one b reath

The bright lips moved, the d ark carnatio n bud Opened again st that h air, dulled long i n d ea th, And chill ed the a ir with all its pass iona te scen t.

The silvery fin gers cl os ed, the eyelids d rooped, The l ife- li g h t fad e d, and the bl o om, the sheen, Of c h eek ~ nd hair we r e ca n vas s m ears a ga in, Yet for one d eathl ess instant I had seen The l ove ly soul th at l it those p a inte d eyes. Wynwode M acdonald.

The Wandering Breeze.

I turn ed my face towards the su n , And · saw th e r e in a fi e ry flame, I f e lt it scor ch m y sou l and sa y That mo lten mons t e r of the d ay" Thou foo l. "

The sun h a d set in g lory re d , The nig ht had dropped h er dusky h ead , But still the echo of its call Came winging throu g h th e dark n ess fa ll"Thou foo l. "

A little breeze came wand'ring by, And in its gentle whisp'ring sigh I heard the soothing lullaby Go mocking to the God on high"Thou fool. "

-D. T. Young, Pass VI.a.

Marsden.

Thr ough miles and miles of hedge groves I have been; and n ever, never seen a place so sweet and fresh and clean as Marsden.

No green grass smells so fresh as after rain , w et l ogs, and then again a feeling of sweet, poignant pain, at M a rsden.

No hearts are half as h ap py as those there, so happy Free from care, they live and breathe the fragrant air of Marsden.

Jean McCrea.

Forest Dawn.

It was dark in the cool, dim forest, Not a single sound was heard, Save the quiet flowing of a stream, And the rustlin g of a bird.

Not a stir in the leafy bowers, Not a movement in the trees, S a ve the softly falling silver d ew, And the gentle, murmuring bree ze.

The air grew sti ll more silent, And darker, too, the night, When over the hilltops suddenly Flashed forth a r ay of light.

Then another and still another, Till all those monarchs old, With their feathered tribes astirring, Were bath ed in radiant gold.

-Lillian Christie, Pass V I .a.

To a Lambeth Delft Jug. (Fashion ed in 1646, a nd bearing the Crown b etween the letters C and R .)

Ah, li ttle sack po t of dark hue , Moulde d b y some skilled hand , now dust, :What didst th o u see, in other years, Of fam e, desire, hate or lu st ?

Where didst thou stand-in castle hall D eep -drained by feudal lord long dead, Or in some wayside tav e rn small, Where m any roads at s unset led ?

Still on thy roughly-moulded sides, ' Tween letters large, thy crown doth bring, Mem' ries of other day s than ours, Of customs strange, of Cha rles then king.

Oh little jug! Those sights and sounds That life thou kne wes t once, h ave go ne ! Yet still, s ince careful hands do guard Thee we ll, throu gh tim e thou lin g' r est on

Couldst tho u but speak, what tales wouldst tell O f honoured toast to l ady fair, Of Roya list brave or whispered plot, Of woven tapestries so rare!

Th e stirring past will l iv e in thee, Though much is c h ange d ; though men love mor e The future than the long a goS ilent for ever, c herished as afore. Dorothy Nicholas, Pass Vl.b. , age 15.

Inspiration.

The artist with unseei n g , upca st eyes, Th e poet with care-furrowed, thoughtful brow, Musician with hands listless on the k eys, Inert, thought-rapt, th ey ever seek th e powe r To do great things; th ei r present aspirati o n, To find that sprite, e lusive inspiration

The One by Whom the unive rse was planned Has painted with a steady , inspired h a nd Th~ eve r -chang ing scenes of earth and sky,

Has, with a joyous po et's soul and mind Created on earth life of every kind In perfect harmony t o live and die;

Has fi li ed the air with music of the breeze, Of silver-throated birds, of murmurous seas, And singing streams. Then m an must, will, espy

In Nature's se lf , our God's superb creation, That mu c h-sou g ht, eerie sprite, his inspiration. N o rma Smith, Honour VI.

JUNIOR SCHOOL VERSE. Road Fever.

I must go out to the roads again, and the lovely bright blue skies, And all I want is the birds' way, and thei r wild and haunting cries, And the rising sun through the graceful gums, and the wind chat sighs in the morning. And the dew chat sparkles on flowers and leaves in the beautiful wild fresh dawn ing.

1 must go out to the roads again, and the paling blu e of the sky, When the birds fly home, a n d the fox creeps home , and the day begins t o die; And a ll I want is a resti n g-p lace, down by the river willow, And a watching moon as a shining la mp, and th e fragrant f e r ns fo r a pillow. -Clare Gadsd e n , IV.a., aged 14 years

A Country Road.

I love the ro a d in the cou n t r y Th at winds merrily by, Tha t dips down past the w h eat fi e lds, T hen up, up to the sky.

le winds along forever, Away from the streets and towns, Onward never stop pi n g Till it comes to the rolling dow ns. Lila Monsborough.

The Sands.

I must go down to the sands agai n , wh ere the wind b lows shrill an d c hill, Before the dawn when the sea is dark, and th~ diffs are gloomy still.

The sands are wet where t h e wave's gon e back, and th e reeks are drench ed i n spray. But the sea will calm, and the wind will drop, with the dawn ing of ~he day.

I must go down t o the sands again, to the s hining sands and the sea, \Vhere th e wi n d blows, and the gulls scream a call that i s dear to me, And the seaweed green from the waters d eep li es s tre wn upon the shore, And the shells of delicate hues lie r o und, washed u p from th e deep sea floor.

-Ma r garet Guthridge, I V.a.

The Coming of Spring. Translati o n from the Latin. Now the chilly winter goes, Warming breezes melt the snows Now the boys and girls are seen. Playing in the fields so green.

The river will more gently flow, And a ll the flowers begin to grow; Th e sun shi n es brightly all the dav Now chilly winter's J:!One "w"v -J. Turner.

Fairy Music.

If you l isten on the hillside, Whe n the silver moon peeps out, You will see the fairy pipers Creeping, frisking all about.

You wi ll hea r the merry mu sic Float ing on the b a lmy a ir , And the ripplin g str ea m accomp'nies Fai r y pipers eve r ywh ere.

If you open wide you~ eyel ids, List'nin g hard with mi g ht and m ain, You will see the fairy ladies Dancing to the quiet strain.

When th e last brig ht moonbeam sh i neth, And the firstborn su nbea ms sway, Then the merry pipers va ni sh A n d the fa ir ies c r eep away.

R. Trigge, Lower V.

A Dream.

It was midnight on a s u mmer's eve , The stars were sh ining bright, I dreamed th a t I dwelt in marble hall, And was dressed in raiment bright.

I entered a l ovely golden room, And was placed u po n a throne; Princes and ladies attended m e, As a bodyguard all my own.

At last the bugler so unded a note, The r eceptio n was a t its clos e; I moved to my r oya l bedroom then , To slumber a nd repose.

My drea m thoughts carried me on a nd on, I rode in a s il ve r cloud, Th e stars all winked as I passed b y, But the moon laughed out aloud.

His jeering laughter made me wrath, A weapon I tried to clasp, I clutched at a passing meteor, But the moon had me in his grasp.

I struggled as though ! was clutched by a bear Or a horrible, ugly ghost; But I lau ghed when I found my antagonist Was naught but my own bed post.

-Gwen Hughes, XX.

Thunder Storms .

First the gloomy clouds start lighting, They spit forth lire like dragons bitingThat's the lightning.

Each seeks to get the other under, They crash and boom, then burst asunder Th at ' s the thunder

Then from their eyes fall tears of pain, They cry with all their might and mamThat's the rain.

June Barnett, IV.c., age 11 years

These Things I Love.

I love little babies with laughing eyes, The go ld en wings of butterflies, The dewy grass that sparkles so, The little, babbling brooks that flow.

The bright sunshine that smiles on flowers, Golden buttercups, leafy bowers, Darling Mother, and Father, too, I love my cat, and I love you.

-Gladys Teed, III.a, age 10 years.

Nature .

In the garden roses grow, Flowers are very pretry there; For the river is not far, In the wood grows maiden-hair.

Violets, mignonette and poppies

Are flowers of the garden bed, Pansies, sweet peas, also daisies, Geraniums of pink and r ed. -Lynette Bull, IV.c., age 10 years.

Gates at Coombe Cottage

1. Spradbery.

Prose

SENIOR SCHOOL PROSE.

The Fly.

It is a typical January morning, the green blinds have been drawn, screening the glare of the sunny verandah and the hot garden beyond. Temporarily obscured fr om vigi lant eyes, he occupies his K i ngdom of Warm Window-pane a nd meditates, h e whom the dictionary despises as "a small common insect with transparent wings," a m e re By.

Let u s study him more closely. He has a numb er of legs, but then he never survives unti l the winter to suffer from chilblains, a nd, apparently, he finds his supe rfluity no incon ven ience. And he has two win gs, as delicate a n d gauzy as a fairy 's, his dark body glows with innumerab le colours-gold, and b lu e, and gorgeous metallic greens in the su nl ight. With a little more size and a trifle more breeding h e would strut with the peacock

H e must suffer the inevitabl e penalty of b eauty, however; his foes lurk o n every · h and. On the h earth ru g the kitten h as tired o f chewi n g her pink ribbon, and is drowsily r eflecting whether the window-pane would afford any sport for her act ive little pin cushio n of a paw. The maid has n eg lected l ast n ight's cobwebs; not three feet away he can see th e greedy, little black eyes, and the shining b ac k with its broad stripe of scarlet. Somewhere a mile distant a man with a heart of steel is printing purple Health Week posters, "Swot th at Fly!" A second is patentin g yet another infallib le fly -killer to be put on the market to-morrow. Besides, this hot weath er h as a dangerou s effect upon people's tempers One buzz, and h e wi ll become . a smudge.

The very gravy boat yawns destruction ben eath its irresistib le odours. The honey jar on the breakfast tab le, which might hold nothing more harmful than distilled sun light, is but a further trap , a sweet-tasting, l ingering, re len tless death.

Almost as though h e senses our compassion, he lod ges his fifth leg meditatively behind an acco mmodatin g ear Our eyes are the windows

of our souls, they say. His are large and melancholy , mortality presses heavily upon him. He spreads his wings; one of the windows is open. In a moment h e h as become a part of the atmosphere, a minute atom p ass ing from our sight into tlie su n light, ove r the phlox and t h e as ters, the ever lastings and the zinneas.

-W.M., V.c.

The Too-Perfect Machine.

I sat in my office, a lmost overcome by the l atest news brought by a d epu tation fro m my employees in the ammunition facto r y. The war h ad been going on for two years nowa mmunition was all important, yet the men demanded more wages, and threatened to cease work if I did not accede t o their requests.

The t e le phone bell rang. It was Raderawitz, an inventor, and my friend Raderawitz was excited; his words r an into each o ther as he told m e that he h a d succeeded where others had failed. He had made a p e rfect m echanica l man. Would I comi,, ove r a nd see it?

A mechanical man-a solution to my p roblem! I hurrie d over to the inventor's h ouse and r a ng the bell. Th e door open ed, and I stepped into the extremely dark hall, saying, as I thought, to Rade r awitz, "Where is this mechanical man?" " I am h e," answered t he figure, and, reaching to the switch, he turned th e light on. It might have b ee n o n e of my own workmen stand i n g there. But it gave me the feeling of something unnatural. I seemed to h ea r, in the silence of the ball, the unceasing ticking of t h e m echa nism inside his body. I even thought I cou ld see the workings. A shu dder passed t hrough me. A manmade man! It was supern a tural.

I turned to g r ee c R ader awitz, who had e n tered the hall , and t h e mechanica l man t ook my hat and left. " Rad erawitz," I said, " it is ma r vellous. I must have that-that thing. My men will not work. Give me that man for just one month."

"My friend," he replied, "take it , but bewa r e, a nd remember this-'The mediato r between brain and muscle must be the h eart.' "

Two days laier the mechanical man was installed in my factory. He worked day jlnd night, unceasingl y , untiringly He took the place of twenty men. The em ployees had seen that th ey were not n ecessary with such a machine, and had given up all thoughts of st r iking, coining back much subdued. I dismissed twenty of them, saying that their services were not required, because the mechanical man did their work now.

Th e remaining employees thought, with fear, of the consequences of h avin g n ot one, but m any, of th ese machines They would starve; they would die. Man thought he had conquered ma ch ine ry , but machine ry had conquered him. They held meetings, discussing their problem, and at length arrived at a decision They muse show the emp loyer the machine was not perfect, that they could work as well. They could work untiringly a'nd unceasingly. They would be perfect.

A wee k passed. The men still remained by their decision. They b egan to look weak and ill, and a few days later three men had to be carried out of the factory. Every day this went on, many men were being taken on, but mor e were collapsing under the strain of trying to compete with this monster, who still kept on, untiringly , unceas ing ly. M achin es were le ft standin g idle. No one was to be found to work chem.

The number of idle machines increased. Soon only the ones worked by the m echan ica l man were working. But now o n e day a lone remained before the mechanical man was to be sent back to his creato r. I sat in my office thinking. The man, instead of helping, had ruined me The n , from the almost deserted factory there came a shrill, tinny laugh. It was u the man. "

tt See," it said nman is conqu e red, machinery has won. I am ruler here. I am perfect. I can even crush my master." Then with great s trides , h e w a lke d to my office. I could hear, it see med, the tick, tick of the mechanism inside h im. le irritated me. I co uld not think Why did he stare so? He st r etch ed out hi s lon g thin fin gers towards me, h e clutched my throat I felt my head reel. Then there came a d eafen ing crash. The mechanical man was too perfect. A spring had snapped, and it lay in ruins at my feet.

I sat there until dusk crept with stealthy footsteps into my little office, and out of the heap of ruins, I imagined there e merged God ' s perfect machine-Man.

-Joy Taylor, V.c Youth.

One sees it everywhere, youn g, care-free, healthy happiness, innocently s h e lter ed from the buffetings of reality. How unfit it is to bear th e heavy strain of the bigger things yet to Come!

Its very daring proves its incapability In a story bo ok world, wh e re consequences are turned away before their effects materialise, it lives only for the present. Th e future, as th e past has done , will take care of itself.

Were the pioneers, the founders of our country, shielded in th eir youth from the hard knocks of life? They established a firm and true foundation, which is gradually being undermined by the selfishness of modern youth.

N ever before h as youth received such consideration as it receives to-day I s it g rateful? Th e more it r eceives, the more it expects, and the less it gives in return.

Hidd e n as its nature may be beneath surface cordiality a nd sporting spirit, n everthele ss that nature is nourished daily, a nd at times becomes plain ly visib le.

If this selfishness is not overcome, where is our modern youth leading? Actually it is encouraged, and even admired Does no one see beneath the shallow surface?

-0. J Young, Pass VI.a.

"What is Truth?"

I was reading by the fireside . The last words I remember are, "Truth is at the bottom of a we ll. " Then I must have falle n asleep, because I found myself in a l arge well with the words burnin g in my brai n, " Truth is at the bottom." I became obsess ed with the desire to reach the bottom and to find for myself this strange thing called Truth. I d escended an i mmeasurabl e distance before I met with something.

Qu ite i ndist in ct at first, I thought it was but part of the darkness, but gradually it evolved into a phosphorescent shape, and I found

m yself r ega rd ing what I · thought must indeed be the genie of Ala ddin's lamp "Who are you?" I gasped, and the a n swer b oth ove r awed and overjoyed me "I am the Spirit of Truth, and I dwell at the bottom o f the well." My heart beat hi gh in h ope. Had I at last found a clue? Was I at last to realise my des ire ? I looked agai n , and lo, it had v anished. I conti nued on h opefully. S ometi m es I touched the "flying rob e a nd flutteri n g bem" of the Spirit of Truth , but it a lwa ys evaded my grasp-e lusive, un attain a ble I was im p e lle d by a desire stronger than wi ll , and so I descended down , down, always down

It had been a dream, and , staring into the dyin g e mbe rs of the fire, I reflected that Truth is indeed at the bottom of a well-but the well is botto mless We are born to seek what we can never find We know, b e fore we begin, that it is hop eless, that we c,;m n eve r find the Truth , that l ife would no lo n ger be worth liv ing if we could. But we continue to sear c h not only for the phys ica l truth of our bodi es, the earth, the w aters, the whole uni_ve r se, but also the truth of our own soulsand the seeking is its own r e wa rd.

K eats h as said, "Beauty is truth ," but b eauty is only a small part of truth-one of those infinitesimal fra gment s whi c h we sometimes grasp. Throu g h our search alone have we p rog r esse d from savage ry to civilisation, from darkness to light, from ignorance to the powe r tha t is born of knowledge. T o o u twa rd appearances we h ave failed, but we have h e l ped the de ve lopment of man in his eve r -growing perfect ion , and ac hieved something by realisin g Socrates' ideal, " A hunte r after truth."

--Carol Edmunds, V I b.

"Change."

" No hope! H e is d ead ."

The words rang out with cutting clearness in the s till room.

A spasm of agony s hot thr o u gh the h ea rt of the man who was stre tch ed o n the bed, perfectly quiet and motionless. His eyes were closed, his face p a le a nd rigid, the expression fixed.

" Dead! " he cried within himself , and from the inmost r ecesses of his h eart a voice throbbe d h o llowly, "Dead!" H e felt vag u e ly surprised, bewi ld ered, dismayed; then a wave

of tenderness swept over him for the woman who was kneeling quietly beside the bed. He rea lised how she mu'st be suffer ing , and crie d o ut to her, but s h e did not hear He made o n e last e ffort to s tir, but h is limbs we re powerless and stiff, a terrible weig ht was pressing down u po n him. Mary was so near to himh e h a d only to st r etch out a hand-but she might as we ll h ave been a million m iles awa y.

Mingled with h is distress a t her grief was anot her feeling, ind efin abl e, intangible, which was gradua lly tak in g p ossess ion of him His thoughts wh irl ed round in a dizzy circle, little pin pricks of lig ht pi e rced the darkness of h is brain, a mist rose b e.fore him, a nd he felt himself being almost imperceptibly drawn away fr o m h e r ; h er presence became vaguer , m o r e dim l y felt; a curtain of thick fog rose betwee n ch em; h e could n o l o n ger see her clearly, n o r hear h er sobbin g. And a ll he f elt was a de t ach ed se n se of apathy and numbn ess, almost disinterestedness Vague, confused sounds were drumming in hi s ears, and a murmur of strange voices floated towards him . The words of a poet.'s creed flashed before his brain in fl a ming le tters, " B eau ty is truth, truth beau ty."

Th e woman was receding into the di s tance, g rowin g sma11er an d smaJler, while he w as goin g forward into the light of a dawn, pale with the glimmerings of t h e future.

Rosalind Johnsto n e, Honour VI.

Internationalism.

P eace, international a nd permanent, has been the ideal of man y disti n guis h ed s tatesmen since the b eginning of the nineteenth centur y. To a Dutchman, Grotius, falls the h onour of beginning, as ea rly as 1625, mod e rn in ternationa l law. But t h e movement first b eca m e important after the fall of Napoleon , when th e European m o n a r c h s co n sti tuted a Conce rt of Europe, so le mnly p le d g in g i ts m e mb ers to the p r eser vation of " public peace, the tranqui ll ity of states, the inv io la bility of possessions, and the f aith of treaties." The five great powers-Austria, Russia , Prussia, Britain a nd France--dominated the Concert, th e idea of which beca m e permanent as t im e went on.

Thi s Concert rende r ed valu able service in crystallising intern ationa l solidarity, and m

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seeking to prevent war o r alleviate its miseries. Thus the Congress of Paris, in 1856, signed a declaration for the protection of neutrals in maritime trade during time of war. In 1864 the Geneva Convention made certain humane regulations for the conduct of war, and to execute them an International Red Cross Society was organised, with headquarters at Geneva, and branches in all European countries. The Congress of Berlin, attended by the diplomats of the great powers and of Turkey, arranged a compromise between conflict ing national interests, and exercised a joint control over the domestic affairs of Turkey. These are but a few instances of the very satisfactory arrangements secured by the powers in the inte r ests of international p eace.

As the nineteenth century advanced popular internationalism increased considerably. International societies and congresses were n;iultip liecl, such as a Universal Telegraph Union, a Universal Postal Union, Socialist, Missionary and Eucharistic congresses. Jt was natural in these circumstances that the idea of war should seem intolerable. International peace congresses became regular events after 1889, and in 1 891 permanent he adqua rters of the International Peace Movement were established at Berne.

It was the Pacifist party which suppo r ted the Concert of Europe in its efforts to mitigate the horro rs of war, which encouraged nations to submi t their quarrels to internationa l arbitration. Notable successes in this policy are to be found in the case of the Alabama claims and the crisis in Morocco in 1909.

A powerful impetus was given to the peace movement by the Czar, Nicholas II., who proposed an international conference on disarmament. The First Hague Peace Conference accordingly met i n 1899, a tte nd ed by representatives of 26 States-twenty Eur opean, four Asiatic, and two American. It was found impossible to conclude an international agreement on the limitation of military and naval forces, but several important rules were adopted for ameliorating the conduct of wa r , and, more important still , a Permanent Court of Arbitration was established for the arbitration of international disputes. This court should consist of four members from each country. The

pacifist ideal continu ed to be developed in the Second H ague Peace Conference of 1907 , in which many humane amendments were made to the laws of land and sea warfare.

In such ways the movement for international peace has continued through the years, despite much opposition. Yet it was not strong enough to prevent the ever-increasing military and naval appropriations of the powers, culminating in the Great War of 1914. But since the war the cause of peace has prospered. The achievements of the League of Nations have been colossal, and to-day the nations of the world bid fair to be living in a closer brotherhood than was ever dreamed of a few years ago. The question of disarmament is being seriously considered by the powers at the present time, and whether their hope will be realised only the future can show.

Joyce Bennett.

Wildflowers.

All the wo rld over wildflowers grow in the fields and forests, on mountains a nd plains, wherever the count r y side is untouched by the marring hand of man. Man in his ravages fells the t r ees that sheltered the flowers, and clears and ploughs the land on which they blossomed, thus replacing the rugged beauty of nature's work with trim, ordered fields. Yet even in the cultivated fields nature will have her way, and scarlet, silken poppies, the pest of the farmer and delight of the poet, dance gaily amidst the corn. So nature takes her revenge against man.

Wildflowers· bloom wherever the sun smiles up on the land. As Alpine snows flee before spring sunshine, flowers lift their heads before the retreating snowdrifts, like dimpling laught er after sadness.

In the glades of quiet English woods bluebells carp et the ground, daffodils n od cheerily beside the peaceful lakes, and shy violets hide their faces beneath their sheltering leaves. Where rushing torrents roar the purple heather b looms, and the golden broom and the thistle rear their h eads.

Over the wide expanses of Australia her wattles bloom in all their golden glory, the fluffy yellow balls strewn upon the ground; and too, the flowering gums flourish in white,

and pink, and crimson contrast to the sombre green of surrounding trees. Down on the slopes of the paddocks the arrogant dandelion rears her yellow head beside the modest harbingers of spring, with their adorable little white faces. Beneath the shade of tall gums the straight, prickly heath hangs her delicate bells; the whole bushland is scented with hidden flowers.

Beneath blazing tropic skies great forests spread over the l~d, forests of brilliant green, wich great climbers and trailing creepsrs, and hanging festoons, all a gay riot of gorgeous colour, the air heavy with rare, intoxicating perfumes that dull the sense and drug the soul with their glory.

And so, in every land beneath the sun, nature has scattered her brighmess, the wildflowers, haughty or shy, gaudy or delicate, yet all are beautiful and the best lo v ed gift of nature. -May Guthridge, V.a.

The Pipes of Pan.

Soft! Soft! A whispering echo of fairyland, faint and far away, sweeter than any music that had stirred the forest since days began, rising, falling, the n dying away into th e cool green dimness of the forest aisles. I wandered, enchanted, on and on, deeper and deeper into the forest, where stillness reigned undisturbed Softest mosses grew unde rfoot, and all around the giant forest kings, their branches drooping overhead, and ever the sil-

very music sounding nearer, nearer, and nearer still. Even the birds had ceased their singing, and the shy flowers lifted their heads in won der.

Parting the bushes, I stepped through to the other side, and lo, on the bank of a cool, clear stream sat a figure , half a beast he was, and yet a man, and in the curls of his red brown hair grew a pair of small green horns. His back to a great moss-grown pine, and his hoofs upon the flower-studded grass, he played on a pipe of reeds. Softly, sweetly, divinely he played, and each white lily lay reflected i n the quiet stream.

Little brown squirrels perched on the branch over his h e ad, furry small rabbits crept through the grass to sit at his feet , and white swans cam e to glide on the r iver. Red butterflies clung to the lilies, and a dragon fly bung in the air; a gentle fawn came down to drink, gracefu l and lithe in its movements.

Still he played on, music, soft, yet crystal dear, and I knew that this was the strange god Pan. Mysterious, he lived in the depths of the forest where no man came. I lay on the bank and closed my eyes, lulled by the magic of Pan's pipes. Peace descended upon me, and I knew no more.

At last I awoke, and al l was quiet. The crystal river still ran on, but the strange god, Pan, had gone back into the depths of the forest.

-May Guthridge, V.a.

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Elsewhere in chis magazine may be found the form·al music notes, but the following is to give informal information for the enlightenment of those interested

The specia l choir has been displaying its vocal capabilities under the most enthusiastic leadership of Miss Flockart. There have been, besides the regular practice on Monday afternoon , voluntary practices on Tuesday and Friday mornings. These commence, oflicially, on the arrival of Miss Flockart, a nd continue until 9.10 a.m.

