1919 The Taranakian Vol. 8, No. 2 November by New Plymouth Boys' High School

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EDITED BY THE BOYS OF THE NEW PLYMOUTH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL AND PUBLISHED TWICE A YEAR.

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THE "TARANAKIAN." CONTENTS. Agricu ltural Notes An Appreciation Astronomical Lecture Annual Sports Board of Governors ... Cadet Notes Ca mera Club Concert Club Cricket Notes Editorial ... Exchanges Football Notes House Notes Late Cricket Lecture by Staff-Captain Bladen Library NotP.s Navy League Lecture Old Boys' Association Old Boys' Column Old Boys' Football Old Boys' Letters Old Boys' Notes Preparatory Notes Rawei's Lecture Roll of Honour School Institutions School Notes Shooting Notes 路 Staff Subscriptions Tennis Notes The Barracks The Steeplechase Vital Statistics

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No. 2 Platoon.-Platoon Sergeant ; Sergt. C. Newel!. Section Commanders; No. 1 Section,. Corp . L. Hoffmann; No. 2 Section Lance-Carp. S. Herbert; No. 3 Section; Lance-Carp. A. Candy; No. 4 Section, Lance-Carp . E. Waters. No. 3 Platoon.-Platoon Sergeant : Sergt. K. C . Roberts. Section Commanders : No. 1 Section; Corp. R. Sinclair; No. 2 Section Lance-Carp. W. Rea; No. 3 Section ; Lance-Carp. S. Train; No. 4 Section, Corp. R. Syme. No. 4 Platoon.-Platoon Sergeant; Sergt. C. Noble. Section Commanders; N. 1 Section; Corp. G. L. Kyngdon; No . 2 i::iection; Lance-Carp. J. Clemow; No. 3 Section, LanceCarp. J. Willis; No. 4 Section, Lance-Carp. R. Allemann . No. 5 Platoon.-Platoon Commanders: Mr. H. L. Calder and Mr. H. E. Glover. COMMITTEES. Sports Committee.-Mr. A. W. Diprose (Chairman) , Mr. Bradbury, R. E. Pope, C. Winfield, R. A. Boon, L. O'Halloran, J. H. Boon . Hon. Secretaries: M. Osborne and B. M. Johns. Cricket Committee.-R. C. Greiner, G. L. O'Halloran , R. 0. SinHon . Secretary: J. M. clair, J. D. Willis, R. E. Pope. Hine. Concert Committee.-Mr. C. McKinney (Chairman) , S. Hayden, A. E. Brooker, R. Blundell, N. Bel!ringer, B. M. Johns, Hon. Secretary: K. G. Roberts. B. Horner. Swimming Committee.-Mr. C. McKinney (Chairman), E. Foden, Hon. SecreS. Hayden, L. Hoifmann, K. O'Halloran. tary : J. H. Boon. Shooting Committee.-Mr. A. R. Ryder (Chairman) , B. M. Johns, 1{. E. Pope, R . Greiner, L .. O'Halloran, H. J. Boon, J . M. Hine, S. Allemann. Hon. Secretary: E. Waters. Football Committee.-Mr. A. R. Ryder (Chairman), B. M. Johns, M . Osborne, J. D. Willis. Hon. Secretary: P. F. Atkinson. Glover (Chairman). C. Smart. M. OsCommittee.-Mr. Tennis Hon. Secretary: K. borne, J. M. Hine, U. " ' infield. O'Halloran. Pound Keepers.-A. E. Brooker an'tl L. Rawson. Library Committee.-Mr. N. D. Day (Chairman) . N. Waddle, I. Renaud, E. Cole , R . Hair, K. C. Roberts. Hon. Secretary : M. Barak. Captain of Footbaii.-M. Osborne . Captain of Cricket.-J. M. Hine. Camera Club.-Mr. W. H. Moyes (Chairman), E. Cole, 8. HE>rbert. Hon. Secretary: A. Christie.

MR. P. J. H. WHITE. PRESIDENT OLD BOYS' ASSOCIATION 1918-19.

Edited by the Boys of the New Plymout h Boys' High School a11d Pu blished twice a year. VoL. 8.

NOVEM BER, 1919.

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be The Subscript ion is 3/- per annum (postage included) , and should forwarde d to the •· B usiness Manager, Taranaki an , Boys' High School, Subscribe rs will please notify any change of New Plymouth." address.

E DITOR IA L. (ll. Syme.)

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HB Great \ Var, which for nearly five years disturbed the whole world nnd, in ce;rtain nspects retnrde cl the ndvance of civilisa tion, has now been definitely concl uded by the .Peace Treaty, and attentio n can nt last be g-iven not only to the numero us problem s which "'·ere of necessi ty postpon ed, 'vhen we were fighting for existenc e, but also to the other problem s which have Y et, in arisen clirectly nnd indirect ly from the war. eyes our shut not must we over is our joy that t.h(:) war to the fact that we have not yet. arrived at a perfect peace or an exact return to pre-war conditio ns: hut rather that we have hard times to face, times of reconst.ructio n, retrenc hment, reform, in which many old ideas nncl institut ions must be ruthless ly scrapped . During timeS> of peace we shall have• to struggl e to preserve. our existen ce as much as when fighting against the Central Powers . It has long bee1n n.o ted in history that after wars often follow periods of intestin e disturba nce . So it So it is to-day. was after the Napoleo nic wars. At present Great Britain is undergo ing a great industr ial crisis which threaten s to shake the very In such times we foundat ions of her well-be ing. must take every precaut ion to ensurk the safety of our Empire and not allow it to be brough t to the dust by the exti:em ist action of a few and the apathy of the When rest. Increas ed efforts must be made by all . all the work of reconst ruction necessi tated by the war has been comple ted 1 other problem s will :t•ep:~.ain new

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problems c.:reateJ by the e.xigenuies of the time. Even in eJucation innoY<.d.ions of importance to us will be introduced, for the great 1alue of tntininn· the boy at an early age to the duties and ·responsibilit~s of c;itizenship. has bee~ fully r~c.:og11ised: t)? also the great ]JO tentwl force mherent m youth, wluch can be made c.:oncrete and active only after judicious care· and o·uidance. Great reforms and a wider conception of the"' meanin ()' of the word education will, it is generally conceded~ solve many of the pressing questions of the, future. On the whole the peculiar age in which we live demands incessant i_nd us try, renewed and r e·dou bled efficiency, together with greater unselfishness and esprit de corps. Some apprehensions haye recently been aroused by a n~mour that the Educatwn Department proposes to a bohsh preparatory departments in connection with secondary sch~ols such as this. It is to be hope,d, by all who recogmse the true Yalue of an adjoined preparatory school, that a m easure, at once so ·weepin()' and so seemingly unnec~:>;ssa ry will not be seriously "'contemplated. No argument of any worth can be found for the advisability of such a st ep: on t.he other hand the m erits of t l1o prepa ratory sc hoc.., are many and not unimportant. 'l'he hie£ is that it develops in boys at an earlier age than would otht>rwi.. e he the case, and at a time when th ey are more suspe tihle to influe,nces, the true public school spirit, which is our heritage from the famou s school~ of England. In them boys learn the urgent n ecessity for and paramount importance of esprit de corps and co-operation which the primary schools, largely becaus e of the adverse, hut remedial conditions und er which. they work, c~nnot .instiL They also r eceive instructiOn m games l1ke cn ck et and football. The chief r~dvantflgo of these points is that the boys are, so to speak, aught young, as i. the cr~se in the navy, so that a grcate,r impression may be made upon their minds "·hile :vet plastic . Thus, when they enter the secondary part of the school thry are more r c::sponsive to t h P con(litions and ton0 prevailing in it, and clearly so much tht> more efficient. · A barrack , a fuller account of which is to he found elsewhere, was held at th e Rchool in September. The value, of such a camp in training ho:vs to pay respect and obedience to nuthorit.y and discipline, and in providlllg' them with a forefnste, however mild, of the nature of a military camp, must be clearly r ecognised. 'fhat

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the uamp was not a part of trai_ning which was cli.s::greea'ble or m erely of meclwcre . m terest :ms suff;imeu tly shown by the zest witb. which all 1mrhCJpated m then duties. It was only r egrette.d that the tm1e was all too sh01-t . '['here are, howe'Ver, not wantmg pers?ns who declaim against the principle .of a camp as tendmg towards militarism. These assertwns are. bas·ed on no sound facts and are best refuted by an examination of results. No militaristic tendencies consequent on barracks can be discovered in this or in any o.ther. school. Rather ·has there been an increased alacnty m work and games: which should be the .object of school activities. The news that the, Old Boys' Association, with their 11 ual keenness in a:ffairs connectt>d with the· good of the school had definitely decided upon building .a sui_tnble memorial to the Old Boys who had. been k~lled m artion wa s naturally received by all with feelmgs ot thankfulness. ViThile we regret those who made the snpre,m e sacrifice for ~in~ and .Count~'y, we should not forO'et to show our pnde m then aclnevements and our gmtitmle to them in some permanent form . It is to he hopell that the e:ffort.s of the Oh~ Boys will meet with tl1e success that the nature of then task deserves. It j s pro ha ble that the memorial to be, erect ed will he a chapel, rather than a library , a.- was first proposed. ';l'he sr hool feelR th at a chapel would b e th e mo~t appropna~e nncl reverent meiffiorial that r:onld be rlev1sed for th1s special purpose. Moreover, t he sch ool has long b e~ n in nee cl of a ehnrrh serYice, which should be an mtegral part of th e lite ot every .schonl. For this year we hav.e been fortunate in havmg t11e Rev . :Mr. F. G. Harvie, the. Vicar of St. 1\Iary's-, to o-fficiate• at a simple church servict> enry SundaY' morning in the Assembly Hall of the Rrhool. This service , which could give o:ffe,n ce to none 011 the ground s of srrtarianism, hn s 1w n attended with r.onRpicuous snrcrss, and it ~s to b_e hoped that. Mr. Hnrvie, whose unselfishneRs m o:ff t>,rmg to conduct the service we do not :forget , will be able to hold the servirP next vear also , possibly we ma:v vt>.n ture to hope, in t)w r:lia'{)el, the value ancl m;efuln ess of which should from this he cl early enough perceived. It seP~ns only a brief time since we last agitated for a now honrding hou se, but that is built. and fill ed these two years, Now WE;l wm,1t al].otpe:r, 'rh~ a,ccommo-

EDITORIA L. 8 dation for 158 boys has strained tbe resource s of the two houses. The. new 'viug of the Headma ster's House· will at best serve only to relieve the necessity for the t empon:try housing in use at pre~tent. Plans have be.en designed for a house capable of providin g for some sixty boys, together with a more suitable residenc e for the Headma ster, but it is feared that the financial strain of Precting this will he rather too he,avy unless som e ntlequnte nssist:mce be given by the Governm ent. H i.hnt he not forthcom ing it is apparen t that a good many hoys in Tnranak i will be deniecl facilitie,s for secomlnr y Nlucntio n. It is argued that the school is always clernnn(ling new building s. vVe admit that, hut such aclm ission is the best possible proof, not only of the virility of t~e sc·h ool, hut of the insistent demand hy the people of t lns provinre for educatio n of the type that is p;iv~~l.. It would he a pity if undue delay in providin g br1hhes for hoarders from th e remoter parts serves to stifle t.hat demand. The value of higher eclucation is nppnrent.ly ensily recogniRecl, hut t l1 e money for it iR mtlH"T ]e.sP. ohviouR at preRenil. However," we hope thllt this prop~ eel hous~, to.gether :vith the mnny vel')' ~e~essary appomtm ents .1t 1nll eontmn, may soon materwlu;e :mcl not only reheve the present tension on the llccommo(lation for stn:ff and boys, hut al. o provide for that expansio n whirh is RO rlenrly in evitnhle.

SCHOO L NOTES . (C. Noble.) Since the last appearan ce of the maga11ine severnl changes l1nYe occurred in the personne l of the Bonnl of Governo rs. Mr. H. IV. D. Rohertso n, who so successfully carried out the duties of chairma n during the. trying period prior to the opening of the new school, is now in I~T.ellington, where he i engaged in work in connecti on with the new political party . Mr . F. ~T. Atkinson , who represen ted the parents on the Board , declined to accept nominat ion at the end of his term, and Mr. ViTasher wns elected in his stead. The other new members are Mr. A. H. J ohnstone and M:r. L. A. N olan. The latter has taken the l)la ce of l\ir. D. Hutchen , wbo resigned early in the year. Mr. Hutchen has been for many years a member of the governin g

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body, aml it w~s with siucere re~;;ret that we l~eanl that pressure of husmess compelle d h1m to sever h1s conuection with the school. vVe wish to after our cougratu lations to Mr. L . C. t\hLddeu, who h,ts beeu elected to the positiou of chairman. The roll n um her r emains- practical ly the same as for the first term. • The follo~i1w boy::; have eute,r ed school since the publicat ion of th~ last ~wgazine :-botha mley, ~ · H.; Drookma u, H.; Brookma u, N.; Burton, J .. V.; Clela.nd, lt. ; Coombe, H.; Easton, G.; E':ans, L.; G1lb ert, A . V,·; Gilman, L.; Gray, J.; HardwlC k, IV.; Hawken , G . ; Hiue, E . G.; Hoftmam t, L.; Hutcheu , A.; Lucena, . G.; Jhce, H.; J:>earce, B.; Palm('ll', J. L.; Palmer, _J.; H1ley, 1~.; Smith, G.; Silson, W.; Thomas, W.; Dawbm, H. 'l'he followino· have lett :--Allan , 1-t. lL; Atkinson , J>. F .· Bishop N~ H. ; Carter, A.; Cl elaml, A.; Cliffonl, S . ; C~mish , / ; Duubar, C. G.; E::;pin, C. W.; Frethey, L.; Httrrison , 1t. I.; Hamlmg , H. E.; Hogg, J.,; Ho~ker, 1L · Huo·he::; ~I. E.; Jacksou, S.; :lledway , . ; M1ller, N '. J:>:arce' E. C. · Rolstou, V.; S~.t-xtou, D . F. C.; .' . , e;, C.; IVe b ster, G . I:> "IXT'll I') Scully, F.; 'Tuubndg . ; 1'vl s·, .•. C.; IVyhom , G. IYhereas formerly "·c could look forward to the fir::;t da y .of the new term a::; a hohday, now, alas i ~he custom has changed . '\V e were due1 back ou 1\Iay .2oth, auJ woTk started at ouce . llut, neverthe less, there wa::; oue consolat ion; for football was commeu ceJ as puuctuu lly as. school work. For. a womler the wettthcr k ept' go od auJ play wu.s. k eeu, smce three tea~s were entered iu the compet1 twn · aud the plact::~s m them were in uo wa~ d efinitely fixed. This tom1 lms seen a revival iu the wmk at the Gully. Fixtures .were so anaul?ed !·h at footbttll teams ·ould ::;peud oue mght a -week fillmg m th<: swamp .. Also detentio ns were worked oft there every Fnday at dmnertime · but since there was physical drill for the rest of the s'chool, a large band of willing workers<was always fouud in the gully. Wheill, however , the dodge became too evideut, <.hill had to be taken aud some other punishment fixed.

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Another imwvation which has met with universal appwval ( ?) is the N.O.O. class two momings a week, one for infantry, the, other for mu skehy; for with a camp threatening in t he near future, the regulation three days a week was felt to be insufficient. In connection with the drill uniforms were also istmed. Immediately " trench coats" ( onlinary 1·ainproof aml khaki belt) and military hat s 'vere ' 'all the go. " Dut t h e t hreat of half-a-crown fine (and eo:;ts) event ually settla.d this. The concert committee thit> term were s ei.~ ed with the idea th at th ere was a gn:',at deal of latent talent in t he :;ehool. Conseq uently voice testing was canied out. The r esult, we believe,, ju~:>tifi e d the effort, and, no doubt, a strong concert party will be organised in the near future. Hawera Winter Show week was inde,ed an eventful one. 'L'h e first X V. tmveUed to Hawera and beat the H awem J unior t eam ; school essayists sec ured a large part of t h e pr.i~es offer ed; and, last of all, E:s:eat fell on the Sat mday. The ehief event of t l1e, term, how ever , '"as the celebration of P ea ee . ·w e were <.tllo"·ecl holida y~:> on Frid ay an_cl :Jionclay ; on Saturday, of eourse, 'nts a parade. The "·hole company assembled on t l1o ~:>ehool g roumh and march ed t h ence to K awau S treet. 'L'he proeession then followed a tortuous route t o the llecrcation GI·ound s . H ea·e short addresses wer e delivered hy the l ending citi~en s of the t own, and the pamJc concluded. Afterwards a ~:>e Y en- a- ~:>id e t om·nament wa~:> h eld. Sehool entered one team which , unfOl' tunn tely , "·as beaten by 'l'ukapa in t l1e final game. On Friday, Au gu st 1st, we lt ad tL e goutl fo rt une to h ear Mr. R awei, a native t eacher , speak about t h e I sland of Morea, a beautiful little mis ~:>ion :-;tation in the Sout h Seas. The speaker's delightful humour enlivened hi s discourse throughout, and with him we spent a th-oroughly enjoyabla hour. 'l 'o assist in mising fund s for a P eaee-li.Iemurial :::lmH.lay School in connection ";ith St . J\Iary's Chmeh , a mart -clay was h eltl on Augu st 23rd in t he Good 'l'emplar H all. vV e were ask ed to h elp with a producest all . Accordi ngly a committ ~e wa s fo rm ed and all arran gem ents m ade on F riday aft ernoon . Mrs. Rock el t ook ch arge of the stall on Saturday ; business was brisk

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11 ._wd qlti·te a euu:;iclerable t;UIJ?- was raise4 to ben efit t he f und . \Ve take t his opport umty of thankmg Mrs. l~o ekel fo r th e ::;plendid work she did for us. 'l 'he thirtl t erm commenced right up to t ime on \Vednestlay, Septemb er lOth. From 12 o'clo ck t o_ half-pa st , instead of chill, we had a lecture. Sta:ff-Captam Bbclen , of t L'e Salvation Army and Chaplain to t h e K ew Zealauci fo rces, spoke on the subj ect : " vVit~ the boys horn the ·amp to the firin g line." . 'l'he_Ca 1~tam ~:>llow e d us cleai-ly Low well our solclie,r s chd theu b1t, and how cheerfully th ey bore their hardships. His le cture_'vas very_mueh appreciat ed by all, our only r egret bemg that It wa s no t lon ger. On t h e followin o· Tue::;day t h e R ev. Spencer , of the Briti:;h and Foreign"' Bible Society, paid us hit> am~ual vi sit. It is pleasing to note that the 'York uf his soewty hat> ·ont inued unche~.;k e d throu ghout the war, and that th e dem and for 'l 'estaments ha s steadily increased . Speeial ment ion m ay be m<.tcle ?f t he Soeiety's very cr editable work in 'l'mkey and Clnna . On 1•\ ·iday , Oetober 3rd, J\J~·· Cr es:;well, th~ Education Department's r~spectur, pald th~ 't;ch?ol ~I S sepontl visit this· year to grve tho se eompetmg for free pla ces a ·pecial t est. The School property it> b eing ~:>te adily added to year by _y_c!::l:r. The _latest a t:quisit~on is _an ar~a. of t en a ere~:> adJommn· t h e farm whwh , 'v1th thi t; additlOn, now e:s:tendt> ri ~ht down to the H cnui River. 'l 'h e fur~e lms been cle~red away and_ a tra ·k made t o th e edB·e of t_he t r cam . 'l 'hruugh t h1s purch ase we are prov1ded With some . plendid b athin g pools on our ·O,Yn g round s. Shortly after this property was opened up we w e~·e nuuch ed down to the ri ver to get sto-nes to be u sed m t he onstruetion of a wall on t he edge of a crick et gTound. This wall, when complet_ed, will be a decided improvement on t h e old f~nc~ w~I~h formerly aclomed t h e place . It will, too, assist m grvm g t h e much needed protection t o t h e gras~ on_ th e edge of the fie~~" 'L~he old order changeth, y1elclmg plac~ to new-;- ; a~d md eed the Det ention syst em of pumshment Is a th1_n13' _of th e I ast. \ iVith t h e incr~ased numb e;~:s and _act1v1tles in t h e scho ol it was fouucl cl1f:E cult to fix a clefimte det ention period. Accordingly a new syst em was introduced:

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every day a "Crime Sheet" is sent round, on which ani placed the names of all offenders and the nature of their offences . At 4 p.m. the mtlprits are paraded by the prefect on duty and marched to the Headmaster's room to be uealt with. This system, it will be seen, correspomls somewhat to th at of the military orderly roomthough nothing so pleasant as "C.B." is meted out. Nor is this the only change : the short aftemoon on 'l 'hursday has been abolished, the time-table being now of equal length for each day. Shortly after the conclusion of the Barracks, school ,,·urk was somewhat h ampered by sickness amongst the m emb er s of the staff. At one period there were no le s than four of the masters away; but nevertheless, after some reanangement of the classe.s had been made, work was carried on succestlfully, though with some inconvenience . We beg t o tender a hearty welcome to Mr. l£ggletun, who jomed the staff at the beginning of the term, Llt:i phytlical drill instructor. Of the good \VOrk uone by Mr. ~ggleton and Mr. Rowe the following paragraph (takeill from the " T aranaki H erald") speaks for itself: ·"An e:s:hibition o£ the working of the improved methou of physical training \\·hieh has been evuhed during the war period was given by the pupils of the New Plymouth Boys' High School on Friday aftemoon at the uercm ony which m arked t he clot:iing of the eadet barraeks. No one but the mo tlt confirmed petlsimist eould iajl to be impretlsed by the va1ue of tlw drill after seeing thi s U.it:iplay. It may be deseribeu as Swedil:lh Lhill brought up to date. It is det:iig ned tu stimulate aeti.vity of mincl atl well ntl of mut:ide. U nder itl:l oimmtion there is no chance of a member of a urill t;q uacl going to sleep while waving the arms or bencli.ug the body m echanieally in time to tho old-time chant of one, two, three, four." But, on t he -other hnnu, ,,-e regret tu ree01·d the loss o:f .Mr. M Kinney. 'L'h c ~duetLtiuu Departruent have inaugurate-d a. sy ·teru whereby Organising Teachers travel round assisting the work of country sehouls; it is one o£ these appointments tl1 at Mr. M'Kiuney ha s secured . His loss wi1l be deeply felt by the whole school, particularly by the Coucea:t and Swimming Committees. MR. C. A. McKINNEY.

