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Southland Boys' High Sehool Jubilee Reeord 1881-1930
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JUBILEE COMMITTEE.
BACK ROW-Me£srs P. A. Poole, C. Clark, H. L. Mair, J. L. Cameron, J. H. Sutton. MIDDLE ROW-E. P. Hawke, J. D. Shanti, A. M. Macdonald, A. W. Jones, Jas. Robertson, H. D. Gazzarcl, J. G. Imlay. :FRONT ROW-H. I,. Hay, R. Brownlie, J. T. Carswell, Dr. G. H. Uttley, S. M. Macalister (Chairman), R. M. Strang, T. D Pearce, A. G. Harrington. 3
Southland Boys' High School. Jubilee Record
I r/2 DECEMBER 1880 - DECEMBER 1930 II
-I :i:: The celebrations were heJd at lnvercargill rr, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 20th, 0 r 0 21st and 22nd of February, 1931. CJ> n :i:: 0 0 !
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PRINTED AT THE SOUTHLAND TIMES, INVERCARGILL 4 3 Southland Boys'CJ/flee-bearers High Sclwot Jubilee : Record. COMMITTEES. Jubilee Cornrnittee-S. Morell MacaJister (Chairman), R. Brownlie, J. L. Ca1herun, J. T. Carswell, Chas. Clark, II. Gazzarcl, John Gilkison, E. P. Hawke, H. L. Hay, J. G. Imlay, A. W. Jones, A. M. Macdonald, H. L. Mair, T. D. Pearce, P. A. Poole, Jas. Robertson, J. D. Shand, R. M. Strang, J. H. Sutton, R. Royds, Dr. G. H. Uttley. SUB-COMMITTEES. Official Opening-R. Brownlie (Convener), J. T. Carswell, C. Glark, t,. M. Macalister, T. D. Pearce, J. D. Shand, Dr. Uttley. Sunday Service-Rev. J. A. Asher, Professo.r J. Collie, J. T. Carswell, A. M. Mac- donald. Ball-Chas. Clark (convener). Motor Run-A. M. MacdonaJcl, M. M. Macdonald. Finance-S. M. Macalister (convener), C. Clark, J. Gilkison, A. G. I-fal'l'ington. Banner and Parade-Dr. Ut.tle,Y (convener), A. M. Macdonald, L. Mair, J. L. Callleron. Dinner-J. G. Imlay (conYener), J. D. Shand. Photoyraphy:-A (for Soldiers' Photos)-R. Royds (convener), D. Cuthbertson. B (for Recorcls)-S. l\lL Macalister (convener), R. M. Strang, Dr. Uttley. Music-T. R. Pryde (convener), A. H. Robins, A. Kingsland, W. W. Millar. Jubilee Record-J. T. Carswell, T. D. Pearce (co-editors), J. L. Cameron, J. G. Imlay, S. M. Macalister, Dr. Uttley. MARSHALS FOR PARADE. Chief Marshal-J. L. Cameron. Decade 1881-1890-J. Gilkison, A. M. l\facdonald, J. R. Martin, G. 'l'appcr. Decade 189'1-1900-H. L. Hay, H. Gazzard, Jas. Robertson, J. D. Shanel. Decade 1901-1910-P. A. Poole, J. Stobo, H. Strang, J. Wilson. Decade 1911-1920-J. L. Cameron, Arnold McDonald. Decade 1921-1930-E. P. Hawke, R. J. Mc-Donald, W. A. C. Smith, J. H. Sutton. DECADE SECRETARIES. DECADE COLOURS FOR JUBILEE. 1881-1890-J. T. Carswell. 1881-1890-Recl aucl While. 1891-1000-J. D. Shand. 1891-1900-Recl. 1901-1910-J. G. Imlay. 1901-1910-White. 1911-1920-J. L. Cameron. 1911-1920-Blue. 1921-1930-l\'.L Henderson. 1921-1930-Recl, White and Blue. Orchestra-Leader: Mr W. W. Millar. Piano: G. Lindsay. l•'irst Violins: Mr W. W. Millar, L.A.B., H. Georgeson, R. Jenkins, L. McCurdy, H. Strang. Second Violins: R. Aitchison, B. Collie, R. Fraser, F. Robinson, S. Wood. 'Cello: Mr A. K H. Bath, Mr A.H. Robins. Bass: G. Israel. Cornets: Mr G. Wills, V. , 'hirley. Flute: A. Hind. Tromb:me: Mr C. Grant. Clarinet: Mr J. Ferguson. Drums, etc.: R. Wesney. 5 4 5 Soutliland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. �rogramn1e (Jreetings on Memorial �ay PRTOA Y, 20th FF:13HL\RY, ]!)31. l O .15 a.111. : 1lo!'oi· rn n left C'rcscen t. (By .l.'l'.'1'. 1895). 1.30 p.n1.: :\11 assembled in the Public Gardens opposite the Old Srhool-Dcr·adcs with banners-Parade {in fours), ma1·c·hed l'o the p1·e,;ent s<·hoolni Yi:1 DC'c \\'u hail, thcu, Alma l\Iatcr, Tbeu out upon the Campus, ,:treet and Queen',; Park. Photographs were takrn npon nrri l. 011 this memorial d.Ly. Vast by old Puni Creek, Our hearts aud rni11d,; arc with thcu, \\'ith bat, and ball, and ruggcr .'J Jl.m.: Roll Call-Cards J1aYing been hanrle 3.15 p.m.: Wcl<'ome h.,· J1is Worship the }fayor (Mr .J. D. Campbell) . Assembly bell is ringing; .llas ! Old Time's relentless, 3.15 p.m.: Iutrod11c-tio11 of the Chairman of the Board of Go,·e1·no1·s h,· the President \\'u hear its distant toll. And will not yield bis gains; 1 of the Old Boys' 1\ssoriatio11. .