N ext year, a t the Jubilee , there will be a choir of 1000 voices, consisting of prc5ent

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and past pupils. This e n ormous c h oi r will dr j u stice· to Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus," bu t at present whoever p asses Miss Flockart's room may hear a pit iful piping of " Hallelujah! Hall elujah! " issuing from the vocal organs of about ten girls, while one brave soul makes g'allant attempts at top A, with occasional suc cess. Miss Flockart constan tl y cheers her with th e reminder that "Many O ld Collegians can and will positivel y boom on those hig h n o t es." We h o p e so.

These Special Choir p r ~ctic es are n ot without th eir fun. Miss F l ockarr announced o n e day t h at n ext Speech Night we were to have some more Christm as carols, and also "Christ m 'as is Coming," b y special r equest. Curious, but the w h ole choir was unde r the impression that it came without request.

The School Concert was a wonderfu l success, and the Special Choir was given an excel lent critique by Dr. Floyd Ever yone comm ented· on the facial expression during the s in ging of " O H appy F ai r ." Now Miss Floe-

tioning prope rly since it is too busy digesting the food." By the way, Miss Hall vows that Susie is not a stude n t of physiology.

Miss Flockart made an interesting experiment during first t er m. Each girl in the senio r Forms was asked to compose an ai r for " T winkle, Twinkle, Little Star." We do not know w h y, but we were told that s h e was quite sur prised at t h e number of excellent s u ggestions which we r e h anded in.

The m us ic a l programme for the " Back to Schoo l" Day was co n clu d ed by the Special

kart had told us that we were to l ook happy, but on the night of the concert we were so excited that we forgot all about it, and even the s ig ht of the conductress's encouraging smile did n ot r e mind u s What eventually did cause o ur h appy expression s was th e sight of Miss F lockarr doing h er best to fall ' off the sma ll box provided for her.

In the chora l classes special stress is laid on correct breathing. Miss Flockart notic ed that one pupil was particu larl y short-winded, and asked, "Susie, can you te ll me why it is that one cannot do j u stice to one's si n ging or breathing just after a meal?" Susie considered for a moment, a nd a nswered, "Th e breathlessness is caused by the d iaphragm's not func

Choir singing "God S ave the King," rende r e d decidedly " m arcato." Ir was conducted by one of th e g irl s who, in order to see the choir, h a d to ascend a soap b ox covered with drapings, from which pre carious position she ad m irably performed h e r duty

Last year an annual interform choral conte,;t was inau gu r ated. Each Form e lects its own pianiste a1:1d conductress, and sets to work to produce two pieces, a h ym n and a unison song The competit ion also includes a rest in sight reading. Last year Dr Floyd kindly con sented to judge the contest, a nd after, as he r emarked, much d eep tho u g h t, awarded the prize to Diploma A. The trophy i s a beautiful shield, w hich was presented for competition by Mr. G. R. Ni c holas.

Ir is Miss Flocka rt's custom to give each Form, i n its c h oral period, a practice in sight r eadi n g. One afternoon there were a few bars of music on the blackboard, and Miss Flockart asked any girl who did not learn music to say how many different kinds of notes there we r e. At once Susie arose and cried, "Three!" The joke is that Susie lea rns s in g in g fr om Miss Flockart.

Everyone is very interested and excited about the new song book which is being compiled for us. Miss Flockart is working untiringly, and hopes to complete it for the J ubilee Alrea?y there are more than 2 5 songs on th e ind e x sheet. Some are traditional s c hool songs, but most of them are old and new ones by past and present students. Miss Flockart wrote to Sir Henry Newbolt and Mr. Rudyard Kipling , asking them if they would kind ly compose a song for us. To Jour disappointme nt, they have refused, politely pointing out the fact t h at they are very busy men, but they both have given us permissio n to reprint any of their songs. Permission to reproduce some melodies has yet to be obtained

Speech Night is rap idl y approac hing. The Special Choir is practising diligently, and hopes to e clipse all former performances

\'<I e shall nev er be able co thank Miss Flockart sufficiently for her enthusiastic and untiring devotion to the work of producing the Special Choir.

The Music of the Hills.

The v io linist stood with b ow poised over the strings, his deft fingers ready , waiting to b e gin. There was si lence. Then with a quick movement the bow touched the strings, the fingers began to express the artist's thoughts, and the violin sent forth its plaintive melody.

Ir was a wonderful story-the story of the hills . It began ve r y softly, conveying to the listeners the weird and uncanny impression of the lon ely forest There was moonlight in the music , and the minor key gave that sad, mournful tone . The dread fear of the purs ued, which caused the tiny, frightened hare to flee down the mountain side to the narrow, rocky ledge, throbbed in the restrained power of the notes, and burst out with lo osened emotion as the beast found the way harred only a high wall of rock before him, below death , and behind no hope of mercy The bra nches rustled as h e l ightly tipped them in passin g , the little silver brook stopped its tinklin g s ong for a breath, and then went on aga in , th e call pines si g hed, and stre tched their branches towards the skies and the light of the fi t ful moo"n The very esse n ce of the fores t rang in e ve ry note.

The tiny thing stood for a second, poised on the mountain side, waiting, wanting to dare to spring into unfathomable space The melody was strained, exp e ctant, then the dramatic fire of the composition rose to a pitch of surpassing grande ur, changing to a dirge-like wail as, with a desperate resol v e, the hare hesitated and the n was lost fo r ev e r in the depths of the canyon. The notes burst forth into such a finale that it seemed as though other unseen musicians were joining in the song of the freed.

The bow once more poised over the strings, th e a rtist' s fingers waiting. Th e re was no applause, to other e a rs , but to the master came higher praise than his liste ners could give, the sigh of the forest , all joining in one song of appreciation Th e n sile nceJoy T a ylor , V.c.

Sketch of an Old Woman.

It was a fresh spring day at the b eginning of September. Everything spoke of youth and beauty, and the old woman seated under the almond tree, over which a veil of misty pink and white blossoms had been thrown, sighed a little, and her book fell unheeded into h e r lap.

She was seated in a folding chair on a lawn which was still unsheathing its green blades. She was tall and thin, and wore a long pearl grey, si lk dress, which was fashioned on flowing lines in order to soften all the hard ang les of her fig ure. Her s ilky white hair was quite abundant, and was pulled forward on to her face, to hide some of the many wrinkles there Her eyes looked very weary and rather dull in the bright sunshine. She felt tired. old very lonely a nd sad.

Suddenly three c h i ldren r an from the house across the garden on to the l awn There we r e two girls and a boy, chubby, healthy, happylooking youngsters. As they ran to her, they cried, "Grandma! Grandma!" The o ld l ady' s face lit up with plea sure and love at their vo ices, and she smiled. Th ree pairs of arms we re flung round her neck, flowers and a book were dropped into her lap, and the girls kissed her rapturou s l y.

" Many happy r e turns of the day, Grandma, dear, " sa id one. " Why didn' t you tell us 1t

was your birthday? We could have been having such fun!"

She smiled sadly " I am too old co keep my birthdays now. You wouldn't be inte rested in an old woman who's eighty to-day," and she sighed wistfully at memories of long ago.

"Oh!" said the boy "Of course we are Aren't you Mum's mother?"

"Do look at your flowers!" begged the younger girl.

She did so, thanking chem for their gifts. Noticing with a pang of reproach that they looked unhappy at her sadness, she forced a smile which soon became a delighted laugh at their infectious gaiety, and complied with their request for a story

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-Nancy Tra n gmar, Honour VI.

The Red Ring.

Outside it h a d been raining heavily since late afternoon, a downpour which had increased with the darkness, and in the warm little room three men had been driven, like rabbits, to shelter from the night. One was a more recent newcomer, his rough coat had caught and h eld the drops until now it almost sparkled in the fir elight, and his sodden felt hat l ay beside him in a little pool of water on the hearth. On his left hand he wore a ring with a l arge red stone, and, in the pause whi ch followed the awkward exchange of greet ings, he fumbled with it incessantly.

" Th a t ' s a fine scone," said the man on his right.

"It is valuable--to me," replied the stranger, twisting it so chat it caught the flicker of the lire. His companions sensed a story, but they sat discreecly silent, and presencly he began to speak.

H e was a wizened little man with keen eyes, and he pause d ofte n so that the beat of the r ain on the roof would seem to grow suddenly loud e r , and die away again.

"It happened two years ago," he said. " It was a night like this, and four of us sat late round a fir e It must have been well midnight, and we had been talking. We had created a tense sort of atmosp h ere, in whic h we sat too still for speech. The old house where we had fo und r efuge was long disused, and we could hear the wind come singing

under the rafters, and the creak of old hinges, smothered a lm ost beyond r e cognition in the driving rain.

"Suddenly we felt chat in spirit we were not alone. I knew that someone had touched the back of my chair, and in a moment he stood among us. It was not a shadow, but the indistinct form of a tall man. His pale hair was wild and discoloured, his eyes were bright as with a fever, and his clothes were like a cold vapour, like the wet mist I have seen gather at sunset along river valleys The fire had died low, and the effect of the red light behind him would, 1n other circumsta nces, have been extraordi narily beautiful. There was a terrible horror in that moment, but, strangely, we all felt that we h ad been waiting for this thing-for him-to come.

"'My fire!' he said s uddenly, almost like an echo to the wind. 'My hearth! You have disturbed my y ea rs-cold ashes. You have scatt ered my dust and broken my solitude! Oh why have you done this?'

"He was weeping, like a heart-broken child and he ran his fing e rs through his lank, mois; hair in a sort of wild desperation. Then he was gone. Almost in the lire its e lf lay a ring with a red stone, a magni ficent thing, with depths like the light on d eep water. I picked it up , and we sat there by the greying hearth, talking it over. When th e light came we parted, going our own ways, out into a wild, wet dawn."

His vo ice trailed away in t o an unbroken silence

"And what did you m ake of it?" It was the man on the speaker's left, a little awed at his own voice.

" We came to the conclusion-it had to be only a theory-chat this was a man who had die d there after a vain , covetous l ife his soul so saturated with th e love of wealth that it had been l e ft there to watch all h e had loved decay, until it found a desperate sort of comfort in dust, and sil e nce, and dead ashes. And to taunt him still more, until he was cleansed of the soot of his sinning, he had b een left this ring which h e h a d prized above a ll his possessio n s. I have been waiting for two years for h i m to return-he will come back some night, and I shall restore it to his poor, worn soul."

Th e c harre d l ogs fell apart among the hot coals, and outside the wind lashed the almond blossom against the dark pane. In the bare little room three figures sat, and one stood. His presence was equally felt, he was like a pale flame , a thing of mists and cold vapours, with outstretched hands.

The rain came spluttering down the chimn ey, and suddenly, sharply, something dropped to the stone hearth, almost into the fire. He gathered it up, crushing it wilfully to a powder in his eager fingers, in his eyes a bright, feverish lust. The mist he left behind him was like the ghost of a rainbow, wonderfully coloured.

A strange atmosphere filled the room, and the left hand, which reached for tne stillsodden hat, was completely bare. With one sile nt glance at the flickering ashes the tn'ree men rose and went, each to his own road, out into the breaking grey of a wild , wet dawn.

-Wynwode Macdonald, V.c.

The Old Curiosity Shop.

In a small a lley way, off the main street of Chester, I stumbled across a little shop. It was built in the Tudor style; the foundations had sunk slightly to one side, g iving it a queer, awry appearance.

It seemed to have a personality, and I was eager to see more of it. The floor level of the shop was fully six inches below the street, consequently, as I stepped down I was forced to stoop in order to pass through the very small doorway.

Looking about me, I felt a s though I had stepped into another world. I forgot the trams , the busy streets, the modern buildings that were not more than one hundred yards away Here everything was just as it must have bee n one hundred yea r s ago. The heavy rafters of the ceiling were so low that I could h ave touched them with my hand.

A little, white-haired old man came shuffling up to me: He seemed to me to fie in perfectly with his surroundings He asked me in an old cracked voice, " Is there anythine I can do for ye, missy? " I replied that I should ·like nothing bet ter than to see his curios. He was quite delighted, and took the greatest pleasure and pride in showing me ' eve rything about the little shop.

I was shown, first of all, his most treasured possession, an old Bible that John W es ley had carri ed with him while preaching in England.

He had some very precious point lace, that had originally come from Venice. It was exquisitely fine Old, gnarled fingers might have spent many hours of tedious labour working at it by dim candle light.

But what held my interest most was a bril liant sword, with a ruby in its liilc. Some mediaeval knight had probably been its proud possessor, and may have used it in tournaments.

Amongst his ocher treas ures was a pair of brass cand lesticks, almost green with age, but still retaining their b eauty of form

I could not 1ielp noticing an old party fro ck, of fin e brocade, hand -sewn with stitches so small and neat I cou ld hardly see them The frock was trimmed with pale blue velvet ribbons. It might have delighted the heart of some young girl attending perhaps her first party The words of the song came to my mind-

" Dress' d m your gown of blu e brocade, A rose upon each dainty shoe, Lady in loveliness arrayed, I'd love to dance with you ."

An old grandfather clock sounded the hour. It was five o ' clock. I had been in the shop for ove r an hour. I hurriedly made my departure, and was soon out in the busy street. Motor-cars were sounding their horns, trams ringing th e ir bells, che big shops were busy with their customers.

I found it hard to realise chat there could be, such a short distance away, that little shop, passed over by the hand of Time.

-Shirley Whiteaker , Pass VI.a.

The Wolf.

Ac the Treymain' s country r es idence a gay party gathered around the heavily laden cables. After dinner the company broke up , che you nger members going co the ballroom , the older ones moving in s m a ll g roups towards the lounge, where card tables were se t.

Four men, of whom the host, Lord Treymain, was one, went into th e library and seated themselve s around a l arge fire. Two of them were evidently o ld acqua intances, but did not know the fourth until Treymain remarked , " Oh! By the way, chis is Mr. Bates, w hom I chink I m e ntioned to you last night. Mr. Bates, these are two old friends of mine , Mr. Holmes and Mr. Weldon!"

For fully two hours the m e n talked. Bates, recently returned from Alaska, did most of it, celling them of adventures in the snow, in which, curiously enough, he always seemed to figure prominently. Weldon , who prided himself on being a keen judge of characte r , saw chat the man was not half so brave as he pre cended.

After a little lapse in the co nversation , he said co Bates, "Yes, you certai nly have gone through some awe-inspiring adventures. You muse be a very brave man!" Bates assumed a modest expression and said, uoh, no, not at all, but I really chink I have been through the utmost privation, cold, thirst, and hunger. In face, I believe nothing could frighten me now." Weldon looked as if he suddenly had an inspiration . " Mr. Bates , you ' re the very man. I own a house some ten miles from here, against which my wife has become suddenly prejudiced, thinking it haunted. Just to reassure her chat there was no danger, I said I would sleep in it alone for one night, but she refused to allow m e. In view of your many adventures, Mr. Bates, would you do me a great favour by s lee ping in it to-morrow night? Th ere is no risk, I assure you." Bates seemed a little taken a back, but fina lly agreed.

About four the following afternoon the men drove over to the place. Th e s un was a lmost setting as they reached it a lonely, bleak house near the edge of the cliffs. Weldon gave Bates the key, and cold him t o sleep in the very front ro o m . Then if he felc at all

alarmed h e could easily get out. The other three men climbed i nto the car, and as the great iron gates closed b e hind them with a bang Bates's heart was full of misgivings. At any rate, he reflected, even if he h ad not done a ll the things h e told them, a t least his broth e r had , and as he was now out in the wilds of Canada he could not contradict him.

The sun sank below the rim of the horizon, and a fierce wind was ang rily l ashing the waves as Bates, with a little shiver, unlocked the big door. On entering the hall he found that the li g ht had been cut off, and he wou ld have to f ee l his ws1y in the dark. Not wishing to stay in the dark house longer than was nec essary, he decided to go for a walk. He went as far as a village, which was three miles dista nt, and c a lled at an inn for something warm. Here h e conversed wi th the innkeeper, a fat, jovial sort of person, who knew the busi• ness of everybody within a ten mile radius. Bates discussed the place with him'. and was not very r eassured when the man said, "Oh, I wouldn't advise you to stay there, Sir; us abouts 'ere calls it the 'aunted 'ouse, an' I wouldn ' t go near it at night, not if you was ro give m e ten bob for doin' so, Sir!" Bares paid for his meal, and strode back through the driving wind. ·

Once back he walked s traight into the front room , unlaced his boots, and flung himself, otherwise fully clothed, on the big double bed, whe re he tossed restlessly for two or three hours.

About two in the morning he awoke with the fee lin g that all was not wel l. It had been snow• ing, for rhe window ledge was white, and a pale, g h ostly moon g limmered fitfully through into the room. It reminded him of nights in Alaska, and as a dog howled mournfully he gave a quick start, thinking of wolves. He r emembered how, one night, in a small hut on the edge of a clearing, he had turned ove r in bed, and h a d seen a wolf n ot two yards away from him. His brother had shot it just in the nick of time-but really he mustn't think of wolves now; it would be bett e r to go to sleep. He turned over uneasily, and to h is intense dismay he saw-a wolf. It was the same one. Where was his brother? Why un earth didn't lie r.ome? He· tried to call, but his tongue wo uld not mo\'e. The moon

was half hidden behind a cloud now, and the room was practically in darkness, but he could still see rhose terrible green eyes.

The man's face turned to an ashy pallor, and he gave a slight movem ent, then looked at the animal again. It had not moved, but he could see the bristl es standing up on its n eck, and irs horrible eyes glowed brighter and grew more malig nant The man groaned and his tongue stuck to the r oof of hi s dry mouth. He moved again, in sheer agony, and rolled to rhe floor. His h ead was cur and bruised, his eyes glassy, his lips were covered with foam, and the b l ood trickled slowly down his cheek He wriggled a few inches farther away, but the brute fascinated him. He had to look at it again. Yes, it was coming nearer and nearer. Where was his brother? Tr was a lm ost on him. With a little choking sob h e clenched his hands, one great, long sh i ver p2ssed ri ght down his body. Th e n two h or• rible shrieks rent the air, and re-echoed again and again through the old house. After that, s ile.nce.

The next morning Lord Tre ymain, Weldon and Holmes went back to the old place, making bets with each other as to how Bates had spent the night. Imagi n e the ir intense surprise and horror to find him stretched upon the floor---quite dead. The doctor's ve rdict was heart failure •from an unknown cause. It never entered any of the amazed men's heads to blame the famous old picture of a wolf, by one of the world's master painters, hanging on the wall opposite the bed.

J ean Cameron, V c.

Exams.

The bell! Crowds of agonised creatures upon the steps of the Baths, I mean , Examination Room, jostled one another in their eagerness to get inside. Cheerful cries of " Good lu ck," "Good luck!" fell upon scarcely heeding ears, although a wan smile a nd a "Same to you" a ns wered the well wisher. The guardian of the fareful door, in gown of sombre hue, admitted every poor soul with the announcement, "Miss ·--'s Geography on the far side, please." Rows upon rows of desks covered with whitP.

papers, the p lag u e of a girl's existence, and a t last, a seat.

"Now, do not begin until I say, girls ," sa id a serene voic e a n d a fee li n g of impending doom crept o'e r me. Th en a few hours late r , or was it minutes, ttYou may begin, girl s ."

H eads b e nd over the d esks, pens fly over p age a fte r page, the m i nutes fl y. What! An hour, and only the e nd of th: second question Whose pen is squeaking so a udibl y? Why doesn ' t she stop it? Th ere, that ' s Miss ' s knittin g n eedle now Th e pitiless clock cr eeps o n , co ld fear breaks ove r th e d eath -pa le victims , and the du sty c orners of the mind are

rummaged fo r a l ost fact. Where can i t be? Surely it hasn' t escaped, it must h ave gon e out the other ear.

More paper! H ow slowl y the sole mn figure g lides ove r t h e floor with pace worthy of a snail's funeral. Her visage, now calm and unp erturb ed , is she gloating over the agon y of th e exam. v ictim b e f o r e h e r ? But wait until sh e is b e n ea th a pile of white s heets herself, and a magnificent system of Egyptian hieroglyp hi cs is spread before h er The sc hoolg irl sleeps a dreamless sle ep b eneath t h e b la nkets, and t h e torture d torturer sits, with h ea d swathed in a wet t owel , far into the night. Oh happy tho u ght!

A T ortu r ed O ne.

Fisherman's Shack.

M IDDL E S CHOOL PROS E.

The Strange Fascin ati o n o f a Machine.

Professor Ciland sat in his study and dreamed. He looked worried, which was unusual. He was so deep in thought that he was not aware of anybody in the room until a voice interrupted the silence with, "Penny for your thoughts." The Professor swung round and came back to the world of reality. He greeted his friend. "I heard about an a lmost h u man machine the other day," said his friend. The Professor started. " That reminds me," he said, "of a machine that I once made " " Tell me about it, will you?" "Certainly!"

"Some years ago," began the Professor, " I decided to try to make a machine that would almost do my work. It took me years to complete it, but when it was finished I was justly proud of it. When an electric current }'aS switched on it would move across the room and work the various other machines I had there. It was absolutely wonderful.

"Day afte r day I watched it work, and did my bes t to improve it. One day, as I watched it, I felt it was too marvellous, too human." The Professor rose, and, leaning on the back of a chair, resumed. " It seemed to have a wonderful l u re about it. The more I watched it the more it seemed to hold m e Finally, I d e cided that it should not, and would not, f a scinate me like t hat, so I determined not to go near it for a week, as I thought the thing was getting on my nerves.

"For the first day all went well, but on the second day I found myself wandering in the direction of the machine I pulled myself together and tried to walk away, but I see med dra wn towards it. Finally, with a great effort, I walked to my study and tried to read, but I was filled with a desire to see that machine. At last I yielded, and once more saw it work.

" Weeks went on like that. Then one day a s I was watching it, it turned in its tracks and moved towards me. I felt almost afraid as , ste rn and ma ssive, it came on. I switched off the electricity, as the fear of that strange machine seemed to have gripped my very soul."

The Prof<.'ssnr looked at his friend. "That is about all there is to tell." " What happened

to the machine? " asked the other. "I destroyed it, " replied the Professor, "and I am glad I did It was too powerful, and when you off ered me that l arge sum for my thoughts, I was wondering what caused it to have such a strange power over me." The Professor dropped into his cane chair, filled his pipe, and fe ll into a reverie.

Jean Reid, Form XX.

T h e F amily at Breakfas t.

Clang! The breakfast gong sounded throu gh the house, and voices and the patter of feet were heard as the various members of the family came hurrying to th.e breakfast room. "Good morning, everybody! Lovely morning!" said a m e rry voice. "I don' t know what your idea of a love ly morning is," replied a deep voice "I think it is going to rain." The owner of the merry voice gave vent to a laugh. "I hope not; I hate taking a coat wherever I go."

" Will everyone sit down, please?" Thus requested, the entire family seated themselves at the table, and the business of having breakfast began. Some faces looked bright, and some looked tired, but for the next few minutes the clatter of knives and forks was the only sound that broke the si lence.

" What do you think of the fashions for this season? " enquired the merry voiced one, p a using in her op e rations on a chop. "For goodness' sake, don't start the topic of fashions; it' s time the girls of to day thought of more serious things-the financial state of Australia, for instance " The owner of the deep voice, having· delivered himself of this theory, devoted his powers wholly to breakfast. Meanwhile the criticism of fashions continued-"Those hats I saw." "I wonder w·hat on earth the Lang Government will do next, " interrupted someone, evidently desirous of changing the subject.

"My breakfast is never cooked suffic iently," grumbled the deep-voiced pessimist, looking with a disdainful eye at his plate, and pecking here and there. " You should be thankful for what you get," replied the happy voice of the optimist "There are plenry of people without breakfast at all," and she applied herself heartily to the meal. After this followe d another silence, in which, judgiug Ly the frown

on the complainer's face, one woul d h ave thought th.,,t eat in g brea k fast was beyond the strength of mere man.

"Great Scot! Is that the tim e?" There was a general move from the t a bl e. " Th e more we are together," came the m e rry v oice r a ise d in vocal effo r ts. " Pl ease stop that row. Where i n the nam ~ of fortune is my umbre lla?"

"The Grumbler," h avin g found it, also too k his overcoat and go los h es, a nd walked with s t atel y stride to the tram, wh ile the happy one, minu s coat, umbre lla or galos h es, trippe d along humming to h e r se lf.

-J ean R eid, Form XX.

The Sun Children.

Mr Sun yawne d as the majestic voice of hi s wife, t he Moon , broke into h is s leep usurely ic isn't rising time?,, he asked miserab ly, but th e Moon had other duties to perform. She dressed Cumulus and Nimbus, and sent the m a way to play.

Mr. Sun took a very long time to rise tha t m o rnin g. It co uld b e plainly seen that his temper had b ee n rou sed

With a fi e rce· g r o wl h e rolled out of his pink b ed a nd p a used for a moment b efo re climbing a bove the dim , purple mounta ins "Work, work, work, and nothing but work!" he s tormed , as he climbed into his golden chariot .

C u mulus hurrie d a ft e r him to give her parting kiss , b u t was swept fi e r cely away For some time she lay trembling "What is troubling you, sister?" Nimbu s asked. Cumulus plac ed a tre mbling fin ge r to h e r l ips, and s kippe d away with her brother to play

Very s lowly Mr Sun glided above the n eatly planted orchards, above hills and valleys, riv e rs and trees, but their calmness did not coo l his raging temper. "Wh e n I show my face the people turn away. Ing r a t itud e ! Th e y don' t deserv e to h ave me working as I do ," muttered Mr. Sun. "I'll s how th e m how I can shine."