HOUSE NOTES. (K . V. Roberts.) The boarding roll now stands at 158. This further increase in ou r numbers has made necessary the provi::;ion of more accommod ation, and this is now being supplie,d in the form of auditional dormitorie s and a new bathroom block. The former, which are well under way, are being added as a wing to路 the new house, and will provide accommod ation for about thirty boys, while the latter is being e,rected at the r ear of, and adjoining the old house, and is now nearing compleho n. At the beginning of the football season a paTty of half-a-doz en prefects made a day's tramp to the foot of the ranges and back . 'l'he, distance to the radius line horn school by the l'路Oute they followed -the Caningto n ltoad-is twelve miles; so they naturally returned in the evening some,what foot-sore and weary . The tramp, however, was excellent training, and doubtless helped to put the1n in good fettle for the football season. Imtead of going to bed immeuiat ely after prayers as was form erly the l'ule, we now <lo t lnee-quar ters of an hour'::; pl1ysical drill in the b all each evening. 'rhe da::;s i::; taken by nh. Eggleton, the pel'rnanen t physical drill instructor , who makes the work very interestin g by teaching us in accol'danc e with the modern methods employed by the lhitish Army during the war, and introduced 1ere during the fil'st term. Another and far more drastie iuuonttion , at least in its effect upon certain eharactcrs , Las been the institution of "eating hours." It .wal:l found necessary to place definite restrietion s on the frequency of Yisits io " 'I' ea pot's," especially just before rneal10, with the result that boys are now forbid<len tu eat, except at certain prescl'ibe>l hours each day, undel' penalty< of being placed on the "Cl'irne Sheet." (q.v .) During the winter month s "路e appre 路iated more than ever being in oul' own sehool builcliug again. 'rhus whereas last year eveniug prep. had of n ecessity to be lJ eld in the uining-roo m, it is this year done under supervision in the various class-room s, where much more, satisfactory work can be performed . In addition, each form again possesses that very necessary luxury-i ts own fireplace.

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Dancing was taken up on a more e.labomte seale this year tllan form erly. Instead of being h elll hum seven o'clock until nin~ ou Friday eveuings·, as was the case in form er years, t his year t lle younger enthusiasts occupied the fioor hom seveu o'clock until eight-thirty, when the old hands took possessiou, aud under tlle guillance of the dancing mistresses, Mrs. and Miss Humplnie;;, l earut the various and complicated steps of the fox trot and the maxina, much to the e:s:a;;peration of the few who were endeavouring to tn:mslate Cicm·o at a Latin class in an alljoining room. Since · ::;uch a large number were taking dancing it was ueces;;ary to m ake other arraugements with regard to Friday evening's prep., which wa~ <;onsequently held hom five o' clock until six ou the same evening. 'l'he loug-nigh t dauce whid1 mark ell the close of the dancing season took place· at the eull of the se<;oull term and wat-J attemled with every ::;uccess. 'l 'he Girls' High School bounlers ' annual dan ce, to which u number of us were inYited 'vu;; postponed hom seconll to third term on accouut of the mumps epidemic UlJ' at s<.;hool. All who attemled this funution thoroughly eu joyed themselves, and ,~· c take this opportuui ty of thauking :Jliss BarT anJ the girls for their ho spitality. Fmther improYemeuts haYe beeu <;aniell out in Hendrie Sheet, mclulling the coustructiou of a cou<.;rete curb and the planting of a number of tree-fern:;. In a few years these hees aml shrubs will have grown ::mfiiciently large to form au avenu e whid1 "·ill gre._ttly iucrease the beauty of the eutnmce to the u ew house. Considerable numbe1rs now rise with the Llawn iu oTller either to train for t h e t-Jport::; aud ::;teeple<;ha:;e or to enjoy a game of teunis before moming prep.; aml with the commence;ment of Efe-saviug classes iu tt ,,-eek or two the numbers will be still g1e.ater. vV e were m1fortuuate eno·u gh to <.;On tract an epillemic of mumps duriug the second term, but owiug to the prompt isolatiou of each case as the symptom s appeared, the total u umber of cases did not e:s:ceell forty. A number of the first fifteen 'vere· affected, and consequently fears were entertained that the match with Auckland Grammar School might have to be abandoned ; but as ·e vents showed, thino's turned out all right in the end. There were also four mild cases of measles, but again owing to prompt isolation the, complaint was prevented from running through the· school.

In common with othe1· boanliug l:lCLools throug:hout th e Dominion we suffered consiJerable mconvemence at the end of the. second term from the dislocation of railway traffic due to the coal shortage. Finally, however, everybody, with the exception of one or two boys who had the temporary misfortune to live on the main truuk line, managed to ge·t home fm t h e holidays. Every conceivable kind of vehicle was used in the processtaxis, private cars, lorries, buses aud bicycles; and some of those who lived companttive·l y close at h and walked the distance h.ome. The banacks causell considerable dislocation in the usual boarding-Louse routine, the chief effect be·i ng that we Lad to leave our comfortable, though much-abused, beds in order to sleep on straw paliasses, which, though not quite. equal to feather beds, \Te found very comfortable after a strenuous day's work on t l1 e racecourse. Besides the pictures, the "Dandies" was the only tueatre attraction "·hicb claimed the boarders during the term.

CRICKET NOTES. Though no cricket ha:; been played smce the last appearance of the Magazine, things have not been quite dormant. \Ve are glad to :;ee that the enthusiasts in the town have beeu at work and revived the interest takeu in the game in pre-war times . 'l'he North '1\nanaki Association_appears to h ave entered on a new lease of life, for uo less than eight senior aml five junior teams are already entered for the Saturday competitions. Of these t he School )ws enteredt one senior and two junior. \Ve are particularly pleased with the imtitution of the latter gT~lll e ~ecau:;~ ~t wip gi~e us opportunity to develop the cn ck etmg sp1nt latent m the School and will serve as a mo::;t useful training ground for the 1st XI. May we congratulate the Old Boys' Association on their deci:;ion to enter a · team in the competitions. \Ve hope that auother year we shall be n ble to set aside a. sufficie.n t area of wickets for pmctice for them, aud thus renew many old friendshil)S. In common with the other cricketers of t.he town we ho_Pe to see the local authorities give recognition to the fau demands of our sport. Our grounds provide for our m':"n r equirements,, but satisfactory wickets and outfields m the other grounds are highly necessary for the development of play of a high standard.

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'l 'he School is at last developing better cricket taient anJ t he prospects of a good season for the three elevens seem bri o·ht. 'l 'here are now two annual matche.s, one with the "' \\' ang ..mui Uollegiate School and one WI~h. t he Uld Boy::; , and t hese, together with the local compebt10ns, have given a great impetus to t he development of the game in t h e S<.;hool. . . 'l 'he season opened on October 18 with t he annual mat<.;h against the Old Boys. Al~ho ugh the we~ther was somewhat bleak there wafi a fan attendance of O~J Boys and t heir f riends. Consideri~g the amount of. ram tliat h ad fallen during t he ·preceedmg week, the wicket g<.we satisfaction. Appended are the scores: SCHOOL .- First Innings. 14 Sinclair, b Bottrill ... 10 O'Halloran, L., b Bottrill 11 J:>almer, b Monteath .. . 1 Willis, c :Monteath .. . 4 Greiner, c J ohnson, b Colson (j 0 ·borne, c Saxton, b Osborne 4 Inch, b Colson ... 3 Pope, c Bewley, b Johnson 0 Brown, c aml b Osborne 8 H ayden, b J olmson 6 Smart E., not out 4 Extras 71 'l'otal Bowling analy~is . -1\Ionteath, oue wicket for 25 runs; Bottrill, t hree for 10 ; C?lson, t wo for 10; Osborne, two for 10; J ohnson, two for six. Se<.;onJ Innings. 2 'incbir, hit ·wicket, b Bewley 13 O'Halloran, I.J ., b Osborne .. . 43 Palm or, u Bottrill, b Colson .. . 0 Greiner, not out 0 Pope, not out ... 6 Brown, b Col:;on ... ... 0 Hayden, c Oliver, b Bewley ... 8 Smart, E., c Fox, b Monteath 3 Extras ~rotal for six wickets 76 Bowling analysis .- Bewley, two wickets for 11 runs : Oliver, none for 23 ; Osborne, one IOl' 5; Fox, none for 18; hlonteath, one for G; Colson, two for 7.

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OLD BOYS.-First Innings. Bewley, b O'Halloran Os borne, b Sinclair ... Bottrill, b P almer Monteath, b Sinclair Oliver, b O'Halloran ... Colson, b Sinclair Quillimn, c Greiner, b Sinclair Raxton, c \Yillis, b Brown Johnson, not out Fox, h Brown .. . Sole, b Palmer Extras

17 0 8 58 0 5

0 4

17 9 .2

2 4

Total .. . 109 Bowling analysis.-U' Ha.llora.n t'llo wickets for 51 runs; Sinclair, four for 23; Greiner, none for 16; Palmer, two for 9; Bro'l\n, h·o for fi.

AGRICULTURA L NOTES. This term ha s be en a fanly busy one, both in t·he rlassroom and in the outside '1\ork. Several of the se nior hoys haYe he·en '1\0rking- for examinntions, whil e th e junior boys lmH' carriec1 out t l1 e prn rtical ·work . The preparntory boys 'llho take agrir ulture have heon busy with their propagation plot. In this plot rxperiments art> being- carrird out wit~1 grnsses "itl1 t.hP idea of obtaining- see r1 from selrcted plants, each pair of hoys hoing given a small plot to look aft er . A n umber of. cuttings of h edge plants and selected roses are also heing grown , for the purpose of sh elterin g and bea utifying- th e gro und s . Early in the term a day wa s spent at Mr . Dempsey 's orr harr1. H ere we receiverl lessons in pruning anrl th e mamuin g- of fruit trees. :Mr. Demps ey h ns n large orrharcl an d a variety of :fruit. trees, ~ ence we 'll e l~e uhlr. to do a consic1 erab1t> amount of 11rumng . \V e have to t hank Mr . Dempsey for pla cing his orrhard at our di s}1osal. Rin ce th e last issue of tl1 e•mngnzi ne t.l1 e Agricultural Societv have held t h eir ViTinter Rh o,Y , an e.vent in "hich \Y e took consid erable interest. \,. number of. boys entered for t he cliffere.nt. competitions in nnal work , nnd wcr(' Sl\rrr ssful in gnining- severn1 pri :;o;rs, Tl1 e r1ifferent

AGRICULTURAL NOTES . 18 principles of farming wer e shown by prautical expenmeuts, while t her e were a 11umber of identified grasses Next year we hope to be able to ina11d seed cards . crease our exhibitions• at the show. A visit J;o which we had been looking forward 'l'his took was to the Stratford Model Dairy l•'arm. place last term, and although the clay was rather wet, \¥ e first visited the an interesting day was spent. H er e the manager explained Stratford Dairy F actory . V\Te the. working of the factory and the• machinery . then went to the farm, and between showers of rain were 'shown the vari01lS crops and also the dairy herd. 'rhe up-to-date milking shed was the subject of mu ch favourable comment. · After th e inspection we had a lecture given to us by Mr. Deem on " lloot Crops ." vV e hope· that our n ext visit will be :favoured with finer weather. Last autumn bYo areas o£ about one acre each were This has been sown clown wit h permanent pa sture . :fed to t h e cQiws llurin g t he win te-r and has greatly asThe lucerne sist ed in k eeping up the milk supply. plot. has also been fed off as a supplementary food during the wint0r mont h s . Althougl1 this plot. does not seem to h ave suffered , lucerne does not stand grazing 'T here are, however, a large numh e.r of weed s well. present, which "·i1l , if not atten<led to, at on ce smoth er the· lucerne . Th r oughout t he· t erm r ecords h ave been k ept of th e daily yield o£ milk from each cow . Ramples haw al so From been t aken an(l t e trd for huttr r{at content. thi s work we have gained practical experience and at the same time a kn owl edge of th e value of our cows. '\Ve might add that som e very g ood rrsults have been obtained. Another pruni ng demon stration was giYen to t.he junior bo ys through the kindness of Mr. Fitzgihbon, who invited u s alon g one afternoon . This orchard consist ed mo stly of young trees, h en ce severe pruning was During the. afternoon , t ea was provided unnecessary . by Mrs . Fitzg ihhon aml very k eenly appreciated by us . The inside work thi s t erm has b een mainly confined Milk to Dairy Science and Agri cultural Chemi stry. has been t est ed by both th e Rahcock and the Gerher Special attent ion has also been given to the method s. testin g of artificial manures foT solubility in wat er and acid,

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'l'he remaining mouths of this term will be busy lL is intended t o cany out lllcllllll'ial and variet y OJHJti. tesi.s "·i th the nuiou s root crops- mau g olds, canots, Many t urnip:;, clllll the:;e \\'ill ue ~; own in l'\ ovewber. grasses aml cloYers fm ide11 tifica tio11 purposes \rill be sO\Yll as well.

LIBRARY NOTES. (M. Barak .) After the football season the period for ''swot·' heOwing to the proximity of the various public gins . examinations and the spor t s and ot h er competitions, only a limited amount of time i s left for readinO' and con equently the average is e.:x pect ecl to be lower . "'E:oweYer th e circu ln tion of books has in no "·ay decreased . 'l'h e library has been pat roni sed rath er more. than usual. 'l'he clay-boy enr lment especially has been augment.e(l hnt there still remain . everal vacancies to he fillecl h~ " cl :.1 ~· -hoy 'lnem lwrs . . 'l'he gen erou s presentation s by :Mrs . E yre-Kenn y , ::\Irs . Courtena.y K yngdon, F. G . Robinson, E sq., and 'l'. Avery, Esq., haY e proved an exceptionally vahwble acC)uisition to the library ancl provid e llclditional fi eld s f or r eaders. \V e are st ill se nrel~r h andicapped by the employment o{ th r. lilnary room as ll rb ssroom At. thf' begim).ing of the year, owing to insufficient nrrommodnt.ion, Form IIIn. wlls forced to occupy the lihrary in lien of ll classroom. This nllturally preCertain of these have heen sent ed grent difficnltie: . obviated by the erection of lockers for t h e purpose of storing- the books used by the form during , chool hours, hut obsb cles still present themselves. There have been several additions to the hooks lately, a.ncl rhie£ among them are : " In t.he Cheering-up Business" (Lee), "Love llncl the Spy" (Williamson), " L es 1Iiserahles" (Hugo ), "An Imperial ll'brriage" (Marchmont) , " At the Foot o£ the Rllinbo,y ' (P orter), "Strllnleigh's i\Iillions" (Barr) , "The Lio·bthonse (Balbnt.yne), "Going Some" (Beach), "Lost F ace" .( London), "The B0autiful White Devil" (Boothby), "Paris" (Zola), "Adventures of Captain K ettle" (Hyne), " B en Hur" (\Valbre), " Fig·hting Under the South ern Cross" (Fennmore), ''H eart t hat Knows" (Roberts), "It Rllppen ecl in

LIBRARY NOTES. 20 Egypt" CWilliamson), "Tom Sawyer" (:M:ark 'fwain), "Strictly Business" (Henry), "Power of the Keys" (Crier), "Scottish Cavaliers" (Grant), "Shifting vVinds" (Ballantyue), "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Stowe), "Last Shot" (Palme'r), "The \V eavers" (Parker), "Dr. Whitty" (Birmingham), "'The Fairy Bedmaker" (Rowe), "The Angel of the Settlement" (Oyen), "Cease Firing" (J ohnston), "The Younger Set" (Chambers), "The Shuttle" (Burnett), "N etherleig路h" (Riley), "'fhe War of the \Vorlds" (Wells), "The 'l'hree Musketeers" (Dumas), "Captain Desmond, V.C." (Diver), "Barnaby Rudge" (Dickens), '"fhe Iron Pirate" (Pemberton), "Coniston" (Churchill), "Westward Ho" (Kingsley), "Training Simplified" (\Vatson), "E:xplosiveR' (Berthelot), "Dam pier's Life and Adventures," "Goldsmith" (Irving), "Kings of the Quarter-deck" (Temple), "Tl1 e Great Boer \Var" (Doyle), " Deeds that \Vill Never Die" (Frnser).

CAMERA CLUB. During the term the weather has been so li.mmitable that little photograpl1y has been done路. The enlarger ha::: been refitted, but has been made little use of by the members. The resultR of the club competitions are: Senior, Seascape-B. Horner Junior, Seascape.- I.. Richardson. Best Illustration o-f' Cloud Forms-L. Richardson. The entries for these competitions were somewhat rlisappointing, hut at. the approach of the summer months, no doubt, in future competitions there will be more The winning photogra~1s in the senior forthcoming. These路 have been competition were distinctly good. vVe take this framed, and will be hung in the school. opportunity of thanking Mrs. Lennon, of New Plymouth, for much photographic literature .

TENNIS NOTES. (K. O'Halloran.) The tennis season has opened with excellent prosAs an indication of this the roll of membership pects. It has been found now includes over a hundred boys. necessary, for g-reater facility in coaching, to divide the club into three groups, A, B., and C. 'l'o each group has been assigned one of the three courts, and each group We is' responsible for keeping its own court in order .

CAMERA CLUB COMPETITIONS. FIRST PHIZE : B.

HORNER.

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have to thank several masters for the interest they are showing in the club, and because they have kindly ofterecl 'l'he tennis to eoach the boys in the various groups. club is greatly indebted to Mr. Candy for his gift of a championship cup, and we take this opportunity of expressing our thanks.

FOOTBALL NOTES. FIRST FIFTEEN. (H. L. Richardson.) One m >re football season has come to an end, but it remains in memory as one of the mile-posts in the For at the conclusion of the season, School's liistory. School, by its defeat of Auckland Grammar, showed itself entitled to a firm place in the top ranks of New Zealand Secondary School football. Apart from the match with Grammar the :First Fifteen has had a rather varied record-in some matches, as that played at Hawera and in the seven-a-side tournament on Peace Day, the plav was really fine; but against some other teams the perforn~ ance was hnrdly as good. But this is only to he expected, in the case of n srhool team playing against opponents of consiflerahly superior weight. In the First Junior (North Tarana ki) Competition the First Fifteen played eight games. 'l'hree were won, one drawn, and four lost; several matches outside the In merit; the forcompetition series were also played. wa·J~ds and backs were fairly even; ·in some games, while the forwards were held up by a heavy opposing pack, the uacks got their chance, hut in the Grammar match the forwards had the advantage. Witness the following extract from an account by the Auckland correspondent of the "Taranaki Herald":"'l'he forwards were the heroes of the team. They excelled in hook work, and in the last quarter simply ran Grammar to a standstill. The hacks did good work too, but t here is no doubt the palm must he given to the hefty well-trained boys who battled so gamely in the vanguard. June 5th. FIRS'l' FIFTEEN v. TECHNICAL COLLEGE. (Won 20 td 3.) · 'l'his match was played on the Racecourse. In the first spell School gained two tries and ·converted one, also

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b~~ng s.ut;e:ssful in a penalty shut . 'l'echnical College gamecl ~ tly. In the second half School obtained three more tnes .

SEVEN -A-SIDE TOUilN A.MEN'l'. (July 12th-First round, won. 19 to 0; second, lost 6 to 10.)

FilW'l ' l<'U''l'EEN v . INGLEWO OD. (J uue 12th-Wou 9 to 3.) i)dwul h~<-;velled to Inglewood, there playiug t h e home team. lhe School score consisted of two penalty goals, Loth kil5ked by Willis, and a try of Whittle's. FIRST FIF'l'EEN v. STRA'l'FOR D. (June 19th-Lost 11 to 0.) Although ,Sc~ool played yery pluckily, and crossed L_lte 1 ~· upp01~ent s lu~e several t1mes, they were unsuccess'[he Stratfonl team, which met School ful m sconng. on 1.ue Racecourse ground, was too heavy for the home players. FillS'J' FIF'l'EE:N V. EL'l'HAlll. (.Tune 2Gth- Dimm 3 tu 3.) 'l'his match wa s played on the Pukekura Park

!!" l:o untl; t h e play, which was more open than in many

o.f the, game::;, mngeu w0ll. up and clown the field. Sdtool " sr·o~·c \YU S a try, p;amed b:v vVhittle after an e:xAlthough they played hard and t;ellent pa:,;:,;mg rush. well, ihe team wail nut heavy enough for their opponents. FHlS'l' FH"l'EEN v. HA WERA. (July 3nl- Won 8 to 0.) In this match, played at Hawera as a curtain-rais er t<_J the represe;ntaiiv~ game, the School backs were parIn the first spell, owing to hcularly fine m the~r play. '' sh01~g adverse wmd, no scores were made, although the ''"eurht of the Hawera forwards made them dangerous But in the second half the School more than once . backs .almost h ad the game t<_J themselves; as a result two tnes, one coverted, we1:e gamed .