\d 4.5 p.m.: '.!'he Hec-toJ"'s welrome to the Old Boys. Old memories are kindled Strn11ge tiling about the Master, ,J.15 p.111.: }fr T. D. 1 Of da.ys long since gone by. Ili,; face seemed in a mist, Peai·c·e read the list of Duxes 1111<1 end nnx present ans\\·err,1 his name and eame forward. \\' u fain would liYe them over lli,; Yoice too souuded hollow, C'<' And Father Time deny. As he read down the list. 4.30 J>.ln.: Address hy }fr .J. T. Carswell on I he hii:;tor>· of the 1st aial 2nd D aclcs. p 4.15 p.111.: Proresi:;ion of Olrl Bo>·s of hl'O g-Pncrntions--fnth rs and son;;. 'l'hcn let us to the olcl forms, So many1 fellows absent, As in the clays of yore; No a11s1·cr to the roll; 5 p.m.: .\,lclress by Mr ,James Tmi:Jy on the histor>· of thr 3rrl and 4th Deracles. And leam the same olcl lessons They surely did not fail to hear 5.15 p.m.: F;ong hy the Sc·hool. .\mollg:;t our mates o!lce more. 'l'he bell's familiar toll. 5.2:3 p.m.: .\dclress h>· l\Ir C. Smith on the histor .,· of I he 5th Dr<'nrlr. They heard it, sure, in ,;pirit 5.40 p.m.: Vote of thanks to i.\rr Pear<'e fo1· the Olrl Bo>·s' Reg-ister. _1,�ro111 out the other room, 8.30 p.m.: Ball at the School. \\'here they arc with 'l'hu l\lastcr, Beyond cartll's shade aud gloom. SATURDAY, 21st FF:BRU.\RY, 1031. 7 p.m.: Dinnrr nl H. and .J. Smith's. SUNDAY, 22nr1 FEBRP.\RY, HJ31, 2.30 p.m.: C'hnrc-h 8erYire :it the School, 6 6 7 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland Bors' High School Jubilee Record. CJpening §ZJay-:Jriday, :U5t/j ':Jebruary, 1931 Pearce, rector emeritus, l\Ir_ .J. 'I.'. C.::wswell,_ representing the first and second decades, Mi_ ,T. G._ Imlay, represcuhng the third and fourth deC'ades, Mr Cornelius Smith, �� representmg the fifth decade, Afr D. J. \\' esney, representing the In,·ercargill Chamber of Commerce, Mr Charles Mc-Lean, a former master, and the present staff of the school. MOTOR RUN. Mr AfacalisterWflS introduC'ed Dr. Uttley, and the roll \\'as c:allccl. '!.'he members of �he first, second, third, fourth and fifth decades ansll'cred the call and ca<:h clec:adc, ns it rose, greeted ll'ith applause. The Mayor's Welcome. PLACES OF INTEREST VISITED. to _His \Yorship said that on an occasion sud1 as that one might be pardoned Shortly after 10 a.m. a long procession of: cars assembled in the Crescent for lremg nen·ous. He ll'anted fl say that it \\'as indeed an honour fo1· the nrn,yor. _. ready to take Old Boys on a sightseeing tour around Invercargill and the Yicinity of of anv city to be present on such an occasion. In welcoming\\'US those who ll'ere present the c-ity. '!.'he tour contained much of interest to the older Old Boys who had not he wished to make reference to number of things. In 1861 a Toll'n Board had visited JnYl'l'C·arg:11 for some years. '!.'be following places were passed: Town Hall been founded i_n Jll\·ercargill, and in 1871 lnvercargill made a borough. Last :u1tl Civi<· 'l'heatre, l\Iunicipal Tepid Baths, the Old School, Stead street, Otatara )·e:11: Invcrcarg1ll had had the honour of being made the seventh city of the Dominion. Golt Links, the new Oreti River bridge, Oreti Sands, Oreti Beach, Underwood �!ilk Durmg the history of the town man�' changes had taken plaC'e. In the last foll' days he irnd been thinking that mnn�· coming from distances would ,;ee the c:ha.ngcs Conclensery,1 Routhlancl Frozen Meat Company's works at Makarewa, Lorne Farm, Karit:11 c-Il11nt llospital; Waihopai Scenic Reserve, the New School, .Anderson Plunket eh:111ges along prog1·essi,·e lines. 