He sent hi s shining corner, filling the world world awoke--

wo r kme n with light. into e very Then the

The birds p eeped from the shady bra nch es and flew into the cool, fresh a ir with their shri ll , d elig hted cries . Childre n dawdl ed

wearily schoolwards, while th e farmers and s h epherds gazed a nxiou sly towa rds the angry su n, s h aking t h eir h eads despairingly.

Mrs. J ames, the farmer's wife, sighed. "Anoth er sco r c hing d ay," she said, fanning her heate d face with the n ewspa per " N ot a cl o ud in th e sky. When is this drou gh t goi n g to break? We' ll be utte rly ruin ed if rain does not come soon. The sheep are growing thinne r each d ay, and th e tank water is barely d ri nkab le. It is c rue l."

The farmer nodd ed wea r ily, and shaded his eyes from the dazzling rays. The g rass b e came drier each mome nt, but the s un m e r e ly l a ughe d. " Tha t will t each them not to grumble," h e c hu c kl ed , se ndin g forth his hot test r ays.

Th e birds ceased their s in gin g a nd returned to the shady bowe rs to rest P eopl e sou g ht their coolest rooms, and fanned th e mselves, but Mr. Sun worked harder than. before. The only sounds from the still c ountryside were the dismal caw caws of a hungry crow, and the dreary c~y of a dyi ng sheep The n Acros s the sky scurried two sun children hand in h a nd-Nimbus dress ed in his darkest robe, while Cumulus wore a white frock She flollowed her brother t owa rds the sun "What brought you here ?" g r owled the Sun Man. "W-we chanced to b e play in g across this way," stammered Nimbus. " But you a re working ver y hard , Fathe r The people b e low a re

" Begone! " the Sun M a n stormed, paus ing in his work. " I banish you, Nimbus , from my kingdom. H o w d a re you inte rrupt? Go! It is the first time any of my children h ave d a r ed to cnt1c1se m e and m y work ."

"Please, F ather," pl eaded Cumulus, beginning to weep. But Mr. Sun did no t h eed. He f e lt himself b ecoming weaker. He certainly h a d worked very h a rd indee d

"Nimbus, do come b ack to me ," sobbe d C u mulus, b ut Nimbus shook his hea d. "Dear sister, I shall come, but only when Father is away," he said. "But come a nd play with me in the western sky. I'll always b e working t o r e fresh the people whe n F a ther works too h a rd. "

The thought of leav in g his h ome, hi s s is ters and brothers , and, most of all, the h a rdwo rking litcle moth er, bro u g ht bitter t ea r s t o

his eyes, and sister and brother wept together.

Below the r e was rejoicing. People flocked into the open air to f ee l the refres hing drops. Magpies carolled and shrieked their delight, while starlings flocked from the cherry orchards to join the chorus-Rain.

R. Trigge, L.V.

Mifanwy.

It was a , cool, sunny afte rnoon 1n early autumn. The p eta ls of the last roses were slowly falling one by one from the trellises and archways in the old-world garden to the grassy walks beneath. A be a utiful girl, called Mifanwy, with wavy golden brown hair and sparkling brown eyes, was wandering among the roses. There was a strange restlessness in her heart, as she made her way along a little zigzag path that led down into a tiny glen.

At the bottom of this a little stream rippled along over the mossy stones. On the sloping banks grew many bushes a nd wildflowers, cut off from the rest of the world by a s mall wood of oaks and pines. As she passed the last ro§e bush she picked the one rose that remained , and as she stood by the stream, silently gazing at the water at her feet , the rose showed deep red against her white gown.

Hark! What was that? A, sweet, trilling music floated to her ears. She turned, and there, si tting on the roots of an old oak tree, was a brown skinned youth dressed in a loose sheepskin garment From among h is thick brown curls a pair of tiny horns showed, and he was playing on a r eed pipe the sweetest music ever heard It made Mifanwy's feet feel as though they must dance , as she crept neare r and sat on the bank at his f eet. He played to her of the wi ld woods, the forest streams, and singing birds, and danced to the tune of his pipe until the sun set and twilight cast her long dark shadows over the land. Then he seemed to fade far, far away, as in a dream.

l'vlifanwy closed her eyes for a moment, and opened them to find he had gone. She sea rch ed in the woods a n d by th e banks o• the stream, but all in vain, and at last she returne d to the little zigzag path leading back to the garden.

She p~11sP.d to look back at the stream; the calm that had come to her while the music

played had gone, never to return, and she unconsciously threw the drooping rose into the running water. It floate d with the tide down the hill , till a bend in the stream hid the red spot from sight. Then she turned and went back into the garden-and the moon rose.

-Thelma Bake r, IV.a

The Flower of Memory.

The great door opened slowly, and the queen and her lady-in-waiting stepped out into the magnificent hall. "Who is that handsome man? " whispered the queen, as a tall man in rich robes pass ed. "Your Majesty , it is His Majesty the Kin g!" The queen nodded thoughtfully, and gazed after the retreating figure of her hu s band

Meanwhile the king hurried on and asked his vizier if he knew where his sons were. " They are in the palace grounds, Your Majesty ," he replied. "Well, send word to them to come to me quickly, as I need to consult them on a matter o f great importance."

"Something must be don e," said the king to hi s three sons. "The queen, you r mother, has, as you know, lost her memory. She is b ecoming worse and worse; she does not even know me now. We have tried every doctor and physician, but they cannot bring back her memory. Can you help me?"

" Father, let me go and find a cure for her?'' said the eldest.

"My son, I know you want to help your mother, so I give you l eave to go, but do be careful in your wanderings. "

Th e eldest went away, but he did not return, so the second son said, "Oh, Father, let me try. I will be careful, and I may find my brother. " The king consented rather unwillingly, for he did not like his second son going away Time passed, but h e also did not return.

"Oh, my dear father," pleaded the youngest, " I must rescue my brothers and h e lp my my dear mothe r. Let me go." For a long time the king would not consent, but at last he did so, for he saw that his son was very sad. " Good-bye , my dear son," he said. "It will break my h eart if you do not return."

· The prince started out, not knowing where to go or what to do. Suddenly he heard a voiu, .:ailing him by ri~me, a sweet voice, silvery

cle ar. He scarred, and look ed about him, but no one was in sight. " Do as I cell you, and all will be well," said the voice. "You have co find the liccle white flower of memory, which has che sweetest scent in che world."

The prince went on till he came to a field overgrown with little white flowers with the sweetest scent. " Oh, how shall I find chat one litcle flower among all these?" h e sighed. "Follow your nose till you come to the fence, then look at your f eet," said the voice in his ear The prince did so, and found at his feet a solitary white flower, and it had the sweetest scent of che m all. He then wondered how co find his brothers.

That night he slept in a wood, and early in the morning he was seized by a huge giant and taken to his castle. As he neared the cascle he heard sad, sweet singing, and, looking up, b e held a love ly maiden at a high window. H e r h air was long and golden, and her dress was the green of s pring. The poor prince was dragged in and shut up in a cell. He sat in a ·corner chinking of the beautiful maiden, for h e had fallen deeply in love with her "Take the magic ring and touch the door, and it wi ll open," said the mysterious voice. The prince found a rusty ring on the floor , and, to his amaze m e nt , the d oo r opened at its toJuch. He went through t he castle opening the doors (for the g iant was out), till he came co the room where the maiden still sat singing.

Th ey were soon out in the fresh light of day , celli n g each ocher their stories. Th e prince discovered chat she was a princess, and he promised t o take h er back to his father, and, after the queen had recovered her memory, he would go to her father and ask for her h and in m ar riage, for the princ ess had already confessed her love for him. Th ey then set o u t happily together.

During the day th ey met the ocher two prin ces, a nd the prince was delighted. "Now we will a ll go hom e together, " he said His l;,rothers said chat they had been imprisoned by a wicked witch, and they were released by her death. But that night the eld e r brothers imprison ed the younger in a smal l windowless hut. They took the flower of memory, but i n the struggle the princess escaped.

The princes travelled on, but when they reached their father ' s palace h e rook the flower

from them, and cold chem to leave his kingdom for ever. The princess had arrived there before them, and cold the whole story. The yo ungest prince was found, and brought back to his father, who wept with joy on seeing his son again, and when the lovely white flowe r was g i ven to the queen the wonderful scent completely restored her m emory. The princess's father gave consent to the marriage be tween th e prince and hi s daughter, so they all lived happily ever afte r.

-Marga r et Guthridge, IV.a.

Greedy Mr. Squirrel.

Once upon a rime there lived, in a lirde cottage on t h e side of a hill, an old woman and her pretty litcle grand-daughter. The cottage was ve ry pretty also. Ic had pink roses peeping in at the casemen t windows, and honeysuckle climbing over the porch. The liccle path that led down co the gate was bor dered with violets and mignonette, and the velvety green l awn was dotte d h ere and there with shrubs. Around it all grew a tall hedge of pine tr ees, waving their long branches over the thatched roof, and the b ir ds chat li ved i n the branches would fly on to the window sill of the lircle girl's bedroom, and wake her up each morning with their song.

Snapshot Taken by Enid Lewis

One morning, when the little girl came down to breakfast, she found her grandmother frowning, and she said, " My daughte r , did you eat any of the nuts which . I l e ft in the c upboa rd last night? For half of them are gone." The l ittle girl said "No, Grandma, but I heard something scratching at the window last night just before I went to sleep. It might ha,·e been a squirrel." But her grandmother said, "Nonsense, child!"

The next morning , when she came down to breakfast, her grandmo ther wore a deep er frown, and said, " My daughter, you have eaten more of the nuts which I left in the cupboard, for more of th e m are gone." But the little girl said, " No, Grandma , but I heard something scratching at the window again la s t night It might have been a squirrel." But her grandmother just said, "Nonsense, child! "

That night , when the grandmothe r was sleeping soundly in her bed, the little girl awoke a nd heard a distant scratching, which came from the window in the kitchen b e l ow. So she slipped out of her cosy cot ~d tip-toed downstairs. She cre pt into the kitchen just as a big grey squirre l jumped from the window sill on to the bottom shelf of the cupboard. The little g irl felt rather frightened, but she said in a tiny vois:e, " Please, Mr. Squirrel, don ' t eat the nuts; my grandma wants them to sell." But Mr. Squirrel only went on eating. Afte r a f e w minutes h e stopped, and, after filling a littl e bag he had with him with the biggest nuts, he jumped again throug h the window.

The n the li ttle girl overcame her fright and jumped through after him, and followed him to th e house which he had made in the hollow of the pine tree just outside her bedroom window. When he had e mptied his bag on to a heap of nuts in the middle of the floor, he lay down and went to sleep in a corner. Then the little girl very quietly refilled the bag with nuts, and put as many as she · could in her night dress, and tip-toed b ac k to the kitch e n and put them on the shelf i n the cupboard, and then went b ack to bed

In the morning, when she came down to breakfast, her grandmother was smiling, and she said, "My daughte r , I think my spectacles must have been misty thes e last two mornings for h ere are all the nuts b a ck on the shelf

again." And the little girl just smiled and said, "It's a nice morning, Grandma. I think we had bette r take them to the town to sell th em soon after breakfast " So they did. As for Mr. Squirrel, he ca m e many times to scratch at the window, but it was always locked. As the winter had come, and as he could not find anything to eat, he went one cold, cold morning to join his brothers who lived nearer the town. The little girl, though she went · to his hollow tree every day, never saw him again .

-Thelma Baker, IV.a.

The Inevitable.

The isl a n d of Kiko lay dozing in the heat of the summer sun. No living creature stirred. Not a breath of wind relieved the intense heat of mid-day. The sun beat down merciless ly on the golden shores, and broke the tiny rippling waves into thousands of coloured shafts of light The only sound was the low, continuous murmur of the restless sea.

O ver the rocks at the far end of the beach Mrs. Dragonfly was giving a t ea party. Mrs. Butte rfly and Mrs. Centipede were the v is itors "There is only one thing about Mrs. Centipede, and that is that she always brings her darning bag," said old Mrs. Wasp, the gossiper. " Poor thing, I suppose she has a lot of darnin g to do, but it is such bad form. At any r ate, I think so."

But to day, i nstead of arriv i ng a t the usual time, Mrs C e ntipede arrived just after lunch.

"Such a bore," sighed Mrs. Dragonfly, "I r eally h aven 't got time to finish dressing prop e rly. I suppose she will ha ve that terrible darning bag with her. It 's quite inevitable "

But Mrs. Centipede was bursting with news "I was so anxious to tell you, dear, that I ran a ll the way and left my darning bag at home ."

Mrs. Dragonfl y s ig hed with relief.

" It's such n ews, dear. This morning I j ust dropped in to see Mrs. Mosquito, a nd found th at she is ente rtaining some fri e nds from Mudswamp. Such nice people. Th ey tell me that it is dange rous living there now, as the Humans are so ferocious. But the Humans provide plenty of summer and winter sport. My dear , you should just ,see their frocks; they are in the lat est fashion."

Mrs. Dragonfly showed some sparks of interest. "What-er-wh a t social position hav e these friends in Mudswamp?"

Mrs. Centipede looked superior. " Oh, they only move in the best circles, and they At this moment the door opened to admit Mrs Butterfly, who had to be told the latest news.

"Mrs 1"Iosquito's niece , S eraphina, is the sweetest little thing," Mrs. Centipede resumed. "She's just the right age for my Hector; h e's so good looki n g, and so like his mot h er."

Mrs Dragonfl y a nd Mrs. Butterfly looked very hard at the ceiling, but their lips were twitching. Angela, Mrs. Dr agonfly's maid , brought i n the afternoon tea.

"I have h eard," said Mrs. Butterfly, " th a t the P a rrots are on the warpa th again. I have warned my children not to go six inches from ' the door, lest they be eaten. "

"Oh, well," said Mrs. Centipede, " I really must be going. Here I h ave wasted a whole afternoon, when I could have been darning socks." Here she took her departure

The next morning invi tations came for a dance at M r s. Mosquito's house. Everybody accept ed, even t he co mm on lit tle Houseflies. Now there was another i n sect who liked the t h e look of Seraphina, and that was Bertie Housefly, who was really good-looking, and knew it.

Th a t nigh t, when Mrs. Mosquito was receiving her guests, Seraphina came downstairs, lookin g her best in a gauzy green gown. When she was introduced to Bertie Hous efly, s he felt her heart go piece r-pat, and whe n he asked her if she would go for a wa lk before dusk she readily agreed.

They s lipped away, thinking that no one had seen them, but two pairs of eyes watched their every movement. The n Mrs. Wasp ran to spread t h e n ews, bu t Hector Centipede f ollowed, taking care to keep we ll out of sig h t.

As it was not yet dark, the parrots had not gone to bed, and w ere lookin g for food to store for the winter, when they saw Seraphina and Bertie. One swoop, an d both were soaring hi g h up in the air, and the next thing that they knew they were being locked up in the storeroom, and were to s hare th e fate of many others.

Seraphina burst into hysterica l weeping, a nd b ega n implorin g wild ly· for Hector. But

Hecto r was not far away. In less than ten minutes he h ad co llected a n a rmy of bees, who attacked the Parrots. Then came a humming and a squawking that grew to a roar, and the P arrots promised to go away and leave the poor little insects a lon e. Then Hector rescued S eraphi n a and set Bertie free.

-Jean Cane, IV.a.

JUNIOR SCHOOL PROS E.

T h e Anc ie nt Gum.

Du sk had fallen on the world silently, bringing a soft breeze to lull the birds to sleep. A tall and ancient, grey-green gum tree stood out agai n st the evening sky like a sentinel g uarding the many little creatures that nestled in its whispering foliage.

Two monotonous notes sounded from the topmost boughs. It was the mopoke calling co his distant mate. A bat flitting about the branch es heard the call, and Bew off into the gathering d a rkness

T he two mopokes kept up their melancholy calls far i nto th e nigh t.

Then the great yellow moon came out from behind the clouds and shone brightly on the sleeping world beneath, and the great old greygreen gum tree gazed down its broad and mottl e d trunk and sighed.

Once more it im agi n e d itsel f monarc h of the bush in the days when t h e black men had roamed freely about this, their own world. It recalled nights when corrobo rees were h e ld , when th e aborigines streaked their bodies with red and white, and danced stran ge dances and yelled fierce war cries whi le the women of the tribe clapped ~heir h a nds and beat drums for music .

That scene faded, attd changed to a slow, sad pr ocession , which made its way through chick bush to the base of th~ gian t gum, where the blacks dug a g rave and placed their belo ved chief in his last re sting- place.

Then again came a party of warriors, armed with w e apons to h ack a huge canoe out of the chick bark of its trunk. Th e y roughly cut long, slim boughs for poles, and carried the canoe to a n earby creek, and floated it down to a broad riv er, leaving rh e gum alone again wi th the birds, th e opossums a nd kangaroos

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We have lately noticed l r ';." praiseworthy attempts on t he part of some of o ur pupils to follow more c lose• ly t h e fas hio n s of the moment in th ei r schoo l dress. Here are some suggestio ns A for t!1ose who have not yet succee ded in breaking away fro m t he traditional costume.

D e lightful creations, all o f t h e m , s tra ig h t from the fa m ous Pari s hou ses. We h ave the adorable little jack et from S c hapelli, in place of t he blazer, the dash ing h at from Finn e l, and t.h e sens ibl e but neve r• theleas entirel y fas hion a b le bl o uee. in w hi te s atin, and t he skirt, in bottle g r een w oo l- de - c h ene, from Lu cy L o ng .

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Night frock . This i s s hown in h eavy w hi te satin, wi t h the co lou r acce nt in the v i v id red fl ower s at th<! waist-line, and t he li ttle r e d is s how n at t h e top l eft. At t he righ t we have n suggesti on f or school bat h er s, shown in the college colours. Our Paris cor re sponde nt ass ure s u s tha t these models a r e quite t h e thing for t he sc hool g irl now. Scarves in green nr t iti cia l si lk, and gloves, hand bag and • h oes in dork gre~n leather a re accee....._ so r1es 13 uggested !or the n ew school costu me. We would like to b rin g t hese s u ggestions under the notice of t h e Staff for t heir approva l. The approval of t he students c an, o f course , be tak en for ~ra nted.

The state ly tree shuddere d in every limb. The moon slipped behind the clouds The dawn broke, and this monarch of olden days came back to its present surroundings, in which 1t overshadowed the grey-tiled roof of a modern suburban home.

Peggy Chinner. TV b age 12 years.

"I

Am an Old Tennis Ball."

Poor old me! I am now an o ld tennis ball. I was the sap of a rubber tree once. I grew in the Amazon Forest, in South America. I grew there because it was very hot, and I liked the heat.

One lovely day I was t a ken out of my home by a native, who took me to his home and did something to me, and then sent me to the factory.

I thought to myself, "Whatever is h appening, and where am I going now ?" I soon knew. I was in a factory. For some days I was there, and had all manner of things do;,.e to me

The best thing I had done to me was to have my new name, "Spalding," put on me, of which I was very proud. When I was all r eady· I was beautifully white, and to keep me w hite I was put into soft, white tissue paper, with my name on the outsid e.

Then I was packed in a box and sent to a shop to be sold. The very next day I was sold to a tennis champion, and was not u sed at all kindly, for I was sent from one end of the tennis court to the other

Then af ter that set I was given to a little boy-(nearly a ll littl e boys are rough , you know )-who was very rough, and ill-treate d me until there was little life or spring left in me

At prese nt I am having a r est in a spout, and though I am bald-headed, I know I am going back in a missionary box to my native l a nd.

Dora W a lker, Form IV.cl., age 11 years. A Little Sparrow in the School Garden.

Once upon a time there lived a little sparrow in the school garden. Now thi s little sparrow had a wife and family, and he worked in the nest-building yards in the little village at the top of the fir tree; his wages were four crumbs of bread a day

They li ved in a big nest named Sparrow Hall, and the little sparrows went to school at

Dr. Blackbird' s kindergarten. three little sparrows-Fluffy, Browny.

There were Beaky and

The time soon came when the kindergarten school held a big party, and all the sparrows from the village came. It was held in a huge nest, which was d ecor a t ed with fir branches and leaves. Small acorn tables were put in the room, and in the middle of the n es t stood a fir branch in a little acorn tub, hung with glowworms to light it. On it were crumbs, worms and everything a bird could w ish for

There was a concert later. Fluffy sang a song, Beaky gave a dance, and Browny presented the bouquet to the mayor, one of the finest sparrows i n the town.

Mary B e nson , IV c ., 11 years.

Junior School Notes.

In Junior School there are 56 happy little girls who enjoy both work and play The Form captain is Thora Powers, and the lieu te nants are Y vo nne Reynolds (firs t a nd second terms), Joan Eggleston (third t e rm) , Evelyn Stacey.

All the girls are very interested in tennis, and we have had a very nice tournament. We will not know w ho the champion is until Le Barnett and June Chambers play off.

H e len Teed is very interested in nature study, and brings interesting s pecimens fo r o ur lessons on Tuesday afternoons. On e morn ing Miss Brownell brought some cocoons on a branch o f mistletoe, and we watched the Imperial White bu tterfl ies come out.

During the year we have sold Rowe rs and sweets for o ur Junior R ed Cross Fund We a lso gave a concert, to which our mothers were invited, and all enjoyed themselves very much. We h ave collected £6 fo r t h e Fitzroy Mission , Free Kindergarten, a nd Ze n a n a Mission.

\Ve have not had our sports yet , but h ope to have them soo n L ast yea r we held them in the garden, a nd all h ad a most enjoyable time. S oon we shall have holidays and fun. All good luck to th e Junior S choo l g irls of 1932.

Elsternwick . Branch School

Notes for the Year .

The Branch School entered upon its second year under most auspicious conditions. At the end of 1930 the members were 40 When the School reassembled on I 0th February the Presi dent of the College ( R ev. J. W. Grove, M.A., LL.B ), who conducted th e first assembly, an noun ced that over twenty n e w pupi ls had been e nrolle d Th e numbe r s h ave steadi ly increased throughou t the yea r t o 70.

Keenness and enthusiasm have been the keynotes in each Form, and high standard of work has been maintained. The duties of Form Captains ha ve been ably ca rried out by B Og ie r tK.G.), D. Whitehead (Form II.) , P. Sta urenghi (Form III.), J. Parker (Form IV.), N. Irvine (Form V.), while Joyce Leak, as school captain , has proved herself an effi cient leader, and has been most faithf'!l and helpful in her a tte n tion to details of routine.

A generous re sponse has b een m a de to c h ari table ap p eals. In first term a case of j am was sent to the Cau lfie ld Conva lescen t Hospital, and a donation made to t h e Lord Mayo r ' s appeal for the Blind Institut e. In t h ird term ove r 30 dozen eggs were collected for th e Alfred Hospital.

On 25th April the School commemorated Anzac Day, when R ev G T. Arthur, M .A., conducted a~ impressive service, speaking to the girls of the spi r it and meaning of the day.

At the invitatio n of the Big School, the girls all went o ve r to th e swimming sports at Kew.

In May th e School competed in t h e College s p orts on the H awthorn Oval, Loris Bower winning a place in the Ju nior 5 0 Yar ds, N Irvin e and M Smith in the Sia m ese Ra ce, whil e J ean P ea rce won the Under 14 Sack R ace.

Betty Gilbert has shown h e rs e lf an e nthusi astic tennis captain. The tennis four are B. Gilbert, J. Parke r , N. Irvine and J. Gillespie. A match was played against a Junior four at the Big School, but the latter proved too stro n g. Several unsuccessful attempts have been made to play a match against the sister Branch

School, "Carisbrooke," but it is to be hoped t h at this may be arranged early n e xt year.

Th e seniors have p layed basket ball this year, while round ers have proved most popu lar wi th th e juniors.

The School is ex tremely graceful to Mrs. L anden, M A , for presenting the school fl ag, which is used in Assembly eac h morning, and for the pictures, which adorn some of the classrooms.

A small commencement has been made with a School Library, but more books are n eeded for the new shelves

Mrs. Goldberg has very kindly consented to take charge of a Brownie P ack, and before the end of the year the girls will be enrolled H opes are entertai n ed of h aving a company of Girl Guides next year.

Mr. Porter, of the Kodak, visited th e Schoo l one afternoon, a nd showed a series of delightful a nd instructive films. A s a result of his visit, it is intended t o form a Camer a Club.

During second term the senior gi rls, accompanied by Miss Sanders, joined with the Big School in an excursion to Y allourn. A day full of interest and profit was spent in inspecting the Big Cut, the briquette factory, and th e great power house.

On r esuming for third term, the School was very saddened to l earn that L oris Bower, one of the leaders in work and sport, was very seriously ill. During the many weeks she has been in h ospital she has evinced a wonderful sp iri t of bravery and brightness, a nd it is most g r atifying to know that she is well o n the way to recovery, a nd a very h earty welcome awaits he r on h er r etu rn.

On S un day, 18th O ctobe r , a special College se rvi ce was held at the Elsternwick Methodist Church. Th e School, assisted by girls from the Big School, took part in the service, which was conducted by Rev. J . W. Grove, M.A., LL.B.