On the Satmday afternoon of the Peace Celebration s, t:\chool partit;ipated in a seven-a-side tournament at Pukekura Park. In the first round, against Old Boys, School were too fast for their opponents, and gained nineteen 'l'he final, between pom.ts as against Old Boys' nil. l ' ukapa and School, was marked by really brilliant passing on the latters' part, but their opponents possessed As the two very good kickers- H. Oliver and Pryor. scores were even (6-G) when the whistle blew, play was t;Ontinued unt il terminated by a fine drop-kick for Tukapa. The School team consisted of Osborne' (C[i,ptain), r\..tkinson, Brackebush , Brown, Harrison, Smart, C., and Whittle. SEXIOlt GIW l'P (SUHOOL) SE VEN -A-SIDE TO URN AMEN'!'. (July 17th.) Un t his date the whole School were oecupied in a In the seven-a-;:;ide eontest on the Hacecourse grounds. Seuim t;Ompetition, first round llo<.trd ers A. (0) played Day Boys B (11), Duanlers B (3) played Day Boys A (0). .Uoarder:,; D (G) played Boarder · () (3).

In the second round : Day :Uoys :U (J) played Boarders B (0). Iu the final round Boarders D defeated Day Boys B by 3 to nil. :FIIU:l'l' FH"l'EEN v. CLIF'l'OK. (July 2-±-Lust 7 to HJ.) School, which played Clifton at Waitara, was outclassed iu age and weight by the opposing- team; this, and a strong mountain wind, rather undermined School's attack. 'l'he School ·core comprised a drop-kick by Brown and a penalty by Osborne, both in the second spell.

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FIRS'l' FIF'l'EEN v. S'l'AR. (July 31st-Lost 11 to 6 ..) Seltool's play in the first half showed the e:lfeet of the absence of Atkinson and Brown; but in the second llalf the School backs were more, confident. On School's :side, Smart gained a try and Osbome a penalty goal from n, good mark. FIRST FIF'l'EEN v. S'l'AR. Second Round. (Augus~

8th-Lost 5 to 0.)

In this match, played at Pukekura P ark on a Saturday, Star were again vietorious. MATCH WITH AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Great excitement and interest prevailed in the latter half of the second term, ·when it was definitely known that a match had been arranged with Auckland Grammar After the rather heavy defeat. of the previous School. year, everyone was naturally anxious to see School gain its revenge; and although, owing to the match being played in Auckland, it was impossible for most of the School to watch the match, this in no way abated their anxiety. 'l'he School team, together with quite a large number of boys who were able to travel to Auckland, left by . the S.S. Rarawa on Thursday night, arriving at Oneh unga the following morning after a very fair passage. Those boys who were billeted were introduced to their hosts- and here it would not be out of place to express our sincere thanks to those who were kind enough to entertain the members of our team during their stay in Auckland. Then, after a practice on Friday afternoon, the team wa:; ready for the match. SCHOOL FIRST FIFTEEN v. AUCKLAND GRAMMAR. (August 23rd-School, 10; Grammar, 6.) The fo llowing account of the matcll is taken from t he "'l'aranaki Herald" of August 25th :-

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A large crowd, estimated at 10,000 or 12,000, witnessed the two 'l'aranaki football matches on :::latunlay. 'l'aranaki representatives were- defeated by Auckland by t12 to 9 while New Plymouth High School beat Auckland Gramn~ar School by 10 to 6. 'l'he schools' match rou:;ed ihe spectators to a high pitch of excitement, the closeness of the contest making it more interesting to watch than the representative game. 'l'he New Plymouth boys received a splendid reception, and the victory was deservedly pop.ular. 'l'heir forwards carried all before them, ami consistently beat the Grammar pack and backs, and they also were responsible No High School boy can be for good concerted work. sino·led out specially, as all battled strenuously to avenge theb defeat of last year, and when, with only fifteen miiJutes to o·o, Grammar had a lead of two points they put unexampled dash into their play and completely broke up the Auckland lads' defence. First a penalty goal was kicked and then within five minute-s of time a try was scored; this made New Plymouth four points ahead, with a reasonable prospect of success, hut they did not slacken their e:fforts and Grammar had no chance. Cheers "·ere given by the crowd as the teams filed o:ff the field, Os borne (the captain) being carried shoulder high. The teams were : New Plymouth High Sc~ool.-Full-b ack,. ~· 0 Halloran; three-quarters, J . Wh1ttle, Brown, \¥ 1lhs; . fiveeighths, Brackebush and B. Boon; half, P. Atkmson; forwards, C. N ewe.U, K. O'Halloran, R. Blundell, J ohns, R. Boon. C. Smart, E. Pope, Oshorne (captain). Grammar School.-Full-hack, Badeley; three-quarters, Stretton, Co:s:, McCrystal; five-eighths, Williams and Mclnnes; half, Wright; forwards, Cashmore, Arthtn,. Burns, Geddes, Grant, McLean, Millar, Lintott. High Schol emergencies.--Greiner, E. Smart, Grigg, Bellringer. DETAILS OF THE MATCH. Good following -up and tackling by the High School forwards resulted in New Plymouth making things merry from the kick-o:ff . Smart passing by the backs followed and Grammar had some strenuous moments in their Brackebush twenty-five be.f ore a kick relieved them. fielded the ball well and was the means of putting New Plvmouth a(J>ain on the attack, Williams marked 1 and

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th e home team swept down to the lligh School' s tw entyfive . ln a scr ummage near the line Grammar were awarded a fr ee-kick and Cox goaled. The first quarter th en ended wit h the score : Grammar 3, Jiigh :::lchool U. Willis· had a. shot at g oal from near the half-way line, hut the ball fell short by a few yards. Atkinson then init iated a prett y passing movem ent in the lhammar tw enty-five and til e ball went to Brown, who coolly chopki cked a beautiful goal amid ch eer ·, t hus put tiu g N e'l\ l'lymouth one point ah ead. A fa st run by Stretton was t he next incic1 ent, but \VItittle oll ared him ni cely, and half-time went wit h New Plymout h again .att acking.-N e" Plymouth 4, Grammar 3. Immediat ely after th e resumpt ion of pla y 8tret t on kicked over Hig h School' s line, hut ::m exciting rn ce for the ball saw School fo rce . U atte.r s looked clnn gerou .for New Plymouth durin g t he next fe ,, minutes . Grammar twice found touch n ear High School's line. The bla ck and white forwards wer e, however , more th a~1 equal to the occasion, and soon pushed up to h al£-way . Th en came a sad surprise for New Plymout h . Cox got th e hall after loose play at half-way and dashed through th e High School back , who we.r e unprepare d. \ Vh en he had only th e full-h ack t o h eat h e passed t o Cashmore, '1\ho galloped over. Cox failed t o convert and t h e t hir d quart er went with the score : Gra mmar 6, Hi g h School 4. It wns a. case of d o or di e for H igh Sch ool , and m ntt c.rs look ed un p romi f'in~· when Brackebu sh had to retire o "~'>·ing to a sprain ed ankle. E . Sm art replaced him and then a change came oYer the scene. ·within one minute \ Villis b ad anoth er un successful penalty shot from halfway and the next incident was Grammar being compelled t o force . Then fro m quarter-w ay Osb orne kicked a fin e penalty goal , puttin g Ne"~'>· Plymouth one point ah ead. \ Vithin :five minutes of t h e end of th e game Rm art dashed over from a scrummag e in fro nt of the line. Th e ki ck fail ed . Hig-h Scho ol h elc1 the upper h and until th e eaU of time· Whittle m aki ng- t wo stron g r uns , and Grammar bein g forced t wice. Final score.- High School 10 , Gramm ar 6. SECOND FIFTEEN . The Second Fifteen is t o be cong ratulat ed on its fine performan ce t hr ou ghout th e season . I n nearly every game th ey played good foot ball, and they rank as one of the best Second Fifteen s t h e School has seen.

FOOTBALL NOTES.

SECOND FIFTEEN MATCHE S. v . CLIF'l'ON SECOND J U NIORS. (Won 22 to niL) This match was played on the R acecourse grounds on Saturday, June 7th. A strong mountain wind was blowing at th e t ime, but in the first half School had th e advantaO'e of this, Olifton b eing k ept const antly on the defensiv~ . At half-time the score was 22 to nil in favour of SchooL Tries were obtained by Smart, H air, Christie and Brown. Of these Foden converted two and also ki ck ed two fin e penalty goals. Th ere was no further scoring in the second half. v. STAR SECOND JUNIORS . (Won 8 to niL) 'fh e Second Fifteen m et the above t eam on the Racecourse on June 14th. In the first half School had the better of the gam e, but were unable to score. After the spell School attacked strongly, and Bellrin ger and O' H alloran scored, Foden convertin g t h e latter 's try. v . TUKAP A SECO ND J U NIORS. (Won 12 to 3.) A. t \V est ern P ark on June 21st t h e Second Fifteen met Tuka.pa. and defented t h em by 12 points to 3. Early in the fi rst half :McH ardy scored for 'l'ukapa, but before half-time tries for School wer e obtained by H arri,·on (2) , Christie and R. Hair. 'f her e were no fur th er scores in the second spelL v. STRATFO RD D .H.S. FIRST FIFTEEN . (Won 9 to nil.) At t.h e Racecours e on Saturday, July 12th, the Second Fifte-e n was success·ful in defeating Stratford District. Hio·h School First Fifteen by 9 points to nil. For School, Kyngdon, Pope and Hine secured tries, none of whi ch we•r e converted . SECOND ROUND. v. CLIFTON SECOND J U NIORS. (Lost 6 to nil.) . On Saturday, August 2nd, the Seco?-d Fifteen journeyed out to W aitara and suffe.r ed thmr first defeat at the hands oi' the local t eam by 6 points to uil , 'l'he match

FOOTBALL NOTES.

was played in heavy rain and consequently the heavier Cli£1-on forwards proved superior. School, however, played a very fine game. v. STAR SECOND JUNIORS. (Drawn-6 all.) The Second :Fifteen played a drawn game against Star at the Racecourse on August 9th, the score being 6 all. For School \"¥infield touched down after E. Smart had crossed the line, hut lost the hall, and Horner kicked a penalty goal, just on the call of time. v. TUKAPA SECOND JUNIORS. (Lost 8 to 5.J At the Racecourse on Saturday, August 16th, the Second Fifteen was defeated by 'fukapa. Tukapa scored two tries, one of which was converted, whilst for School L. O'Halloran scored, converting his own try. SEVEN -A-SIDE. FIRST .JUNIOR COMPETITION. Following are the results in the First Junior sevena-side competition matches, plaved on No . 2 ground nt the Hacecourse on Thursday, July 17th:First Round. Boarders C (11) beat Prep. (nil). Boarders B (3) beat Boarders A (nil) . Day Boys A (3) be·a t Boarders D (nil). Day Boys B, a bye. Semi-finals. Boarders B (6) beat Boarders C (3) . Day Boys A (6) heat Day Boys B (3). Final. Boarders B (6) beat Day Boys A (nil) . 'l'HIRD FIFTEEN. (:M:. Barak.) THIRD FIFTEEN v . STRATFORD D.H.S. (Lost 22 to 6.) On June 7th the Third Fifteen travelled to Stratford and after a very good game were defeated by 22 points to 6. Horner scored both of the tries for School, but was forced to retire during the latter part of the match owing to cramp.

FIRST FIFTEEN, 1919. Ra ck l?vw : R. B L N llELL A. BRA C KEB US H E . POPE L. O ' H .ULO ll A:>.' } . \ •VILL I S Sccorul R ow : K. O ' HALLO IU:'\ P. ATKI:o.' SU:o.' M . 0 SBORN" (C aplairr ) 1~. BooN C. Front l?o1e•: H. J. B oo:-; H. BIW \1 ":-.' J. \ VHITTL E C. NEII"ELL.

B. s~rART

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FOOTBALL NOTES.

'l'HIRD FIFTEEN v. CLIFTON SECOND JUNIOHS. (Lost 36 to nil. ) On June 30th Clifton Second Juniors visited the The visitors were considerably heavier 'l'hird Fifteen. than our boys and consequently th e match was rather one-sided. 'fhough completely outclassed, however, our boys put up a most creclit.a.hle defen ce . THIRD FIFTEEN v. P A'l'EA. THIRD FIFTEEN. (Won 14 to nil.) Patea Third Fifteen travelled up in the 12th July On ears to play our team. 'l'he Patea boys had had no regular coach and consequently their play lacked cohesion, but for all that they fought gamely and our Third Fifteen only managed to defeat them by 14 points. Scores were made for School by Candy, \Vyhorn and Hoffmann, Horner converting one. THIRD FIFTEEN v . STAR SECOND JUNIORS. (Lost 11 to nil.) On July 26th the Third Fifteen played the Star Second Juniors. 'l'he , 'tar team was considerably the heavier and their back play enabled t hem to defeat our boys by 11 points to nil. THIIm FIFTJ!}EN v . S'l'RA.TFORD HIGH SCHOOL l<'IHS'l' FIFTEJ•:N. (Won 14 to 11. ) Stratford High School First Fifthe 2nd On August teen played our 'l'hird Fifteen a return match and a most exciting game resulted . 'l'he School team played a very clever game, completely outclassing Stratford both in forward and back play. ~core·s were made for School by Henderson, O'Halloran and Hoffmanu , Homer kicking a penalty goal and converting one try. SEYEN-A-SIDE TOU H NA1IENT. 'l'HE SECOND JUNIOR COMPETITION. On July 17th the various teams competed in a sevenTu tlt e Second Junior corn petition a -side tournament. some Yery interesting games resultec1 aml considerable spirit "·as shown over the final , which was to be played on the £ollowinn· clay. Of the twelve entries, Prep. and

CONCERT CLUB.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Pianoforte Duet ............ Mr. Rowe and Mr. Ryder. Dance ..................................... :. Mr. Eggleton. Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Calder. Sermonette .................................... Mr. Diprose. Duet (Voca.l) ............ Mr. Day and Mr. McKinney. Violin Solo . .................... ..... ... ... .... Mr. Rockel. Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :M.r. Glover. Song ............................. , ...... ... Mr. McKinney. Reading ....................................... Mr. Bottrill. Song ................................ ................ Mr. Day. Pianoforte Duet ......... Mr. Rowe and Mr. Ryder. One evening during the barracks we were enterta.itJ.ed. by a concert, but as we had to obey the sounding of "The Last Post" and "Lights Out" to the letter, the programme was a short one. Sergeant-Major Williamson and Sergeant-Major Ohapman gave much appreciated items. An impromptu entertainment was held on Octoher 11, the programme of which was as follows:1. Pianoforte Solo ................. :. .. . .. . .. .. . Bellringer i. 2. Song ................................................ Brooker. 3. Recitation ............................................. Candy. 4. Song ... ............... .. ............... ....... Oachemaille. 5. Violin Solo .................. ....... ........... Bothamley. 6. Monologue ............................................. J ohns. 7. Flute Solo .......................................... Homer. 8. Reading . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. . .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. Mr. Bottrill. 9. Pianoforte Solo ......... .... ................. G. C. Smith. 10. Song ....... .......... .. ... . ......................... Brooker. 11. Pianoforte Duet ............ Bellringer i. and Hayden. In addition to these entertainments by members o£ our own community, we attended two or three lectures held in the Assembly Hall, but accounts of these will be given elsewhere. Shortly after The Taranakian goes to press the Concert Club will be unfortunate enough to lose its chairman, Mr. McKinney, whose keenness in connection with this institution has been greatly appreciated by all during hi~ stay with us.

ASTRONOMICAL LECTURE:.

numerous auditors in a few fitting words by Mr. Percy >)lllHll, who expressed his hope that this would be but the tin;t among the lectures to be delivered consequent on the formation of an Astronomical Society. 'l'he Rev. Hlundell then proceeded. It was to be regretted. he said, that mainly owing to the specialising· temlency of modern education educated people, unfortunutely, tlid not know as much about the Heavens as did Lllose of former generations. It should be realised that in the wide sense of education no study was more profitable, to youth and age alike, than that of astronomy. On this aceount the society recently formed was aiming at the acquisition and equipment of a telescope in keeping with the needs of the town. After commencing the more technical part o£ his discourse· with a few remarks on the kinds and eonstruction of t el escopes, and a simple ye-t nmstedy explanation of the principle of the spectroscope, Mr. Blundell p1·oeee~:.le·d to sun ey the more striking features o£ the Heavens. After a brief examination of t he Southem Cross, the Milky Way, and then the nebulae, vast misty masses of luminous matter were dealt with. 'l'hen followed a more detailed account o£ the solar system, the grandeur of which, in comparison with our own earth, and the insignificance of which as opposed to the illimitable distances of the universe were illustrated by figures and diagrams. The sun and the moon natnrally occupied some time - the fanner uonspicuous and interestino· by its• spots and it · prominence::;, or mighty jets of burning hydrogen, the latter by its vast desolate plains and seas and craters 'and peaks of rugged rock. Photographs assisted materially in pourtraying this dead world. . 'l'he planets and their satellites-and especially Mars und Satum-were described with great skill by the lec-

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ASTRONOMICAL LECTURE. (R. Syme.) 01). Aug-ust 14 we were favoured with hearing in our Assembly Hall a popular lecture on Astronomy, by the Rev: 0.' Bhmdell. The speaker wa.s introduced to his

In conclusion Mr. Blundell expressed his eamest desire that, with the assistance of books, which he named, the subject would be further pursued by those who had heard his lecture, and thanked the audience £or their attendance. The audience testified their appreciation by prolonged applause.

RA WEI'S LECTURE . (R. Syme .)

In the course of the second term a lecture on the Pacific Islands, with special reference to M01·ea, in the Society Group, was delivered in the Assembly Hall by ~Ir. Rawei, a native schoolmaste r from that island. lknvei appeared on the scene picturesque ly ·attired in native costume, whieh at once excited the admiration and cunosity of the audience. He began by describing the island of M01·ea, one of the most charming of the P acific. It had been oecupied by EnglisiJ teachen:> beforE:' the annexation of the group by the French, and consequentl y English w·as spoken by the natives. The latter were an intelligent race, readi]y adaptable to more civilised condit ions. Rawei then dramaticall y described the discovery anu utilisation of "tappa" cloth, the fibre from which his garments were made, and next proceeded to describe the various improvemen ts as the natives advanced in skill . The garments were first worn plain, but t hen decorated. As the artistic tastes of the natives developed the primitive designs were improved on, and some strikingly beautiful mats were made. 'rhis stage of the lecture was illustl·ated by a display of native cloths which .he had with him. There "·as, needless to add, no superfhuty of clothes in the island. After graphically describing the interesting maniage nnll social custom· of his people, he spoke of the easy conditions of life on the island, where kind Nature pomeu · forth with lavish hand all products and necessaries of life. A.ll fruits and trees were growing wild. The coconut, which he described in more detail, was especially valuable. The natives were consequentl y of a cheerful disposition, and delighted in music and songs. H.awei then embarked on an account of the people themselve:;, and especially the children, of whom he was one of the teachers . Seventy years before bloodthirsty savages, t he people were now docile and civilised. 'rhis saicl much, for the fine work of t he English instruetun-J, for whom no praise could be too great. In conclusion he thanked his audience for their atten· tion, which he greatly appreciated , but not more tlluit the auuience appreciated his interesting ancl unusual lecture.

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LECTUR E BY STAFF-C APTAIN BLADEN. . (.R. Hair.) Un_Septemb er 10 we wm:e favoured with an extremely . mtere:;img lecture by Oaptam Bladen. 'l'his officer who haLl considerable experience at the front, delivered ~ leehue on. t he splendid heroism, optimism and comradeship . ' of the British soldier. His initial words . expressed a hope that his lecture "·u uld make us appreciate and endeavour to emulate the lofty standard of those who gave their all for their country. 'l'he lecturer staterl that we were too apt to consider the a.dvel?-t of America as the deciding factor in the early t~rmmatwn of the war. It was Britain's swiftness of decis~on, steadfastnes s of purpose and efficiency which saved ~urope from the tyranny of the Hun. Her stubborn resistan ce was t he backbone of the allies' defence British ~u~itious, arm~ment and equ~pll?-ent were large~y used. by Allied troops-m a word, Bntam was the A.lhes' mainstay. The theme throughout the remainder of the lecture was that o.! the soldiers' optimism and humour in the face of hardship, danger and suffering. Several stories were tul<l of the humorous way in which maimed soldiers reOne young convalescen t was ganled t heir ~1isabilities. d~mhled up With laughter on account of a muse bringing him a kmfe and for~ to eat his meal with. The poor ehay had l?st both his hands . Two veterans maimed in a hk~ fashion, but each poss~ssing the use of one hand, combm~d. and per£orm~d a smfl·le-hn~ded clap at a con. ert .. Gnm hl~ID?ur th1s, but h1gh tnbute to the soldiers' HTesistlLle optimism . .qaptain Bladen related further instances of the self·acnfice m~d pluck of digg~rs and stretcher-be arers, finThese women, ap y spe~kmg. of t~e hospital nurse. .--mgle-mmde d m their unselfishnes s and devotion to duty, ~ave set a standard sc.a rcely ever before approached in t~me: ?f war.. By then .ceaseless efforts in the alleviatwu of ::mffenng they gr.nned the admiration o£ all. Lastly t~e lecturer briefly touched upon the tempem.mer;tal chfferences between Briton and Gennau. As an msta;nce he related the bayonetting of a wounded To.mmy m a tren~h captured by the enemy. Opposed to t lus w3;s the readmess. of Tommies to administer comforts to !1 dymg fo e. Therem lay the difference between British chivalry and German kultur.