'J'hc Bo)·s' High S<"hool had been ins!Tumcntal to Home, Water Toll'er, Queen's Park and the Soldiers' Memorial. After a jonmey a _great degree in turning out leading men in New Zealand. Two Old Boys ll'ere judges whic·h ga,·e the trarnllers ample time to view the progress of the city and province of the Supreme Court, one was a judg-c oC the Nati,·e L1111d Court and three were in t.hc last few years, the party returned to town about mid-day. Many happy re Hhocles Rcholnrs. '!.'hat \\'as a great inspiration for hoys attending- the sehool in 1931. Not only Jiacl the sc·hool tumed out men suc·h as those menti�ned but it had1; ,; , unions were made on the journey and anecdotes were related in connexion with each 1 place passed. also turned out eitizens worthy of the proYin<'e and the Dominion. Ron;e Old Bon; had gone to otherto countries and were there worthily upholding their old traclitio THE OFFICIAL CEREMONY. '.I he scl'.ool had a wonderful record and he nsked the pupils of the present day to try to h,·e up the !ugh_ standard set before them. Then, he 11·as sure, they \\'Otdd \V'cathor conditions were ideal for the afternoon's ceremony which was held be wol·thy to follo,1· those who J1ad gone hefore them. "On behalf of the citizens ont-of-cloors, although a shower later in the clay necessitated a TCmoval to the of Tn,·ereargill I extend a 11·elC'omc to the Old Boys," conc•luded his lfol'ship. spncio11s Assemlily Hall wheTe the remaining addresses were delivered. In addition t.o the p1·ese11t. pupils t.here wns a large crowd of Old Boys and the general public, to Mi: , . M. Macalistcr then introduced to the nssembly the c·hairman of the whom a. hearty welcome was extended. Board of Gornrr:ors of the SC'hool, :;,\Ir H. l\J. Strang. i\Jr l\Iacalister said that for years thr schooj hncl been undoubtedly suC'cessful and had been runninrr alon"' IlC'fore the offic.:ial opening ceremony, past and p1·escnt pupils, totalling oYer admir::ible lines. Not onl,v the sC'ltool, but the administrntion 11·as good. "At th� 0 GOO, marched to the school in a procession. Fittingly enough, it set off from the h�acl of the _ school wa.· a Board, which had im·ariably been composed of men of the Pnblic Gardens opposite the old school buildings in Conon street where many of the lnghest bnsmess standard. The High School Board had alwa,·s been one of the cx-pnpils present had received their secondary education. Led by the school bugle most eflic:ient loeal bodies in lnvercargill and now the Board was still carrying 011 lm11cl, and with banners aloft, the procession, the members of whirh paraded in t.he g_ood wo�·k. At th� head of the Board \\'as a gentleman \\'ho \\'as remarkahlc decades, made its way through Dee street, along Gala street nnd past the Rose for_ lus devotion to t:he SC'hool. i\Ir Strang- had gi,·en n devotion to the s<:hool whi<·lr Gardens to the school. In Herbert street a guard of honour of present pupils ranged few gentlemen had displayed. both sides of the roadway, and the remainder assembled in front of the school, Administration of the School. where they gave1 three rousing cheers for the Old Boys on their arrival. A spirited haka led by the head prefect, A. G. Pickard, was also given in their honour and the Olrl Bo3 s in turn, led by John Gilkison, retumecl the rompliment as far as the 111 In his introdu<'tory rcnrnrks Mr Strang nrnde reference to the acl inistn1!ion chrers w<>re roncerned, while the voice of N. C. Clapp, a former stalwm·t of the of the school and said that in 1 his respC'c-t he wished 1 o acknoll'ledrre the sel'\'ice of ,;rhool, wa,; heard in a,n ineffective attempt to lead a haka. The signing of roll cards . three former Old Boys in the persons of Messrs ,J. T. Carswell, J;hn Gilkison and o<'cnpiccl the attention of the Old Boys fo1· some time, and then photographs were A. W. Jones. Valuable ,1·01·k in the sc·hool's interests ll'as also bein..,. clone by thr taken of 1hc various decade groups. This completed, all gathered on the eastem Old _Boys' Asso<:iation and Mr Strang appealed to all those not ah�ady me;nbers side of the Sf'hool where the opening ceremony took place. _n!r to link up \\'ith the assof'iation, for mn<:lt yet remainedfl to he done. R�ferring to There \\'ere present on the platform I1is W orsl1ip the Mayor (l\It· J. D. Ca.mpbell), !·he s�hool hostel Strani; .