During second term the important announcement was made that the College Coun-

Fred. J. Cato Branch School, Elsternwick•

ci l had purchased for the Elsternwick Branch the magnificent property, known as "Kooyong," the residence of the late Rich a rd Allen, Esq. One afternoon the School paid a visit to " Kooyong," where they were received by Rev. J W. Grove and the Head Mistress, Mrs. Landen, M.A Universal surprise and de l ight were expressed at the beautiful and spacious grounds, exte nsive l awns, and the general picturesque setting Then followed weeks of expectancy. Finally, on Friday, 23rd October, the School bade farewell to "Cromarty," where for over a year and a half many h appy days had been spent. On the following Monday, am id much excite ment, the gir ls rook possession of their fine, new classrooms, and explored every corner of the beautiful grounds. Tuesday, 27th October, was a red-letter day in the h istory of the School. In the presence of a large gathering of the College Council, Rev J W. Grove and Mrs. Grove , Mrs. Landen, th e senior girls from the Big School, and many interested friends, the Elsternwick Branch formed an avenu e af honour to r ece ive 1'!Jr. and Mrs. Fred. J. Cato. The President of the College then made the gre at ann o uncement that Mr.

Cato was presenting this mag nifice:nt property and all necessa ry r eco nstruction-a gift of £5500-to the College Council, to mark the jubilee celebrations of th e Big School. Mrs. Grove then presen ted Mr. C a to with a golden key, a nd, accompanied by two of the Kindergarten g irls, Mr. and Mrs. Cato officially opened the College.

In memory of her father, the late Richard Allen, Esq., who for over 43 years resided at "Kooyong," Mrs. C. Smibe rt is presenti n g the School with an h onour board.

On 14th November the School held its first sports meeting. A cup for interform championship was presented by Shirle y Odgers, the first girl to be e nrolled for the Elsternwick M.L.C.

In futur e the Schoo l 1s to be known as the Fred. J. Cato Branch. It realises that it is singularly fortunate in its unique possession, and that it can but inadequately express its gratitude to Mr. Cato for his munificent gift. But it will endeavour to prove its sincerity by ever striving to build up a school worthy of the n ame bestowed upon it.

Canterbury Branch School

Notes for the Yea~.

As we opened schoo l in 19 3 1 we felt a strange thrill when we realised that we were to be linked up with the M.L.C., and to take part in so many of its activities. The gracious welcome extended to us by the President (Rev. John W. Grove, M A., LL.B.) and the Head Mistress (Mrs. Landen, M.A.) did much to con firm us in this direction.

Early in the year we attended the swimming at Kew, and lacer on the sports on the G len ferrie O val. It was with some temerity that we took part in the latte r, and we felt pardonabl e pride when five of our names appeared o n the winning board. Ne edless t o say, Joan Eltis and Mary Collocott carried off their Cel"· tificates with mingl ed pride and joy.

Our aim is to attain the perfection set and held by the main school, and we assure H awth orn M L.C. of our ear n es t e ndeavour to make it feel as proud of us as we do of it.

You will forgive us if our memory some t imes lingers over the happy, successful years t h at now li e in th e past, wh e n C L.C. stood for so much that we love, but we feel sure that all our former joys and ideals will now find amplification.

During the y ea r 1931 many avenues of interest have b een c r eat e d and s t imulated, and much good, hard work has b e en done in the pleasant, sunny class rooms, gay with flowers and surrounded by green lawns.

The geography excursion was thoroughl y enjoyed by the sc hola rs, when they were taken to the Botanic G a rdens to endeavour to trace the old course of the Y arra, where the lake now exists. Th e y evinced great interest also when shown the Silurian rock in a cutting.

The attendance at o ur church service, held in the Methodist Church, Balwyn Ro;.d, Cant e rbury, was gratifying Our President (Rev. John W. Grove, M.A.)' preached an insp1rmg sermon, which was much appreciated by all.

Our scholars thoroughly enjoy Friday afternoons, when they go to the Hawthorn College for physical culture, and try to do many wonderful things in the fine gymnasium there.

The dullness of winter could not dampen the e nthusiasm and joyousness the girls felt as the y hurri ed to a Dickens evening, which proved a signal success.

Our sympathies have gone out to others. Anzac Day was marked by a short, impress ive service held at the S c hool. Donations of jam, sugar and e ggs hav e b een collected, and forwarded to the hospitals. Many warm, useful garments mad e by our girls have brought comfort to the sick and poor.

During Health Wee k our elder girls were c a lled upon to give s hort talks on most vital subjects, which stimulated their thoughts in this direct ion.

It was gratifying to r ece i ve results from the Associated Music Examination Board, University, M e l bourne Passes were as follows:Grade V , 1 ; Grade IV., 1; Grade III. (Intermediate) , 2.

Pupils in theory were also most successfu l, al l passing, one with Honours. Music Appreciation is not forgotten, as a most inte resting class is held weekly, when the works and l ives of great compose rs are studied.

The Juniors of the School have a lso had ple nty of diversion, coupled with good hard work. They h ave gone for excursions, held a picture afternoon, visited a museum, and many other functions of educational val ue.

Especially do they appreciate their botany l esso ns on sunny afternoons under the oak trees, where they are lea rning some of the wonders of nature.

We had a very successful garden party in October. Mr Grove spoke of the far-reaching influence of the College, as gi rls from a ll parts o f the southe rn hemisphere call the Hawthorn M.L.C. "home." We were delighted to hav e t he Rev. W Harris with us on that occasion, and much a ppreciated the presence of Mrs. Horton Williams, Mrs. V. G. Anderson (President Old Girls' Association), and three prefects from H a wthorn-Lena Thomas, Dorothy Champion, and Ursul a Dugdale----and many friends and pare nts of our own girls

Our head prefect, Leila Gibson, has carried out her duti es faithfully, a nd has been a great help to the School.

"Carisbrooke" Alphabet.

C A R

Some Thoughts of IV.a. Rhymed by a Membe r of that Class. is for ccCarisbrooke," to which I belong is for Answers, som e right and some wrong. is for Rules we so frequently break.

I is for Interest in work that we take.

S is for Songs that m ake classrooms resound.

B is for Busy girls all the year round.

R for Reports which we open with dread.

OO' s for our Oak trees, with green limbs outspread.

K for the Keenness in work and in play. E for the Esprit de corps shown eac h day. Canterbury.

M for the Main School, of which we are part. L for the Loyalty that stirs in our heart.

C for Comradeship we felt from the start.

-Joy Hall.

Last year our School was "Carisbrooke," And now it's M.L.C.; I love the o ld School's cosy nooks, They are so dear to me . Marion Morrison.

And so we g irls of M.L.C. I n every hour eac h day , Will always try to do our best For others on the way -Corris Hooper

Mrs. V G. Anderson, Presid ent

THE OLD COLLEGIAN

CJJecember, 1931

THE OLD COLLEGIAN

Conducted by P ast Students of the Methodist Ladies' College.

OFFICE -BEAR ERS A ND COUNCIL FOR 1931-32.

Office-Bearers

Presid e nt: Mrs . V. G. ANDERSON (E. Butche rs).

Vice-Presidents: Miss RUTH FLOCKART. Miss OLIVE DODD. Honorary Secretary : Miss EDITH C. BARKER.

H ~ norary Assist ant Secretary: Miss MURIEL COX. Honorary Treasurer: Mrs. P. R. LESLIE (M. Rowe).

Editor "Old Collegian" and Honorary Advertising Secretary: Mrs. G. LANDY (E. Ashton).

Honorary Secretary Club Rooms: Miss AGNES MURRAY. Honorary Assistant S ecretary : Miss LENA BUTCHER .

Honorary Treasurer: Miss ELSIE BEARDSLEY.

Council

Mrs J RINGLAND ANDERSON (Mary McComas).

Mrs. E. T. BAILEY ( A. Wells). Miss PHYLLIS BECK. Miss DOROTHEA CERUTTY. Miss EVA HAYLER. Miss MARJORIE HOLDEN. Miss NANCE CAMPBELL. Miss QUEENIE HOWELL. Miss RUTH J OHNS. Mrs. F. G. KUMM (G. Cato) Miss DOROTHY KERR. Miss NANCY LEE. Miss BRENDA OLDHAM Miss PHYLLIS OSBORNE. Miss MAY PESCOTT. Miss VERA PARDY. Mrs. BELTON STIRLING (Edith Smith). Miss MARJORIE STUART. Mrs. J. 0. THOMPSON (Alma Stubbs). Miss JOYCE WARREN.

Melbourne, 10th November, 1931.

Dear Old Collegians,-

Our Old Schoo l was established just fi f ty years ago. To m ark this event, special J ubilee C elebrati o ns have b een arranged to t ake place early n ext year.

The present scholars, under the leadership of the Rev. J W. and Mrs. Grove, will take an active part in the proceedings, and, naturally, all members of the Old Collegians' Club will be keen to m ake the Jubilee Celebrations a complete success.

A Gala Garden P arty, to which all past scholars will be invited, will be one of the most attrac-

ti ve functions. Also, the present scholars and the Old Collegians are jointly arranging an excellent programme for a huge evening entertainment.

Mrs. Grove and the present scholars are organising a Fete, by means of which th ey h ope to raise a subs tantia l sum of money for the College Building Fund They h ave asked us to co-operate with the m in every possi ble way.

As the resu lt of t he Jubilee Celebrati ons, the College authorities hope th at it will be possible to build a fine hall for the Coll ege, as a permanent r ecord of th e Jubi lee Year.

le h as been suggested chat Old Colleg ians might like to have an opportunity co contribute directly to the new buildings, which will mean so much co the Co llege during the n ext h a lf century Every past student of the Colle ge will, the refore, be asked to give, if possible, for chis purpose.

You can also assist Mrs. Grove by forwarding to her the names a nd addresses of past scholars known to you, especially those who are not m e mbers of the O.C.C

I know that chis appeal will be responded to by those who love the Old School and all it stands for. These are difficult d ays, but the higher training and education of our girls, the mothers and lead e rs of the future, are mat ters of such vita l importance that n o effort mus t be spared to e nsure that the progress m a de by che Methodist Ladies' College during the p ast fif cy yea rs will be maintained in the future.

I am, yours sincerely, ETHEL G. ANDERSON

METHODIST LADIES' COLLEGE OLD COLLEGIANS' CLUB.

An nua l Report, 1930-31.

On b e half of th e M ethod ist Ladies' College Old Collegians' Club, I h ave much pleasure in presenting the Annual Report for 1930-3 I. During the year the Council met nine times, and the Council meetings, h e ld in the Club Rooms, were fairly well attended. It was with r eg r e t that we received r esignations from l\,1rs. T. C. Adamson and Miss J Heyward , but tru st at a lacer date to welcome them back co office. The Misses M. Holden and May Pescott were welcomed in their stead. Miss Leich we g la dly welcomed back af t e r her trip abroad, and since her return she has changed h e r n a me to Mrs. H. Meadows.

The following were e lected to the Executive: Office-bearers, Mrs. T. C . Adams on, Misses Una H a rr iso n , Nancy Lee, Lawrence Krome, Dorothy Ker r , Alice L e ich , Stella Robinson, Blanche Wood, and Millicent Ward.

Mrs. V. G. Anderson and Mrs. D J. Caldwell again consented co ace as our r ep r esentarivP.s on che National Council of Women. It was our pleasu r e to donate £5 to the Y.W.C.A

M.L.C., Kew, E.4

10th November, 1931.

Dear Old Collegian s.-

For purposes of the Jubilee of the College, wh ich is to be celebrated early in the coming year, we a re making a permanent roll of a ll girls who have passed through the Collep;e since its estab lishment. This roll will be of great interest and value as the years pass.

le will be a difficult task to furnish a complete list, because ou r O ld Collegians have scatte r ed to all parts of the world, and many h ave passed awa y.

Will the members of the O.C.C. kindly assist us by ·sending us the names and addresses of any Collegians with whom they are acquainted.? Both maiden and married names will be r eq uired , and may be sent to Mrs. J. W. Grove , M L.C., Kew, E.4. Thanking you in anticipation.

Yours sincerely, DAISY B. GROVE

at the beginning of the year, a nd later on £5 to Wesley Mission, towards providing meals for unemplo yed girls.

We were very fortunate in having such a b eautiful afternoon for the Garden Party on 29th November, at which there was a record attendance of 325. Th e Lite r ary Evening, held in May, proved another delightful gathering, when Mrs. Herbert Brookes spoke on "Movements and Places of Interest in America. " A musical programme, arranged by Miss Flockart, was much e njo yed. Gifts were brought for distribution amongst the Free Kindergart e ns, and parcels forwarded to S outh Melbourn e, Collingwood and Blackburn Holiday Hom e were much appreciated, especia lly in this t ime of dire distress.

The Dance held in the Sc. Kilda Town H all on 23rd June was a most enjoyable function, and, in spite of the time s, the sec r eta rie s, Misses S Robinson and Blanche Wood, were able to s how a profit o f £28/ 1/ 10, which was hand ed to the Club R ooms Comm i ttee for their use. M ay I express t h e sincere thanks of the Club to the secretaries and committee for the strenuous work they did to make the

function so successful. Th e eight debutantes and th e ir partners gave a R eturn Ball at Ormond H a ll in August, with Misses Phyllis B eck and Shirley Marriott as secretaries. Th ey hand ed over £14 to the Blind Institute We thank these sixtee n you ng people, and appre ciate their effort in h e lping such a wo r thy cause.

For our Theatre Night we were fortun at t: to have the opportunity of seeing nCarmen," produced by the University Conservatorium Operatic Society, with Joseph Hislop. Ou r party numbered 157

Permits for 30 blazers and 56 badges have been forwarded during the year. The President's appeal to the schoolgirls gained for us 80 members We also added 25 to the list of life members , bringing the tota l to 70. The index totals 750; of these 425 are financial.

In December the Club was allotted portion of the Town Hall balcony for Speech Night, at a charge of 1/ p er seat, and 96 seats were booked Our congratulations go to the School on the wonderfu l choral performance under Miss Flockart's training

\'i/e thank the secretaries, Misses Lee and Williams, for their successful !Jlanagement of the Tennis Tournament, and re_gret that only l 5 pairs entered. Although the r e was no profit, th e social side was much enjoyed, and it is hop ed that more gi rls will ente r next year.

Th e 10/ 7. treas urer' s books show a balance of £44 We should like to thank Mrs. Trathan for auditing the accounts again. One h un dre<j and fifty pounds of the Life Membership Fund was transferred to the new loan.

The Margaret Tidd eman Scholarship for 1931 was awarded to Verona Fromholtz. Her sta ndard of work is good, 70 per cent. being average marks obtained. Verona participates in sport, and has worked well throughout the year.

The Club R ooms are a source of joy to all who are fortunate e nou gh to belong to them, and it is with regret that we hear of the r esignation of the able treasurer, Miss V. P ardy We wish to express our sincere thanks to Mrs. Peterson for her ever•ready willingness to help the Club.

We appreciate the courtesy of the '.:;choo l authorities in granting the use of rooms and

grounds for various Old Collegian functions, and for their assistance and co-operation. We would also like to t hank the Staff and the housekeeper for the help given in connection with " Back-to-School" Day.

The Club wishes to convey to all Counci l members appreciation of the services they have rendered. Wh ile we reg ret that, through effluxion of time, some members must leave the Council, we heartily welcome the incoming President, Mrs. V. G . Anderson, and new Council members, and assure them of our loya l support.

-Edith C. Barker.

ANNUAL REPORT M .L.C. OLD COLLEGIANS' CLUB ROOMS, S

e pte mb e r, 1 93 1.

In presenting the Annual Report of the Club Rooms for the year September, 19 30August, 1931 , inclusive, I, in common with many another secretary, do so with considerable tre pidation, trusting that membe rs will have proper r egard for the extraordinary financial conditions which ex ist on all sides, and a due sense of thankfulness that we are at least free from debt. The importance of providing our• selves with an a dequat e sinking fund cannot, of course, b e over-rated, but on the other hand we must be satisfied in a tim"e of worldwide depression to hasten slowly, even though the process be somewhat painful for those responsible for the administration of our Club Rooms.

B efo re proceeding with a detailed surve y of the past vear , I s hould like to emphasise how much our Club owes to its enthusi astic committee, and to express o ur app reciation of the many services r e ndered by our r etiring Chairwoman, Mrs. A. McCutchecm, with whom it has always been a pleasure to be associated, and who h as a lways been on hand whenever there has been extra work t o be undertaken

It is with sincere regret also that we lose the ser;.,ices of our Treasure r , Miss V era Pardy, who, owing to serious illness in her family, h as been obliged to relinquish her position. Miss Pardy has been associated with the Club R ooms in an executive capacity both as secre t ary and treas urer, and one cannot even begin to assess the val u e of her serv ices to our Club. We are indeed sorr y to lose her, and hope that h e r

anxiety will soon be relieved. Miss Elsie Beardsley has stepped into the breach caused by Miss Pardy's retirement, and in welcoming her we feel sure that she will keep up the standard of previous holders of the office.

Acknowledgments-

We are again indebted to Mrs. Landen and her staff in the Business School at th e College in typing all circulars in connection with the Rooms, and thu~ saving us from a printing bill of considerable proportions, and also t o the many friends of the Rooms who are responsible for various gifts acknow l edged via the Club Rooms notice . board.

To Mi ss Marjorie Baird, w ho gave the proceeds from her delightful recital in Fitchett Hall to the piano fund, and to Miss Ruth Flocka rt, who was r esponsible for the organisation of the recit al , and whose earn es t desire it is t o provide the Rooms with a piano worthy of them, we extend our very sincere thanks.

Th e O.C.C. Preside nt, Mrs E. T. Bailey, w,;s also instrumental in helping to swell this fund with th e proceeds of a card evening held at the Rooms, and to her also we express our thanks.

The fund, augmented by several subscriptions, solicited by Miss Flockart, now stands a t £22/ 10/ 6, and our onl y regret is that, owing to the more pressing expenses of the Club Rooms, we have not so f a r been able to hold any function in aid of this most worthy cause.

A piano belonging to Mrs. Lupton (nee Gladys Gunn) has been l ent to the C lub Rooms, also thro ugh the medium of Miss Flockart, for a period of twelve months, the Club Rooms to be r esponsible for keeping the pia no in good condition. Six pounds were spent in necessary repairs, and it was felt that there would be mo!'e possibility of letting our Rooms to musical societies, as complaints had b een many with regard to the piano belonging to the Daughters of the Manse. We f-ee l, however, in spite of these complaints, that that same piano made it possible for us to acquire such p at rons as the Austral Salon, so, m requesting th!' removal of their piano, we offe r ed th e s a m e terms as formerly to the Daui>;hters of the Manse, whi c h offer they were pleased to accept.

Financially, we are indebted to the O.C.C., w hich made its usual generous donation of the profits from the Annual Ball, amounti n g to £28, which we appreciated greatly, and to Miss Kathleen Kelly and Miss Gwen Salter, two of our committee members, who donated the proceeds (£4/ 12/ -) of an American Tennis Tournament, held at the College, to our funds.

Mrs. Peterson is still assisted daily by a staff of voluntary helpers from among club members, and, needless to say, they p e rform a very necessary and greatly appreciated work.

S ociaL

Socially we have confined our efforts to two bridge parties, the first held in March. and the second l ate in July. These have been on a somewhat larger scale than card parties held form e rly. In March we made it both an afternoon and evening function , and by acqui ring the use of other rooms in the building, were able to book 43 tables, which resulted in a profit of £21 / 11/3. In July it was d ecided that the party should take place in the evening only, when 3 6 tables wer,:, booked, augmenting our funds to the extent of £15 / 10/ 7.

On both these occasions all refreshments were donated by the Club Rooms Committee, which, of course, reduced expenses to a minimum.

Our thanks are due to Mrs. Kilvington , Mrs. Kelly , Mrs. McCutcheon, and Miss Stillman, who were responsible for the decorations, which were specially beautiful.

These have been our only so ci a l gatherin gs for the year, as a majority of the Committee felt that it was n ot the time for making d e m a nds on the pockets of members, a v iew in which I personally do not concu r. I believe that as l ong as we provide the type of social relaxation which appeals to ou r members, and do not stress unduly our cry for funds and again more funds, Old Collegians are willing, and one might almost say eage r , to foregath e r w ith their own kind, and I believe also that the unprecedented success of both our bridge parties was proof of that view.

Rental.

We were fortunate in obtaining f or the year 1931 a further reduction in rent, viz. , £20 per year, so that our annual rental now stands at

£180. As rents h ave fa ll e n consid era bly, it is jus t possible that we may obtain a further r ed u c tion f o r the ensuing year

Financial.

I t would give m e ve ry great pleasure to face this meet ing w ith a report of a comfortable surplus in the bank, but, unfortunately, the word {( surplus" is one that is conspicuous in but few r e ports for the year 19 3 1. The actual positi o n is this: Our bank b alance o n 31st August stood at £69/ I 5/2, with cash in h a nd £ 8/7/ 10, makin g a total of £78/3/ Th is l ooks a fairly substantial amount, but, unfort unately , our rent, amounting to £90 , du e o n 3 0th June l ast, is no t y et paid, so tha t, with a ll oth e r liabilities settled, we hav e a defici e ncy of £12. With members' subscriptions now due , we should soon be able to make up this amou n t , but will n ee d t o stra in every n e rve to meet the rent due on 3 1st Dece mb e r , and to commence the r e demption o f loa n ce rtifi cates at the r a te of £10 p e r y ear, th e first paym ent b e ing due in F e bruary, 1932.

Each year donations from outside sources grow les s this y ear the a mount donate d from the 0.C.C. Ball being £3 0 less than the pre vious yea r. We do not wis h -in a ny way to depre ciate the dance sec r eta ri es a nd their committee-£28 profit in this y ear of depression is t r uly exce llent, and we congra tulate the secret a ri es on their work-but we merely point out that in spite of a sli g ht defici ency we are n ot slippin g b a ck to any g rea t e xtent.

Fortunate l y, we r e cei ved the assur ance of Mr. Nicholas, wh e n we first beca me his t e nants, that we should n ot b e press e d unduly for o ur r ent, so that it is merely a matter of time till we can m ee t thi s amou n t.

Cafe.

Our C a fe , which last year sh o_;,ed a profit of £1 06/ 10/6, h as suffered consid e rably as a dir ec t result of the trou bl ous times, the profi ts amount ing to £55 / 1 7 / 8 for th e year. We have been obli ged to r educe the catering charges to the Au stra l S a lon from 1 / p e r h ead to 8 d . per head , a n d, a l though the r e fr eshments served are of a le ss exJ)ensive va riety , this h as been another fac tor in reducing the Cafe receipts.

Hire of Rooms.

\Ve sti ll retain rh e patronage of the Austral Salon, Daughters of the Manse, Cheltenham Hom es for Children, and t h e Solvol C lub , but, unfortunate l y, the Victorian A m ateu r M otio n P icture Society h as ap p a r en tl y sought pastures n ew. The women's committe e o f t h e P en insu la Gol f C lu b meets o n one mo r ning a month ft our rooms, but this is not a part ic ula r ly lucrative so u rce o f in com e, and does n ot m a ke up for the l oss of the above society. On one or two occasions t he Rooms have been e n gaged by other clubs, one of which was the R.A B. Music Society, but th ey have n o t b e e n used to any g r eat extent for priv a te entertaining, which, of course, i S j u st o n e more i nstance of the necessi ty for economy on all sides.

M emb ership.

As was only to b e exp e cted, the Club Room memb e r s hip has fallen to 103 membe r s. Memb ers hip is, of co urse, a most importa nt facto r i n ou r scheme of things, but it is difficult to see h ow we are to a v oid some f a lling off under present conditions. Our subscription is not a high one. l\1ay we t h e r efore urge members wherever possib le to retain their Clu b Room m e mbers hip , eve n if only from th e point of view of loyalty? When these very unp leasant t imes are a t hing of the past we hop e to be able to offer our m emb e rs more adv antages, but at preser: t a ll we can do is to crave your assistance i n carrying on.

In clos i ng, I s hould like to express m y r eg r e t th a t this repo r t is not mo r e cheering. It mig ht, howeve r , be considerably less so, a nd if rum o ur speaketh tr uly, we are i n a better posit i o n than other clubs of simila r ai m s The unf ortunate state of our country at th e present time t e nds to weaken our morale , and to create a f eeli ng o f panic which is inclin ed to affect our outlook in every direct io n. A d e t e rmin a t ion to struggle h a rd est when the od ds a r e h eaviest aga in st us has a lways be en ou r h e ritage, so le t us not faintheartedly give up our effo r rs because th is yea r h as been somethin g of a d isappoin tmen t.

Agnes Mu rray, H o n. Secretary.

MINUTES OF ANNUAL MEETING, SEPTEMBER,

1931.

The Twenty-Se ven th Annual M eeting was held i n the Club Rooms, Nicholas H o u se, on Monday, 2 1st S e pt!'mber, a t 8. 15 p m ., after the Annual Dinne r . There were about 75 members present, and the Pr esi d e nt, Mrs. E. T B a iley, occup ied the chair. Apologies were received from Mrs. Kers haw, Misses Croll, Hunt, Howe ll , Pearson, M. a nd J. Ralph, R. Rudduck, a nd D W a lton

The following r ep orts w e r e prese nted :-The ann ual r e port of the secretary, the treasure r ' s balance shee t , r eport and balance s h eet of th e C lub Rooms, r e port of Na tional Council of Women, and r e port of t h e Triad. Miss Dodd proposed, and Miss M Ov e r e nd seconded , th e ado p tio n of these reports. Carried.