NAVY LEAGUE LECTURE. (R . Syme .)

On October 16 an address on the subject of the :Navy League was delivered by Uaptam Andrews, of the ShawSavill liner "Karame a." Captain Amlrews vms introlluced by Mr. Moyes with a few words on the, necessity for reviving the :Navy League movemen t in this school. Captain Andrews commence d by stating that in lns opinion it was "hard luck" that there was in the school no branch of such an essential associatio n as the Navy League, the importanc e of which was evident enough, because the Na.vy was the boml t ltltt h eld together om far-fim1g Empire. ·without it the Empire would most certainly fall. He t hen detailed some of the points of the Navy's work in the war, apart from the actual fighting, namely the convoying of soldiers and the keeping open of trade 1·outes. '!'hough the war was now over, neverthele:;s the strength of t h e Navy must be maintaine d. llhny politician s, acting no doubt ,:Vith the best of intentions, ''ished tm a 1·etluc-tiou in t he strength of the NaYy - om ,oole support. 'l'his, Captain A.ndrews forcibly exS1·eu gth \\·as the ouly plained, wa a nl iuou:-; policy. real ;m feguanl against war. Had our Army been as prepared as our X avy was, Germany would probably not have ventured on wa.r. Fortunate ly for t he Empire, however , the same old naval spirit still existed unimpaired . In reeognitio n of thi~ h e look the opportuni ty of pre::;enting 1.o the school a naval ensign, which he hoped would :;erve to keep the Xavy in mind. 'l'his generou::; gilt wa:; thanked with the applause ii. .Jlr. .JlcLean, who accompan ied Captain du:;erved. Andrews, then spoke of hiE~ impression s of X ew :0eabud anll it:; connectio n with the Empire . Finally, when thi~; wa::; condH<le<l , n <lisplny of physical drill wa s given.

CADET NOTES . During the second term we have beeu hard at work preparing for the barracks, which, unfortuna tely, were po,;tponed to the first week of the third term. \Ve now have an extra drill day on Fridays, physical drill having been su bsti tu ted for detention; this enables us to devote more t ime to mu. ketry. During the term N.C.O.'s have been attending classes as follows :-Tuesda y · : Section Drill, conducted by Mr. Rycler . 'l'hur:;day s: Musketry , by Mr. Dipro:;e. Friuays: Physical Drill, by Mr. Rowe.

WINNERS OF CHRISTCHURCH PRESS CHALLENGE SHIELD. E. WATERS S. H ERBERT L. ABBOT'!' P . \짜ILLS M.

Sfo/1(/iug :

Sitfiug:

MALT

A. CANDY.

BARAK

HAIR

CADI<:'t NOTES.

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'l h1s term we have reverted to the old method of falling-in . Each platoon has now its own parade ground, where all duties attendant on falling-in are undertaken by the platoon sergeant. These finished, the platoon moves o:ff to the company parade ground, where the platoon commander takes charge. lJ niforms have been distributed, but owing to wrong We sizes being sent all the boys could not be fitted. were unable to obtain slouch hats, though there is a chance of our doing so in the near路 future. Some found the forage cap:; we have at present 路rather difficult to put on- as far back on the head as they could be put was the favourite position until scathing remarks produced the necessary change. 'l'hi::; term has al o seen us equipped "with a properly fitted up armoury. \Vhat a boon it is only those who have been without it can tell. On July 18th we paraded to take part in the peace t.:elebmtions. \\' e fell in on the school grounds, and after :;tanding at attention for five minutes as a mark of re:;pec;t to tho::;c. who had given their lives in defenee of their country, we marched down to join the procession at Ka\vau Street. 'l'hence we followed a tortuous route to Pukekura Pa.rk, where, after the Mayor had read the proclamatio n and the National .A.n" hem had been sung, we were dismissed. ~ ext day we were compliment ed i:m our steadiness and marching. 1

THE BARRACK S. After two postponeme nts, the date of the Barracks was definitely fixed for Tuesday, September 23rd, until the following Friday. 'l'his meant that we would have to :;leep at school on :Monday night; so after school was over for the day, pallias;;es were filled and quarters assigned to the various platoons . That night no one slept well, owing -to the novelty and the general excitement. Each day w<;ts divided o:ff as follows :-Reveille at 6.45 a.ru. (thi:; was later t.:hanged to 6.30 a.m., to allow more time for tidying up, etc.); Breakfast at 7.30 a.m.; Parade at 8.25 a.m. After inspection we were marched to the racecourse, where work began in1 earnest, to return, a hungry lot, at 12.30 p .m. for dinner. .A.n hour later we were paraded again and marched o:ff to work till 4 p.m. From 4 to [> p.m. Sergt.-Majo r Styles took us for games

1'HE BAtm.\CI{S.

'tf:lE BARRACKS.

or bayoueL exerei::;e;;. Tea, at, (:i p.m., was eagerly welt.:Olllell. .After "lights out" at 9.15 p.m. there was no coaxing needed to induce sleep. 'l'he work carried out was divided into three classes, musketry, physical training and infantry training. 'l'he in;;tnwtors were very popular, and by the time they had !inishecl had us quite e±ficient. The musketry course eoulu not be canieu out as fully as was intended, owing to the e:x:traoruinarily long t ime the rail way::; took to fetch so me apparatus eonsigned from Palmerston North. E.wh evening, more for pmutiee than from necessity, a guari:'t eonsisting of seven eadets and two 1\ .C.O. :; was set, from 5 p.m . to 9 p.m. Two notieeable features Juring the Barracks "·ere the small n urn ber on siek paraue aml the still smaller number of Jefaulten;. rl.t each moming inspeetion the best turned out cadet from each platoon was seleeted, his name being published in routine orders. Kits were also inspected, anu there was keen rivalry among the platpons as to which would have the honour of ::;eeing its name in routine order::; for best laid out kits. A leeture was given eaeh evening at 7 o'clock. On 'l'ue,·(lay :Jlajor Cox was the speaker, his subject being "Barraeks ; Duties, . Diseipline anu Routine." On \Vednesday Captain Daflinger leetmed on ":Map Reatling." "U(:pr thi::; a eoneert was given by the Concert Cluh , who were assisted by t "·o exeellent performers, Sergt.-:Major \Yilliamson and Sergt.-Major Chapman . On Thursllay a leeture was given by Lieutenant King on "Musketry. " On Friday afternoon a eonsidera ble n umller of people assembled at the school to see a di~play of drill aml the presentation of shooting prizes won by the various teams. Under Captain Dallinger, the camp a.lljutant, we went through a series of rifle exercises and then for"med up for a march past the saluting base, where Lieut.Colonel Robinson took the salute. "\Ve were then drawn up in front of the main entrance in readiness for the presentation of the shooting prizes by Lieut.-Colonel Robinson. Major Cox, the camp commandant, expressed his appreciation. o£ the e:s:cel1~nt way in which all had carried out their duties during the short course. He commented upon the marked progress made in the four da~s and the fact that advanced subjects could not be dealt with owing to the short time at his disposal.

Lieui.-Uolonel ltobinson, representing District Headiluarters, vresented Lance-Corp. Barak, tlle <.;aptain of the \V eekly l'ress Challenge Shield team, with a ehe-que fOl' £1\J. 'l'he . hield and medals had not arrived as expected, OIYing to the railway disorganisation. He also presented the medals to the Senior and Junior Imperial Challenge Shield teams, who gained fourth and third place respectively for the Empire. Mr. Moyes, in thanking those who had helped to make the Barracks a success, said that he thought t he benefits of t he course would more than make up for the temporary dislocation of ordinary school work. He also saiq that he hoped to ~<;ee •t'he Ba·rracks an annual fixture. for the boys had enjoyed themselves, although they had had to work hard. The afternoon's function was broug-ht to a· close by an exhibition of physiual jerks• and g·ames under the u e\v system by a squad of 250 boys, under Mr. Rowe and ~fr. Eggleton.

SHOOTING NOTES. (E. Waters.)

1n the second term , during practice for the Imperial Challenge Shield Competition, arrangements were made f?r soll!e of _the seores to c?unt for the School Shooting \.Jhampwnsh1ps. A total of the best three performance;; ,,-as taken. The following are the highest scores obtained for the Searle Cup:C(JjiPETITIOK FOR THE "SEARLE" CUP. X ame. Max. - 300 Percentage . H.. l. Harrison ............ 282 94.00 B. :JI. Johns ............... 281 93 .66 281 93.()6 L . Ahbott .................. L. O'Halloran .. .. . ... .. .. 280 93.33 P. Atkinson .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . 278 92.66 R. Greiner . .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 276 92.00 The scores for the Under 16 Cup presented by Mr. Hamblyn are as follows:COMPE'l.'I'l.'ION FOH, THE "HAMBLYN" CUP. R ame. Ma:s:. - 300 Perr;entage. 93.66 L. Ab bott .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 281 93.33 :Jf. J on as .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . 280 91.33 :Jf. Barak .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . . 27 4 90.00 R. Crawshaw .... .... .... ... 270 90.00 A.. Gibs on .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. . 270

SHOOTlNG NOT E S.

'l'he following are the scores for t he Unller 15 Cup preseu tell by J\Ir. L oveday :·COMPE'J'I'IIOK F UR 'l'llE "LOV .GDAY" UU .P. Name. Max . - 300 Percentage. M. Barak .. . . . .. . . . . .. . .. . . 274 91.33 '1'. Penn ..... ....... . .... .... 273 91.00 R. Crawsh aw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 90,00 A. Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . 270 90.00 P. W ills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 89.33 C. J. Rogers .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . 266 88 .GG The scores for the Under 14 Cup presentet1 by :Messrs . McLeod and Slade are as follows :CU.)lPB'l'I'l'IOK lWH 'l'HE McLEOD & SLADE CUP . Name . Max . - 300 Percentage. 91.00 'l'. Penn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 88 .66 C. J. Rogers . . .. . .. . .. . .. . . 266 8G.66 F . W illiams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 SG .GG E. Chivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 84.GG J. J ackson .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 254 81.66 E. Olson .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. 245 'l'he Imperial Challenge Shield scores are as follows: ~0 . 1 PLA'l'OU.K SEKIOlt 'l'EA~l. Slow. l~apid . Total. Average. Xame. ··±7.5 95 49 4G L. Abbott .. .. .. .. .... -:1:7.5 95 49 4G .P. Atkinson .. ... .... 47.5 95 48 47 L . U'Halloran . .. ... -!7.0 94 47 47 lt. lheiner ···· ···· · .f(j. 5 90 47 4G J. Hi ne ·· ······ ···· 4G.O 92 .f(j 46 lt. I. Hanison ...... 45.5 91 46 45 :U. ::Jl. Johns .. .. .... ·. 40.0 8G .f4 42 E. Pope ............... Average percentage, 92.62. KO. 2 PLA'l'UUN SENIOR 'l'EA111. Slow. H.apid. 'l'otal. Average. Xame. 4(5.5 90 48 -±5 B. Boon . ........... 44.5 89 45 44 Ilerbert s. 44.5 89 44 45 :u. .Horner ······· ·· 43.0 8G 41:i 40 Alleman ~···· ····· 38.5 77 40 37 R. Candy ··· ··· ······ 38.5 77 42 35 J. Gihson ··· ··· ······ 38.5 77 40 37 .lu. Hair ······ ······ 38.5 77 35 42 E . Pearce ······· ··· ·· Average percentage, 79.37.

IMPERIAL CHALLENGE SHIELD TEAMS. T op Photo- Senior Team: No. 1 Platoon ; 5th place for the Empire and 1st for New Zealand. Top R ow : E. Pope, L. O'Halloran, J. Hine. Bottom Row : L. Abbott, R. Greiner, I. Harrison , P . Atkinson, B. John s. Bottom Photo- Junior Team: No. 1 Platoon ; 4 th pla ce for the Empir e a nd h t for New Zealand. Top Row : T. Penn, L. Linn , F. \N'illiams, A. Gibson. Bottom Row : P. \¥ills, M. Barak, H . Brown, R. Crawshaw.

SHOOTI NG NOTES.

NO . 3 PLA'l'OON SENIO R 'rEAM. Slow . Rapid . Total. Average . 1" am e. 46. 0 92 45 47 E. Cole . . . .. ... .. . .. . . 44.5 89 44 45 A. Brackeb ush . . ... . 43 .5 87 40 47 H. l\IcUae . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 .0 86 4..1 43 S. Train . . .. . .. . .. . . 43 .0 86 44 42 E. -waters .......... .. 42.5 85 46 39 . .... .. . . ,.-\,... Brooke r 85 42.5 · 43 42 L. )Ialt. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.5 77 40 37 . . . . . . oran l1 K . O-H:-1 A'v erage percen ta.ge, 85.87. KO. 4 PLATO OK SENIOR . TEAM . Slow. R.apid. Total. Average . Kame. 46.0 92 46 46 . . . . . . . . H. l\Iort.on . 45 .5 91 47 44 H. Hunt . . ...... .... 45.0 90 45 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . :\1. J on as 44 .5 89 45 44 F. A. Corney . . . . . . 44 .0 88 46 42 . . .. . .. .. Crapper A. 43 .0 86 45 41 T. X. Forlen ... . .... . 42.0 84 44 40 H . Hooker 40.0 80 42 38 E. Dur ker ... ... ... Averag e percent age, 87.50 . KO. 1 PLATo ON J UN IOR TEAM . Fig. Total. Average . Bull. 1"ame. 47 .0 94 49 45 l< . Ora " 'sh:-1 w .... . . 45.5 91 49 42 A. Gibson 45.5 91 '11 • Penn .. .. .. .. .. .... . 44.:) 89 48 41 P . Wills .......... .. 44.5 89 48 . 41 ........ illiams W 1•'. 44. 0 88 49 39 )l. Barak .. ... ...... . 41. 5 83 43 40 H. Brown .......... .. 77 I 38.5 41 36 L . Linn .......... ... .. 86.62. nge, pe>t'cPnt. e Averag NO . 2 PLATO ON JUNIO R TEAl\1 . Fig. Total. Average . Bull. Name. 47 .5 95 49 46 E. Chivers .. ... .. .. 46.0 92 48 44 .. .......... Young · I. 45.0 90 46 44 J. Trehey .......... .. 44.0 88 48 40 D . Wilson ........ .. .. 43.5 87 47 40 G. Brace girdle . . .. . . 43.0 86 43 43 J. .Tackson ........ . 40 .5 81 43 38 · A. Parkins on .. .. . . 79 39,5 38 41 A. Moyes .......... .. Averag e percent age, 87.25,

SHOOTING NOTES.

NO. 0 PLATOON JUNIOH, 'l'EAlU. Name. Bull. Fig . Total. Average. H. Mason .. ..... .. .. . 46 50 96 48. 0 8. Row lands ..... .. .. 45 48 93 46.5 Ji'" · Olson ············ 40 47 87 43.5 H. Rickard ... .. ... . 42 44 86 43.0 A. Rum ball 39 44 83 41.5 M. Sutton ............ 41 42 83 41.5 K. Lambie 39 43 82 41.0 H . Erla.ndson ...... 41 40 81 40.5 Avemge percentage, 86.37. NO. 4 PLATOON JU ~IOR TEAM. Name. Bull. Fig. Total. Average. C. J. H,ogers ..... .. .. 45 50 95 47:5 . 47 G. Calder . ... ........ 40 87 43.5 .Jl. Goldstone ······ 40 45 85 42. 5 J . Guilcl ............ 42 42 8-t 42 .0 J . Eaves ·········· ·· 41 42 83 41. 5 V. ·wells ............ 40 43 83 41.5 0. Greiner 40 40 80 40 .0 V. Fookes .... ..... 38 78 40 39.0 Average percentage, 84 .37. In tbe la st number of the " 'l'aranakian " there appeared n h st of t.be two t eam s '1\-hicll competed for t he Wee kly Press Challenge Shielcl. 'l'his term \Ye are pleased to stat e that t h e No. 24 Compan y 'l'eam was succ:eRsful in winning the S hield hy a goocl margin, their n Yernge p ercentage b eing 96.6. 'l'his t erm it is px-?posed to fir e oft for the Lad y Goclle y Cups , tl1e MacD1amud B elt, and t h e K elly Cup . Jh±le ' l1a ve been selecte d t o b e fitted '1\·it-h aperture si o·Uts nncl , '1\'C'ather permitting, the shooting should soo; be started. \\ e hl~e this opportunity of i_hanking Sergt.-Major Bell and Lle,utenant \Vard for the'll' valuable services in supervi sing t h P Impei·i a l Challenge Shiclcl matche s ln st term .

SHOOTING NOTES .

'l'he result;; a;; c;ahlcd are a-s follow;;: SENIOlt C(>.JH>E'l'I'l'ION. (755 teams comp eted .) 1st -Au stralian Infantry Cadets . . .. . .. . . . . .. . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . .. . .. . . 3rc1- Launceston i'\aval Cadets ............ 4t h--Ln.unceston NaYal Cadets ............ 5th - :\' e\Y Plymout h High School . ... .. .. .

~net- Gee long

88 95.tl 95.6 93 .6 9U'l

.JU NIOR C"(JJIPE'l'ITION . (554 temus· competed.) 1st. -City of London Ca dets .. .. ... .. .. . .. . 2nrl- ·Launceston Cadets .. .. .... .. .... .. .. .. . 8rcl- N ovn Rc·otia Ca dets. 4th- N e''" Plymouth Higb School ......... 5th- Ne" Plymouth-High School. 6t\i- Ne1Y l)l_vmouth Hig-l1 8C'l10ol.

93.4 93.1 89 .6

\\' e take this opportunit~~ of t encl e.riug our con g ratulntim1 s to t lie '\\·innin g t.enms. In counc;ct.ion '1\·ith the , h ooting the followin g t eleg ram was received by th e H cmlmast er ham Sir J ames Allen, i\Iinist.er tor DC'fen ce : ' "lHe great rush of busin ess con. equen t on t he. close ol: the session bn.s preYent ed m e front Reu(lmg- you an earlier m essage o{ co-i Jgra t ulahon 011 the yc-ry great. lli Rt in chon again \\On by teams from y our RC'hool in th_c ~m JWrinl Nhielrl Compet.i.tion. 1t must he yery grnhfy111 g' to y ou to- kno': t hat, i11 spite o:f i'llC_ o·r9ntly . in crr_nRecl numh e:~' of ent.nes, y our t eams stll l mamtnm thcu posd .Jon among ;;t th e lenrlin o· t eams for the champion ship. Pl ease conYey my congratulations to the boys and tell t hem that I an'l sure tl1 at th e t radition which they an cr eating for th eir School " ·ill prove an in centive to th e :f.utnre generations· of hoys, and ·nw t I , as Minist er of D efen ce, am Yery proud of their su cess."

THE STEEPLECHASE. Since the a hove notes wer e '1\·ritten th e results of t.Jw Im1 erial Challen ge Rhield Competitio11 havC'. camP to h~ncl. The s:hool t ea m s again appen r amongst th e pri7.P~n. nn ers and 111 ho!h the S mor nml .~unior Competitions ::-;; ew P l?mouth H1gh School ]Ja.s agmn ta k en :5.rst place for New Zealand.

The annual Steeplechase was held on the NP\\ Pl,lmouth GoH Links on Thurr;day, October 16th. · For the following account of th e Steepleohase we t\ l' () indebted to the Taranuki Daily New s;~

THE

STEEPLECHASE.

The annual steeplechase in connection wit h the Ne" Plymouth Boys High School, which mts held on the N cw Plymouth Golf Links yesterday -in perfect went her eonditions, attracted n lar ge gath ering "ho anticipated an enjoyable afternoon & sport and \\ er e not disappoint ed . As u sual , the splendid orgnni snt ion whi ch is >m ch a feature of any gatherings in connection 11·ith th e Ne w Plymouth High School \\ US . a gnin i11 cYi<l enee, and th e hig fielrl s- ·91 in the Jun-ior and 204 in th e Senior Steeple~rh e chase-were dispat ched without any difficulty . races wer e follow ed with interest by the spectators. th e keenness \\ith \\hi ch even the smnllest boy ent erer] into the race and fought it out gam ely to th e fini sh, even though hopelessly b eaten , being greatly ndmired hy th e spectn tors . The Junior Steeplechase, \\hich was over n course of about two miles, took pla ·e first, t h e little fe1lo\\s being di spat ch ed at interval s, fiv e minutes elapsing betwe en th e times the limit and scratch men set out. 'rhe fi eld 11·a s soon strun g out an d the middle m arker s f orgerl their wny to the fro nt, a good fini sh resulting in En ston (3min. ) rlefeating P almer (3min.) hy about 20 yarrls. The Senior Clwmpionship course was about 5 miles, and the limit m en wer e given 4! minutes' start . Tl1 e fi eld was ag ain strung out, hut t h e limit m en were quickly oYerb auled. and Cn.mphell (3min. ) went to t he front some di stan ce from home and m aintained t h e len d until nbout a. quarter of a mil e from t h e pos-t , when Boon , who h ad run a. fin P rn.c e from scratch , passed him and ra n in a winn er hy Campbell h ad hard luck in losing a ltbout 50 yards . couple of chains by taking a wr ong turning. Th en came Dinnis· and Bay]y, about 200 y ard s further l1ack, Candy h eing close up . The oth er boys came•back at close inte.r vnls until practically every boy h ad compl et ed the course. Following ar e the det ailed results : -

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.JUNIOR. RTREPJ_,ECHASE . (3min .) 1, Palmer (3min .) 2, Dawbin (21min .) 3, P erry (3min. ) 4, W alker (1j min. ) 5, A. Hutchen (1min. ) 6, F ussell (1j-min .) 7, B. Lash (H-min.) 8, J . Gray (3min. ) 9, H . F ookes (1-tmin.) 10. Jillet (11-min. ), J. St ronge (Hmin. ), Thompson (11-min. ), Hoby (!min. ), Sladden (lJ min. ), C. l\IcNeill (Hmin.) Brewst er (scr .), K. Fookes (1-}min. ), Burke ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE. 1. 2.