·tated_ that while he was in Wellington recently he 1111crne\\'ed the M1mster of Education who ga1·e definite assurance that the work Mr S. M:. M:a.l'alister, rhairman of the Jubilee Committee, :M:r R. M. Strang, chairnrnn of 1 he Boal'(l of C1oYernors, Dr. G. H. Uttley, the rector of the school, Mr T. D. would be carried on. Nnturall? it wns the dnty of the J3oitl'(l of Go,·rrnors to deal l ._,Ii------7 8 with finnnr•C' hnl,Southland in <'0111111011 Boys' with oihcrHigh Boards; School it Jubileehad taken Record. a deep interest in the sc·hool ::md, rcc·ogni:dng- I.he 1·aluc of the school spirit, had clone all it could to assist lhc staf'J'. Afr i;trang detailed the satisfactory negotiations into whic·h the Board Juul <'?ltC'rcd in the matter of liquidating the debt on the s<·hool and said h<' was pleased Lo he ah!c to state that already the sum of £3000 Jia "Welcome Home." 'J'hc next spenker was DI'. Uttley who said it was liis proud honour to issue greetings t.o all those prcseut. Ile was in the position of being able to take a clet.ar•hccl Yiew of the past history of the school. He had been associated with a numlier of secondary srhools in New Zealand, and as he had frequently told the present l,oy$, he was astonished at Lhe 11umber of Old Boys who had made for themselrns a fine reputation, at home and abroad. The Southland Boys' High School had a record equal to that of any other in Lhe Dominion, and nll Old Boys ought to be proud of the past history of their school. He could assure them that the present boy,; undoubtedly were. In extending greetings Dr. Uttley took as his text two words 'Welcome Home." Pausing to allow the present pupils to give tlu·ee cheers for the Old Boys, he continued by saying that their home was there although the house had changed. 'l'he Old Bo.rs had rereiverl their eduration at the old school, fragrant with the memories of Puni Cl'eek (laughter), nncl they had in rcrtnin respects more advantages than the present boys, for hric·ks anrl mortar rlid not make a school, rather was it the spirit of the boys attending. He was pleased to state that the same spirit was manifesting itself at the new school, where what practically amounted to a fierce patriotism was displayed by the boys. When the hostel was completed, the school would possess buildings not to be excelled any where elsP. in New Zealand, while the playing fields would be an asset to any school. Dr. Uttley expressed pleasure 11t the strength of t·he Olcl Boys' Association, as snrh bodies were apt to die after the inil ial enthusiasm, and advocated annual reunions to 8 9 RECTORS strengthen the bondSouthland existing Boys'between High all Old School Boys. Jubilee'.l'he school Record. !,hat day had reached au important milestone in its history, and the recently enrolled new boys, numbering 100, would he the pioneers of the next 50 years. It was very fitting that they should !=;(;art o[ in (,!Jc midst of such n, reremony ns the present celebrations. Dr. Uttley !';ai.-1 t!rn (; lrn wns looki11g forwm·d to meet-ii1g- the Old Boys, and c:oncluded by pa_,·ing· a trihnte Io the work of those who had gone before. Mr Pearce and the staff had worked so well that when a new man, as Dr. Uttley ,ras, had come in, it was to find the spirit and tone of the school sound. With a continuation of such support from the staff, he hoped that the school would progress even further. In this respect he stressed the: value of a hostel which was necessary to bring about a better under standing between boy and master. To one and all he extended a right royal welcome, and trnsted that the jubilee would be most successful. He exhorted the Old Boys present to impart to the newcomers to the school something of their spfrit, for in the wonls of Newbolt; "To-day and here the �ght's begun, Of I he great fellowship your're free, Henceforth the school and you are one, And what you are, the race will be." Mr Penrre then read n list of duxes of the school and as eaeh name was caJled, those who were pl'esc>nt came fonrnrd and, to applause, were greeted hy Mr i\faralister. G. W. BLANCHFLOWER, B.A., 1881-1885. The list is as follows:- .Tohn A. Asher (1881), W. Fred Collins (1883-4), Jas. A. Fullarton (1885), Alex. M. Bums (1886), J. Ern. Rogers (1887), W. S. Baird (1888), John Collie (1889-1890), William Mitrhell (1891), Alex. Cowie (1892), John 'faylor (1893), John A. l�raser (1894), R. Brownlie (1895), R. M. Erskine (1896-7), C. P. Brown (1898), Fred Ball (1899), Alb. A.eheson and Ern. Lindsa)' (1900), Ern. Lindsay (1901), ,J. .Brnee Baird (1902), A. Bon. Lindsay (1903), A. M. Palmer (lD04), Robert Kennedy (l005), .Tohn Mnnloeh (1906), M. AJcxander and K. G. Fraser (1907), Norm. Millard (1908), J. P. Hewat (l009), W. Cody (1910), .J. G. Anderson (1911), Lind Bennet (HJ12), Clrn.1'1es Carter (1913), Geoff'. Wild (1914), Hub. Ryburn (1915), H. Dyer (1916), l�rccl. McDowall (1917), Sid. Hall (1918), Reg. Roberts (1919), G. M. Cameron (J020), H. Don Cox (1921), Jas. l<'rancis (1922), Al. Harrington (1923), Inn Rout (1924), G. D. Andersou nnd Jas. C'. Dakin (1925), Ralph McKay (1926), GoHlou 1\fardonald (l!J27), W. J\. Corn. Rmilh (l!J28), J\ys. Clifl'orcl (1920), .T. Doug-. Thomson (Hl30). A. H. HIGHTON, M.A., 188G-l893. H. L. FOWLER, 1893-1903. 9 11 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. 10 BOYS OF TWO GENERATIONS. .After addresses by Messrs Carswell and Imlay, which arn recorded "in ex tenso" a lit{]e later on, the schoolboys were heard again in song, their item being �'he list of "Old Boys" of two generations was then rend, those present "C:o f-o Sen." Mr W. A. Cornelius Smith then spoke on behalf of the fifth derade. sf:ftnding- when their names were called. . Mr A. M. Macdonald (137) then presented the banner of the first decnde to the 1·ector, Dr. Uttley, to be kept as a memento of the occasion. The list was as follows:- In thanking the "Old Boys" of the first decade for the kindly spirit which FATHERS. SONS. prompted the presentation, Dr. Uttley said that it was the desire of the school that 1881-Bews, John E. Walter. the walls of the Assembly Hall should be embellished with this and similm· emblems, 1881-Macalister, Wm. Horace, Alan, John, William. and with records of the achievements of past pupils. 1881-Macdonald, Herbert A. Morell, Hugh, Gordon. 1881-Powell, Jas. H. Roswell. Mr Stmng made reference to the work of Mr Morell Macalister and of Nfr 1881-Ramsay, ArchcI: Leslie. 1881-Rout, Chas. B. Harold, Charles, Eric. Chal.'lcs Clark, in connexion with Thethe OldSchool Boys' Register. Association. 1881-Tapper, Alfred Walter. 1881-Watson, Geo. F. Francis. 1882-Reed, Jno. H. Gordon, Douglas, John, Keith. 1883-Stevens, Edward (dcceased}. Eric (deceased). Mr Macalister called for cheers for Mr Hanington, whic·h were heartily giYc11. 1884-Hanan, Hon. J. A. Mark. He said tl,a t Mr Harrington had not had such a long term in the secretaryship as l\fr 1886-McCallum, Andrew John, Archie, Douglas, Russell. Clark, lmt he had been in office during a busy period. The life of the school was 1886-Macdonald, A. Morell Morris. not the life as ranied on by the masters and pupils nt any one time. It should be 1886-Macdonalcl, Perny Stuart, Rex. 1886-Stevens, John G. (deceased} John, Dallas, George, Harold. recognized that a school had a past, present and future. The past of the school 1886-Wilson, Edmund R. Roland, Noel. was indeed a splendid one. The past was the school's tradition and thg tradition 1887-Carswcll, John T. Ian, Hugh, Donald, I 12 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. 13 "In Southland from 1885 to 1889 we had the worst slump ever expcl'ienceil 111then were poor and the only thing worth looking at was the boys. (Laughter and applause). What then troubled him greatly ,ms that after school they had nothing here, and it was followed, about 1895, by another financial stringenC'y almost as t.he way of sports to engage in, and f he set about to remedy this state of affairs. ::;ernre, "·lien the UoYernment had to come to the assistance of01· t.he Bank of New Uc referred the matter to Mr Blanchlower who, not being an athletic man, was Zealand. ,\11 this meant that many boys \\'ho, u1 othel' cil'cumstances, 1would have raLhcr inclined to damp his zeal; but he went ahead with his project, ancl as a attcnded: the High School had, as soon as they passed the fifth si.xth standard, to result of outside snpport, iJrnugnrated. the fil'st sports meeting and from then on start work to help in the support of the