It was decided that the Syllabus s hould in clude---Garden P a rty, T en ni s Tourn amen t, Lite rary Eve n ing, Dance, Theatre Night, Backto-School Day , Annual Dinner, Annu a l Meeting, and n \Va lking Trip

Th e questions of a lte rati ons t o both bad ge and blazer were discu sse d. Voting for an alte r e d b a dge r esulted in an overwh elming m aj ority in favou r of retain in g the ori gi n a l design. In regard to the b laze r , the gene r a l fe e ling was that th e colour should be changed to bottle g r ee n , but when Mrs Lande n expl ai n ed that the Schoo l 's m ost covered blazer was gree n , this id ea was a band o n e d . Further s u ggestion s were m a d e, b ut no finality r each ed, and the matter was r efer red back to the Council.

A suggestio n was r ece i ved from Miss Barbo ur that a Y ounger Set be formed to assist t h e Cli.lb. On t he proposal of Mrs. Le sli e, sec ond 2d by Miss Wa rd , th is matter was h e ld over.

Mi ss Flockart then proposed th at a l ette r be writte n t o the Co llege authorities, st a ting t h at the O .C.C. would willingly co-operate with them in any function s arranged for th e J ubilee. This was seco nde d by Miss P a rdy .

Miss Fountain, o n behalf of the Club, e xpressed ap prec iat ion of Mrs. B ai ley's work for the O .C.C. during her year of o ffi ce. In h er r etiri n g speech, Mrs. Bailey thanked m e mbers for t h e ir l oyal support, a nd s poke a few words ot welcome to Mrs V. G Anderson, the new Pre.ide n r.

SYLLABUS FOR 1931-32

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1 931. Nov. 28--Garden P arty at t h e College. 19 32. Tennis T ourn ament. Li te rary Eve nin g. D a n ce. Th ea tre Night. S e pt. -Dinner, f o llow ed by Annu a l Meeting. Sept . -Bac k-to-Sc hoo l D ay ( Show Day). Owin g to th e College Ju b ilee funct i o n s being h e ld in April , 19 32, no d e finite dates can be stated for O.C C. functions

Edith C. B a rke r 8 T o rringto n Pl ace, Canterbury, E .7. F6914

A LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY.

Dear F e llow Old Collegians,Th ere a re seve ral matters which I should like to bring under your notice. The proposed First-Aid Class could not be held be ca use of la ck of supp ort. I t is essential that we have twe nty m e mb e rs . An y girls inte res te d are asked to b ear i n mind t h at, if possible, a class will be held next year, and a meet i ng ca lle d in April. I t is h op ed that this will b e foll owed by a H ome Nurs ing Class , and that a Voluntary Aid Detachment will r esult.

We h ave been approached by the Women's Auxiliary of the M e lbo urne Volunteer Bus h Fire Brigade t o form a sect io n , consistin g of a leader a nd five others, to assist i n the commissariat of the l\1en ' s Brigade. No expense is incurred, and me mbers are asked only in c ases of urgent n eed to go fo rward, within a r ad ius of 60 miles, to assist in ser ving food. Will a ny m e mber interes te d in th is scheme please advi se m e as early as possible?

I t h as been q u ire chee ry to r eceive letters from country m e mbers and to learn t h a t th e y a r e so inte r ested in our gath e ri n gs, which they have no o pportunity of joining. I h ope tha t many of you will be ab le to a r ran ge a v isit to Melbourne for Jubilee Week, when there will be many opportu ni ties for r enewing old acquain ta nces.

To those of our members who a r e not enjoying the best of h ea lch r egret is expressed, wit h the hope that in the n ew year th ey will again b e able to take an acti ve interest in thi n gs.

May 1932 find us all standing shoulder to shoulder, striving to make it the best in Club records .'

With Christmas wishes for 193 2. greetings and all good Edith C. Barker.

NOTES .

Annual Subscription-Town members, 5 /- ; country members, 3/6; life members, £5 /5/-.

Schoolgirls o f sixteen and over leavi n g the Co ll ege in December are admitted to m embers h ip till 3 1st August for 2/-. Club RoomsM e mb e r s, £ 1 ; co un try membe r s of C lub Ro o ms may pay 2 / 6 per month.

Blaze rs, ndvy blue, and with pocket, a r e obta inable from the Leviathan, corner of Bourke and Swanston Streets, for 47/ 6 A p e rmit may be obtained from the secretary. Badges, silver and enamel, 4 /-; gold a nd enamel, 27 / 6 , are obtainable from Catanach 's, jewellers, but a permit must first be obtained from the secr etary. In each case the money is now paid direct to the fi r m where the arti• cle is obtained . Country members who wish to h ave their badge sent through the registered p ost mu se send to Catanach's a n addi ti onal 3 d ., or the purchaser must bear the loss if the badge goes astray in the post.

· All m em bers are asked to answe r not ices and invitations promptly, and those who m arry or change their add r esses are asked to notify the Secretary as soon as possible to prevent notices goi ng astray. Members are asked to note espec ially the address of the secretary-Edith Barker, 8 Torrin gto n Place, Cante rbury , E.7.

Copies of the O .C.C. anc;l Club Rooms' rules are obtai nabl e o n application to the S ec r eta r y.

Cl ub Room members are asked to note that shou ld s ubscripti ons not be paid during the first t h ree months of th e finan cial year, v iz ., September t o November i nclusive, they are liable to a fine of 2/ per month until arrears a r e paid. Th e y are a lso reminded t h at Club Room m e mbers must be financial members of ch e Old Co llegia ns' Club.

For the bene fit of Club Room members visit• ing Sydney, an arr angement has been made with the Girls' Secondary Schools' Club, M asonic Chambers, 169 Castlereag h Stree t, Sydney, whereby our members may use their Club Rooms under the follow i ng conditions:-

I Financial members will be admitted as visiting membe rs fo r a perio d of not more than three months, the first month to be honorary, after which a fee of 4 / · p e r month, or part of a month, will be charged

2. A l e tter of introduction from the S ec reta r y to be presented, and the Visitors' Book signed on the first visit.

3. There s hall n ot be mo r e than twelve visiting members at any one time.

All contributions to " The O ld Collegian" hou ld be forwarded direct to the edito r, Mrs. C. Gordon La ndy, 38 Kerferd Road, Gl en Iris, S.E.6 (UY6344).

THE JUBILEE CHOIR.

A feature of the Jubile e functio n s of April, 1932, wi ll be a Choral Demonstration at the M e lbourne Town Hall, under the ' direction of Miss Ruth F locka r t. Miss Flockart i s planning for a combined choir of schoolgirls a nd Old Collegians to the number of I 000, and is anxious to enroll at least 400 Old Collegians. So far the response to her appea l has been excellent, but she wishes to stress the fact that every Old Coll egian, whether she is a m e mber of th e O.C.C. or not, i s el igible for m e m be rs hip of this chofr. Will aJI Old Co llegians who are inte r ested forward their n ames to the Club Rooms immediately, stating also whether they prefer to sing firsts o r seconds?

Rehearsals for the choir will begin early in February, 1932 , and will be h e ld in the Club Rooms, Nicholas House, Swanston Street, by courtesy of the Club Room s Committee. Notices wi ll be published in the rooms from time to time advising members where to purchase their music whe n it is availab le, and giv in g dates and times for rehearsals.

REPORT OF THE M.L.C. O .C.C., SYDNEY, N.S. W ., BRANCH.

Old Coilegians in Sydney have for year s fe l t th e l oss of the O.C.C. func ti ons, where old friends fo r egathered and the happy d ays spent at "Th e Best School of All" were recalled. Ac last a few enthusiasts met together at the home of Mrs H. V. Leckie (Bessie Will iams ) on the night of 7th August. Those prese nt were: Elsie Ridge ( of Launceston), Mrs. H. W. Chancellor (May Green), Mrs. E. E Bignell (Nellie Ellis), Mrs. Upton (Rene Dodshun), Mattie and Perla Preston, Sylvia Butler and Phyllis Waite, and

they decided to m eet at each oth e r 's home:; o casionally In case the re were other Old Collegians in Sydney who wou ld care to j o in up, a notice was put in a ll the papers. Th e response was surprisin g We realised at once th a t w e w ould nee d a central m eeting place to enable a ll who wished to join up to attend functions. Mrs. Price Conigrave (Viotti P ea r ce) kindly offe r ed us the u se of h e r club room in Burdekin H ouse for ou r firs t m eeting, which was calle d for 27 th Au g u st, at 3 p m. Twe nty Old Co llegians a t t e nd ed, and afte r intro ductions were made and old acquaintances r e n ewed , the business of the afternoon was a tte nde d to. Office rs el ect ed were:-President, Mrs. H . V. Leckie; vicepresidents, M :rs. E. W. L ave rty (Elizabeth Tonkin) a nd Mrs. H J . C lark (Mabe l L aycock); hon. secreta ry , Mrs. P rice Conigrav e; assistant sec r e t ary, J ean Watson; treas ure r, Mrs E E. Bi g n e ll ; committee, Mrs . H W. Chance llor , Phyllis Cram, J a n e t Blac k and P e rla Presto n The r e was much con ve rsa tion during af t e rnoon t ea, a nd it was su rprising to find how the one link of interest in th e Old S choo l united us a ll. Eve r yone said " Good-bye" with th e hope that the n ext meetin g would n ot be far dis tant

It was not, f o r we decided to hold a Dinner, to cor respond w ith the Hom e C lu b Dinner on 2 1st September. Thirty-three members c on g r e gated at Burdekin House Cafe on that ni g ht and partook of a v ery e n joyabl e dinner. The toas t s of " Th e Kin g," " Th e Old School," " The Club ," and " Th e President" we re honoured . A wire from the parent cl u b was r ead , and their kind thoughts and good wishes were mu c h appreciated by all prese nt. A musical prog r a mme , contributed to by Mrs. S p ring Brown, Miss J Watson, Miss Mattie Prest on and Mrs. Price Conigrave, brou g ht this d e li g htful evening to a clos e.

Our next mee ting took the form of a we lcome to Mr. and Mrs. P R Le Couteur and Miss L e Coute ur, a nd was h e ld a t Burdekin Hou se on Wednesday evenin g, 7t h October . Mrs. Le Cou teur was presen ted with a bouquet in a utumn tonin g s, a nd Miss L e Co ute ur with a sma ll spray of flowers. Mrs. Conigrave arranged a fine programme of mu sical and elocutionary items, the latter give n by pupils of Miss F,.y Hnrnhy, a former teacher of th e

College. Mr. Le Cou teu r , r e p,y ing to speeches of welco me made by the Pres ide nt and I sabel McClelland, told of va rious a lterat io ns m ade recently at th e Old S chool, a nd we felt that we wan t ed to h ea r much more of t h e happe n ings at the S c h ool, which hold s such pleasant m e mories for us all. We did e njoy our evening wi th Mr. a nd Mrs Le Couteur, and hope to keep in touch with th em, althou g h we know t h ey wi ll b e very busy in thei r new work The n ex t m eeting o f the Club w ill b e held o n T h ursday afternoon, 2 6th No vembe r.

B. Lec ki e .

REPORT OF "THE TRIAD."

Meetings of the Triad h ave b ee n h eld re gu lar ly each m onth , and interest in t h ese m eetin gs h as b een we ll s u stai n ed. The atten dance during the winter months of July and August was, howeve r , n o ti ceab ly smaller, a nd in consequence th e commit tee feels that there s h o u Id be a r evision of the time-table n ext 0year. Man y_ interesting p a p ers hav e b een given by membe rs of the Engli s h Lite r a ture sect i o n · on ''Early English Literature." In April Miss Olive Dodd gave a l ante rn lecture o n the Oberammergau P assion Play, which s he saw while abroad. H e r description was most ente rta ining a nd r eal is tic. The n in August D r. Pound gave an int e r esting talk on the ttPleasure s of Literature ."

Th e Dramatic S ect io n found much interest ih reading She rid a n 's " School for Scandal ," Shaw' s "You N eve r Can T e ll ," Milne ' s " B linda," Drinkwate r 's "Abrah a m Lin coln," and " The B a r retts of Wimpole Street," by B esier . Arran ge m e nts were made for Miss Ali ce Smith, o f th e T each e r s' Training College, t o v is it the C lu b in Jun e. She e nte rta ined memb e rs b y a ta lk o n Voi ce Production, a nd gave impressive r ead in gs from numerous p lays, including the old mora lity, "Eve r y m a n ," and Ma eterlinc k 's " Dea th o f Tintage les." The increased inte r est manifested by membe rs as the result of th is l ecture encouraged the committee to ex periment further, and Miss Eileen O ' Keefe was asked t o vis it the Club wit h th e v iew of directing m em b ers with their readings. At the Au gust, September and October m eetings M iss O ' K eefe was prese nt, a nd members f ee l th a t with som e on e definitely qu a lifie d to he lp the m they will ge t much more enjoyment from readings.

The French Circle, under the direction of Madame Graham , is greatly a ppreciated . M em bers are encouraged to converse in French, little scenes are enacted, French folk songs are sung, and French literature is rea d under Madame's guidance. The charm and culture of M a dame Graham are such chat a ll Old Collegians interested in the French language and anxious to improv e in French conversation might well avail themse lves of th e privilege of attending the meetings of the French Circle.

Th e thanks of the Club a re due to Mrs Landy. It is large ly owing to her unsparing efforts and the able manner in which she has discharged her duties that the Triad has achieved the results that it has It is felt chat the Triad is distinctly beneficial to the O .C. Club, and chat efforts should be made to increase its scope and influence during the coming year.

Ethel Ande r son.

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Possibly the most interesting evening spent by ch e delegates co the National Council of \X1omen was chat dealin g with "Films and their C e nsorship. " Mrs Bolitho told of he r experiences in London , where a "Children's Cinema Council" has been form ed to encourage a clea ner sc ree~ , non-politic a l and non-sectarian. She said chat in most civi lised countries 80 per cent. of the gi rls and 90 per cent. of the boy~ go co pictures, and cheref ore every possible preca ution should be taken t o see that the films shown were who lesome. Some should b e educational, dea ling with topical news, bird, fish and animal life, etc.; others purely amusing, as the uScarlet Pimpernel. "

This C hildre n ' s Cinema Council was trying to inaugurate a dai l y matinee, where suitab le films for children wou ld b e shown. A Saturday morni n g children's screen was a lready in existence, wher e ch ildren fo r threepence could see films that were suitable to th e m. It was a lso agreed that films that were not suitable for children und e r sixteen years of age to see wou ld not be seen by adu lts with moral advantage. A g reater evil than the low class of film produced i s the posters t!,at are shown. H ere the same suggestive picture is seen day after day, until it imprints itself indelibly on the mind, whereas in a moving picture the unpleasant scene 1s quickly superseded by something e ls e. It is genera ll y conceded, the speaker went on to say, that the American film

depicting th e haunts of Chicago, etc., and spoken in obj ectionable Americanism, is not good enough for Australia, a nd that British and Australian films, encouraging pride in our country and homeland, should be supported.

Ethel Anderson D. Caldwell.

TREASURER'S NOTE.

Subscriptions for 1932 are now due, and should be paid direct to the treas urer, 6 Woolley Street, Essendon, W.5. Would m em b e rs remitting by postal notes kindly make them payable to "M. L es li e, Essendon P .O.," to facilitate collection. Thank you for atten tion in these m atters. -M. M Leslie.

THE LITERARY EVENING.

It would be difficult to imagin e a more enthusiastic assemblage than that which filled the C l ub Rooms , more than comfortab ly , alas! o n the occasion of the Literary Evening in May. Long before eight o'clock tabl es placed in the hall were laden with gifts for the Free Kindergartens.

Mrs. Herbert Brookes, who had just returned from the United Scares, where her h usband acted as Commissioner for the Au stralian Governme nt, spoke to u s o~ uMovements and Places of Interest in U.S.A." Mrs. Brookes h as the faculty of stirring the imag in ation, so chat her h eare r act uall y meets the folk whom she talks of, and shares their enthusiasms.

Mrs. Brookes began her address by celling us chat, since our newspapers stressed chiefly the worst e lements in American life, she would talk to u s a bout the move m e nts and institutions which g ive expression to Amer i ca n id ea ls, and which are as num erous as the thousands who inh abit che continent New York was to Mrs. Brookes a plethora of events. Morning, noon and night there were recita ls by great artists, a nd lectures on every conceivab le subjec t. One's pleasure in a good r ec ita l would be ringed with r eg r e t chat one was missin g an equally good lectu re

Th ere was a constant round of dinners a nd lunc heons. Mrs Brookes was h ono ured by an invitati o n to din e a t West Point Military Academy , b eautifully sit u ate d on the Hu dson some mil es "upstate" from New York. She also attend ed a dinner at Internat ional Col lege , w hic h is composed of students who have come from a ll quarte r s of the globe co st udy

in New York. Here everything possible is done to break down racial barriers and preserve the student from the unutterable loneliness which is often the l ot of the student at a foreign uni ver sity. The most interesting of che many luncheons at women's clubs was chat at the Japanese C l ub, where everything was served and eaten in Japanese fashion

Before long Mrs. Brookes found herself not merely attending lectures and luncheons, but talking at women's colleges and clubs on Australia and Australian women. In chis way she came in contact with leaders of educational movements and saw many experimental methods of education practised. She was greatly imp r essed with the h igh standard of their kindergartens and nursery schools, where the results are astonishing. Quite the finest of these were in Westchester County, which, as every vis i tor to New York soon finds, is the "show place" of the State. Mrs. Brookes spent an interesting evening at a club which concerns itself wit h research into the foreign policies of th e Great Powers On this ocasion a professo r of history acted as chairman of a debate on British Policy in Ind ia; a Hindu spoke for Indian Nation a lism, and an Englishman for the British po licy. The ve rdict was overwhe lm ingly in favou r of the latter. Mrs Brookes noted jn New York a great admiration for everything British, whereas in 1925 American sympathies were all with France.

In her official capacity Mrs. Brookes was presented to Mrs. Hoover, who has a warm affection for Australia and her Australian friends. She a lso met the wi ves of three former Presidents Mrs. Wilson, still very enthusiastic about the League of Nations and all chat pertains thereto; Mrs. Coolidge, a quiet, moth erly person; and Mrs Rooseve lt, who is altogether c h arming. Despite her years, Mrs Roosevelt retains h er keen interest in world affairs She expresses great faith in the future of Australia Since she is the h ead of a family of trave llers and students of foreign countries, h er opinion 1s valuab le. Mrs. Brookes sees great possibilities for the future in a closer alliance of British people with the Ame ricans , who, if sentimental and idealistic, are so und at heart, and a worthy people

Miss Flockart arranged a fine programme of mu sic for us , and this inclu ded vocal soli by

Marjorie Baird, Phyllis Osborn e and Mr. Bossence; violin soli by Miss Elise Steele, and unaccompanie d singing by the Lowana Quartette {Mavis Lancaster, Agnes Bliss, Phyllis Osborne and Blanche Wood)

THE GARDENS OF INDIA.

"A garden enclosed, a garden of living waters. "-Song of Solomon.

An article suc h as chis can only touch on the fringes of th is subject. .It is written more as a pl ea for the tolerance, if not the understan ding, of a world and a civilizatio n which reach ed i ts zenith when Western peoples were only emerg ing from barbarism. Th e first Orienta l arts to attract the West were probably the Japanese and Chinese, and these, in spite of the lifelong labours of Mr. Binyon, are still described as "so decorative " Indian art has failed co appea l because chis "pr etty-pretty" element is lacking. It cannot b e too strongly emphasized that all Oriental art is traditional. Every grouping, e v e ry stroke of a brush has a traditional meaning behind it. That tradition produced a natural loveliness was due to a comprehension of natural l aw far deeper than any copyist could have. Every stick and ever y stone in th e s~-ca lled natural gardens of Japan is placed and named traditionally, and every plane is placed b y age-old rules.

The famous gardens in India have bee n d esc ribe d as "the greatest contribution of cf-ie Mugha!s to Indian a rt," and t hose Mughals built the Taj Mahal! The reader must be remind e d that the word uart" in connection with things Indian is used for convenience. In Sanskrit there is no equivalent for our modern word "art. " A famous Oriental scholar sums up this way: " In India ' art' is the sta tement of a racial experience, and serves the purposes of life, like dai l y bread."

The Mughal garden was a definite and c h aracter istic expression oJ Mughal genius, but, like all the gardens of the East, it was Indian by descent. Th e garden craft of ancient Indi a was carried far and wide by the Buddhist pri ests, to Cambodia, China, J apan, and Turkestan , to r eturn again with the Turki conqueror. The influence of Buddhism or garden culture wi ll not surprise those of you who are familiar with the old Hindu ep ics; flowers and trees, waterfalls and

birds pervade every scen e in th e Mahabharata and Ramayama; flo wers a re still part of all Hindu cerem onia l.

The gardens as they are to-day are but t h e g h osts of their former selv.,s: eve n yet th e y give us more than a glimpse of that " art so well understood by the Mug h a ls , of planning a nd p lanting gardens in direct harmo ni o us r e lation to the house, palace, or mausoleum to which they belong. " Surely chis is the high est expression of the garden craft \V/e can touch on very few of the meanings an d traditions symbolized in an Indian garden, but some of them will certa inly be easier understood from the following plan (The first s hows how a complete "Paradise" garden was made up , the second, the d e tail of a court or terrace) :-

The most fa miliar of old superstitio n s was that of t he "four went ways of heaven. " This idea of "four-squareness" is found in every peopl e' s histo ry, and is a mos t interestin g lin k in the evolution of religion. Thi s idea was peculiarly sacred to the followers of the Pro phet, so all Mughal ga rde ns are built on the four gardens or "char-bagh" plan.

In a ll mythologies Paradise is on a hill. In the old Buddhist Ida Narsha stands Mt. Meru , on whose slopes grew the "tree of every perfect gi ft " and the "tree of the ages," and from whose sides flow ed in four directions the four life-giving streams.

Zenana

Terrace

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Emp e ror 's Terrace

Cou rti ers in General.

There may be any number of terraces in hillside gard~ns. Flower beds border a ll canals as well as plots Plains gardens consist of a number of squares joined to gethe r , as in Zenana Terrace. Each section is again divid ed by small tanks and streams The lotus bud fountain s are placed in every tank and can a l.

The simplest of the garden plans given is that of Sikandrah, a garden of th e plains. It is fourfold. In the centre is the mausoleum which stands for t h e holy mount, a nd radiat· ing from it L-i. four directions Bow the streams o n which the life of the garden depe nds Originally, r ound chis were other co urts, all built on the same plan, but l acking the ce ntre p leasur!" house or mausole um, a large tank taking the central position This plan is com• piece in the gardens of the Taj Mahal at Agra, and at the Dilkusha Bagh (or Heart-Delighting Garden) at Lahore.

Symbolism did not stop at the form of the garden. It applied to the planting as well. Every garden must conta in the joyful promise of immortality, so the quivering point of the cypress soared ever upwards ; its beauty must come to fruition, so much of its loveliness was due to the fruit trees; at the well head must be symbolized the marriage of the fruit tree and the palm Then the r e was the symbolic planting of the story of Laila and Majnun , and many, many others.

Intimately bound up with these ga r dens is the history of their founders Th ey were very definite ly expressions of the personalities of their builders, a dynasty of princes a nd prin• cesses whose greatness of h eart and mind has never been surpassed. Babur, the first of the so-called Mughal Emperors, has left a fascin ating record of his garden building, but, un • fortunately, most of the gardens were built at Kabul. His Garden of Fide l ity, his G a rden of the New Y ea r , where he lies buried, his Violet Garden, and many oth e rs are there Very little remains of the Gold-Scattering Garden, which he so loved, and which he built

at such expense at Agra. The Babur Nama te lls one exquisite story of how this mighty conqueror halted an army l aden with the spoils of Hindustan while he hunted for two days for rare tulip plants to take back to one of his gardens in Kabul. Babur is not a very wellknown figure, and his diary has been badly translated, but from those scholars to whom he is known he receives an affection very little this side of idolatry

The temptation of any writer about Eastern gardens is to be come a c hronicle r of stories concerning the men who built them the great Emperor Akbar, who " h ad the gift which wins all hea r ts" ; Shah J ahan , who is one of the world's greatest artist builders; and Jahangir, whose love story is one of the lo veliest in any lan guage. Th e royal ladies were as great builders as their brothers and husbands, but we must leave them out of so short a survey. I wou ld remind you that the common impres sion of Indian emperors is one of voluptuaries and debauchees. No charge was ever further from the truth. The world's supreme monument to marri ed love wa~ the work of an Eastern potentate, a nd that fact alone should make most of us pause and r evise our ideas

Excell e nt though the restoration of some of the o ld gardens is, many of them a r e but life less ghosts of their former loveliness. The "living waters" are missing, the little lotus bud fountains no longer toss their spray, the canals are empty, and bare, grassy p lo ts cover the ground where once the roses bloomed A few such as the Nishat Bagh, in Kashmir, still show u s that form, balance and symmetry are the foundations of beauty, and the loveliest of all foi ls for the natural graces a nd the sweeping curves of plant and flower Jessie Vasey.

O .C.C. DANCE.

Thoughts of the Old School crowd ed upon us thick and fast as we entered the St. Kilda Town Hall on 23rd J une , and saw the Green a nd Silver flag holding p la ce of honour in the decorative scheme. And-happy thought-on our programmes were the fami liar words"Gree n ap.d Silver, my comrades, Silv er and G r een to the fore; We' r e prou d ot our old school, We' ll work for our own schoo l ; 'For God and for Hom e ' eve rmore ."