E AST O:-< W I NN ING TH E J UN IOR STE E P LE CHASE. H . J . BOON W I NN I NG TH E S ENIO R. THE S CRATCH ME N START.

THE STEEPLECHASE.

(:cr.), Hardwick (3min.), E. Smith (scr.), Alexande,r (scr .), Olson (scr.), C. Griffiths (4min.), List (ljmin.), Jlorey (scr.), Hawken (3mi~.). FASTEST TIME. The actual time of the race was not taken, but. A. Hutchen beat Brewster by 13 seconds for fastest time in t he. race. 'fhen came in order Bourke, S1Uith, Alexander, Olson, Hoby, ~lorey, and 路walker. SENIOR STEEPLECHASE. B. Boon (scr.) 1, Campbell (3min.) 2, Dinnis (2-}min.) 3, Bayly (3min.) 4, Candy (Hmin.) 5, Lash (3j路min .) 6, Palmer (lj-min.) 7, Cavauey (3-Jmin.) 8, Henancl (scr.) 9, Young (1miu .) 10. Jury (3miu.), Pulley (3-Jmiu.), Richarclson (2min.) , . Wilson (3min .), Grant (2miu.), G. Smith (2min.), G. Hair (1min.), Gillet (1-min.), :Jia ckay (2-Jmin.), Veale (~min.), L. Abhott (2-}min.), P. Johnson (2min.), Smart (scr.), Baker (1min.), Duncan (2~min.) , D. Hair (!min.). FASTES'r TIMES. Boon 26min. 33sec ., Tienaud 27min . 45sec., Candy 28miu. 42sec., Young 28min. 47sec., Palmer 28min. 04ser ., G. Hair 28min. 59sec., .Jille,t 28min. 59sec., Uamphell 29min. 89sec., Dinnis 29min. 41sec., Smart 30min. 4sec., Richarclson 30min. 15ser., Grant 30min. 16sec., Smith 30min. 17sec ., D. Hair 30min. 41sec .. Lush 30min. 5l sec., Cnvaney 30min . 56 ec. CHA)iPIO~SHIP

POIN'r S.

Se.n ior Chnmpionship. - .T. H . Boon 5, H ..Tohns 3,

C'. Kyngclon 1. Junior Championship.- K. Bah:er 5, H. Bayly 3, 'N. TI.ea 1. U nd er 14.- R . Brewster 5, E. Smith 3, v\. Alexander 1. U ncler 12.-G. Walker 5, H. FookeR 8, C. ::\IcNeill"l. Under 10.-A . Hutch en 5 1 \V. Hurdwick 3 1 A. J:Ietheriugton 1,

ANNUAL SPORTS.

ANNUAL SPORTS. _ The annual sports were held on November 6th. 'L'J1e weather, which was cold and threatening in the morning , proved delightful in the afternoon, when a very brgp nnmher of spE'!cb .tors a sse,mbled on the School grounds. The following account of th e sports is taken hom tlJ e Taranaki Daily New s :'L'he field was in p erfect order and for visitors m11l The arrompetitors the clay was a most enjoyable, one. rangements \Yere excellent, th e o:fficia.lR workecl splenilidly , antl the sports weJ.'e carried oJf in t }JP Yer y fin e spiri1 w hi ch iR• chara ct eri,.,tic of the hest tn1ditionR of th e inr;ti'!.'h er e were r ecord entries, ancl all t h e en'.nts tution. wer e k eenly cont est ed and in many ca ses th P· yerclict. •~as . g-ainerl hy only t h e Rmnllest a rl vantn ge . \Vhile th er e wer e many splendid p E1rf.ormnnces that of K y ngtlon, who ann exed the senior championship , was th e most conspi cuous . In hi s "·innings h P p lar ecl to his rrecht nncl also to that of thC\ 1 'chool a n ew r econl , in rarryiug o.ff th e 120 Y artls Hurdl es in 17ser . (his t ime for t h e heat and t lw final) b eing 1 2-6srr. hettrr t.h nn F . A. Brnre' s performanr e, in 1914. . In th e 100 Yards Senior Cup and 100 Yard s In vitntwn Rn ce r esp ectively 'WhiHlP ancl Hotbaml ey mnnaged to r ench the pnwio.us School r eronl of llsec . The junior champion ship went t o H. Brown, who lecl In the und er 14 clwrnt~1 e ru:J?-ner-up by three point s~ pwnslup (four eventR) H . Hretr ,' t eil' secured th e possible number of points, hi s display of athletics hein g pa r ticul::u:ly attra cti Ye . H. Fook Ps won t-h e und er 12 champioJJshlp , and that for boys und er 10 went t o \\". Har<lwick , eac h comin g wit l1in two points of th e possihl e. . Another good piece of. work wn s the long jumping of Ha1r m t he Junior Cup comp et it ion , hi s distance being 'L' h e hi g h jumping wa s n keen con te ;; t. in i he Hi feet. semor event bc·i.wecn K y ngdon anrl \Vhittle, the· form er H e m a de an att-empt to- put on :m clearing 5ft. 3-Jin. e·x tra j-in. , out was not su ccessful. ~nth erland , who wa s ronr ed ecl2in ., equalled 'Whittle.sl 5ft.. lin. Rirknwl won th e junior evCJlt , clenrino· 4ft . Gin . Th e Potato R ace,, Sack Ra ce , and Three-Jeggecl Race wer e all more or IeRs amusing. Tll e Invitation Ra ce was a cont est b etween the School, T echnical Colleg e, and

Stratford D.H.S., and wa s won by Bothamley (New Plymouth), who ran a splendid race, and was c_arried shoulder high round t h e gTounds amid st tha ch eer s of his many ndmirmg fellow- students. The Old Boys' races did not draw so m any entries a s wer e expected, but the contes t was none the less strenuDr. Fookes was a hot proposition m both events ous . ("i 5 yards and 220 yards) , winning the . first in g reat In the second r aca h e h ad t? give place t o 0. style . :\lcH ardy , a much younger man , who won the under 14 r hampionship in 1915. The hurdles in both sections were fine exhibition s of tha t class of athletics . In t h e, one mile open event ther e wi1s a tremendously large field, which g radually b ecame "-pll strung out round the course . The limit boys (25 0 y nn1 s) wer e too good f oT those on scr atch to o;·e.r tak e, aml the back m ark er s g aYe up the contest, wlnch wa s fouglit out b etween D . H air (100ycl s .), n. Gihh s anrl B. Hoh.r (limit), who finish ed in t hat oi~d er . The t UJ5' S-?fwar lw.tween Boarder s ancl Da y Boys m semor and J111110T srrt-.ion s of the School wer e stern eYents, th e pull b et ween In th e juniors being i£ an ythin g t h e mor e strenuous·. both. r a ses t h e, Hoard ers wer e able· t.o , er urc th e verdict . During t h e afte rnoon , tc.a. wa s served in the- Assemhl:r. H all by a committee of Inch es, :who wer e very .~bl); as;:nsted by a large number of pupil s fr<;m1 th e Gul s Hin·h Rchool. Mr s. Woods' or cl1 estra al so add ed to the cn.fo:pnenf by playing a pr og r amm e o-f mu sic. Following ar e th e results :120 Yard s Open. - F ir st h eht : \ V . H ea (5yds .) 1, · Sin clair (scr. ) 2; C. White (t;yds.) 3 . I 'er oncl h eat. : n. 'l 'hird R en (6yds.) 1, Wilh (scr.) 2 , Carr (5yds.) 3 . h eat : Ho:ffm ann (scr. ) 1, E . Sm art (4ycls .) 2, Cleland (6y cls.) 3 . Fourth h eat : H a wkes (5ycl s.) 1, B othamley Fifth h eat.: Bra ck e(s~r.) 2, K. O' H alloran (3yck) 3. hu sh (3yd R.) 1, B. Dailey (9yrls.) 2, I. \1. Palmm· (5yd R. ) Si xth h eat : C. A very (6yd s .) 1 , Nicholson (1ycl. ) Z, ~BrhnclRon (9yds .) 3 . Seven t h h Pat : Osborne, (3yds .) 1, Sut h erland (4yd . . ) 2, Rena ud (1ycl .) 3. Eig hth h eat : G. Rmnrt (1y d .) 1, Rowlan tls (7ycl s.) 2, L . Neill (3yds.) 3 . N inth h eat. : W ater son (1y d. ) 1, I nch (4yds .) 2, Grigg (0yfl s .) 3 . T ent h h eat : B arton (4yd R.) 1, .Te-ffries (10yrh :.) 2 , IV. T aylor (7y cl . . ) 3 . Eleventh h eat: Rteven son (9ycls .) Twelfth h ea t : 1, Horn er (2ycl. .) 2, :Jlorey (12ycl s .) 8 . L. O' H allorm't (3yck ) 1, R awk in s (5ycl .) 2, G . Smit h (5~ fl s.) 3. T hi rteenth h eat.: Allem ann (4ycls .) 1, Moyes

AN NUAL SPORTS.

ANNUAL SPORTS .

Fourteenth heHt: E. (6yds .) 2, C. Newell (byds.) 3. W b.ite (byds.) 1, Malt (3yds.) 2, Rnuckey (!:!yds.) 3. Final: J::Lo:fhnann 1, H. Dailey 2, C. Ha\\kes 3.; time, 1:2 3-5sec. 100 Yards, under 15.-First h eat : C. J..Jash (5yds.) 1, H.. lWe, (byds .) 2, Veale (8yds .) 3. l::lecond heat : Ca lder (2yds.) 1, Northern (-.!:yds.) :2, lL Bellringer (scr.) 3. 'l'hird beat: R. ltea (1yd.) 1 , Jhewster (scr.) 2, il1oyes Fourth: heat: ,J. :::>caulan (Jy ds.) 1, _\lackny ( cr.) 3. Final : Rea 1, Scanlnn 2, lt. (·cr.) 2, Da,7is (scr.) 3. lhe,Yster 3; time, 12sec . 100 Yards Senior Cup (championship ).-First heat: \Yhittle l, Kyngdon 2, R. Hoon 3 · time, 11sec . Second heat: Hn\\kes (tlycls.) 1, E:. O'Halloran (5yds .) 2, Brooker (5yds.) 3. Tl.tird heat: Ho:ffmann (scr.) nnd NicholFourth son (3ytls.) dead-heat 1, C. Smnrt (2yll s .) 3. heat: H:n,·kins (lyds .) 1, Boi.hamley (scr.) 2, \Vnt.erson FiHh heat: Sinclai.r (2ycls.) 1, C. White (2yclR.) · . (8yds .) 2. Finnl: Hawke, 1, Ho:ffmann 2, \\'hit.tle 3; time, 10 2-5sec. 100 Yards Junior Cup (championship).-Fi.rst hent: Bro\\n 1, \V. Rea 2, Foclen 3; time, 11 .2-5Re.c . Seconrl heat: Barton (1yd.) 1, DinnisR (4yd .. ) 2, Row lands (4yds.) 3 . Third heat: Cnlde'l.' (6ycl .) 1, Hnghson (1yd. ) 2, C. Lnsh (7y cl . . ) 3. Fourth heat: C. A very (6yrls.) 1, Rteven. on (7yds. ) 2, JiillR (4yds.) 3. Fifth heat: L ealand (7yrlR.) 1, P. GriffithR (6yds .) 2, Olson (5yds.) :1. Finnl: Avery 1, Hro\\n 2, Ha~' to11 3; time, 11 1-5sec . Lon"' Jump, Senior Cup.-E:yngdon (18ft. 5in.) 1, WJ1ittle (18ft. 4in.) 2, Nicholson 6in. (17ft . 11in .) 3. Long Jump, Junior Cup. --IL Hair (16ft .) 1; :McRne, 4in. (15ft. 7in.), 2; Sutton, 4in. (15ft. 3in.), 3. 880 Yarch, Senim' and Junior (Mason )lemnrinl Cup).-Ho:ffmann (30yrls.) 1, Ni.chols~n (scr.) 2, Kyno·" " don (scr.) 3. Time, 2min. 10 2-5sec. . 100 Yards, under 14 Cup.-First hent (championship): Bre\\ster 1, Olson 2, Lambie 3: time., 12 l -5sec. Second heat: Thomson (5yds.) 1, Dayly (5yds.) 2. Third h eat: B. Scan_lan (5yds.) 1 , B. Lash (5yds.) 2, Rumball (4yds.) 3. Fmal: Brewster 1, V. Fookes 2 Lambie 3 · ' ' time, 12 l-5sec. 220 Yards Open Handicap.-.First heat: R. Rea (12yds.) 1, Sutherland (lOyds.) 2. Second heat: Ho:ffmann (scr.) 1, Rowlands (15yd~>.) 2. Third heat: Abbott (12yds.) 1, E. White (10yds.) 2. Fourth heat: G. Smith (12ycls .) 1, Sinclair (3yds .) nnd Dai.lev (13yds.) dead Fifth heRt: Grigg (7yds.) "I , R. Bellringer heat 2.

(1:!yds.) 2. f::lixth heat: Mal~ (7ycls.) 1, C. f::lmart (4yd:,;.) 2 . f::leveuth heat: P . H awkms (lOy_ds.) 1, Brackebush (4yd:,;.) 2. Eighth heat: C. Avery (12yds.) 1, Osbome (7yds.) 2. Ninth heat: Steveu:,;ou 1, Case (12yds.) 2. 'l 'enth heat: Hawkes (11yds.) 1, Waterson (5yds.) 2. Fiual: Ho:ffmanu 1, Steveuson 2, H. llea 3; time, 25 4-5sec . Hio·h Jump, Junior Cup.-Rickard, scr . (4ft . 6in.), 1; Hair~ scr. (4ft. 5in.), and 'l 'obin, 2in. (4ft . 5in.), equal, 2. 75 Y ards' under 13.-Gilmour (scr.) 1, ill. Thomson (:,;er.) 2, E. J~ckson (2yds.) 3. Time, 10 1-5sec. 50 Yards under 10 Cup.-Jlardwick (scr.) 1, A. Hutchen (ser .) 2, A. Washer (sel'.) 3. 'l'ime, 7 2-5:oee . 440 Yards Seillior Cup.-Hohmanu "(lOyds .) 1, U. Smart ( lOyds.) 2, Whittle (scr.) 3. 'l'ime, 56 2-5sec . 440 Yards Junior Cup.-Stevensou (15yds.) 1, H . • rBrowu (scr.) 2,' R. Rea (5y cl s.) 3 . rr·1me, D'-9 2-osec. 75 Yards under 14 Cup.-First heat (uhampionship): l.he"·ster 1, Lumbie 2, l\Iorey 3; time, 9 2-5:oe u. Seeontl h eat : )1. 'l'hom:,;on (5yds .) 1, B. Seanlan (2yds.) 2, J;tum-. ball (-±yds.) J. 'l 'hird heat: B. Lash (4ylls.) l, lhtcalf (3yd:o.) 2, Ho by (4yds.) 3. Ji'inal: Bn;" ·ster 1, Lambie :! ; time, 9 -±-5see. 50 Yards unde1' 11.-.n. Fookc:,; (:,;er.) 1, B.ard"·iek ' (sur.) 3. T.1me, 7 ee. (:2ytls.) ~, A. Fussell 'l'hree-leo·o·ed Hauc, 75 yanls.-l.ir t heat: Grigg ::w J Foden (ser. ) l~ Gmy aml Hanl"·i~k (7yd:,;.) 2, , Suttou and Ellis (3yds.) 3. f::leuoml and t lnnl heats: Sua~la~ ami. Dailey (Eiyds.) 1, Pca:,;e and f::lnuth (Gy ds.) 2, Clm_stle aml )litL:aH (:Jy ds .) 3. Final: J. 'canlm1 and B. Dmley aud }'mleu aml Urigg (dea,d-heat) 1, N. Smith and Pea se o. Hin·ll Jump, Senior Cup. - K ,yugclou, scr. (5ft. o·} in.), 1; \VlJi'ttle, ::;er . (5ft. lin.), uucl Sutherlan d, 2in. (5it. liu. ), Equal; 2 . 100 Yards, untler 12 Uup.- l •'irst heat (champion:-;bi[J): H . Fooke. · 1,_ Pease· 2, Pa9·et 3; time, 10 2-~::;~c. Second heat: Da"·hm (1yd.) 1, f::lladden (sur.) 2, Elbot (4yds.) 3. Final: Fookes 1, Pease 2, hlc:N eill 3; time, 14see. l 1 otato Race (10 heats).-D. Hair 1, Jillett 2, Itaw·on 3. 'l'ime, 55 1-5sec. 100 Yard;;, under 10 Cup.-Hanlwic~ (scr .) 1, A. Hut chen (ser.) 2, A. \Vaoiher (sel".) 3. 'l'1me, 14 2-5seu.

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Invitation Race, lOO ya1·d s .- Bothamley (New Ply mouth) 1, 'l 'horpe (St m tfmcl D.H.S. ) 2, W Little (f\ e.w Plymouth) 0. 'l'ime, llsec. 75 Y ards, uml er 10 Cup.- H aTClwi ck (scl'. ) 1, 1.. . 8. 'l'ime, 11 2-5sec . . 50 Y ard , und er 12 Uup. - First h eat (championship): H. Fookes 1, P ease. 2, Fussell 3 ; tim e 7 l -5see . Sladden Second h eat: D awbin (l y d .) 1, Elliot (-±yd ·.) (scr. ) 0. ll'inal : 'P ease 1, li'ool:.e 2 Da wbin 3 · time ' ' ' ,..,I sec . Sack H.ace, 75 yards. - .J:'irst and seconJ b eats : 1... Hutch en . (ltJ,yds .) 1, Burke. (4yds .) 2, 1lacDiarmiJ (lOyJ s .) 0. l'hml and fourt h h eat s : Arthur (6yds.) 1 F ifth and sixth h eat s : Blundell Dawbin (Gyds.) 2 . (-ly ds.) 1, I, N eill (sel'. ) 2 . Final: Blundelll Da,vbin 2 ' ' Hutch en 3; t ime, 13 3-5sec .

\Var, J uuiol'. - Hoanler s ,( Onmby, Row lands, 'l'uo·-of0 Camly, A. Clark e, lhyly , Chiver::; , EdanJson, anJ L. Uluistie) beat the Day Boys .

~ut chen (scr. ) 2, J. H etherin gton (scl'. )

. 120 Y ards,, umler ~ 2 Uup . -B. FC!okes (::;cL ) 1, Dawbm (.2y ds.) 2, C. McNe1ll (scr.) 3. T1me, 16 4-5sec . OlJ Boy::; ' R ace., 75 yards (12 en hies) .- Dl'. Fookes 1, P. Atkinson 2, H. Ualder 3 . 'l'ime, Sse: . 120 Y anls Hurdle ·, Senior Uup (:Jir . N oaka:;'s Cup). -First h eat (ehmupionship) : Kyn gdon (o\\·e 7yds.) 1, ~in e (owe i yLk) 2,' J. H. B oon (o\Ye 7_ytk ) J~; tim e, l1 :;0e. a rec ord. Se·omlheat : Osborue (0\n! 1yds.) 1, 1 Final: Ky no·Jon 'atie• ·(sc:r. ) 2, Hu ghson (tier. ) 0. 0 ' 0 .· uome 2 , Hine 3; t ime, 17 sec . 120 Y arll s• BurJle::;, J'unior Uu]J .- H. H air (owe 7yd s.) 1, Brown (owe 7yLls .) 2, JJayly (owe 7yds.) 3; SeconJ h eat : Hi ck arcl (owe 7yJ s.) 1, tim e, 2l see . :7\Ie:;\Iab ou ( ow ' 7yd s.) 2, \V . U ea (owe 7yJ ·.) J. J:~inal : Brown 1, H air 2, Rickard 0; t ime, 20 2-5sec . 220 Yctrd ::; ,under 1-± Cup .- Binuie (lOy ds.) 1, Bre\\·ster (ser.) 2 , J efhi es (scl'.) 0 . Time, 29 3-5sec . Old Boys' l bce, 220 y ards (10 eut ries).-0. hl ·Hcn·dy 1, Dr. Fookes 2, P. Ukinson 3 . Time, 25 2-5tiec. One :Mile Open B amli •ap (Dl'. Fookes ' s Uu11 ) .- D . Hair (lOOy ds.) 1, B . Gibbs (250y ds .) 2 , D. Ho-b y (25 0yd::;) J. 'l 'ime, 5min . 7sec . Tug -of-W-a r , Senior.- Boarders (R. Boon, B . John .·, C. Smart, K . O' H alloran , R. Blundell, B . N oak es, E. Pope, and M . Osborne) b eat t h e D ay Boys .