home. There was, at that time uo system excellent progress had been made in athlcti, cs. One of the reasons why he could of. accrediting whereby hoys gaining- certificates of 'proficiency' could obtain 'free not forget Lhc school was beeause he had married au Invercargill girl, concluded places' in the school. The Southland Board of Education held a11 examinatiou l\fr McLean, anr1, he alwa:vs wns kept posted up in local affail's. Coming back, he anmially and a,1·arded a limitedi11 number of scholarships, and the High Sc:hools' Board felt rather like Rip Van Winkle, but deri�·ed great pleasurn from his associations of Gornrnors gradually extended the free privileges as far as its then limited 1·e with the old school. sources would allo"·, until 1900 probably only 50 per cent. of those on the roll were paying pupils. Nevertheless times were so very hard that even these concessious This conclurled the afternoon's aeremony. failed to appreciably increase the number of new entrants to the school. In spite of these drawbacks, however, a solid foundation was laid during those t,,·o decades :Flddresses on t6e Jiistory of t6e Se6ool upon whi<·h the fine superstructure of the present-day school has since been erected. "Taken as a whole, the teachers of that day were men of ability and scholar ::;hip with the welfare of the pupils very uear to their hearts, and they possessed, EARLY SCHOOLDAYS. above the aYerage, the art of imparting their knowledge. '.l'he three headmasters who dil'ected the studies of the pupils prior to 1900 were George W. Blanchflower, MR J. T. CARSWELL'S RECOLLECTIONS. B.A. London (1881-1885), .Alfred H. llighton, M.A., Cambridge (1886-1893) and H. L. "The Jubilee Committee has coufened upon me great honour by choosing- me l<'owler, M.A., Oxford (1893-1903). Of Mr Blanc:hflowcr I cannot speak authori as the delegate of the Old Boys of the first and second decades and I am privileged tat11·el.v-for [ was only a boy of ele1·e11 when he left- the school. He <·ertaiuly was to present to you a short history of the life of the school during the first 20 years of \\·ell qualified academically, and see111s to ha,·e exercised strict discipline, but perhaps its existence," began l\fr J. 'l'. Carswell (151). did not t::ike the lmsi11ess of teaching quite seriously enough. "After what may be termed a 'preliminary canter' in December, 1880, the school "Messrs Highton and l<,owler I knew Yery well for I was under the forn1er .it \\·as opened early in 1881 in the southern half of the building at the corner of Fol'th ::;chool aud the latter coached me after I left to join the Colonial Bank staff. They and Conon streets now occupied hy the Southland Technical College. The 1101'thcrn were bot!:. men of high ideals and l\fr Fowler especially was a most thorough and portion was rescr\'ed for the High School girls. '.l'he boys occupied then only three painstaking teacher. He was a stem disciplinarian but exceedingly just, and Old class-rooms (including the 'long room') and another small room was used by the Boys who were under him speak of him to-day in terms of the d� est respect. Mr headmaster as an office and study. Highton's strong subjects were mathematies and science, \l·bilst Mr Fowler favoured the classics of which he was an able exponent. Both these headmasters have now "During t·he \\·hole of the succeeding 20 years the only addition to the building passed to their final rest, but their memory is still treasured in the hearts of the was that of the chemical laboratory, the erection of \\·hirh had been strongly advo boys of the fir::;t and second decades. C'ated by the principal, Mr A. H. Highton, and this was rompleted early i11 1888. Compare these humble beginnings with Lhe magnificent new school iJ1 Herbert street, "During the ,,·hole of those early years there were never more than two with its numerous class-rooms, its chemical laboratory ancl its physics laboratory; assistants, the best known of these being Charles McLean and .A. G. Stewart ('Mac' its large assembly hall, lecture room, prefects' room, masters' common room and ancl 'Jerry') who