What a delightful eveni n g we spe n t! With a merry throng, 500 in a ll , dancing to pe r fect music against a background of gay Oriental decorations, depression was indeed banished. Mrs Bailey, in black velvet patterned with orange and l i me green; Miss Barker, in soft leaf gre en satin; Stella Robinson at}d Blanche Wood, in frocks of apricot, made a striking and colourfu l picture when they stood to receive the debutantes.

The eight d e buta ntes were dignified and graceful, with their l ong white frocks and scarlet bouque ts of b e rries and carnations, as they danced the Lancers and bowed to the President.

Two very attractive items of the programme were a streamer dance , during which brightly coloured paper balloons were t h rown from the balcony into the h a ll , and an exh ib ition wal tz by Miss Miller and Mr. Nunn. After supper -a jolly affair, wi t h many novelties, inclu,:ling Hawaiian Leis of many hues-the carnival spirit held full sway. And at 2 a m. even we of the "older gene r ation" wis h ed that we could set the cloc k back a few hours. We congratul ate the capab le secretaries, Stella R obi n s01'l and Blanche Wood, o n this m ost successful function.

FROM COMO.

Here we are under huge feather pillows, called in these parts eiderdowns; they are a bit short for my legs, a las! I ' m all comfy but for my fe e t , t h ank you. I have about two minutes' peace, and then a terrific d in begins in the street I lift an indigna nt eyebrow, but the din grows and grows · First it is a tramcar, then a would-be singer, then another tramcar in pieces, surely-a motor-bike, shuttersa bang, and so on. We must be spoilt after our quiet lake villages of the last few days, but I do t hink the noise is special and I talian this night .

Only l ast night we were at Bellagio, w h ere we r es isted the wi !es of porters who wou ld hav e lured us into fine hotels and pensions, and climbed, instead, many stone steps to a tiny pension above the town. Here we were welcomed by mother, father and maid on the vineclad loggia. We found spotless, small rooms above, and ate a d e licious dinne r , with fruit instead of sweets, all in baske ts brown-figs, grapes, peaches, walnuts too.

After breakfast, eaten on the loggia under the blue grapes, we wandered into the hills

behind Bellagio, and found such quaint villages built on rocks. Often there were delightful peeps of the blue lake from stone arch or narrow way. We follow ed these ways, between fields and vineyards, or hi g h stone walls; often they were but five f eet wide; always they were cobbled with worn, round stones. In one village a man came suddenly out from a hu ge barn, and his feet were blue-stained, and his legs. We discovered that he had been trampin g the g rapes for wine! Th e n the r e came m e n and women with long, pointed baskets laden with g rapes, strapped to their backs. How strange and love ly it a ll was!

Of course, both lakes are glorious. I think perhaps Lugano is first, though Como has wondrous mountains and views. I loved Luga no town and the lake trip s thence to Swiss and Italian ports; we specia lly liked the soldiers at the latter. Some we called umounta.in• men." They wore olive g r een suits with j aunry hat a nd feather. Others were proud and blueclad, with tossing heads and s uch white gloves. , There were many picturesq ue vill~ges, and many poor on es, too. Always there was the high towered church, with bells to p eal out over the water. I'll always remember still water and ringing bells for Switzerland.

After Lugano, we packed our luggage and sent it h e re to Como by train Taking on l y a knapsack apiece, we set out for Menaggio by water and l and , so to speak. And so, a dreamlike trip in soft morning haze along the north arm of the lake, with bells ringing out once again. All that day they follow ed us, for it was Sunday Sometimes the churches were perched hig h against the sheer rock of the mountains, with terraced vineyards dropping away below them. We lun che d in a vineyard m assed with d ark grapes An old woman passed u s, basket on bac k, going to gath er h er g r apes. Li ke th e men who followe d , sh e gave us HBueno sera, signorini !" and one of the men called "Good eatin g !" He carried a long scythe, silvery s hinin g. Then a large co n gregation came chattering out from the church Dignified, d e mure were the wom e n and older gi rls in their long bl ac k veils, but th e tiny children tumbl ed out into the street in sheer joy of release. Here and there were s hrines by the wayside; some were in order, tended with flow ers, others dusty and forgot-

ten. All t his time we were hi gh up in a gap of the mountains. Suddenly we came upon a view of Como, g littering, blue, with Menaggio lying immediate ly below us We descended the twisted , white r oad, hot and dusty, but too enthusiastic to mind. We found a lovely room that ni g ht, with a tiny balcony over the lake. Whe n we went up after dinner we found the moonli g ht streaming o ver the water and over t he distant peninsula, where lay B e llag io.

And here in Como we have m e t Mrs. Humphreys, with two charming companions, a Swedish doctor .md his wife-such fin e-look ing people. She was excited to see u s, and we talked for an hour. Th ey had been touring in Austria and J ugo Slavia, a nd were d elighted with the latter especially.

Have I said that a ll the time we h ave had su n and warmth? Aft e r England, it is such bliss Only to-day, as we sat on a hillside above Como, we realise d anew how our English poets felt wh e n they came and found all the joys of this countryside. Can we wonder that they lingered on? Keenie Harbison.

"BACK TO SCHOOL" DAY, 1931Id ea l weather conditions served on Thursday , 24th September, to add yet more bea uty to the spring-clad gardens and grey buildings of the College on the occasion of the annual " Back to School Day," organised by the Old Colleg ians' Committee, with the co-operation of the School authorities.

The first e vent of the pleasant afternoon was a gathering in Fitchett Hall, where the S e nior S chool and Old Collegians joined in an opening service, at the conclusion of which Mr. Grove welcomed the v isitors. Mrs. V. G Anderson replied on behalf of the Old Coll eg ians' Club.

A truly excellent programme followed. The singing, und e r the direction of Miss Flockart, included a solo by Miss Patricia Jacks on ( " Tweddle" Scholar), an d ite ms by the S chooi Quartette and S e nior Choir. The gues t s were very int e r este d to h ea r "Si lver and Green" r e ndered in its n e w setti11g by th e cho ir. Other items were given by e lo cutio n a nd pia noforte students, Miss Frey Shimmin ("Danks" Scholar), delighting the audien ce with a pianoforte solo

At the conclusion of t his programme guests we re at lib erty to wa tch a keenly contested

tennis match between p ast and present stu dents , to see the n ew sports ground, or to r enew old friendships and visit haunts of their schooldays.

T he serving of a delightful afterno o n tea in the refectory brought the happy gathering to a close, and one more "Back to School's Day" was added to t h e l o n g list of its pre d ecessors.

D. Cerutty.

THE GAME OF THE JOYOUS QUEST.

N ever to be grey in sp irit, n eve r t o b e old at hea r t, never to be respectabl e, and modest, and dull , and a li ttle fat A million of us there are who are out for youth against the s p irit of age. We are enthusiasts in the face of a world apparentl y designed fo r the one purpose of manufacturing cynics-enthusiasts seeking laughter and the joy of life. We are the Movement with a Sense of Humour, playing the game of the Joyous Quest.

You have probably heard of u s . Y ou have probably given u s a moment's care less thought. "Another of th e vast number of uplift orga n isations The lu st fo r power and a uniform," you have said scornfully that is, unless we are mis judg ing you. A ga in, you m a y n ot have given us a thou ght. If so, you are ignori n g th e g reates t force for world peace that t h ere is on the planet to day-an inBuence without which t h e League of N ations would b e a m e lancholy and self-satisfied futility the movement of the Girl Guides

The c hildre n themselves began it. I t is entire ly due to them that since 1 909 the move ment h as extended to 28 n ations, and numbers over 946,000. With our twin movement, the B oy S couts, we are n ow over three million. The story of how we began i s well worth quoting Long ago, in the Palaeolithic period of Guide history, little groups of girls in queer clothes o f many col o urs mig ht h ave been seen m a r c hing along with h aversacks, wa t erbottl es, and broomsticks Their dress was quaint, their manner wild, but their b acks were s traight and a look they had in their faces of determinati o n Someone was c a lling in a way that no one had eve r called before The Pied Piper had piped, and the boys had dropped their books and their toys , and followed him out into the woods; and the girls we re followi n g, too.

uGo home," said th e g rown-up s, ui t 1s n ot for you ."

"Go b ack," said th e boys, "this 1s our game, not yours."

" Go away," said the Piper, " I am piping to the boys."

But the girls had caught the strains of the music, a nd they had to follow. All that they had read in their story-books, all that they had dreamed in their dreams, was happening to them; their own brothers had turn ed into frontiersme n, exp l orers, uScouts ." I t was too late to go back; and as ear ly as S eptembe r, 1909, at the first Scout rally at Crystal Palace, London, so m e girls, braving ridicule, m anaged to worm their way in among 8000 Scouts to see t h e g r eat Chief, w h om they claimed as their Chief too Nor we r e they to be disappointed, for though the Piper was busy with the boys, he h ad to be true to himself, and if the girls h ad followed to the tune of t his mu s ic, t h en the magi c would work for t h em, too; so Lord Baden-Powell wrote in the l ast page of a small pamphlet on Scouting: "A similar scheme might be sta rted fo r g i rls, and the y might be ca lled Guides." ·

Six thousand g irl s had a lread y registered as S co uts, e ntire l y on their own initiative, so the early organ isers h ad something ahead of them. But when Miss Baden P owell, sister of the Chief Scout, b e came the president in 1910, the movement had really started legitimately.

You may call us sentimentalists if you like ; you may murmur, " Pure emo tionalism," as ind eed one person murmured to me, and turn away. But in the meantime all over the world, i n Czecho-Slo v akia as well as Canada, in Brazil as well as Britain, the game of Guiding goes steadily on Every night in every week little groups of blue-uniformed figu r es meet in clubrooms, in barns, in parish halls; eve r y Saturday aftern oon b l ue uniformed figures are hi king gaily, in t h e fields of England, in the veldt of Africa , in the bush of Austra lia. Every Christmas h olidays Guides are camping out under the stars, learning to play the game cleanly, to "Be Prepared" to help others at every moment of the day, to love laughte r , to li ve so intensely that, as S t. Francis put it, "Even the very thornbush by the wayside is afl ame with the glory of God "

In a world of paralysing shams we are out for sincerity; in the face of the blazing imbecili t y of the socia l system we are out to break down, by friendship, the barriers of class, of creed, of colour; we a r e out for health of mind and body in a world which has re garded women , amo ngst other equally depressing things, as a perambu lati ng infirmity; we are out for laughter in the face of joylessness; we are o ut to find che spirit of beauty along the Woodcraft Trail. A million of us t h ere are, playing the Game of the Joyous Qu est in n ea rly eve ry nation of the world. And we try co do it mainly in an h ou r and a h alf a week! From, say, 7 30 to 9 once a week, we hold the actual company meetings. Thirty small people, aged anywhere between e leve n and s ixteen, rroop up co the often dull and stodgy parish hall. (It isn ' t every com pany that has a den of its own.) But bareness and stodginess vanish under the high im agination of youth, chat transforms four walls and a roof into a veritable Haunt of Rom ance. They di vide into their patrols, each und e r a child leade r, each with a totem and an atmosphere, a history of its own, and th e comp a ny meeting goes forward roll call , a game, work in patrols, more games, a pow wow or a sing-song.

The foundation stone of Guiding is the patrol system, whereby the gang spirit of childhood is utilised for work and play. The Court of Honour, that gay a nd glori ous committee of patrol leade r s, meets regul arly to discuss the affairs of the company a nd to decide its programme. Here the leaders lea rn to make d ec isi o ns and to stick to them. Incid entally, if wisely guided and made to stand by what they have decided , they soon learn to "look b efore they leap," a nd discuss a ll aspects before making a decision. H e r e they lea rn method , for a ll books must be carefully kept ; here th ey learn judgment-when to report what they have h ea rd and when to keep th ei r own counsel. And for the ordinary Guide there is the utter joy of playing and working with her own patrol. But I do not t hink the word "work" c omes into the Guide' s hea d when she thinks about Guiding. B ecause play is something that you want to do, and work is som e thing that you do not want to do-and the ordinary grown up's idea of work

is turned upside down. You see, Guiding is, first and foremost, a game. You lear n to tie knots so that you can tie a parcel o r a bandage effic iently, but you learn it by playing games. You learn by stalking games how to move very quietly, so that you ca n come quire close ro a bird without frightening it, and that opens a world of wonders to your eyest he wonders of the Woodcraft Trail. You learn how to light a fire in a ll weat hers , how ro dea l with snakebite before the doctor comes, how to carry out the Guide law . . all in the most fascinating games you've ever played. Guiding is the only youth movement th at is on a psychologically sound basis. By games the children play themselves into achieving the finest womanhood of which they are capable. There is no sentim e ntality, no pointing of morals in this game of ours.

That is probably why we do not have to go out and ask the childre n to Join us. We, the Guiders, are merely the people who help the children to play the ga m e of Guiding The children themselves are so eager to play th at if we could find the Guide rs we could treble our numbers without any r ec ruiting at al l. But it is the individ ua l t h at matt e rs in th e Guide moveme nt, and individual training is impossible unless we keep the numbers in our co mpanies down. It is all t h at two Guiders can do to look after thirty-two Guides a t once-to play with them, to laugh a nd wond e r with the m.

And that is why you cannot ignore us. We are so young, so virally alive and growing, that we need you. Y es, you are busy. Everyone is. But when we want a thin g well done, a thing worth doing, we go to the busy person. Th e children of the world are playing a game that is to them the most entrancing they have ever played. They want people to h e lp them. You need not be a very wonderful person; no specia l qualifications are n ecessa r y, only a sense of humour and a willingness to help, eithe r with Rangers (the se n ior Guides), or Guides, o r the littlest ones-the Brownies." Ar the r ecent World Conference of Guiders, h e ld at Foxlease the h ome of Guiding in England , every coun'. try r epo rted a crying n eed for Guiders. We nee d you. Will you stand aside now?

The more I think about this game I a m playing, the more convinced I am that its

influence in the direction of the new internation a lism is practically unlimited. We ourse lves h ave l ately made great strides in our world organisation. In 1928 a World Conference of Guiders was held in Hungary. Guiders and Commissioners from all over the world came to this conference, each one of them tremendously keen on the Guid~ Movement in her own country Th ey elected a world committee, and a world bureau has been set up in London, with Dame Katharine Furse, O.B.E., as director. This bureau i s going to band together, even more closely than before, all the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in the world. And a Wo rl d Chalet is being built in Switzerland-a home for Guides from e very part of the planet.

The youth of the world is playing a game that is knitting it closer than could any pact or t r eaty; a nd if we listen we can hear the cry go in g up from every n ation and from every Guide:

"This shall be for a bond between us, that we be of one blood, ye and I; that we have cried peace to a ll men and claimed kinship with every living thing; that we h ate war and sloth and greed, and love fellowship, and that we shall go singing to the fashioning of a n ew world. Rosemary Heath.

WORDS.

If you were to be marooned on an uninhabit ed island for an indefinite period, and were allowed to take only one book, what book would you take? It's a fascinating problem. Ask any six p e0,p l e you know a nd chieir answers, in five cases out of the six, will be, as they are conventional or t.-uthful, the Bible or the Bard.

If I were allowed four books, I would cer tainly tak e the Bible; if three, Shakespeare would be my third choice. If onl y two, it would be difficult to choose, and my second c hoice would l ie between Grimm's Fairy Tales, a highly improbable story by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds called "The King's Widow," and, mention i t safely, a cookery book. Think how interestin g it would be, after a m eal of oysters was hed down with cocoanut milk , to read a r e cipe commencing, "To the whites, stiffly whisked, of ten eggs add half a dozen crumbled ratafias moiste ned with orange juice."

But I have abso lu tely n o doubt as to what my first choice would be-unhesitatingly, I would choose a good, up-to-d ate dictionary, a big, fat dictionary with numbers of illustrati ons, with mythical a llusions annotated in clipped, unimaginati ve lang uage, w i th all the latest scientific terms- ( it is so necessary on a desert island to know how many amperes go to a watt, or don't they? )-with a glossary at the back giving the meanings of Christian names, and the right food for cocker span ie ls , a nd so on.

For of all the fascinating, alluring things I know, there are non e so fascinating and allur ing as words. Ope n you r dictiona ry and read down a column-Macaroni, m acaroon, macaw~ mace, macerate, Machiavellian, machine, mac kerel, mackintosh, macrocosm, macula, mad, madder, Madiera, Madonna , mad repor e (that means "c oral, " did you know?), madrigal, maenad, maestro, magi, magenta. Only twenty one words, but the distance they cover, the wonderful, colorful pictures they evoke MacaroniItaly; ~acaw-bright reds and greens and blues, South America, soft-voi ced Spaniards; mace-Cromwell, or if one's thoughts are on things gastronomic, all the sweet spices of Araby; mackerel-fishing fleets scudding under white sails against a background of old-world villages and chalk cliffs; mackintosh-Scotland, grey misty rain, colourful tartan, and toffee; Madder-that most l ovely rose colou r whose name , Rose Madder, is even lo ve lier still; madrigal-sweet, l i ltin g vo ices in a simple air; maenad-purple grapes and laughter and mad dancing; maestro-orchestras, muted violins, and sweet-toned flutes and oboes; magishining stars, adoration, Christmas and lighted candles; magenta-plush , wax flowers under g lass shades, photos. of grandmother. Why, there is no end to it, for each word a dozen lovely pictures, for each picture a story of love or hate or fear or sudden tragedy.

Then th e re are words whose ex quisite cadences pluck a t the very heartstrings-irides cence, Sylvia, charm, phantasy, s il ence, Lindisfarne, translucent, jade, symphony-each o n e sheer beauty in sound. Oche r words spring to the eye and mind, suggesting by look and sound th e ir own meanin gs far more certainly than cou l d any lexicographer Fey, l ewd, h a rsh , weird, blizzard, congeal, pastel, jelly.

Can one wonder that po ets a nd writers become intoxicated with words, become saturated through a nd throug h with their beauty, and spend their liv es forever s triving for that perfect sentence, so finely ba lanced, so exquisite ly cadenced, that beckons just a liccle further on, as elusive as any will-o'-the-wisp And such a sentence achieved is as richly satisfying as the moon rising over the sea, or the scent of stocks on the night ai r

So they lur e one on-words, words; all the beauty, all the colour, all the emotion, the comedy and tragedy of life wi t hin the cove rs of a dictionary.

Dorothy Blewett.

"TO ENGLAND VIA SUEZ."

My sister a nd I left Melbourne on 7th March for a six months' trip ab road. We had a very pleasant time on the "Moreton Bay" for five weeks, but nevertheless were always glad to go as hore at the var iou s ports.

From Colombo we motored up to Kandy, and on the way we stopped at a large estate owned by a Cingalese Prince, and were invited in to see over hi s beautiful bungalow and groun d s. At Kandy we . visited the Temple of the Tooth, and the famous Peradeniya Gar dens, where we saw the lovely orch id conservator ies.

Our next port of call was Suez, which we reached on 2nd April. H ere forty-one of us left the boat and motored across the desert to Heliopolis, which took about three hours. Heliopolis is the home of the· wealthy classes, includ in g Europeans, and the houses are all large, many-storied, and flat-roof ed, surrounded by beautiful gardens. Electric trams run from the edge of the d ese rt throu g h Heliopolis to Cairo and out towards the Pyramids. We r eached the Metropolitan Hotel, where we were co s tay the night, at 2 45 p.m., and, af t e r h aving lunch, our party set off in eigh t motor-ca rs for the Pyramids. We were very surprised to find what a long distance they are from th e town. At the foot of the hills we left the cars and got on to camels. It is the queerest sensation when th e came l is getting up from the ground, and one has to hold on very tightly to prevent oneself from being tosse d over its head. The forty one camels then comme nced their slow climb up the hill. On the way we passed Mena House and several large

boarding houses. Cheops, th e largest Pyramid, is right on the top of the hill. B e hind this are three others, smaller in size; and t o the right, one with a flat top. We d esc e nded the far side of the hill, and approached th e Sphinx from the b a ck All around it are excavations made by our soldiers d uring the war, but these are fence d off, and n o on e is allowed down near th es e pares. W e left the Pyramids and again set off in cars to do the round of the city and bazaars Cairo is fascina tingbeautiful wide main streets and wonderful bui ldin gs, and then, of course, in the native parts, small, narrow, crooked streets. We passe d the King's P a lace, and saw the guard d r awn up, and la ter saw the King himself driving home from some public function Then we ente r ed th e baza•ars, and went through the curio shops, where we saw small boys of about twelve years old doing the most beautiful i nl aid mother-of-pearl work. We spent about one hour and a half in the bazaars, bargai ning and looking at everything, and wishing that we had plenty of money with which to buy the beautiful wares. We finally got back to the hot el a t 7.30 p.m. At dinner we were waited on by Egyptian waiters dressed i n long white robes with bright red belts, and wearing a red fez on the h-,ad and sandals on the feet. Their movements we re quick, but noiseless. We had three waiters at our table for five people, so were very well served. In the eveni ng we had hoped to go for a moonlight drive out to the Pyra mids, but there happened co be a total ecl ipse of the moon, so we contented o urselves by strolling through the main streets and visiting some of the large r shops. By 7 .15 a.m. next day we were again on our way. We climbed the ramparts of the old Citade l , and had a wonderful view of the city and the Pyramids, and also were able to see th e r e mains of an old Roman aqueduct in the dista nce Th e n we entered the courtyard, off w hich opens the famous alabaste r Mosque of Mohammed A li We h ad to put sandals on over our s ho es before we e nte red. The floor is covered wi th rich r ed Persian carpet. The ceiling consists of one very large dome surrounded by four smaller dom es, and th ese are supported by four hu ge alabaster co lu mns. Thes e dome s contain th e most b eauti ful coloured glass. From th e mosque we drove

through the n ative quarters, which are interesting, but n o t attractive, then on through a native cemetery to another mosque containing the tombs of the Mamelouks. We reached the Museum at 9 a.m., just as the doors were opening, and went straight to the section devoted to the relics from the tomb of Tutankhamen His mummy is still left in his tomb, but we saw the actual sarcophagus, made of solid gold, in which the body had lain , and also another in whic h the gold one had been This was made of wood covered with fine , beaten-out go ld. These two were finally laid in a third, but this we did not see. We saw l ovely alabaster statues and vases, and chairs mad e of solid gold , also two golden chariots, as well as many dazzling jewels. We had to rush away to the station, as the trai n left at 11 a.m. I t was a four-hour journey to Port Said, and it was a horribly dirty one, as the soot from the engine and the sand from the desert penetrated everything Every now and then the native conductor on the train came in , an d sent us all out into the cor ridor, while he dusted the seat s and the carriage with a huge feathe r duster. This, howeve r, did not improve matters, · as it only circu lated the dust. At the end of the journe y he came round with a clothes brus h and brushed us all. Our next interesting visit was to Malta. As we entered the harbour it looked like a dream city, as the grand old fortifications and the cliffs themselves are all one gray sand colou r It was not until the boat got nearer in that one could distinguish colour. Passengers were taken ashore for sixpence a head, in a daghisa, a quaint, brightly coloured rowing boat, with very high ends. Near the landing place we ente r ed a lift, which took u s up to the main street of Valetta for a penny each This town dates back to 1 566, a nd contains some fine histo ric buildings. The main street, Strada Reale, is wide and imposing, but most of t h em are narrow a nd crooked, and very, very steep, and consist chiefly of steps, which lead down to the harbour. We v i si ted the palace of the Governor, in which is a famous armoury which at one time contained sufficient equipment for 25,000 men; also the Council Chamber, or Tapestry Hall, which is now the Parliament Hall of the Governor of Malta. The walls of this large room are covered with most

beautiful tapestries. Next, we went into the Church of St. John , th e official place of worship of the Order of the Knights of St. John. The floor is covered by 400 memorial marble slabs, commemorating the distinguished members of the Order.

After l eaving Malta everyone began to be excited, as it is only five days' run from Malta to Southampton, which we reached about 10 p.m. on Sunday, I 2th Apr il. Imagi n e our impatience when we were n?t allowed to land until the next mornin g. Murie l Harcourt.

"MIDDIES."

Did you ever indulge in a midnight supper at School? "Middies" we called them affec tionately Th ey were never quite the blissful affairs one reads of in all the best school stories, were they? But chey had their charms. They ranged from the green quince acquired from the next-door garden, and passed around for bites after "Lights out," to the decorous affair at the end of third term, for which permission was granted, on co nd ition that it ended at nine o'clock. " Middy," forbye!

We had a r ea l "m iddy" once, though. We were found out beforehand, of course, by a lesser power-(Was ever a "midd y" not discovered? )-but to our amazement this time it was, " Oh, a ll right, if you don't wake me." So a sheet was spread for the tablecloth, windows hung with coats, candles stood in soap dishes, and we even purchased a n electric torch. It didn't work, but it was thought to give tone to the affair. Then we took turns at senrry duty till twelve o ' clock. No half measures fo-r u s!

Our greatest prob lem was the wee tin of bleater paste, which was broached with our o nly means of attack, an outsize in bread k nives. However, when at last the knife went in, by the law of displacement, the paste came out. Then followed the c r eam puffs and slices and ginger pop, and so on through the list of delicacies in vogue "up tuck." And finall y to bed, to waken very late and rather querulous, and to hide the c r acked glasses and the sheet, which rivalled Caesar' s toga in the number of gashes sustained in the onslaught on the bloater tin We had very bad headaches, which we could not understand, and we collected enough detentions for unprepared

work to last us a week. But it was ce rtainly worth it.