'l'lw follo"·ing eveuts had b een LleeiLled previously:'l'hrowino· the Cricket Ball.- Seuior : Siuclair Juuior: (iiJ yllo. 1ft. liu .) 1, Hawkins (74yJ s. 1ft.) 2. J. 1\dmer (15yL1 s. Oft. 0j iu.) 1, H. :Th[eH.ae (74yds. Oft.

Hiu.) 2. CHA:JIPIUN SHI.P POINTS. Senior Cu!J. - Kyn g dou (2-1) 1, J. Whittle (17) 2 , J. H . Boon (12) 0. J uuior Cup .- H. Browu (19) 1, H. H~tir (16) 2, W . ·Hea (8) 3. U llller 14.-- K Bre\\·st er (20) 1 K. Lambil' (6) 2 . 1 mle1· 12.- H. l•'ou-kes (18) 1, J. P cai;e (7) 2, G. Walker (5 ) J. 1lml er 10 .- W. H anhY.ick (18) 1, A . Hutch eu (H) 2.

LATE CRICKET. ~EW

PLY:JW GTH A v. SCHOOL . (Od ouer 26th. )

Tl1is match was played 011 our own g round and the oTass wi ck et was in perfect eoudit ion . New Ply mouth A ~' on by G0 nm s on tlJC first iunin gs. Sc hool bat t eLl fir st aud made G1 , Pope (17), Smart (Hi uot out) aud OsLom e (9) b eiu g th e hi gh est scorei; . Palmer , \\·h o gaYc th G Le::;t all-rouuLl p edor~cm c:e~ \Y<L S caught fur four iu t he first iuuin gs, but earned h1s bat for J5 iu the second . • inning r eali t;etL 52 ruu:; for four wic1: ets, 'l'lt e ·ecoml Palmer ( :~ 5 not out) aml Pope (8) m aking the' ruu s . 'l'h e b est batting pe'l'tormrml' es ill the New Plymouth icum wr.re He sket t (42) and W e:;ton (23 not out). , Analysis .- P alm er four for 27, and Brown two for 13 howl ed b est for School, while J ohnson took five for 26 for N ew Plymouth A .

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LATE CR!Cl<:E'!'.

SCHOOL v. NEW PLYMOUT H D. (November 1st.) New ~chool wo11 by 69 l'Ulls O·ll the first inni11gs. Plyy10uth batted fi1:st and made 52, Pm·due (16) tmJ Qmckfall (11) reachmg double figures. Analysis.- O ' Ralloran four for 16, Palmer three for 12, Brown three £or 15. School made 121, Willis (29) a11d Palmer (36) bei11g re-spons1ble for 65 nms before .the first wicket fell. O'Halloran (17), Osbome (11) and Smart (11) also batted well. Pm·due and Hewitt took most wickets £or New Ply. . mouth.

. Crappel' was the mo-st successful bowlel'. School ~ade 72, Holdeu (15) and Grigg (10) reauL. mg double figures, although all but one of the team made somet runs. Hellaby and Way bowled best for Freezi11g Works.

SECOND XI. v. WHI'l'ELE Y. (October 25th .) l::luhool won by an innings and ;J(j runs . For ~e;hool Trehey (18) awl Hayden (H) were chief score-r s m a total of 6G . vVhiteley made lU and 20 respectively . SEUOND XI. V. 'l'IKORAN GI. (November 1st.) 'l'he eleven traYelled to 'l 'ikomngi aml lost by -±U runs . For ~e;hool, J oh11s (10) and· l::lutherla11d (15) were the o11ly two to reae;h doul.Jle figures m a total of -±0 ruus. Iu their second innings Sutherland (30), 'l'rehey (15) anJ N iuholso11 (10) brought the sume to 68. C. a11d J. :Forema11 a11d H. ·whitehead shared the bending honours for 'l'ikorangi. Tikomngi made ()8 iu their first i11niu~·s tmd 88 iu tlJe second. I\ . J?oreman (20 and 02), lhaham (18 aud ] 7) were their uhief suorers. Trehey and SutheJ:land were the most suuuessfu l bowlers for Suhool. 'l 'HHW XI. V. FltEE:0ING 1\ OHKS. (November 1st.) Freeziug \Vorks won by 119 nms on the firsl , inuiugs, uearly all the team making double figures, l!:lmus (-±2) anJ Hartnell (34) making the, best suo res.

OLD BOYS ' CLUB . . A me~ting o£ the High School Old Doys' Club was held on Tuesday, 7th October, for the purpose of adopting rules and electi11g officers. There 'va s a gooJ. attendance. Officea.·s were elected as follows:President: Dr. E. F. Fookes. Vice-Presid ents : .l\Iess1·s. E. P. \Vebster and H.. H. George. Hon. ecretary: R. :JI. :llonteath. Hon. 'l'reasurer: H. J oh11sou. E:xee;utive Committee: Messrs. A. lJewleyJ K D. Colson, A. Osbome, R. H. Quilliam, C. G. Dottrill. Delegates to North 'l'aranaki Association : Messrs. Quilliam and Monteath. U 11der the rules adopted those eligible for m em hership are Old Boys and past and present masters of the l::luhool. A uousidera ble amount of interest is bei11g shown amo11gst the Old Boys in regard to urieket, ·a nd it is e.s:pe ·ted that they will Lave. a very solid team in the seuior uompetition .

PREPARATORY NOTE£ (B. Dailey.) Since our last :Magazine was published Avery, J., 'l'he new boys are V. Hogg, ancl :Jiilhu have left 'lS. Smith, J. Gray, G. N. Hardwick, W. Gillman, I. Barak, Easton, H . Dawbin, A. Hutchen, G. Lucena, J. Hine. Two boys sat for their Proficiency Certificate at a special examination duri11g the Second Term, one being suucessful a11d the other securing Competency .

PREPARATORY NOTES.

PREPARATORY NOTE S.

Miss Campbell was away from School for a faid y long peTiod t his term through sickness, alH.l durin g ll er absence th e Lower Preparatory School was in ch arge of :Nir. D ay. Football has been t h e chief recreation of the .Preparatory boys during the Winter Term. The .Preparatory team played in the Opper School s' Junior Competition, and had th e honour of winning. '11h ere was also a J uniOl' Preparatory Competition in which t here were three teams named A, B, C chosen from boys who did not play in t h e First F ifteen . The competition was won by t h e B team . Some very amusing answers were g iven by boys last term. Perhaps the most amusing of these are tlle following :-In the Geography Exammation a question was asked, ''\Vhat do you know about Polar " ail(l one " brainy" boy answered it in t hi s style: "Pola is something referring to the Poles, su ch as the Pola Star." Anoth er "brainy" yo uth answered the same question in the following manner: He said, " You h ave h eard of the regions round the Poles, well these regions are called the Pola Regions." Most o£ us are aware that L ee was a great American General, but we feel inclined to disbelieve the extraordinary powers attnbuted to him by one boy who, while energetically delivering to the clus:; "Barbara Frietchie," said : "On that pleasant mom of the early fall, When L ee marched over the gard en ''"all. "

'fHE U!UME SHEET.

One of our masters felt h e was n ot making much impression when, in the midst of an elo(Juent atlLlress, h e saw a boy sleeping peae fully in l1is seat; but " ·l1 eu another youth on being asked to state t l1 e uumb •r of boys in a certain class, mentioned t hat there were 23 tom; 9 hundredweights, he received the well- earned appell ation of ".Weary Willie." illr . l\IcKinney, who has been in charge of t he Preparatory School for so many years, has been appoi11tetl Organising Teacher for tl1e \. "·ukino district, aml "·ill lJL' leaving us shortly. vV e all wish him tt yery prosp ' l'OU S and happy future.

It is r umoured that some of t h e Sixth Form do not take kindly to the new fo·r m o£ punishment that has taken the place of detention. The following lin es were discovered in the Upper Sixth room : -

Each afternoon at fo ur Hard by the ma~ter ' s door A doleful troop we see Of thirty boy s or more And even twice ru score Whom stern and harsh decree To ruthless punishment con signed . Alas! so cruel a fate to ±incl . As bees thick swarming in some f!o\1·ery mead \\ 'hen Summer smiles and all i;~ decked with green , As canion crow s when human fl esh is seen l<'asu flock from far away to g lut their greed, As boys allured by prospects of a fee d What t ime their hungry stomach s do them lead, So n umb erless are t hose bad fe llows s en , (-Ah foo ls. Discretion's voice 11·ho did not heed-) In hope and fear uncertain standing there, With gaped li ps and ya can t stare. Then follO\,YS near th ' accursed band A hefty prefect's horny hand. Through t he dreaded gloomy portal Abhorred of every mortaL \Vith silent steps and slo11· In single Jile t hey go ; With looks downca st and damp, As in the rain IYithout a gamp, As one 11·ho just a needed meal hath missed Or only nearly bath a maiden kissed .. Ju st as whom unrelenting fate designed In Pluto's fiery realm their doom to find. \ Vith blanched cheeks more white t han Alpine snow s Or maid's when first t he po1Hler puff she know s · \Vit lt horror pale and fearful eyes aghast As one in Ford that goes too fast Who fears each breath may be his last. Thence soon a re heard indignant groans , The t:ringing supplian ts' mu tered moans, The stern uplifted lash's hissing sound, As it twists itself some wretch's back around.

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OLD BOYS ' ASSOCIATION.

Cruel flagellation ! \~1 oeful lamentation! 0 seek not then to learn What penalty they eam! But o' er the horrid sight A kindly veil we draw. VIle shut t he master's dour. Too much to know it is not right Uf wh at \Y e too some da.v ma.y feel. So 11·ith a tear thi s tale \Y e seal.

ANNUAL MEETING OF ASSOCIATION. 'l'he annual meeting or the New Plymouth High School Old Boys' Association was held in the School AsAn attendance of o_ver sembly Hall on Friday evening. 30 memhe,rs W:l,S presided over by Hr. P. J. H . vVhlte. Several apologies for absence were r eceived ..

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OLD BOYS' COLUMN. 'l'he, attention of Old Boys is drawn to the fact tLat .Jlr. N. D. Day isr no-w responsible for the compilation of the notes tLat appear in thi s portion of the Magazine. H e would be extremely gmteful for any news of interest to Old Boys . All conespondence should be aclchesseu to lh. N. D. Day , Boy ' High School, New Plymouth.

OLD BOYS' ASSOCIATION. Ol•'FIOEH.S (1919-1920). President : E. P. I Vebster. Yice,-Presidents : A. ill. 1\IuuDiarmiu and P. J<Jukson. Hon. Treas1uer : lL H. George . Hon. J o.int ~ eu r e·tari es: J . 13. Wilson a nu lt. Ho well. E xecutive: I>. J. H. White, A. JJewley, C. H. \Vynyaru P. At kinson, D. Sa:s:ton , W. H. Jenkin son, E. D: Colson and N. D. Day (Suhool H.epresentative) . Old Boys' R epresentatives : Auukland: Phil Grey, c/o Grey unu Delamore, so-licitors. P almer ston North: Cyril Day, u/o Abraham and Williams. Dunedin: Bemanl Sinclair, Otago University. \Vellington: A. Callender, Government Buildings. Tham es : J. C. W yborn, 'fe Aroha. Editor of " Old Boy s' Column" : Norman D. Day, Boys ' High School, New Plymouth.

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H.EMARKS BY PRESIDENT . In moving the adoption of the annual r eport. of th e executive committee, which ha. already b een published , the president expressed gratification at seeing so sati sfa ctory an att.enrhuce·. H e wa.s convin ced that the association would rontinue t.o ~row , and t hat in futura years they "·oulrl see the· lutll filled. It was a step in the right <liredion t.o hr~ve t.he m eeting h eld in the school buildings , and they had to thank .Mr. Moyes and the offi cials of the school for permitting this to be done.. Continuing Mr. \Vhite said tb.ere wr~s something would like to speak of somewhat ' r~part he He m ention e,d in t h e r eport. from the matter would like to see the boy s of th e New Plymouth High Rchool, as t.hey came on in li fe, taking a ve,ry k een interest in r~ll the affairs of th e community . H e felt that th e rby lwd passed, especially with tb e experiences of th e r er ent. war, wh en they could deem education to be a mere arnclemi c affair · that woulrl put r~ littl e polish on a mnn. ThC'~· ha<l heard a great deal about town advertising ancl the progrE"ss of the district in which they lwppen ed to live , and t.o his mind it was one o£ th e duties of those who received a secondary education to very actively take part in everything that might conduce to the welfare of the community in which they lived. He was not advocating that all should goin for politics, but there were a number of ave,nues of activity that would benefit from the assistance and enthusiasm that the younger m en present roulrl bring to help them . The speaker proceeded to- say that he believed New Plymouth in the very near future was going to· become one of the greatest educational CE'Illt.res of the Dominion, apart perhaps, from university courses. He was not sure that the time would not come when a centre would be sought outside the busy cities, and if New Plymouth had not attained to the position of a city it might be heire that the Go-vernment would decide t? have ~ ce_ntre whe_re ther~ could be proper university llfe. Th1s d1d not ex1st yet m any of the ce.n tres in New Zea hmd, ~xcept to a certain degree in Dunedip , The

OLD BOYS' ASS OCIATION. 58 universities and colle1ges were distributed throughout the Dominion, and the speaker thought the1 time would come when tho:oe in po\Yer in t he lanJ would look for a site . somewhere, apart, and it might be that they would come to 1'aranaki. Heferring to the immediate business that "·ould engage the attention of the incoming committee, .J.lr. ·w hite· m<>ntioned the proposed Old Boys' m emorial to those Old Boys w ho had fallen and otl1e-rs "~>ho ha<l taken part in the war just concluded. It was a matter of some urgency, and h e thought that tbe r etirinO' ex.ecut in, having takeill such a laro·e part in the "1\orl of the Citizens' Committee in raising fumls for buildinoo the As.~em h ly Hall, could "e.U le-m·e tl1e completion of i h~ "·ar memorial scheme to the new exec utive. The president next referred to offshoots of th e 3Ssociation, , uch a. the Old Boys' foot hall and cricket cl u hs, that had been formed in connection with the a ssocia ti on. As preside.n t h e wished to express pleasure at their formation, and. h e thought t.hnt. in this· connection the1'e were other matters, apnrt from sports, that might well e11gage t he attention of Oln · Boys. If New Plymouth waR to he an educational centre tll e time would sopn he ripe for commencin g a philoRophical society and it "1\0uld he hest started by those who hacl some training in scientific matters. The speaker refprrerl to the fact that in W anganui there wa nn nctin philosophical societv connec.ten with the museum. One of tlH~ iTIRtitutions in New Plvmouth with which he wnR connected was the museum , ;nd in order t hnt it sbouln lwst fulfil its purpose it was neceRsary that there he nRso Pinted with it sociotieR f'Omewhat upon these· lines. In Tnrnnaki there was n rich field for exploration in botany nnd in geology. H e tho-u ght, ns he l1ad remarked before. t.h nt it was• fitting- that Rucll .a hodv nR the Old BovR' t\.Rsocintion Rho-uld he lookerl to to give help along theRe lines. · The motion to adopt th<:' renort was second ed hv Mr. A. RPwlPy , and carried. · ·

ELECTION OF OFFICERS . Offi cers were ele.cted as followR :-President, Mr. E. P. vVebf'ter ; vice-presidents, "JJ essrs. A. M. MacDiarmid and P. Ja kRon ; l1on. treasurer, Ur. R . H. George; hon . secretaries, Messrs. J. B. \:Vil son and R. Howell ; exec\1tive committee, Messrs. P . .T. H. White. A. Bewley, C. H . \:Vynyard, P. Atkinson, D. Saxton, W . H . J enki11 so:n and E. D . Col on; executive representative at the school 1 }l.r. N. Day ; auditor Mr. A. H ., A very.

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WAR MEMORIAL PROPOSALS . '\V ith reference to the war memorial, the chairman

:oaid the e:s:ecutive required a lead from the meeting as t o what sc hem e; should he adopted. The retiring execul l ve luul been assisted in preparing two schemes by .l\le;;srs. \V. A . Cumming (;\.u ckland) and 'r. H. Hates, who had supplied sk etch plans without cost. '!'he two proposals brought forward by the executive weJ.'e: Schoo! chape·l, C•s tim ated eo ·t £5000; enhn nce gates and oYel'heacl library, estima ted cost £2000 . If tile forme,r were adopted it "·otdd be necessary to ta k e into consideration the pTovision of a site. Referring to the second proposal, t h e speaker Raid tbat the entrance to the school would ha ve to receiye. attention at some time by the• Board ol G-overnors, if nothing else were done. The memorial was pmely n matter for t he a. o iation, and sub sCTiptions would he confined to Old Boys and present pupils nnd the· parents of both . ~Ir. 1-t. H . Quilliam said that th e Board of Governors "~>ould ltavc to nttend to the entrance, and it was a work t hat might well be left to them. He t hought it desirable t hnt the chool should have a chapel. }Ir. C._ H . Wyn:yanl nlso :bvou red the chapel proposnl, consulermg that a cl1n pe l was essential to the tone ol' n school of the . ir.e nnd n ntme of the New Plymouth High Rchool. }Ir. E. P. vV e-b ste[' said ho was as :yet. of nn open mind regarding the form of memorial to he adopted . · If it. wa s to be a chap el it should he n chapel "1\0rthy of tll e o,uhj ect to which it "~>a s dedicated. Mr. Quilliam moved that the. matteT of decidinoo on t he form of the memorial should he left to tbe incOI~ino· executive committee with power to act, and that it be ~ recomme:ndation from the meeting- that the memorial he a school chapel. This was seconded by 1\Ir. C. H. Wynyard. Mr. N . D . Day, one of the masters, mentioned that the raising of fund_s was heino· enthusiastically taken up by the boys attendmg the1 school, and it was their intention to raise £1 per head of the present pupils (repre senting about £320). · The chairman remarked that the chapal would he purely no·n -sectarian, and he did not fear that any difficulty would flrise in t hat direction, '

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Mr. Don. Saxton, as one of the younger Old Boys and a member of the, school staff, said he believed the feeling among the boys was that the memorial should be a ch apel. Mr. Bewley, referring to the purpose of the, memorial, said the retiring executive, after cliscussin()' t l1 e matt er, thoug ht .it desirable, tha.t the memorial sho~lld be not only for those who hacl given their lives, but should also refer in a wider sen se to nll Old Boys who lwd served in th e war. The motion was t hem put to the m eeting and carried unanimously. · It was decidecl that n sum o·f £37 4s 9d, now lying in the N e'lf Plymouth Savings Bank, which had been colle cted before the war as the nucle us of a fund for providmg school sw1mmmg bath .. , hould he tran sferred to the 1nemorinl fun cl . GENERAL. out of a proposal from the Old Boys' Foothall Club, it was r1 ecid etl to l10ld a ball, aur1 a rommit.tee wns appointed a s follows :- Messr s. E. D. Colson, vV. H. .J enkinson, P. A.t kin son, H . H. George, A. :u. MacDiarmid, N. D Da y, R. -;\I. }lonteath , H. G. Grn:yling and R. Howell. On the motion of :Mr. Hc,"·ley it waR decided that the incoming ornmittee should r evi.se th e rules oi th e nssociation. On the motion of Mr . \i\r,ebst er , a h earty vote of thanks was passed to Mr. J\Ioy e. (the. h eadma ster) and }lrs. :Moye s for their valua hle assistanre to the a ~> so c ia hon at all tim e~> when it had b een requirerl. A Yote of thanks was passed to th e r etiring presid ent (Jlr. White), the mO\·er (}Ir. A. }if:. }lncDiarmid ) eulo g ising the sound wor k th at h e had done during his ierm of offi ce . In presenting its annual r eport, the, executive is ple a~> ed to b e able t o state that the association has again h en placed on a working b asis, t hough much yet r emains to he don e b efore it C'ao h e Fmid that all it. fun ctions are 1winp: fulfilled . The first annual meeting was held on October 31, 1913, and b efore another y ear had elapsed th e outbreak of war intervened. The activiti es of the a.sso ciat.ion were suspended from August, 1914, until near the end of 1917 . On December 3 of that y ear a general Ar:is~ng

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-r; ,tJ. ':>t' . i ;',l' mt)etmg of Old Boys was held, Mr. J. E. W1lson presid1f' ing, to consid·er means of assisting the Board of Gov0

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ernors in securing adequate fund,;: for rebuilding the classrooms destroyed by fire in 19lti, the amount offered by the Government bemg totally inadequate to erect a building t hat would be suited to the needs o:£ ' the school and a credit to those concerned. As a result ;representatives of the Old l3oys' Association invited the co-operation of the1 Board of Governors, his Worship the Mayor (Mr. C. H. Burgess), and leadinQ' citizens of the town and district, and a citizens' committee was formed, which succeeded in collecting the ..sum of £2930 13s 6d, and thus enabled an Assembly Hall to be built. Although offi cers were elected a,t the meeting in December, 1917, th e association remained inactive ex cept for the valuable a~> sistan c e given in h elping to mi se this fund. No furtheT g en eral m eeting was held until February of this year. At that time the, .\ssembly Hall was nearing completion, and it was f elt t hat the opening ceremony would be. a. fitting occasion upon which to r e.-aBsemble the Old Boys of the school. Consequently they were again called together. It was reported that most of the officers appointed in 1917 h ad since b ecome scattered, s o fresh officers were elect ed to cany on until this meeting, they h eing :- ,President, JI.Ir. P. J. H . \i\Thite; vice1-presidents, :J.lessrs. E. P. W ebster and A. K. MacDiarmid; hon. treasurer, Mr. R. H . George; joint hon. secretaries, Messrs. F. C. K elly and J. B. Wilson ·executive committ ee, 1\i(e,ssr s . A. Bewley, P. J ackson , C. H . Wynyard, R. Fox, R . .i\1. Monteath, H. G . Graylin g and N. F. Little. At a. subsequent m eeting of the committee Mr. N . D. Day was addecl to· the commit.te,e, in ord er that it should lla.ve a r epresen tative at the school. Annual R eunion.- Th e executive, in accordance with a resolution passed at t be g en eral m eetin g , commenced its wurk of aga.:n b anding the Old Boys to gether by making arrangemen ts for a reunion dinner- the first to h h eld ~>in ce 1913 . The work of g etting in touch with aJl Old Boys was r endered diffi cult by th e fact that there was no record of tl1 n am es of Old Boys who h ad joined t he association in the pa t. However , th e h eadmaster ver y promptly supplied the executive with a complete list of Old Boys from th e school recor ds . To each of these a circula r was sent onveying an invitation to b e present at the r eunion and to b ecome a m emhe.r of the association by paying •the subscription if that had not been ::~lready done . Th e r eunion was h eld on April 3,