were ou the staff from May, 1882, to December, 1888; W. E. P. the rnauy other accessories. Truly at the end of the first fifty years we Jrnve much to Austin, B.A. ('Bony') who was classics master during 1889 and 1890; William he thankful for. l\facalister, B. .A.., LL.B., one of the original pupils of the school, who taught from "The roll at the beginning of 1881 comprised the names of 62 pupils, and 1889 to 1896, when he resigned to take up the profession of Law; John E. Vernou, although it will be considered almost incredible, this number was actually in excess M.A.,"' B.Sc. (Edinburgh), who was appointed mathematics and science master \\'hen of that of any other year up to, ancl including 1900, and in 1893 the number of the M:r :!! owler was promoted to be rector upon the resignation of Mr Highton in Septem boys npon the school register was actually only 36. ber, 1893; l\fr C. George, M.A., of Aberdeen, who taught for two and a-half years "There is no gainsaying the fact," continued Mr Carswell, "that, duru1g those iu succession to l\{r William Macalister, and Mr Frank Foote, B.A., who joined the first 20 years the school had a grim struggle for existence, and it was only the staff in 1899. capable and careful management of the Board of G@vemors that enabled it to weather "The oldesL surviving teacher (unless Mr Blanchfto,1·er is still liviJJg, which is the storm. The lack of progress was merely a reflex of the hard and troublous times extremely doubtful) is l\fr J.P. l\liaeGuire, who was appointed in July, 188), resigning t.hrough which the folk of that period were passing. ll'ithin a year to go to Melbourne to take up the legal profession, in which he has "In the early eighties many people, attracted by the prospect of earning high been very successful. wages or of getting-rich-quick in business left Invercargill (where trade was dull) To lVIr Charles McLean (who, I am pleased to say, is with us to-day) we are for Melbourne, which was then in a state of boom. During the height of that boom really indebted for the inauguration of the annual athletic sports of the school. He the City of Glasgow Bank failed, and large sums of Scottish money that had been organized the first meeting, which ll'aS held in December, 1882, and which dwells invested in Victoria and New Zealand were called in, in my memory because of the plucky fight which Ernest (now Dr.) Rogers put up in 11 14 15 ihe mile race againstSouthland a mu('h Boys' biggel' High boy-W. School l<'. Collins.Jubilee RogersRecord. was bea,teu; but ing, aucl he alsoSouthland gained his Boys'B.Sc. atHigh tlie SchoolUni,·ersity Jubilee of Adelaide. Record. To-clay he holds so pleased ,rnre the lady spectators Urnt U1ey raised a collection so that he might and has licld for some years the important position of principal of the Routh Australia receive a consolation prize. School of Mines and Industries, Adelaide. "Mr Austi11 was a, fine teacher. Personally I liked hi111 best of all Uie teachers "As far as athletics and outdoor games were concerned," continued Mr I had at, the High School. He had a nice breezy way with him and his scholarship Caisll'ell, "the pre:1900 boys laboured under many disadvantages. They had 1�0 was good. It has just recently come to my knowledge that he died about a year gymnasium or gymnastic instructor, and to the best of my recollection they cl1cl ago in Melbourne. Mr J. E. Vernon was another fine master and the pupils under him not have even a horizontal bar upon which to exercise tliemselves. Exercises with made solid progress. A perfect gentleman himself, he inspired his boys to be manly, clubs and drills were but rarely indulged in, and the pupils had to content themselYes considerate and unselllsh. He remained with us until 1902 when he resigued to with playiI]g leapfrog, King Caesar and other boys' games. Hanel-ball or fives was liccom() rcc:tor of ihe Pallllerston North High School, which post he held until his played on the front wall of the school where there were many tricky angles. ·'.l.'J1erc death in 19 l 8. The team work between Messrs l◄'owlcr, Ven1on and 