I was looking through some old sc h ool l e tters to-day. In one of them I read: "Maisie and l toasted some b r ead on the r ad iator i n Number Nine this after n oon. It was burned bl ack in squares where it touched t he wire, and we h adn't any but ter, but it was just scru mm y." And in a n ot her: "We had great fu n l ast night. W e saved pieces of butter at lunch, and bought some bun s, and the Spec ials toasted th e m for us at their fire Th ey p layed 'Callings' with them whi l e they were d oing it, but we didn ' t know t h at till after wards, so i t didn ' t matter They were the b est buns I've ever tasted."

Strange, was it not, how ou r minds ran to food of the nightmare-to-follow variety? And o h , the digesti ons of the very young!

-Ruth J ohns.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Old Colle g ians w ill be p leased to hear that Mrs. J. W. Grove is back at the College, fee li ng much better a fte r her long h o l iday i n 'T asmania.

Ruth Flockart 1s making splendid progress -wi th the School Song Book. She has recei ved man y contributio n s of verse from present girls, and a few from Old Collegian s. There must be many more Old Coll egians who could send in verses, a nd so h e lp t o make o u r Old Collegians' Section worthy of the C lub

We are pleased to announce that Mrs. P eterson, who underwent a severe operation early in October, is n ow convalescing, and we hope to welcome h er back a t the Club Rooms very soon.

\XI e con g ratulate the enterprising Old Collegian s who have established a branch of t h e Club in Sydney, a nd wis h them every success with th e ir ven tu r e.

NEWS OF OLD COLLEGIANS.

Mrs. B e rt With ingto n (Elinor King) has been spend ing a few months in Sydney with h er daughter, Fay (Mrs. Weil), who now l ives at 23 Rag lan Street, Mosman. She also spent a h appy week-end with Mrs. Leckie (Bessie Williams) at Lindfield, whe r e she a lso met Phyllis Waitr and Mrs. Upton (Ret>e Dodgshu n)

Els ie Ridge recencly spe nt a month in Sydney with h e r brother.

Bessie P ear se Smith completed her train ing at P rince Alfred H ospital , Syd ney, an d is now doing a cou r se at St. George's, K ew.

Nona Turton was married rece ncly to Mr. Stephen Nairn, Master of Economics of Dartm outh College, U S.A While her husband is studying at L ondon U niversity, Nona has made her h ome at 41 Denning R oad, London, N W.3, a n d she wou ld be d e lighted to h ear fro m other old gir ls r es iding in London.

Pearl McNei l Grose, , who h as bee n ill for fourteen m ont h s, is now convalescing with Bell Merrylees at Groongal Station, N .S.W. She also spent some months with Mamie Coldwell, B e rrigan , N S.W May Innocent is doing private nursing a t St. Arn aud, wh e r e she has met m a n y Old Colleg ians She r ecencly nursed a jun ior member of the Club, Corrie Postle thwaite, throug h a seve r e i lln ess.

Florence Swa nton has a nice home atS t. Arnaud, and is a very busy perso n. She is interested in Brownies, Girl Guides, a nd V.A.D., a n d is a leading voice in th e ch urch choir, of which Kat h. Gri gg is organist.

M r s. Pickwell ( Ruth Salte r), of Kavieng, New Gu inea, h ad the pleasure rece ntly of me eting Mrs. F e derick (Dorothy Cla rke) at Rabau l, a nd later talked " school" with Mrs. P ede ri ck's sisters (Mildred and Grace) o n board the "Macdhui, " whi le they were spendi n g a holiday with t h e ir sister. Mrs. Pickw e ll wishes to notify her friends that h e r address is Kavieng, New Guinea, and not Salama, P apua, as publi shed i n the l ast issue of " The O l d Col legian."

Mrs. McKay (Be lle W eir), who is a g ifted musician , was rece ntl y appointed organ ist of Sale Cathedral.

Ger tie Day stayed in Sydney with Mrs. Bign e ll (Nellie Ellis) on her w ay home from Fiji, where s h e spent a deligh t ful holiday with M r s. Turne r (Eva Mitchell ).

Marjorie Ellis also spent a holid ay with Mrs. Bignell re ce ntl y , whi l e Vera Bre haut a nd A lice Towler spent some weeks 1n Sydney w i th Phyllis Wain.

Dr. Beatrice Sh arwoo d came over from Canberra in October, a nd spent some weeks w i th friends in Melbourne

Una Harrison has take n up nursing at the Children' s Hospital.

Freda Pizzey is to be marri ed on 19th Decembe r to Mr John Bond, and will leave early in the n ew yea r for England, where she will make her home at Birmingham Her sister, Olive, will ace as bridesmaid.

Annie Flockart is spending a holiday with her brother at Merriden, W A

We congratulate members of the Lowana Quartette (Mavis Lancaster, Phyllis Osborne, Agnes Bliss and Blanche Wood) on their success ful broadcasting from 3LO and 3AR.

Nell Taylor, who has been understudying parts in the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Co., rece ntly had the good fortune to get a leading pare in Sydney, and r ece ived excellent notices in the press.

Dorothy Scholes is now doing a course at the Tweddle H osp ital, Footscray

Dorothy Reseigh, with the assistance of Hazel Lee at the piano, and Dorothy Mattingley at the ' cello, produced a small operetta for the recent special festiva l of the Y.W.C.A. The r esult refl ected great credit on the producers.

Ei leen Fisher, M Sc., who left by the "Chitral" in August to t ake a post-graduate course at Cambridge, h a d a delightful trip ac r oss, and enjoyed particularly the voyage through the M e diterranean Her present address is c / o Mrs. Dickerson, 63 Ettisley Avenue, Newnham , Cambridge.

Dora McCallum and Mrs Lockwood (H E. Booth) are expected back in M 'e lbourne early in January, after nine months ' trip abroad

Mary Wilson and Keenie Harbison are returning to Melbourne, via the Panama Canal, after an exte n sive tour of Great Britajn and the Con tinent. They will reach Melbourne in J anuary.

It is with regret chat we announce the death of Leigh (Birdie) Hart, of Launceston, in July, after a long and trying illness.

Katie Bird also died in July, and Emily Fletcher spent much time with her during her illness.

Th e sympathy of the Old Collegians' Club is extended to Berenice Luff, who lost her m other; to Ruth and Evelyn Hoban, whose father, Rev. S. J. Hoban , died recently ; to Ethel Brownell, who lost her mother ; to Mrs.

G. Vasey, whose brother, Mr. 0. B. McCut~heon, died in October; to Mrs. Tolliday, of Watchem, on the death of her mother; to Lilian, Kathleen and Flossie Scholes, whose father , Rev S Scholes, died recently ; to Muri e l Withers, of the Korea Presbyterian Mis sion, whose mother died in June; to Mrs. Richardson (Katherine Kilpatrick), whose daughter, Ira, a junior member of the Club, died recently.

Through the co urt esy of Olive Dodd, it ha:. been possible to publish in this issue an inter esting lette r written by Keenie Harbison The Editor also desires to thank the following for articles and news items:-Mrs. Alan Vasey, Misses D. Blewe tt , M Harcourt, R Johns, R. Heath , Mrs. Crajg, Mrs. L eckie, Mrs. Fisher, Mrs Leslie, M isses B a rker, D Cerutty, Q Howell, R . Flockart.

ENGAGEMENTS.

Florence Edwards, of Charlton, is engaged to Mr. C. F W. Oakleigh, of Greensborough

Ruth Rudduck has announced her engagement to the Rev. Reg. Philp.

Grace Huggins is e ngaged to Mr. Colin Gaylard

The engagement of Grace Ricketts, of Brisbane, to Mr. .E . R. Behre, B .Sc. (A.P.P.), of Mackay, Q., is announced.

Mavis Richmond is engaged to Mr. Gordon Milnes .

The announcement of Dr. Beatrice Sbarwood's engagement to Dr. John Ackland Holt, of Sydney, was mad e in October

Ann ella Stewart is engaged to Mr. George Burns Woods, of Park Street, Brunswick.

Gwynneth Walduck is engaged to Mr. Richard P escot t , of Malve rn

Marjorie Baird a nnounced her engagement' to Mr John Mustow, of Elsternwick, recently

Eila Heinz is engaged to Dr. Henry D Phipps, of Wiluna, W.A

Laura Fountain is engaged to Mr John Ross

BIRTHS.

braced at Bafiac1ava Methodist Church on Mrs Frank Schlesinger (E lsie Stewart) -a Saturday, I 8th Jul y. Her sister, Blanche, acted daughter. as bridesmaid.

Mrs. Linton Parke r (Nett ie Davidson) -a dau ghter.

Mrs L. Barkla (Jean Hall} -a son.

M r s Jack Williams (Dorothy Holding) -a d aughter.

Mrs Alfred Little ( D orothy McCutcheon) -a son.

Mrs. V. E. Wait (R ae Pardy) -a son.

Mrs P ederick, of Rabau l ,<Dorothy Clarke) -a son.

Mrs. F. L. Nance-a son.

Mrs. H. C. McCallum (Barbara Dufty)-a son.

Mrs. R. Vroland (Phyllis Smith) -a daughter.

Mrs. Wiel (Fay Withington) -a son.

Mrs. Keith Muirden (Betty Uren)-a son.

Mrs. H. Trompf ( H ele ne Krome)-a son.

MARRIAGES.

E ll e n McNichol, of Deniliquin (formerly of Moonee Ponds), w;,s married to Mr Kenneth V Greene, of Oaklands, N S.W., at St. J ohn's Church, East Melbourne, on 24th J une.

Effie Clarke was married to Mr. Archibald R. Andrew a t Deepdene Presbyterian Church on 23rd May Her sister (Belle), Rina Qualye and Jean McDonal d acted as bridesmaids.

Les ley Baker was married to Mr. David T. H Fenton, of Lantana, Hamilton, on 2 1st May, a t St. John's, Toorak.

Th e marriage of Violet Wood and Mr. Robert J. Elliott, of P e rth, W.A., was cele-

D oroth y Sykes was married to Mr. Gordon \1(/'illiams at th e parish church of Workington , Cumberland , England, on 20th April, and h as set tl ed at Henley

The m a rri age of G lad ys Weber and Mr. Trevor Rice was ce lebrated at the Methodist Church, Surrey Hills, on 1st August

Th elm a Chamberlain was married on 8th August to Mr. E. Duthoit at her hom e at Gowanford. Her sis t er (Reta) and Gladys English acted as bridesmaids

Ha zel Davies was married to Mr. R. S. Punnett, of Cootamundra, N .S.W. , on 8th April.

Nell D eel ey was m arried on 27th August to Mr. Holbert Greening, of Donald.

G. Rice , of Caulfield, was married to Mr. H. Brearley in November l ast.

Edna Vagg was married recently to Mr. Colin Campbell.

Ruth Thompson was m arried to Mr. A. K. T. Sambell at the P r esbyterian Church, Cowes, on 23rd May. Her sis t er (Molly) and Nancy Davie acted as bridesmaids.

Mollie Hillebrand was married in O ctober to Mr. B'ru ce L. Walker.

Dora L ewis was married to Mr. Norman R. Hall at St. John' s Church of England, Ivanhoe, on I 9th September. Alice Pearson acted as her bridesmaid.

J ean Gault left Melbourne by the "Otranto " on 20th Octobe r for Burma. She was married a t Rangoon on Saturday, 14th November , to Mr. John Chapman Kidd , of Namtu, Northern Shan States, Burma (formerly of Windsor, Melbourne).

Old Collegians

HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS.

Dodd, Miss Olive, 453 High Sc , Glen Iris.

Fitchett, Miss A. M., Bruni Island, Tas.

Fitchett, Mrs. W. H., corner Glenferrie Rd and Fitzwilliam St., Kew.

Grove, Mrs. J W., M L.C.

Hunt, Miss M., M.L.C.

Pound, Miss Dorothy, 1 Moore St., Hawthorn. Walton, Miss R ., 4 Carlyle St., Hawthorn.

LIFE MEMBERS.

Barbour, Miss Gertrude, Hazel St., Camberwell.

Beckett, Miss Nettie, 39 Harcourt St., Auburn.

Bingemann, Miss Phyllis, Hilda Cres., Hawthorn.

Booth, Miss F. M. , Coonil Cres ., Malvern.

Bolle , Mrs. (G. Hutchings), 89 Alma Rd., E. St. Kilda.

Bond , Mrs. (H . Simmonds), Collinsvale, Hobart.

Cato, Miss Una , Tooronga Rd., Auburn.

Chadderton, Miss Nell, 1 Alleyne Av., Malvern.

C l ark, Mrs. H . J. (Mable Laycock), Kambla Rd., Edgecliff, Sydney.

Dawes, Mrs. T. P. (Margaret Guthridge).

D avidso n, Miss Jean, 49 Sydney Rd ., Brunswick.

Ditchburn, Miss Connie, 37 Hawthorn Gr., Hawthorn.

Dixon, Miss G ., 40 Havelock Rd., E . Hawthorn.

Dugdale, l\.1iss Elsie, "Clifton Vale," Myrniong.

Elliott, Mrs. R. J . (Violet Wood), 5 Beach Road, Elwood.

Evans, Miss Ivy, Alfred St ., Kew.

Fithie, Miss Ida, Spring Vale Rd. , Box Hill.

Flockart, Miss Ann., Central Av., Burwood.

Flockart, Miss Ruth , Central Av., Burwood.

Grieves, Mrs C. (Bessie Royan), Wedderburn Rd , Korong Vale

Hall, Mrs. C. (E. Booth), Coon il Cres., Malvern

Haslam, Mrs. (Hesse Graham), "Mooyna," Mortlake.

Hughes, Miss Florrie, 1 Staniland Gr., Elsternwick

Ingham, Miss Evelyn, Beresford St., Mont Albert. .

Lane, Dr Mary, 5 Rosslyn St , H awthorn Laycock, Miss A , " Cottingley," The Crescent, Sassafras Lockwood, Mrs. T. (H. Booth). 15 Myamyn St ., Malvern.

Lupton, Mrs. (Gladys Gunn), 2 "Hollywood," St. Kilda Rd ., City.

Marshman, Miss Dorothy, Prospect, Lah Mealy, Miss Irene, 16 Studley Rd ., Ivanhoe Mealy, Miss Pearl, 16 Studley Rd., Ivanhoe.

Morgan, Miss Eileen, 65 Broadway, East Camberwell.

Nairn, Mrs. S. (Nona Turton), 41 Denning Rd., London , N.W.3.

O sler, Miss Violet, " Myrtle Dell," Coast Rd., Mirboo North.

Pizzey, Miss Freda, Outlook Drive, Heidelberg

Pizzey, Miss Olive, Outlook Drive, Heidelberg. Pope, Miss Eliza, Donald Pope, Miss Iv y , Donald.

Pope, Miss Rhoda, 90 Howard St., Nth Melb. Punnett, Mrs R S (Hazel Davies), Brawlin, via Cootamundra, N.S.W

Purvis, Mrs. J. (Ella Pizzey), W e llesley Rd., Hawthorn

Reynolds, Mrs D. B. , White Horse Rd., Surrey Hills.

Redmond, Mrs. H. N. ( Hilda Ball), St Aidan 's Rectory, Payneham, Adelaide.

Richardson , Miss Glyn ette, " Quong Dong," Burke Rd., East Malvern.

R idge, Miss Elsie, 52 Frankland St., Launceston Rowe, Miss Grace, 69 Buckley St., Essendon.

Sambell, Mrs. A. K (Ruth Thompson), Cowes, Phillip Isla nd.

Sleet, Mrs., Rainbow Smith, Miss Lucy, " Clarendon," Illawarra Rd., Hawthorn.

Sollas, Miss V era, " Hillwood," Heyington Place, Toorak

Sprague, Miss Peggy, 39 Thanet St., Malvern Stahel, Mrs P J. (R. Wilson), Smithton, N S W.

Stephens, Mrs L. V. ( Dora Cato), Russell St. , Malvern.

Taylour, Mrs C. E. (Pat. McBride) , Kingoonya, S .A.

Thoe, Mrs K ( Dorothy Stocks), W ahi•awa Heights, Wahiawa, 6A H.U., T of Hawaii

Trahair, Miss Nancy, 61 Moreland Rd., West Brunswick.

V asey, Mrs G., 27 Brougham Place, E. K ew. Whykes, Mrs W E., corner Condon and Sternberg Sts., Bend igo.

Wilkinson, Mrs. S. ( Ruth Laycock), 4 Grant Avenu e, Toorak.

Williams, Mrs. J. ( E Laycock), 13 Lorne Grove, Cambe rwell.

Wood, Miss Blan ch e, 3 Gl e n Eira Rd., St. Kilda .

Woolcock, Miss V iole t. 31 Walpole St., Kew.

\Vood, Mrs. F . H . , Stanley St., Elsternwick.

W Phh , Mrs L. (Susie Kohler), 15 South Rd., Brig hton Beach.

MEMBERS FINANCIAL AT 31st AUGUST, 1931.

Austin, Mrs. (Irvine Minto).

Asbiett, Miss May, 367 Toorak Rd., Burwood.

Ackman, Mrs., " Ormiston," Mc. Eliza

Adams, Miss Doreen, Cobram.

Adamson, Mrs T. C. (L. Hoadley), E., S. & A. Bank Ltd., Box Hill.

Allen, Miss Marjorie, " Allen Lea," Yarra Glen Allen, Miss Mavis, 40 Glyndon Rd ., Camber well.

Alley, Mrs. N. (Joan Western), 13 Chesterfield Rd. , Kooyong.

Anderson, Mrs. ]. R . (Mary McComas), 23 Como St., South Y a rra.

Anderson , Mrs. V. G. (E. Butchers), 31 Vic toria Avenue, Canterbury.

Andrew, M r s. G F. (Effie Clarke), 8 Middle Rd ., South Y arra.

Andrews, Miss J ea n, Barkly St., Sale.

Andrews, Miss Lorna, .Stanley Rd ., Dandenong.

Ashworth, Miss Nance, 433 Glenferrie Rd., H aw thorn.

Ashworth, Miss Phyllis, 433 Glenfcrrie Rd ., H awt horn.

Attre e, Miss Egla h, "The Pin es," Nariel.

Bailey, Mrs. E. T. (A. Wells), 5 Dunraven Avenue, Toorak.

Ba illie, Miss Edna, 185 Bala clava Rd., Cau l fi e ld .

Baird, Miss Marjorie , Brunel St., E. M a lv ern.

Ball, Miss Daisy, 207 Burke Rd. , Canterbury.

Barker, Miss Edith, 8 Torrington Place, Cant e rbury

Barker, Miss Joy, Houston St. , Donald.

B a rrie, Mi ss The lma, 20 Creswick St. , G len I ris

Barnett, Miss Betty, Cherry Rd ., Balwyn Beardsley, Miss Elsie, 272 High Sc., Malvern.

B eaty , Miss Bessie, "Pinewood," Toolern Vale

B ec k , Miss Phyllis, 104 Dendy St., Brighton.

Beckett, Miss Brig htie, The Parsonage, Castle maine

Beckett, Miss Minnie, The Parsonage, Castlemaine.

Beckma n , Miss L eila, 4 Looker St., Murrum bee n a.

B ee, Miss Ena, 45 Toorak Rd., Sch. Camber . well.

B eighto n , Mrs. C., 365 Cotham Rd. , E. Kew.

~e li, Mrs. E. A. (Fanny Smith), 54 Baroda St., Ascot Vale.

B e ll , Mi ss Annie, 10 Sandringham Rd., Sand · ringham.

B e ll , Mrs. James, 7 Malvern Rd ., T oor ak.

Blanchard, Mrs. L. H . (F. Tucke r), Mountai n Grove, Kew.

Blennerhassett, Miss Avice, The Grove, South Camberwell.

Bolger, Miss Irene, 194 Elgin St., Carlton.

Bamford, Miss Kathleen, Orbost.

Bond, Miss Elsie, 165 Mt. Alexander Rd , Flemington.

Bond , Mi ss Nancy, 50 St. Geo r ge's Rd ., Elsternwick.

Bourne, l\,1i ss Vera, 32 Allambee Avenue, East Camberwell.

Bowe r , Miss Beryl , 430 Hawthorn Rd., C a ulfi e ld.

Bowley, Mi ss Eunice, Creswick. Boyd, Miss J ean, 434 Toorak Rd ., Buxwood.

Bradly, Miss Iri s, 57 Mitford Sc., Sc. Kilda. Brand, Miss M., Mt. Pleasa nt Rd., G ee long. Brand, Miss Shirley, Mt . Pleasant Rd ., Geelong Bre h aut, Miss V e ra, 30 1 Barker's Rd ., Kew. Brett, Miss P a uline, " Glen Iris ," Mt. Bute Bright, Mrs . (M. Carwardine) , 16 Bailey Cres., Ripp o nlea . Brown, Miss Hild a, 1 2 Were St., Brighton Beac h

Brown, Miss N ettie, c/o A J Lucas, c/o Mailm a n, Rocheste r. 8rown, Miss Jean, 493 North Rd., Ormond. Brown, Miss Marjorie, I 2 Sidwell Av., Easr St. Kilda

Brien, Miss Murie l, 32 Glenfer rie Rd., K ew. Barker, Mrs. (Queenie Bizley ), Wellington Rd ., Mul g rave.

Brown, ~rs. , ~pring (Haidee Levy), "The Moorin gs, Vaucluse, Sydney. Brunier, Miss May, 13 Hanby St., Middle Brighton. Bryant, Miss Kitty, 62 Blair St , Moreland Buckle, Miss Katie, I 73 Smith St., Fitzr oy B u ick, M r s J , "Ravenswood," Lorne Bull, Mi ss Dulci e, "Gal a Vale," J eri lderie, N .S.W . Bull, Miss Edith, "Gala Vale," Jerilderie, N.S.W . Bull , Miss Marjorie, 5 Rae St., Auburn. Burke, Miss N , 3 I Prospect Hill Rd., Camberwell.

Burton, Miss R . , Rogers Avenue, Haberfield, Sydney Butcher, Miss Len a, 90 Howard St., North Melbourn e. Calder, Mrs. Stuart (K. W a rd), Goodall Sc., Auburn.

Carnegie, Miss , 29 Torringto n St., Canterbury. C a ldwell, Mrs. D. J. (M. Holmes), 23 Brixton Ri se, Gl en Iris.

Campbe ll, Mi ss Nance, I 9 Burke Rd., E. Kew. Carter, Miss Mavis L. , uMoyston," Hopetoun. Carter, Miss M av is, 188 Hawthorn Rd ., Caulfield.

Carrick, Miss Mabel, 15 Manga rra Rd., Canterbury.

C a rter , Mrs. E. ( D oris Bowring), I 80 Barker's Rd. , Hawthorn.

C erutty, Miss Dorothea, The Vi carage, Croydon Cerutty, Miss J ean, 52 Shoobra Rd. , Elsternwick

Charrett, Mi ss Phyllis, 16 Wilson St., East Malvern.

Cha rles, Mi ss Nelli e, I 74 Camberwell Rd., Cam berwell.

Chinn , Mi ss Doris, ''Avondale," Clydebank. Christensen, Miss Ellen, 25 Broughton Rd., Surrey Hi lls.

Christopher, Miss Beryl, Harp Rd ., E. Kew.

C larke, Miss Ph yllis, 48 Rosemont Avenue, Caulfield.

Clarke, Miss Mildred, 270 Dandenong Rd ., Caulfield.

C larke, Miss Grace , 270 Dandenong Rd , Caulfield.

C larke, Miss Joyce , 14 Dandenong Rd ., Caulfield North

C li fford, Miss Dolly, " Springbro ok," Ko l ora

Co ldwell, Miss M., "Glen Mordant," Berrigan, N S.W.

Collocott, Mrs A. B. (Rita Kendall), Victoria Avenue, Canterbury.

Comport, Miss Lucy, 202 White Horse Rd., Ba lwyn.

Cooper, Miss Dorothy, "Redbank," P t. N e pean Road, Aspenda le.

Cornell, Miss .Katie, 3 1 Sandringham Rd ., Sandringham.

Corran, Miss Elaine, 15 Marshall Avenue, Kew

Cor r , Miss Audrey, 1 Wiseman St., H awthorn

Cove, Miss Ellice, Westley St., Oakleigh

Cox, Miss Muriel, 232 B a rke r 's Rd , Hawthorn.

Cran we ll , Miss Marion, 257 M o r e land Rd ., Coburg.

Craig, Mrs. (Ethe lwyn Fletcher), 43 Emi ly St., Murrumbeen a.

Crofts, Miss Amy, 18 Stir lin g St., Kew.

C rouch , Miss E., 2 Od essa St. , Kew.

Crc ll, Miss N e ll ie, 4 Derby St., Camberwell.

Cross, Miss Eunice, 4 Fairholm Grove, Camberw e l l.

Dalton, Miss Youth a, 32 Kent St., Kew.

Dan..ce, Miss Joan , 26 Macartney Av'~ue, East Kew.

Davies, Miss Phyllis, 50 M a lmsbury St., Kew.

Davis, Miss Ellie, "Pin eview," Ringwo od, N .S .W.

Davis, Miss Gladys, " W oodle igh," Ringwood, N.S.W.

Dav is, Miss May, " Pinev iew," Ringwood, N.S.W

Dawes, Mrs (E. McCutcheon) , Hopetoun Grove, I van h oe

Day, Miss Elva, 546 Barker's Rd ., Upper Hawthorn.

Day, Miss Florrie , 42 Walpole St., Kew.

Day, Miss Edna L. , "Gl en Echo," White Horse Rd ., Blac kburn

Derrick, Miss E K., 13 Kasouka Rd., E ast Camberwell.