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the day of the official opening of the .new school by Sn .bver since l::lu J ames had. been 11'1Imsttr of ..i£ducatwn he had manifested a. k een mterest m thtl school and t h e Old boys in particular Wish to record tlleir thanks for his kindness in coming to open the n ew hall and classrooms. 'l 'he function in the afternoon wa s attended by a large company, includmg many 0~~ boys w11o lt ad not been near the school fo-r years. lhe reumon dinner was h eld the same e,vening in the large dinino· h all of the school and provided a happy au g m y Over .18U Ulu Ho ys for t ~e future of the association. \\·ere present in audition t o g-uests to the. number 0-1 a bout :l.U, in dluded among " · lwm were Sir J ames Alien, Minister of D efence, Mr. S . G. Smith, .Nl.P ., the chmrman of t he, :Hoard of Governors (Mr. lL \V. D . Rob eTt~ son), the headmasteT (Mr. W. H. M.oyes), and ~he staff of the schoo-L The president occupied t h e chmT and a mo st en joyable evening was spent. 'fhe scho?l athletic sports " ·ere held on ~fi~ foll~w~ng clay (Apnl 4), ~ncl in the evemnO' the Cd1zens Committee, upon 'lhich t.be Old Boys ~vere Te]2r~sented, gave a bal~ in t h e assembly h all in Tecogmtwn ?f .the geneTosity of . the residents of the. town and ui stn ct who h ad sub scnb ed It. also was a the money to build the assembly h all. pTonounced success. vV aT MemoriaL- An important matter which has engaged the attention of .the exect~tive since ~t came inio office is t hat of prov1clmg a fittmg memortal to keep O'J'een the remembrance of the saeritices of the many Old Boys who an swe,recl the call of Empire . cl~ring r ~h e war and especially of those who gave then hves . Ihe sch~ol has a war record of which it ca n be _justly prot~d. Of a total of about 800 pupils who passed through Its portals between the time of its foundation i? 1881 ~nd the close of the war, over 280 went on actiVe se_rvwe . 0£ this gallant band about 50 (the complete. roll IS not yet available) will n ever return. The executive has two proposals to place before y ou in connectio? with the memorial, viz :-(1) School chapel at an estimated cost (2) Entran ce gates an.d of (building alone.) £5000. It IS overhead library, at an estimated cost of £2000. fe,lt that when the matter is properly brought under the notice of the Old Boys and parents of past and present pupils there should be no diffi culty in securing the amou-nf required to provide the m~morial in whatever form is decided upon . The executive recommends that the sum of £37 4s 9d which was collected prior to 1914

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63 be towards a fund f.or providing school baths should t ransferred to a memoTial fund. 'l'he executive undeTstands th at the boys at the school h ave already staTted a scheme which has resulted in upwards of £60 in small sum s being collected amongst themselves. F inancial position.-It is satisfactory to b e able to report that t h e balance sh eet shows a cre.clit balance of £11 Os 10d. Membership fees were received from 120 Old Boys and totalled £22, and the receipts in connection with t h e dinneT were £46 lls 6d . A loss of £5 10s (less than it was estimated) in connection with the dinIt is n eT h ad to be met out of the membeTship fees. desired that all Old Boys who have not yet become members will lo se no t ime in doing so. Sports.-There has already been started in affiliation with the association an Old Boys' Football Club . The Club too·k an active part in the past season' s foot ball, an d , with the material for playeTs which is in sig ht , should soon take a. front place in the Dominion. vVhile on the subject the executive would like, to congratulate th e school first fifte en upon their recent splendid performance against Au ckland Grammar School. A few 'leeks ag o an Old Bnys' Cricket Club was formed . The, d ub will take up practice at once in time foT t h e coming season's matches. }Iany of the membe.Ts are alread y well k nown in cricket circles, so the club is not likely to see all the honoms go to. players of the winteT It is to be hoped member as a whole will ga.me . take a k een interest in, and h eartily support these offThe exe'Cut ive, a.re o£ -shoots of the parent association. t h e opinion that these· club s and kindred organisations whi h may clevela.p as time goes on will be important fa ctors in wel ding Old Boys together as one body and firmly establishing th e association for all time. General.-The executive lw s me.t on ten occao:fE ce, and of i:s: months sions during the thi s together with the period during which most of the r:-xecut ive were workiJJg in conjunction with said to conth e C'iti7.ens' Committee, may b ~titute the first vear of the renewed as. ociation. Good work h as been clone;, but ther re-organisation is by no means rompletP as yet, and it iR hoped t h at thiR meeting will assiRt th e incoming- officers and committee, by making pra ·tical sugge• tions foT furthering tlie inte1~ests of the association and enabling it to carry out it. functions i+l ~ comprehensive manner . The pTovidinO' of a badge

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and compilation of a register of Old Boys are at least two of the matters which it is· felt should receiYe attention now that the association is entering upon a new ]ease of life. Tltanks.-The executive cannot complete their report without making referen •e to the consistent co-urtesy and ready assistance whi ch they have received at all times from the headmaster (Mr. lVIoyes). It is gratifying to find that the relations between the association anrl the school are so· intima te, as thjs condition is essential to The sincere thanks of the associeffective working. ation are flue to Messr s. \V . A. Gumming and T. H. Bates, who pr parerl sketc h plans for the proposed memorial free of cost, and t.n :M:r. R. N. Henaurl, Sergt.::'IIajor Gill, l\IessrR. F. vV . G. :M:cLeod and R. Geor<~e, who gave Yaluahle assistance with tbe musical proThanks are aho clue gramme at the reunion clinner . to :M:r. E. ,p . ViTehster, a vice-president, for the use of hi s o.ffi ce for meetings of tl1e executive. The presirlent also wisheR to place on record h rs personal indebtedness to the secretarie., officers and members of the executive for their regular attendance and enthusiastic assistance · throughout his term of office.

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We reg1·et to hear t hat. :Maurice Standish, of 'l'arata, is at present. seriously ill in t.h New Plymouth Hospital. \V e wish him a speedy return to good health. Ian Pott, who, since his return from active service, has been staying in New Plymouth, recently left for Africa-,where h e rejoins his parents, to take up farming. A. R. Standish, who recently returned from France, is once more practising his profe si on in New Plymouth. H. Gibson, who recently was admitted to the Supreme Court, has commenced practice on his own account, as a solicitor, at Kaponga. Douglas :M:eikle i s now at Pascoe's, jewellers, Auckland. H. L. Cook, recently returned from active service, has r esumed his practice in the firm of Cook and Ho.sking, Rolicitors, Dunedin. Atho1 \iVilson haR been successful in keeping second year terms in law at. the Victoria University.

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65 C. P . Bates !'ecently moved from Aramoho to Oha, ku~e, where he 18' now' on the sta:ff of the public school. Ph1~ C~apman, ~vho. soon after leaving school joined the sta:ff of the .Pubhc school at yv aitara, is now sole teacher at Kakatah1, neal' Wanganm. on his father's farm at Hector Rolfe is workino· 5 Matau. We received a letter from AI£. Honnor cono·ratulat. He ~ng the fi~·st fifteen on thair victory in Aucklan°d . ~s now qmte re~ov~red from his accident, and is farminry 0 m the Ohura distnct. A l~·n&' letter, descriptive of_ the. country in which he now 1es1d.es, was recently received from Gm·ald vVe.b He IS a cadet on a farm a·t :M:atarana Cape ster. ' Runaway. Ian Grant, rec~nt~y ret~uned from active service, is n.ow one ~f. the pnnClpals m the firm of Paterson and lhant, sohmtors, lnglewood . Eric. Pearce, who left during last term, is now farm. mg on his father's property at Kakaramea. Private . V. S .. ¥cl\Iurmy, mcently returned from overseas, pmd 3: v1s1t to the school a few weeks back. ~t. pres.ent h e 1s on furlough. It is his intention to fimsh hl·S degre,e at Auckla.n d University. So11 and Uil. Hawkins is now traveller for Saro·ood 0 ' ' Ewe11. He is statio11ed at Gisbome. Plymouth New the Alf. ~rant is once agai11 back i11 bnmeh of the, bank of New South Wales . " , . Eric Day arrived back in New Zealand ou the Uwsse11." . He .Paid a short Yisit to . New Plymouth t;~on af~er. Ins an'lVal. He is slJOrtly to join the staft o£ the Chnstchmch branch of the Unio11 Bank. Lieut. Aliste.r Sutherland, who went throuo·lJ the ?o-ur ·e <~t Duntroon Military College, is . uow st~tione d m Hmmlto11. H e and N . L eec]J , who was aho at Dulitroou, leave shortly for India. . , l'hil. Grey is now one of the partners i11 the. firm of Urey and Delamore, olicitms, Auckland. l\Ir. J. E. Wilson, S.M., Auckland , was one of the . mtere ted spectators at the School-Gramm ar match. "~ick" .Wyborn, w~o left at the end of last term . IS farmmg With one of his brothers· on his father's far~ at Te Aroha.

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Les. Hill has recentl y been appoin ted secreta ry of the Auckla nd branch of the N e,w Zealan d Welfar e Leagu e. W. Monk is now on the staff of the Nation al Bank in Auckla nd. He recentl y paid a visit to New P lymouth and also to the school. H . Bradbu ry is sheep- farmin g ?'t Pio Pio. Dave Syke.s recentl y returne d to New ~ealand after some years of active seTVice. At presen t he is on holiday leave. Pbil. Atkins on, who played rover in the 1919 football team, is now on the clerica l sta:fl of L. A. N olan and Co., New Plymo uth. Lionel J ones and Keith Ward are at presen t attendin g the Gramm ar School in Auckla nd. Ted Boulto n writes from St. Kilda, Duned in, stating he was extrem ely sorry at not being able to b e presen t with us at the Old Boys' Reunio n. Gordon Salt, B.Sc., is now demon strator in physic s at the Otago Univer sity . H i also assisti ng Profes sor Thoms on in markin g e:s:am. papers . Owen J ohns and vV. Old are now at Nelson College . George Hooke1· is now in the, Design ing Engine er s sta:li of the Public Works Depart ment in Wellin gton. H . C. M . Norris , since return ing from the £rout, has comme nced practic e on his own accoun t, as a solicitor, in Hamil ton. ltonald C. Adlam , since re.tum ing £rom the front, has taken up 'the positio n as first assi,;ta nt Ltt the State School , Inglew ood. Eric Colson ha s joined the staft o£ th e Union Bank of Austra lasia, New Plymo uth. vVillard and Strathi e Ewi.ng have taken a £arm near the Waion gona River, vVaita ra. Lisle J ennins , who returne d from Egypt on the "Ellen ga," recentl y paid a visit to the school. He is taking up £armin g again in Tarana ki. 'I'he brothe rs Gordon and Willia m B eck visite.d the school recentl y. I. Harris on, also in the 1919 £.£teen , I S employ ed in the office of the Criteri on Motor Garage .

67 We were pleased to see Vemon Stanto u b· ·k . ft . ~,everal years spent with the New Zealan d B ~.c d"t el .rugypt and Palesti ne. ' nga e m p Bt~rn a~d LAinn arrived back in New P lymou th £rom a1es 1ne, 1n ugust. I n a le,tter from Bernar d Sinclai r-our "Old B " represe ,, ntative in Duned in, he says , 1·nt e1. a 1·1a ._ oys . N ew~on Quillia m and D . Deun Brown b . ISn getting terms in all four subjec ts for me la e. turtev ant passed in three. Ken Broken h' · · h 1' terms, in. C · G · ~1 . Wngh t Is now in his fomth ear suGces,;±ul m passin g his second ''r)ro '' 1y t M' and was. ' p t " S· 1 ' . . as ay . wasbc a;p:J in ai~:U·s~~ . , H~ ~it:lf~l~~~hM iSnc p~ysNics, vem er. · . In owell :I'ed Boulto n is at the 'l'raiui ng College and is doing

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. d 9ha\ Yates is still in the Nation al Morto· age Coy an d1 ~, a so a membe r o£ the 4th Otago ltegiment~i B an . u T Eric 9ntfiel d is still with A'rch. Clark and Co · vv augam .u . . In . . t~tk.- Clemow ha~ sold his ~ ew Plymo uth proper ty and ltas cl en up laud m the W a1kato. . Ln. J.d~lanchett is empl oyed in the Tarana ki Educat wu oar s worksh op. hap ~~· Ricker by is in the 'L'raffic :M anager 's office in 'l.'ai-

' Alau Jlatthe ws has J. oined the fi.I·m of 'I tth Bros ·, 1 1 · n. J.l a ews a ne ageu t s, H am1lto t . . :~ e are very sony to h~ar tJutt a very Old Bo o£ ~ 1 "·tSGLooHl, H. C. ~lclu.tyre, IS lymg seriously ill in ~ elmg on. e was m his yOl.: n d . T seutati ve £ootba ller. 1 g ays a aranab. repre. After t~~ armist ice, Captai n N. R. Cornw NIt '~a s demo bihsed. and giYen comma nd of th all ' R ·w · .. ' He .Is at presen t in Port s 1P IS un ergom g extens ive repairs . Major C. E. Cornw all is still in En(J'land in C

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We extend our hearty congratulations to Au~tin Bewley on his win in the New Plymouth Golf Qhampwnship . This is the fifth occaswn on wluch he. has annexed the golf championship. R . H. ·J ackson ha s left the National Bank, and has taken 'up farming. · In a recent letteT Teceived from J oe Pott, he states he1 was back in South Africa again and had taken up farming with his people. Jim Pott is also· farming there. " Pat" :Fagan is still on his father ' s farm, near Hamilton. Eric ("Tommy") John;; has go~e to liYe in Auckland. He was· previously faTmmg w1th P at . Fagan . Pat. 'l'unbridge has r ejoined the cleric?tl division of the N .Z.R. and at pTesent is in the bookmg office at the New Plymouth Station. Chas. Fair is once again on the staff of vV eston anu Billing, solicitors, New Plymouth. H. Temple White is now assistant city organist at Wellington. Max L epper is farming at Puniwhakau. Gore Foote has ~ust Tetumed. E;e b elong~d to the :J-IotoT Boat Pat rol and foT some considerable tim e " :ao posted as "missing ." H e leaves for England agam, shortly, on business . . F. H. Bamitt, who until r ecently wa farm~ng at 'l'ututawa, is now a land and estat e agent m Stratford. Mr. T. L. Buxton, a former CommeTcial Master at the School and more Tecently 'l'ransport Officer ~n H.M .N.Z .T. "WillochTa," paid a visit to- the ~cL~ol m June. He intends to take up a coconut plantatwn m the I slands . Harold Blundell is now faTming with his brother Ken . at Okoke. E. Damell is faTming neaT Inglewood. H,. ("Dick") L aing came up to· see u~ l'e?ently. H_e is on the sta:ff of the Bank of Australasia, m the \V aipukurau branch. . . . . . Dr. G. N . MacDiaTmid IS pract1smg ins professwn at Taihape. · We wE~re very pleased to see anot~er Old _Bo;y-;-Don Saxton-join the School sta:ff. Don _1s teach1_ng m t~e PTepamtory Department. We tmst h1s stay with us will be a happy one.

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.69 Lie•ut. Len. Goss, ·until ree;ently stationed at Gisbornt~, is now Camp Aujutant at 'l 'rentbam. . Hoy Lealawl~ at Otago u nivel'sity, has been successful m passmg h1s First Professional Examination in .A.natomy and Physiology . ~rank '~hrossel has recently returned from overseas and IS now m the• L ands and Survey De1p m·tment . 'u thur Usbome has r ejoined the New P lymouth branuh of the New Zealand _Insurance Uompany. He is al~o taking a very active mt~rest in the Old Boys' Un ck et Club . · . _H. L. Lucena is now on the sta:ft at the local Court. Re mtends later to take a course in engineering at Cantel·bury College. . Haughton Henauu returned to New ~ealand on the "·Aclolph \Yoermau," and at present is on a month's furlough. . . H1rgh Fraser, who since the anni~ti ce was engaged domg pre;;s work for t ile London Daily Mail returned to Ne w .~ ea laml on the "AJolph \Voerman," a'nd is now ou t IJ e l1tmary stn,:ff of tl1 e Taranaki Daily News. Har_ry _Blancha~·d has taken up ·hemistry, anJ is on ll1 e staft of Penett & Plw.rmacy, \ V ellington. . U. \\ . 8: Saxton is _now in ~'...u tralia and is engineer I!-1 .uba.rg-e of the eleuLn cal pm·hon of the Yana. Fa1ls [-;pllllllllg Company's mills at AbbotsforJ , near Mclll o urnL\.

ROLL OF HONOUR. \V e regret to, ;;ay t~at in t l1 e li sts previously pub·hetl. t he name of Captam J. H. Straucbon was omitted . C.avt am Str_a~w~on has h ad five yea1·s' seTVice in the Den~al Corp , JOmmg th e Service wh en t h e Camp was first f~.nned at Trentha~1. H e wa on the troopship "Tahiti" "1t~ the 40th Remforcements wJ1en the influenza epitlem_IC br?ke out on _board. For his work clurinrr that ternble time h e received the following letter, date~d 25th September, 1918:.

Captain Strauchon,On b e~alf of the N .Z. Government, Colonel the Hon. Sir J . All en , K.C.B. , Minister of D efence, and the people of New Zealand , _I desn·e to_ tlmnk you for you.r devotion to duty and the dist mg lll shed ser v1ccs rendered by you on board th t. h' " T ] 't"" cl · e lOOps tp a 11 1 urmg the voyage from Sierra r~eone to England 26th August to lOt h September, 1918 . '

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During this period a serious epidemic of pmulent bronchitis broke out among the 1100 New Zealand troops on board and unfortunately 6 per cent. of this number died, 'rhile practically the whole of the troops and crew became infect ed. On ~lns plaguestricken ship, you by your sympnth:v, co nstant attentiOn nnd care for those afl'licted wit h disease, by your cheerfulness and untiring devotion to duty and witbout regard to your o"·n state of h ealt h. helped to al leviate their suffer in gs under most tn·ing and exceptionnl circumstances. Furthermore ·it is r ealised that by you r efforts valuable lives were snved. For the above-.rnentioned services rendered by yo u, your nam e ha s been brought to th e no tice of t h e New Zealand Goyernment. G. 8. RICHARDSON , Brigadier-General, Com mand ing N.Z.E.:F. in United Kingdom. (Signed)

VITAL STATISTICS. BIRTHS. SHA vV.-At New Plymouth, ou July 23rcl, 1919, to :Mr. and Mrs. Eric ~haw, a son. SBlPSON.- At Auckland, on July 23rc1, 1919, to J\lr. and Mrs. 'fre'VOT Simpson, a son. }10RE·Y .-At New Plymouth, on September 28th, 1919, to Mr. and 1\:Irs. G. N. ll:lorey, a son . MARIUAGES. KELLY-IWY.-On September 16th, 1919, by the Ven. Archdeaco~ ~vans; ~tt St. Mary's Church, New P lymouth, vV1lham Irhght Kelly, of "Ballacra.ggan, .. Awakino, to Muriel, eldest daughter of J. B. Roy, Esq., of New Plymouth . ELLIS-·DODD.-On July 28th, 1919, at St . Peter's , Wellington, by the Rev. W a tson, W illiam Charles, eldest son of Colonel Ellis, of New Plymouth, to Lily, daughter of H enry Dodd., Esq., of Moreton, Che,shire, England. DEATHS. KITCHINGMAN .-At New Plymouth, on October 5th, 1919, H enry Kitchingman; aged 62 years.

AN APPRECIATION.

