The Play was produced by Leslie Burgess. The Setting designed and executed by P. P. Noble Fawcett, assisted by A. T. Howat, R. Hawkins, F. J. Chadwick, L. D. Edinger, M. Hallas, D. Walker. Wigs by "Bert," 46 Portnall Road, London, W.9. Make-up by Jules Marten, Rayleigh, Essex. Costumes by Messrs. S. B. Watts 6 Co., 67 Market Street, Manchester. Under the direction of F. Waine, music was played in the intervals by Mrs. A. Nairn Baird, F. Carlill, R. Ham, D. C. Jack, P. J. R. Mason, I. T. R. Welch.
BRITISH SHIP ADOPTION SOCIETY This term we have been very glad to renew fully our contact with a merchant ship through the British Ship Adoption Society. This contact had of necessity been broken in 1939, though the Junior School did have a happy temporary association with the Norwegian ship "Hestmanden." The policy of the British Ship Adoption Society is to attach schools to a captain rather than to a ship, and it has been a particular pleasure to resume our association with Captain W. W. Rickard, now master of S.S. "Mountpark." We would like to take this opportunity of congratulating him, though belatedly, on the award of the O.B.E. for services during the war. S.S. "Mountpark" is a new ship, having left the Clyde on her maiden voyage in June. She is a fine example of the modern British freighter, with a gross tonnage of 6,000 and a speed of 11 knots. She is well equipped to high present-day standards, and we were particularly interested to hear about the crew accommodation, with its cream and green two-berth cabins, with air conditioning, curtains and other fittings which would no doubt fill old-time shellbacks with a mixture of outward scorn and inward envy. The "Mountpark" took general cargo from the United Kingdom to Alexandria, Haifa and Beirut in June—July, and then went in ballast to Algeria. When term started and our "adoption" was resumed, she had just left Aden after re-fuelling on a voyage from Bone to Geelong with a cargo of nearly 9,000 tons of phosphates. Capt. Rickard has very kindly sent us a day by day log of this voyage, and we print some extracts below. After discharging at Geelong, the ship proceeded to Sydney for dry-docking and cleaning, which was achieved in two days, and then on to Newcastle (N.S.W.), where 2,000 tons of coal were loaded for 32