Dodd, Miss Jean, Ne lson St., Nhi ll.

Dredge, Miss Grace, 100 Ch urch St., H awth orn

Druce, M r s., 19 T a lbot Cres., Kooyong. Dunstan, Mrs. I an ( Enid Williamson), St Arnaud.

Dwight , Miss Myra, J ellicoe St ., Cheltenham. Edwards, Miss Lawrence , C lifton St., Charlton.

Efron, Miss J ean, 223 Amess St , N. Carlton.

Eggleston, Mrs. (Gl adys Gault), " Hig h gate," Burke R oad , Deepdene.

Elliott, Miss Mona, Trained Nurses' C l ub, Lonsdale St., City.

Elliott, Mrs. C. S ., 7 Mernda A venue, Glen Huntl y. E ll iott, Miss Norma, 5 T o ure llo Avenue, U pper Hawthorn. Ell wood , Mrs., "Wywurri," Stockinbingal. Ellwood, Miss Anne, "Wywurri ," Stockinbingal Ellwood, Miss Eunice, " Wywurri, " Stockinbingal.

English, Miss Winnie, "Me r a n Downs," K e rang E n g l is h , Miss G. V., "Mer a,:, Downs," K e rang Ezard, Miss N a n ce, P a rk Rd ., Warburton.

Fargher, Mrs. H (Law re nce ), 13 Chatham Rd., Canterbury.

Feltham, Mrs. ( Syl via Box ), Sheppa rton F e n ton , Mrs. L. (Lesley Bake r) , "Euradon," Hamilton Ferguson, Reita, 1 25 Racecourse Rd ., Flemington F i ndl ay, Miss J oyce, Dilkusha, N ausori, Fiji.

Fisher, Miss Effie, "Laurest o n ," Y a r peet.

Fitchett, Mrs. W. H , 74 Orrong Rd , Elsternwick.

Flockart, M iss Myra, 29 F aversham Rd., Canterbury.

Foard, Miss Dulcie, 18 Kingston Rd. , Surrey H ills.

Ford, Miss Marjorie, 1 76 Brunswick Rd ., West Brunswick.

Forsyth, Miss Kathleen, 6 Hepburn Sr., Auburn.

Forsyth, Miss Doreen, 6 Hepburn St., Auburn.

Forsyth, Miss Peggy, 6 H epburn St. , Auburn Fountain, M iss Laura, 18 E r ica Aven ue, East Malvern.

F owler, Miss Adele, H arp of Erin Hote l , East Kew.

Fraze r , Miss Bonnie, 1 5 B a m b ra Rd ., Caulfield Frankcom, Miss R e n e, Essex Rd ., Burwood.

Fra nklin, Miss Marjorie, Boondara Grove, East St. Kilda.

Frazer, Miss Alison , 117 T oo r ak Rd., Hawth o rn

Fraser, Miss Jean, 1 2 Waratah Av en u e, Glen Huntly.

Fricker, Miss J essie, 99 Trevallyan St., Caulfie ld.

Frith, Miss Edna, Dougl as St., East Malvern.

Fr y, Miss Mar ie, c / o 380 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

Furneaux, Miss Phyllis, 19 J ames St., Gle n Huntly

G ardner, Miss Ida , 4 Moore St., Hawthorn. Gartley, M iss J ea n , 41 Toorak Rd , Kooyong.

Gaul t , Miss Madge, T ooron ga Rd. , A uburn.

Gawith, Miss Wynne , J epa r it.

Gawith, Miss Vera, J eparit

Glass, Miss Ethel, "D umbla ine," Gle nfe rrie Rd., Glenferrie.

Goode, Mi ss L ola, 29 Westga rth St., East Malvern.

Gray, Miss Enid J ., 54 St. George'~ Rd. , Elsrernwick.

Griffiths, Mrs. L., 686 Rathdown St., Nortb Ca rlton.

Griffiths, Miss Lena, 65 Weller St , West B r uns • wick.

Grigg, Miss Mav is, Tongala. Grose, Mi ss Pearl, 2 H awthorn Grove, H awthorn.

Grove , Miss Molly, M.L.C.

Hales, Mrs. R. L. (Grac e Wait), 119 Wattle Tree Rd. , Mal vern.

Harbison, Miss K ., 14 P ine Grove, Malvern H anna, Mrs. R. , 16 Windsor Cres., Surrey Hills.

Harcourt, Mi ss Wy nne, 72 Garden Vale Rd., Garden Vale Harcourt, Miss Dora, 24 Edgerton Rd ., Armad ale.

H a r cou rt, Miss Elsie, 24 Edgerton Rd ., Armadale.

H a rr ison, Miss Phyllis , 126 High St., Glen Iris. Harrison, Miss V e n ee, 126 High Sr., Glen Iris.

H a rrison, Miss Una, 1 26 High St., Glen Iris Hattam, Miss Gwen, Prospect Hill Rd., Camberwell.

H a yler, Miss R en e, Torrington Place, Canterbury Hayler, Miss Eva, Torrington Place, Canterbury.

H e ale, Mrs. A. L., Chaucer Cres., Canterbury. Heath , Mrs. E. V. (Elsie Fitchett) , 4 Angle Rd. , Ba lwyn.

H eath, Mrs A. L., 58 Wheatland Rd., Mah,e rn Henderson, Miss Marion, 101 Princess St., Kew.

H eyward, Miss Dorothy, 256 Wattle Tree Rd ., Malve rn

Heyward, Miss Jean, 256 Wattle Tree Rd., Malvern.

Hick, Miss Nancy, 22 Lyons St , Williamstown. Hick, Miss Betty, 22 Lyons St., Williamstown. Hill, Mi ss Valerie, 4 Tantra n Ave nu e , St Kilda Hinchliffe, Miss Marjorie, 3 5 Wellington St., K ew.

Holding, Miss Lei la, 14 Bonview Rd ., Malvern.

Holden, Miss Marjorie, 73 Walpole St., Kew. Holme s, Miss Edna, 26 Narong Rd ., Caulfield. Hopkin s, fl.1iss R., "Wywurri," Willaura. Horne, Jvliss L orna, 29 Rowell Avenue, Camb e rwell.

H otchkiss, Mrs. A. E., 445 Royal Parade, P a rkville.

Howard , Miss Eunice, "Flax Val e," Balldale. Howarth, M iss Marjorie, 5 N e therlee St., East Malvern.

Howell, Miss Queenie, 13 Wakefi e ld St. , Glenf e rrie.

How ell s, Miss Mavis, 49 Lisson Gro ve, Hawthorn.

Hoyle, Miss Dulcie, 632 Inkerman Rd., Caulfi e ld.

Hume, Mrs. Rochfort A. (Ethe l Charley), 185 Hawthorn Rd., Caulfield.

Hump hrey, Miss G., 10 Edward St. , Kew.

Humphries, Miss Marjorie, 3 Leura St., Surre y Hills.

Hubbard, Mrs. J ., 1 S eymour Grove, Bri ghton Beach.

Huggins , Mi ss Grace, N e w Sr., Middle Brighton .

H yland , Miss Que e nie, Leongatha.

Illingworth, Miss Joa n, 7 Karra katta St , Black Rock

Indi an, Miss Mollie, 347 Boundary Rd. , Burwood.

Innoce nt, Miss M. , Montazah Private Ho spit a l, St Arna ud

Jack, Mrs. W. A., Normanby Sr , M1ddle Brighton

J acobs, Mrs Douglas, 9 Ranfurlie Cres., Glen Iris.

Jefferson , Miss Doris, 457 Kooyong Rd., Els ternwick.

J ones, Mrs. W. G (Kitty Glenn), Bruce St , Young, N.S.W.

Jones , Miss Gwen. , 56 Broa dway, Cambe rwe ll East.

Johns , Miss Ruth , 3 Agnes St., Mont Albert. Johnston, Miss Grace, "Laud e rdale," Currawarna, N S W.

J ones, Mrs. R. (Elaine Zelman), 28 First St., Kew . ·

Kelly, Mrs John (W. Lyall), Macquarie Rd., T oorak.

Kelly, Miss Kathleen, 25 Toward St , Murrum• beena.

Kennan, Dr. Winifred, " Y awong," White Horse Rd ., D eep dene.

Kennedy, Miss Francis, "The Bungalow," Di a pur

Kerr, Miss Dorothy, 3 Curra jong Avenue, Cam berwell.

Kershaw , Mrs. (Francis Thompson) , 1 Kinnoul A venue, Caulfield.

Kilvington, Mrs. (Lucy \Vatsford), 14 Coppins Grove, H aw thorn.

Kincaid , Dr. Hilda, 11 Bolton Avenue, Hampton.

King, Miss Kathlee n , 3 H awthorn Grove, Hawthorn.

Kingham , Miss Nola, 3 Vauxha ll Rd , Canterbury.

Kingston , Miss Evelyn, 69 Mundy St., B e ndig o.

Knights , Miss Amy, 72 Crisp St. , Hampton.

Kimb e r, Miss Marna, 61 Horace St., Malvern.

Knowl es, Miss Jean , Mu gga Way, Red Hill, Canberra, F.C.T.

Krome, Miss L aw r ence, 906 Malvern Rd., Armadale.

Krome, Miss Victoria, 906 Malve rn Rd ., Armadale

Kottman , Miss Hilda, 54 Brimley Rd., East Camberwell.

Kumm, Mrs. F G ( G e rtrud e Oato}, 17 Glyndebourne Avenue , Toorak.

Lancaste r, Mrs. A. J ., co rner L ancaster Cres. and Waterdale Rd., Ivanhoe:

Lancaster, Miss Lorna, 141 Wattle Valley Rd., Middle Camberwell.

Landen, Mrs. (Ethel Robbins), 28 Cochrane Avenue, Camberwell.

Landy, Mrs. (Elva Ashton} , 38 Kerferd Rd., Glen Iris.

Larmour, Miss M., " Longview," Buckrabanyule, Vic.

Lawson, Miss R ea, 74 Bowen Cres., Prince' s Hill.

Launder, Miss Bessie, Ballarat Rd. , Footscray

Lean, Miss Marjorie, 80 Clyde St., St. Kilda.

L eckie, Mrs H. (Bessie Williams), 20 Kenilworth Rd., Lindfie ld, N.S.W.

Lee, Miss Nancy , Clendon Rd. , T oorak.

Lenne, Miss Olga, "Sans Souci," Ardmona.

Leslie, Mrs. P. R. (M. Rowe), 6 Woolley St., Essendon.

Levey, Mrs. G. (Stella Lang ley), Denison St., H a milton, Newca s tle, N.S.W.

Lewellin, Miss Eva, 87 Truganini Rd., Carn egie

Lewis, Miss Gladys , 3 Loch St., Coburg.

Lowen, Miss Bessie, Main St., Blackburn.

Luff, Miss Berenice, 12 Avoca St., Sth. Y arra.

Lugg, Miss Vida, 24 Wynnstay Rd , Armad:3le.

Luke, Miss Edith, 390 Station St., Box H,11.

McKenzie, Miss Jean, 2 4 Dorcas St., Sth. Melbourne.

Mann, Miss Dorothy , 304 T ooronga Rd., East Malvern

Marshall, Miss Winnie, 48 Harp Rd ., E. Kew.

Martin, Miss Fl orence, " Victoria Downs" Sta tion, Katherine, via D arwin.

Marriott, Miss Jean, 7 Fuller Avenue, Glen Iris.

Matthews, Miss Beryl, 616 Inkerman Rd , Caulfield.

Maynard, Miss Joyce, 19 Byron St., Moonee Ponds.

Meadows, Mrs H (Alice Leith}, 35 I Wattle Tree Rd ., East Ma lvern.

Miers, Miss Gwen, 19 Ton gue St , Seddon.

Miller, Miss Lucy, " Lismo re ," Nathalia

Miles, Miss Jean, 38 Montclair Avenue, North Brighton

Mitchell, Miss Hazel, 398 Wattle Tree Road, East Malvern.

Mountjoy, Miss W ., 4 Glen St., Essendon.

Muir, Miss Ruth , T a lly Ho

Mussen, Miss Eileen, 173 Prospect Hill Rd., Canterbury.

McBean, Miss Mavis, 5 Denmark St., Kew.

McCahon, Miss Phyllis, 19 Hemmin g St , Dandenong.

McCracken, Miss K ., 350 Ri versdale Rd ., East Malvern.

McCallum, Mrs. A., Stanhope St , East Malvern.

McCallum, Miss Dora, Stanhope St., East Malvern.

McCallum, Miss Joyce, Stanhope St , East Malvern

McCallum, Miss Mary, Sta nhope St., East Malvern.

McCutcheon , Mrs. A. (Doris Gault) , 88 Rathdown St., Carlton.

McDonald, Miss Jean, 11 L och St., Camberwell.

McDonald , Miss F lo., 40 Alexandra St., St. Kilda.

Mclnnes, Miss Kathleen, "Harwood," Lake Bolac.

Mclnnes, r--Tiss Jean, "Harwood," L a ke Bolac Mclnnes, Miss J essie, Anglican Mission, Wani• ge l a, via Samaria, Papua . McKay, Miss Irene, J J 7 Riversdale Rd. , Hawthorn.

McKay, Mrs. (Be ll Weir), The Rectory, Sale McKay, Miss Millie, 20 Narrawong Rd., Caul field

McKenzie, Miss Jean , 28 Bourne St., Glen Iris McLennan, Marion, 13 Osborne Avenue, Glen Iris

McMath, Miss Ethel, 136 Kerferd Rd , Albert Park.

McMurray, Miss Beryl, 18 Holland Grove, Caulfield.

McMullen, Miss Nancy, 314 Dandenong Rd., East St. Kilda

McNichol, Miss Joyce , 34 Gladstone St , Moonee Ponds.

McNicol, Miss Jean , 64 Darling Rd., East Malvern.

McRae, Miss Jean, 25 Central Park Rd ., East Malvern.

Neale, Miss Mavis, 670 Burke Rd., Upper Hawthorn.

Nixon , Miss Mary , Church St., Traralgon. Nalder, Miss Beryl, " Sunnyholme," Meatian. Nicol , Miss Jean , 319 Hawthorn Rd., Caulfield Osborne, Miss Phyllis, 419 Barker's Rd ., E. Kew Oswald, Mrs. R. J. ( E. Day), J 5 Bagot Avenue, Torrensville, S .A. ·

Overend, Miss Isobel, 81 Oxley Rd ., Hawthorn. Overend, Miss Marg;iret, 81 Oxley Rd. , Hawthorn

Overend, Miss Mary, 81 Oxley Rd. , Hawthorn. Owens, Mrs. J. C. ( Lillian D a inty), 4 Lurnea Rd., Glen Iris

Pardy, Miss Vera, State Savings Bank, 82 E li zabeth St., City.

P a r ker, Miss Muriel, 3 Elphin Grove, H awthorn.

P arke r , Miss Dorothy, 1 5 C ecil St., Kew Parkin, Mrs A. T., 42 Windsor Cres., Mont Albert.

P arkin, Miss E., 14 Studle y A venue, Kew. Passfield , Miss W ., 22 Cameron St. , Coburg. Passfield, Miss Elva, 22 Cameron St., Coburg. Patterson, Miss Jean , 6 Orrong Rd ., Caulfield. Patience, Mrs., 3 Wimmera Place, St. Kilda. Pearce, l'vliss Edna, " Ivson," Bacchus Marsh. P e d e rick, Mrs. A. W. (D. Clarke), Methodist Parsonage, Piniqidu Circuit, via Kaviena New Guinea. '

Perry, Miss Lila, Octavius Avenue, Caulfi eld.

P escort, Miss May, 35 S eymour Grov e, Camberwell.

Peters, Miss Dorothy, 32 Alexandra Av., Canterbury.

Phillips, Mrs. H. E., 24 Amiens St., Hampton.

Pickwell , Mrs. Ronald {Gwen S a lte r}, c/ o P .H.D., Raba ul, New Guinea.

Pilkington , Miss Amy, Crowther Place, Brighton.

P i lkington, Miss B essie, Crowther Place, Brighton.

Pollard, Miss Jean, 9 Erica Avenue, East Malvern

Port, Miss D ., 15 Wattle Avenue, Glen Huntly.

Price. Miss Mary, 41 Thomas St., Moonee P onds

Prichard, Miss Maud, 62 Riversdale Rd. , Hawtho rn

Proctor, Miss Jea n , Charlton Rd., St Arnaud.

Proctor, Miss Sheila, M.L.C.

Proud , Miss Betty, 5 Norwood Avenue, Brighton Beach.

P r yor, Miss Edna, 311 Barker's Rd ., East Kew. Radford, Miss Bertha, 52 Power St. , Hawthorn

Raisbeck, Miss P eggy, 38 Alicia St., Hampton.

Ralph, Miss Mary, "Hill View," Lake Rowan

Ralph, Miss Jean , "Hill View," Lak e R owan.

Ras hl eigh, Miss \xr., 15 Kitchener Sc., Deepdene

Rawling, Miss Viola, 43 The Grove, Moreland

Rayson , Miss Muriel , 9 A lbert St. , E. Malv ern

R ea, Mrs. Stuart G ., Quee ns Town, Tas.

Read, Miss Olive, H esse St., Colac Rennie , M iss Enid, "Brolga," West Wyalong, N .S.W.

Rees, Miss M. , Hampton Rd ., H ampton.

Reseigh, Miss Dorothy, 20 Mason Sc., Hawthorn.

Reynolds, Miss Trixie, 59 King William St., Rege n t

Reynolds, Miss Sayde, Miller Grove, K e w Ricketts , Miss Grace, c/o Arthur S cott & Co., 164 Edward St., Brisbane.

Ridout, Miss Leona , 85 Willsmere Rd ., K e w.

Roberts, Miss Margaret, 7 Oxford St., M a lv e rn.

Roberts, Miss J ean, 3 2 Balmoral Cres., Mont Albert

Robertson, Mrs. D. E. (Olive Mille r ), 33 Nott St. , Ease Malv ern.

Robin , Miss Ai leen, 611 Inkerman Rd., Caulfield.

Robinson, Miss Ine z, Dawes Sc., Kyabram. Robinson, Miss Stell a , l 67 Glen Huntly Rd., Elwood.

Roge rs, Miss Grace, 39 Wa n da Rd. , Caulfie ld

Row lands , Miss Dilys , Kinkora R d., Hawthorn. Royle, Miss Pac. , 109 Rive rsd ale Rd ., Camber well.

Rudduck, Miss Rene , Dromana. Russ ell , Mrs. W. L. ( I da Skelton) , Park Cres., Moo n ee Pond s.

Sampson, Miss D., 17 Irving Avenue, Arma dale.

Sanders, Mis s Clarice, 3 Fors ter Avenue, Malern.

Sanders, Miss Marjorie, 3 Forster Avenue, Malvern. S a ndford , Miss B e tsy, 42 Lillydale Grove, Auburn . Schmide, Miss Gl adys, Jep arit. Scholes, Miss Dorothy, 35 High St., Ararat. Scholes, Miss E lsie, 35 High St., Ararat. Scholes, Miss Jean, 3 5 Hi g h St. , Ararat.

Sennett, Miss Beryl, Bank of N.S.W., G ee l ong. Shaw, Mi ss Mary, 48 Sackville Sc. , Kew. Shirl ow, Miss Dulcie, 29 Flower St., C a ulfield. Sleep, Miss Phyllis, IO W ave rley S c., Essendon. Sh an non , Miss B e ulah , M.L.C.

Sillcock, Miss Kathleen , " Kooring a l," Yinnar. Sinclair, Miss Marion, Park Sc., Seymour.

Smith , Mi ss Aud r ey, 250 Glen Eira Rd ., Els ce rnwick .

Smith , Miss Elmaie, Methodist Parsonage , 300 Church Sc., Richm ond . Smith , Mrs. Douglas {Daisy Taylor), V i ctoria St. W a rragul.

Smith , Miss Vera, 421 Mone Albert Rd ., Mont Albert.

Smith, Miss J ean, S eaby Sc., Seawe ll. Smirhett, Miss Dorothy, c/ o Mrs. H J o n es, Marlborough Sc., Mont Albert.

Snell, Miss Yvonne, 29 Childers St., K ew. Sou t h , M iss Winnie , 71 Sc Helens Rd., Uppe r Hawthorn.

Southey, Mrs. A. (Ethel McComas), 45 H o pe toun Rd ., Toorak Sparke, M'iss W., Tho rnt on. Spencer, Mrs. , 41 Machoura Rd ., Toorak. Sta hme r , Mi ss Mollie, 14 Linlichgow Ave nue, Caul field.

Steph e nson , Mrs. H. L. (Miri am Longmir e) , 20 Watson Sc. , Fullert on Estate, Adel aide.

S teve ns , Miss M a rjor ie, M elb ourne Hospita l. Stick. Miss Doro:hy, 12 Frances Grove, Th orn b ury.

Stillman, Mi ss Gwen, Gra nge Rd ., Kew. Stillman, Miss Thelma, Grange Rd ., Kew. Scone, Mrs. Douglas {Trixie Leggo), 26 Merton Sr. , I va nhoe.

Stuart, Miss Marjorie, 35 Uv adale Grove, Kew. Stuart, Miss Winsome, 35 Uvadale Grove, Kew. Suggett, Miss Gwe n , Qu ee n's Avenue, St. Arn a ud.

Sutherland, Mrs. Don., "Yackatoon," Macorna. S wift, Miss Enid, "Malto," E lphinstone.

S ymes, Miss Olive , uKinver," Lake R owan, Smith, Miss A li ce, 24 Collins St., Essendo n . Th a rl e, Miss En a, S co tt S t., Dandenong . Thomas, Miss Flossie, l 5 Milton St., Canterbury.

Thomas, Mrs. D {Vera Pryor), 228 Canter bury Rd. , Cante rbur y.

Thom as, Miss Jo yce, Callantina Rd ., H awtho rn Th omas, Miss Audrey, 78 Liddiard St ., Hawth orn.

Thompson , Miss Kat hl een, 7 Grace St., Mont Albert.

SILVER AND GREEN

Thompson, Miss Elva, Derril Avenue, Malvern.

Thompson, Mrs. J. 0. (Alma Stubbs), 71 Beaconsfield Parade, Mont Albert.

Thompson, Miss M., "Talofa," Cowes, Phillip Island.

Thornton, Miss Mary, Baulkamaugh Nth.

Thorp, Miss Alma, 25 Mitchell St , Brunswick.

Tickell, Miss Edna, 27 Power St., Hawthorn.

Tolliday, Mrs. (Mav is Balding), Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, Watchem.

Tootell, Miss Marge, 8 De Carle St., Coburg.

Towler, Miss Alice, 265 Glenferrie Rd., Glenferrie.

Towler, Miss Ilma, 265 Glenferrie Rd., Glenferrie.

Trigge, Miss Valma, Winga Rd , North Ringwood.

Trompf, M r s. H. (H. Krome). York Rd. , Glen Iris.

Tucker, Miss Rita, Thanet St., Malvern.

Tutt, Miss Nancy, 10 Selwood St., Hawthorn East.

Tweddle, Miss May, "Moorlim," Murchison East.

Vasey, Miss M arjorie, 27 Brougham Place, Kew.

Vincent, Miss A li ce, "Carnboon," We r ribee.

Vimpani, Miss Doreen, Burke Rd. , E. Ma lvern

Vickers, Miss Peggy, High St., Nagambie

Vickers, Miss Jean, High St., Nagambie.

Wainwright, Miss Meryl, 15 Seymour Grove, Malvern.

Wait, Miss Mildred, 97 Dandenong Rd., Malvern.

Wait, Miss I sobel, 97 Dandenong Rd., Malvern Walker, Mrs. J.,, 19 Compton St., Canterbury. Walklate, M r s. V. (Myra Corney), Barnsbury Rd., Balwyn.

Walter, Miss Dorothy, " Edderton Hills," Moyston . Ward, Miss Millicent, 560 Barker' s Rd., Hawthorn.

Watson, Miss Minnie, l Bertram St., Gardenvale.

Watson, Miss Jean, 60 Parriwi Rd., Mosman, Sydney.

Webb, Miss Nance, " Rarmar ," Lake Rd., Blackburn.

West, Miss Phyllis, Swinburne Av., Rainbow. Westcott, Mrs. L. A., Invergowrie, Sodwalls, N S.W.

Western, Mamie, 10 Elphin Grove, Hawthorn White, Miss Joyce, 296 Hawthorn Rd., Caulfield.

Wh i te , Miss Laura, 2 Grange Avenue, Canterbury.

White, Miss Nancy, 34 St. Kilda St., Elwood. \"('illiams , Miss Winnie, Royal Avenue, Sandrin gham.

Williams, Miss Lorna , C / o. B H A., S., Port Pirie, S.A. Williams, Miss Kathleen, 10 Byron St., Moonee Ponds.

Willi ams, Miss Lillian, 72 Chapel St., Glenorchy, Tas.

Wilson, Miss Dulcie, 26 Monaro Rd , Kooyong. Witcombe, Miss Florence, Lake View St., Boort Witton, Miss Blanche, 23 John St., Kew. Witt, Miss Betty, 22 Albion Rd., Glen Iris. Woodridge , Mrs. (Margaret Rothwell), Hassett Avenue, Canterbury.

Wyatt, Nance, 127 Tennyson St., Elwood. Wridgway, Miss Jean, 3 Fairfield Avenue, Camberwell.

Whalley, Miss Valmai, Kew

T he Treasurer should be advised immediately of any mistakes in this list.

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