(By an Old Boy.) 'l'he late Mr. Henry Kitchingman, of Hahotu, was Lom and educated in Christchurch. Ji1s family are very well known in the Canterbury district, a sister, Miss .ti.itchingman, being headmistress of the Normal School at Christchurch until her retirement three or four years ago. Mr. Kitchingman was appoint-ed from a long list of applicants by the 'l'aranaki Education Board then the controlling authority) to the position of assistant master of this School some time about December, 1889, taking up his duties here in the following year. The writer left the· term before Mr. Kitchingman came to the School, hut took lessons in English, Latin, and Mathematics from him for two years subsequently, and had thus an opportunity of knowing him intimately. All the boys liked .:\1 r. Ki tchingman. His tastes' were, catholic, and he took an interest in the buys wherever be met themwhethe;r in the class-room, the playing field, or private life. He was intensely patriotic, and it was but natural ::;o ardent an Englishman should favour crieket. He woulJ spend homs with the boys coaching them in their play . He also diu a good (leal to promote, athletics ~unong the boys, a portion of their training very neglectell at the School in the year& immediately preceJing his arrival. His happy, g·enial nat ure is Temembered by all th Oltl Boys of his day. He was a capital teacher of )1athematics, History anu Latiu, and dming the many years he afterwarus spent on his farm at Rahotu, where it has been my frequent pleasure; to m eet him, he maintained a continued interest in the subjects. A failme in health eaused him to resign his position in the 'chool, and for a time l1 e condu cted a bookseller's business in that portion of Mr. Newton King's premi ·c in De,von Street which is now the insurance departmeut. Recovering somewhat he secureu the position of master of tl1 e Rahotu Public School , which he held until l1 e took up farming on t1w~ Kahui Road. Our olu master's outstanding qualities were his keen patrintism and his wide interest in human affairs. With .llr. Kitchingman love of country was a driving force in his life, and no one during the past five, years followed the maze of world affairs, linking cause and effect, with more unerring instinct. In the recent war his son Arthur was the first man equipped and dispatched from

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the Hahot u ui strid wit iJ the MounteJ Brigade, aml that includino· a fin e mount and aeeoutrements entirely at t he . 0 • fath er's e:s:pens~. For many years Mr. Kitchingman W cLS represe~t.atiYe on the Egmont. National .Park JJoanl from lns u1stnct. He was also a Freemason of many years' standing. Joinin()' the craft in Chri.stchurch, on coming to X ew PlyJ;J.~uth ]JE\ at once associated himself h er e with Lodge N ()'ainotu and was for a long time t he Lodo·e organist. 0~ hi s removal to Rahotu h e was one of tho se mo:t keenly interested in the founding of Lodge Ikaroa , of which he was a Charter m ember . ' So passes our old domine. His delight and pleasure was to see real u seful citizen-s in the making, and to help t h em. Fo1• him no craven p eace~but a peace strength en ed by preparedness. A typical Englishman of the Kitcbener and Kipling school. A man who ''ould build o.n brawn and brain tbe governing of our wi de-flung Empire fro.m th e public schools . A .man ~£ <,impl e tastes mJd simp}1:1 faith- one who took lns ra.llm p; as the noble st, null m his soul Rt.ucliecl to make it RO. Pence i·o l1iR asl1 es.

OLD BOYS LETTER£ For th e; followin g lettm: and article wr arr inrl ebte(1 to Ca ptain Sten Hurl e :Volberg, Germany, March 28 1919. I feel somew.h at embnrr a.>Sed in b1 eaking a silcnrc of years-entirely du e to my own guilty consc ience I n.~s ur e yon. But ha vin g r ecent ly completed n short article on t he capitn l of thP Rmpire 1 t hought it nn excellent opportunity to bribe yo u into beRto\'l'ing your forgiveness for pnst n (!glect of "The Tnrannkian." Although so silent, I h ave foll owed very closely the progress of th e oJd school , nncl hn vc wntcl1ed with pride its lenp into· th P. for efront of t he public scho ols of t he Dominion. Few of my co ntempornri es ever dreamed that New Plymouth High School would on~ clay (n ncl so soon) bP meeting Aneklnnd Grammnr and Nelson on t he Rugger n('ld. W nn.gnn ni nt cri cket, nnd on might a lmost sny ]('nding t he world Gf schools in , hooting. I have been retnined for t hp Army of Occupntion , and nm nt present in t he nren r('cently ·evacuated by th e New Z('alnnders . They seem to h:we left n fnirly good impression with th(' civil population. W e don' t have to work ver y hard, most Gf our t im (' being spent in sport and sight-seein g . To-morrow I am goin g for a. trip up the Rhine, altl10u gh exactly how far up I know not.

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At present we wre eag erly awaiting publication of the prelimina ry peace terms, for we expect that they will ,give us some idea as to how long we a r e likely to have to remain in this country . Under present conditions none of us will mindo in the least having to stay until the end of the summer. But I am afraid we would ha.rdly appr eci at~ four or five years. I, at any rate, hope to h ave the pleasure of ca.lling upon you at the old school some t ime next year . \\'ith best wishes for the f utW"e prosperity: of the New Plymout h High Sohool, and with kindest regards to yourself and the mem bers of the statf.-Believe me, yours very sincerely,

H . STIDN HURLE.

LONDON. (By H . Sten Hurle.) Go where we may-rest where· we will, Eternal London haunts us still. -'l\hos. Moore. London is a wonderful place--it is a nation, not a eity-witlJ a population greater t han some kingdoms (or perhaps one should

u ow :;ay r ep ublics) and districts as different as if they were under diffe.r eut government and spoke different languages. A great imperial city, the centre of an Empire the most exteusive t he world ha.s ever seen. All paths go thither . There is a fascination in the plaee, it is lllagnetic. You are like a bird let out with a strine t ied to the fo ot, to flutter a litt le way a nd r eturn a.gain. lt be busine.;s, it may be pleasure that draws you ba.ck, but also ther e is ~:>o m e t hing in the h eart that cannot be satisfied away f rom it.

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What is most striking in London is its va.stness . I t is now so large that only the smoke-wreathed sun which rises upon it anu sets, can at one view, and hardly the s un, see th e limit of it anyf whore . -London is not grand. It possesses only -o ne of t he qualification:; of a grand city, size; it lacks t he equally imvortant one, beauty. Beauty in its ordinary .sense that i.s, for Loudon's beauty is not in its fine thowugl!fares and magnificent lmildings :;tanding in gorgeous ,gardens, but in the colossal character of its qua.ys and bridges. If you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city you must not be satisfied with seeing its g r eat streets and squ:1res, but must survey the innumer able little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in th e multiplicity of human habitations which ar e Cl'Owded together, that the wonderf ul immen-sity of London consists.

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Though London is va~t , it is in many parts very monotonous . .\11 those new district~ that lutve sp1·ung up within the last century, the creatures of our colon ia.l and commercial wealth, it is impossib le to concci1·e anything mar tame, more insipid, more uniform. 1'his amount of building capital ought to have produced a. city finer far than the new metropoli of the Southern Hemisphere; .gorgeous R io , magnificent B.A., beautiful Sydney . The public buildings are few and for the most part mean; the monuments of an t iquity not compaa·able to those w·hich ma.rw of the Continental cities can boast of; the houses of our peers and princes are shp.bby and shapelesS/ heaps of bricks. But what of all this? The .spirit of London is in her thoroug.h.far es-her population. "What wealth, what order, what animation!

'l'he :Stranti is one of the finest trccts in .!turupe, ulcnd 11" tlJe w·dutecture of many periods; and its rivenvays are a pe;uliar teature and rich with associations. Here also one will find t he representatives of most of our great overseas dominions. bLrolliug thr ough the street from whence issue the tlwwrht& ur our tHue, like the radiating spokes of a wheel, to all places ";,n the earth, Fleet Street, one comes to a hu.ge cathedral standing so proudly on the most commanding ground in tl1e big city. This is St. Paul's, from the dome of which you can see neaJ·ly all of London, with its rive1· and its bridges and its churches. You can tiee antique ·Westminster und the green 'l'ernple Gal'd n.; 11· tJ1 u 1u wn upon them, and many, many field-s of ridgy roofs. · '0, it is a goodly sight to see from t. Paul's England's vast capital of far ex.panse:' . Cheapside is t ruly a wonderful place for hurry, noi se and nohcs. Men talk of the bazaars of the East, but compared with t hese they are but poor places. Chea.pside-th e pride of London's " East"-might y mart of old renown-a place of throng and bustle -a place of gold and silver, per-f ume and fine linens . And from Cheapside into the street of the Lombards, called so from the name of its founders. Mighty things are transacted behind its walls ' . b ut 1t 11·ants t he throng, the< bustl e and the out1mrd magniJicen ce of the Gheape. Ou the morning of the Sabba.tJ1, gigantic London is charmed into repose. The intolerable din a.nd struggle of the week are at an end. The shops a.re shut. T.he fu·es of the factories are exting uished; and the sun, no longer obscured by murky clouds of ;,make, pours down a sober yellow radiance into the quiet streets. In the afternoon the city pours fo·r th its legions to breathe t he fresh air and enjoy the sunshine of the parks and rural environs.

The centre of life is not in the city. 1'he life which now is and the life which is fashioning the metropoli.s of to-day is the life which throbs along the gi·e·at thoroughfares of Oxford Street, R gent Street, Piccadilly and the Strand. Those roaring streets t!Jat glm·e in sunny noons, And gloom in lamp-lit eves of plashy rain. -A . St. John Adcock . Oxford 'Street is the shopping street of the middle clas.ses. There you will find the most central of those great and wonderful departmental sto.re. thrit have a risen in England's ca.p ital in a mntter of a fm1· years by a lm ost incompreheM ille organising mngif'. .Regent Street presents a. row of shop fronts exposing to view snmplcs of the most gorgeous and costly goods in the markets of t he world. The rnrest jewels, the finest cloth , the choicest sweetmeats can nil be p111' h ased there :from merchants whose names a re famous in ever:- ci•i lisecl country in t.ho world. P iccadilly presents a scen e of J10use and prtrk ngreea.bly intermixed; tbere is movement without confusion in the spot; and when the town is full a constnnt stream of elegant life may be .s aid to be drifting through it. At night life like a tidllll wave rises and pours towa.rds the thentres and halls which cluster in scores around the eastern end of this notorious stree<t. Fo·r it is on t his pavement, when the twili.ght has deepened a.nd has died, a pavement trodden by many feet at every time of the year and in almost every hour of the wheel1ng twenty-four, that the legend. of London's disgrace is written in bold characters of defiance. Colonists seeking for the first time the comfortable embrace of that Mother Gountrv which has been the .fahle of their childhood and the d.reum of their laborious years of maturity, gaze with withering heurts at the cn n cer in her bo. om. Foreign cities notorious for theiT immora]ity conta.i n no thoroughfaxe which flaunts , o bra7.enly and openly its degradation ,

The park-s constitute an ornament hard to match e]sewhere ' . an d gtve the place a BUperiority that none of its uglinesses overcome . T'hey spread themselves with such a luxury of space in the cen t r c of the town that they form a part of the impression of a ny walk , of almost any view, and with an auda city altogether their own make a pastoral landscape under the smoky sky. N a thing is mo-r e imposing than their exuberant beauty. Hyde P ark, Re · gent' s PaJ·k , Green Park , und St. James's Pa,rk, the latter being quite near to Buckingham Palace, are exceedingly fin e. Also, o utside the city, there are the Kew Gardens, Richmond Park, and the chestnut trees of Humpton Court. At Greenwich there is a charming old park, on the summit of one of whose grassy undulation s t he famous observatory is perched. There is not .a more gay and graceful spectacle in the wol'ld than Hyde Park at the end of a sunny morning in the month of May or June. Nowhere .c an be seen suoh beautiful women , such

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gallant cavaliers, such fine horses and such brilliant equipages. You may be .a man long u.pow the town and pass 500 equipa.ges without knowing t'h e owner of one of them. 'l'he scene, too, is worthy of such agreeable accessories; the groves, the gleaming \l·ater s, the triumpha.l ru·ches, and in the distance the nilst)he ights of S1HTey and the bowery glades of Kensington. The view from the bridge over the Serpentine has an extraordinn,ry nobleness. In all the town scenery of Europe there can hP few th ings so fine. The tower.~ of Notre Dam e as t hey ri se in l'aris from the ·i sland that divides the Seine .p resent t hemseln's no more impressive ly tl1aJ1 those of \¥estminste-r as you sec them look ing doubly fa.r beyond the stretch of Hyde Park water. Few European cities have a finer river than the Thames, J,y m ea ns of which London ·c irculates her greatness through count less l:1nds and isles. Up the river it flow s among green park and meadows, in summer time its surface covered by m yriads of boating part ies glorying in. t he change :from the hot dusty str eets of t he to wn; but down t h e river it roll s defiled among t he ti 'l'S of shipping and th e \Yaters ide pollutions of a great city . The Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich I can only compare to an immense moving street of ships, large and small. Here t h e river front is very sordid. For miles and miles you see nothing but t he sooty baC'ks of warehouses. 'l'hey stand massed together on t he banks of the wide t urbid stream ,,·lii ch i s fortunately of too opaqu e li. damp-looking, dirty n quality to r e fle ct t he dismal image. blackness is t he univer sal tone. The river is almost black and is rovenill with black barges; above the black hou se-tops, from among t he far-stretching dock s and basins, rises a dusty wilderness of masts . Th e little puffing steamers are dirty and gritty and belch forth sabl e cloud ; and th e whole picture, gla?.ed over with But in sp ite t he glutinou s l,ondon mist is woefully depressing. of its want of li ghtness and bri ghtn ess, and t hou "h it i, u gly it is anything bu t trivial. Like so many of the aspects of English rivilisation t hat are untouched by elegance or grace it h as the It sound rather m erit of expressing something very seriou s. absurd. but all this smudg~' detail may remind you of nothing less .t han thE' IYealth and power of the British Empire at large . H. STEN HURLE. Yolberg, Germany, :\[arch 28, 1919.

OLD BOYS' FOOTBALL. The 1919 season was noteworthy in so far as Olcl Boys were concerned owing to the fact that for the first time since the foundation of th~ School, a team was entered for the Rugby Union competitions, Owing to so

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77 many eligible players being away on active service the team was not a strong one; still the members played' consistently throughout the season and at times put up some good performances. More recently, some prominent Old Boys have returned, and it is safe to predict that the team next year will be a good solir1 combination. OLIFTON (0) v. OLD BOYS (0). (9/6/19) The meetin~ of Oli.fton-Old Boys, played at \Vaitara, prov1ded a bard-fought, hut not spectacular contest. The game end ed with no Rcore on either side1• RAHOTU (6) v. OLD BOYS (6). (16/6/19) Old Boys· journeyed to Rahotu and played a drawn game there. In the first spell Waiwiri scored for Rahotu and N. Little for Old Boys, neither try being converted. vVynyard (five-ci ghth) scored in the secoml spell, giving Old Boys the lead ; but just on time Tarua kaha scored a try for Rahotu, ths equalising the scores.

(7/7/19) . OLD BOYS (16) v. OKATO (nil). Old Boys played Okato on the Sports Ground in Pu kekura. Park and secure,d victory hy 16 points to nil. Tries were made by Macdonald (2), ll'ox, and Throssel, two of which were converted by Hughes . STAR (11) v. OLD BOYS (0). (14/7/19) Though Old Boys were beaten by eleYen points the Tries were game was, nevertheless, keenly contested. secured for Star by Smith, Hughes and Spence, Sutherbucl converting the latter try. RAHOTU (13) v. OLD BOYS (0). (11/8/19) thou15h and Park, Pukekura in played This game was willing, was not a brilliant exhibition of football. Tnes for Rahotu were made by Baker, A. Kasper, and Fisher Hoai. Rahui Mare, converted two.

(18/8/19) OKATO (3) v. OLD BOYS (0). Okato, playing on their home ground, defeated Old Boys by three points to nil, after a Yery closely contested game. For the winners Smith was , u ccessful with an easy kick.

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(25/8/19) CLIFTON (8) v. OLD BOYS (0) . Old, This match was piayed on the Racecomse. Boys had a very weak an~ incomplet~ team as_a number of the playe.rs were unavmlable. Tnes for Ch£ton were made bv Copestake and Taylor. George converted one . Old Boys also entered a team in the seven-a-side tournament, held in the Sports Ground, Pukekura Park, ~u They were drawn to play the School team m 21/7/19. the, first round and were well beaten by 18 points to nil. C. H. Wynyard, ,,;ho played fiv e-eighth fo_r the .Ol.d JJoys' team throughout the se.ason, al_so plal"ed m a similar position for the Taranab rep . m the!r first match against "Wanganui. H e played a good sohd game.

SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Business .Mauager acknowledges with thanks Subscribers are requested the followino subscriptious. to notify an'Y omiss·i on or inaccuracy, and to · notlfy chancres of address :- E. H.. Knuckeoy, ' 18, A. Hemptou, '26 · Miss H V 'l'ait, ' 19; t). ' 111 ~)0 '21 ' 92 ' '20 J '')-± 8 l 1n ' • • ' ' ,...., ;..; ' """' ' V' t)pence, ' 19; D. t)axton, '19, '20; H.. Ambmy, 1, v; A. Ambury, ' 16, '17, ' 18, ' 19 ; E. Boulton, ' 19 ; \V. _\V. Smith, ' 14, '15, ' 16, '17, ' 18, ' 19, ' 20; :F. 11. Stamhsh, ' 19 ; E. JJecHonl, ' 18, '19; U. ~iusli, ' 18, ' 19; A. JJuc~an an, '19; P. Chapman, ' 18, '19; A. Bacon, ' 19; L. Gremer, ' HJ · Albert Bayly , ' 18, ' 19; V. Bayly, '18, ' 19; II. Bayly, ' 18' ' 19 · M. Hempton, ' 15, '16, ' 17, '18, ' 19; A. E. H.e;rnold ~ ' 18 ' 19; W. :1Iackay, ' 19, '20, '21, '22, '23; W. Healy, ' 19; H. Brasch, ' 19.; G. Bayly, ' 18, '19, ',20_ ; D. Bishop, ' 18, ' 19; H. B. Gibson, ' 17; J. Clarke, 16, '17, '18, ' 19; R. Cocker, ' 19; A. Bewley, '18, 19; H. BillinO' ' 19; C. P. BakeT, ' 18, ' 19, '20, '21; C. J. Ducker , ' 19 ·I~ Sole ' 16, ' 17, '18, '19; H. K. Clarke, '16, '17, '18, '19: C. Cla~·ke ' 19; E. Brace,g irdle, '19; D. Grant, '18, 19; C. J. Hill; '19; N. Brokenshire, '19; T. Corkill, ' 19: '1'. Hawkes, ' 15, ' 16, '17, ' 18, '19; T. Furlong, '19; W. Beck '19 '20 · G. Rodger, '19, '20; L. M. Horrocks, '18, ' 19 · S Hurle: '19; G. Hurle, '19; R. English, '19; C. P . Bat.es·, '19, '20; G. Chong, '19; R. Goldswortby, '17, ' 18, ' 19; R. Guscott, ' 18, '19; C. E. Olsen , '19; C: Kyngdon, '14, '15, ' 16, ' 17 , '18, '19, '20; P. J. H. W~ite, '16, '17, '18, '19, '20, '21, ' 22; K. Allen, '19; S. Sm1th, '19;

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79 ·, 19 ' Ho:ffmann L. · '19 W. Ewing,'9 '19; K. S. Ewinl!, ' . , , . ~ K .A ll en, -O;W.H.Jenkmson, 19;N. Hamblyn 19 20; Eric Lash, ' 19; E. :M artin, ' 16, ' 17, '18, 19; n.'Mar~ shall, '17, '18, '19; K ·w. Snowdon, '19; C. vV. Lee ' 19, '20; :M. Anthony, ' 19 ; D. Jury(?) (Devon port: Auckland, no name sent), ' 19 ; R Baker '16 '17 '18 w.'Bay~ '19; A. H. Osborne, '19; R. H. Bo.urke, 'l9; ly, '19; W. Moyes, '19; K. A. Murray, '19; H . Hine ' 19, '20, '21; T. S. Martin, '19: Mrs. C. Kelly, '19, '20; H. Blundell, '18, '19; G. Moore, ' 19; M. Yates '16 '17 '18, '19; J. Shaw, '19; A. ~I. MacDiarmid, 'l9; E. R: Knuckey, '19, '20; F. Kelly, ' 18, '19; R. Morrison '17 ' 18, '19; F. Clemow, '17, '18, '19; I. R. Brydon '19' '20' '21, '22, '23, '24; R. Brokenshire, '19; H. D.' Hughes: '16, '~7, '~8, '19, '20; A. Hughes, '17, '18, '19, '20; C. :\IacDunmid, ' 19; A. Marfell, ' 19 · L. Marlell '19 · D. Yieikle, '19; R. B . Fussell, '19; R. Harvey, '19'; P. Barnett, '19; A. R. Callander, '19; K. Fox '19 '20 '21 '22 '23, '24; L. L. Bellringer, '19; L. D. B;yce' '18' '19' '20; }:~r. Rawson, '19; G. B. Hooke.r , '18, '19 ;'H. C. Norns, 19; vV. F. Kelly, ' 19, '20; C. Peach, '16, '17, '1 R, ' 19, '20; C. ·w. Fair, '18, '19; A. Little, '18 ' 19, ' 20, '21, '22; E. A. Johns, ' 19; A. Mitchell '15 '16' 17, ' 18 , ' 19; E. Langmuir, ' 13, ' 14, ' 15, ' 16 ''17' '18' 19; L . King, '18, ' 19; .J. McNeice, '18, ' 19 ; H. J.'Mac~ kie , '19; J. W. Blycle, '17, '18, '19, '20; T. H. Western, ' Hl; H. Calder, '19; 8. Ogle, '19; G. Fraser '18 '19: G . Hraclhury, '15, ' 16, '17, ' 18, '19· H. Braclhurv' '15 ' 16, '17, '18, '19; . R. McMurrny, '1S, '19 '20 '2"1' '22' ' ., ' Hamer(\ N. Heppell, '19; ' T. E. ' ,.,.J, 0 " '94 ..., ; H . L . Cook, ' b; ~on, ' 18, '19, '2_0; P,. ,T. O'Oarroll, '19; F. Hug-gard, '18, 19; J . T. White, 19; M. L epper , 19 · A. Sutherland , ' '19.

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