1\fncali:;iel' wa:; was 110 proper football ground, and we used to practise in Nwnber 2 Oan1ens, but e.xceptionally good. tbe grouud was really too narrow. '.l.'here were no proper goal-posts, aud 110 sport:; "Ttn·iling uow to Ute pupil:; ll'hu passed through tl1e school during it:; lir:;L masters properly so-called to teacli us the science of football or cricket. Want of Lll'enty y,)ars of existence it rnust be patent at the outset that it 1rould be quite equipment, howHer, did not deter us from developing into good footballers ancl irnpossibfo iu the limited time at my disposal to giYe the history of tlieir acliiern quite a number of the boys of that period ultimately represented Southland, included ments in detail. This has been done very concisely and very admirably in Mr Pearce's a,mong them being Vic. Ekensteen, Alf. E. Tapper, Jack Martin, Charlie Martin, Jules Register and yet tbe record absorbs oYer 36 pages of closely printed matter, which, Tapper, Eust,ace Russell, Tom Watson, Herbie Rodgers, James Manson, J. D. Shanel, if J.'ead at the rate of 120 words pe1· minute, would take 0Yer t11·0 hours to read. I Charles '.l.'odd, John ('Toiler') Ta:vlor, J. ,V. Stead, C. J. Whitaker, Don Hamilton would commend to your perusal this Yery fine 11·ork ll'bich embodies in its pages tlre (who also played for New Zealand), C. FL ('Harry') McKay. Mr J. W. Stead was a best service ever yet rendered to the Old Boys of the Southland Boys' High School member and deputy-captain of the original All Black team in 1905. by a single individual. ''In athletics the record of these eal·ly boys was quite good. Iu the sprinting ·. "Although time will not allow of my referring to many of the Old Boys of events we had such runners as Fitzgerald Turton, Fred Reid, V17illiam and Douglas that period, perhaps it be pennitted to mention one falllily (that of the late Harvey and J. D. Shanel. Their records have been beaten by boys of a later elate, J. C. Christophers) three of whom, viz., Reginald, Julian and Victor, entered the but it must be remembered that the sports were then held at Queen's Park, "·here the school towards the end of1Yill the second decade. These three, and their brother Herbert tracks then were not in as good ·order as they are to-clay. Furthermore, the crouch Henry of the thixd decade all made the supreme sacrifice, fighting on behalf of the ing start was not then kno"·n and many of the boys dicl not e,·en liave spiked shoes. Empire in tbe Great War. l<'ine men all; not brilliaut perhaps, but good, solid, reliable We had some good mile runners in those days, the fastest probably being W. l◄'. fellows, keen sports, and the essence of manliness. Every year a relay raC'e is held CoJJins, Ernest Hogers ancl Jack Aspinall. Tom Moffett held the record for the higli between the school and Old Boys, and the trophy is the Christophers Challenge Shield jump for many years. which was presented by the Old Boys' Association iu commernoraLion, of tile great "I cannot conclude without paying a brief tribute to the Board of Governors sa,crifice made by this family. who so ably presided over the destinies of the school during this first 20 years. For "The academical honours gained by the boys of the first two decades may 14} years Invercargill's 'Grand old man,' George Lumsden, was chairman. The other appear somell'hat meagre compared ll'ith tliose achieved by pupils of a later date, chairmen ll'ere Thomas Morell Macdonald, James Walker Bain and the Ven. Arch but it must be r,'rnembered that the roll number in 1900 ( 55) was only one third of deacon Stocker. Other "·ell-lrnown men who were 011 the Board were Henry Wilson, Lhat of 1910 (160); oue-fourth of that of 1920 (222) and one-fifth of that in 1930 D. L. Matheson, Thomas Watson, Tliomas· De1111iston, J. A. Preshaw, my father, the (310). Viewed from this angle, it will be found that the record of tlie school at late Hugh Carswell, Charles Gilbertson, Dr. Robert l\foNab, William Macalister, the this period was quite good and well above the average. Rev. J. A. Asher and the Hon. J. A. Hanan. "The achievement of the schoolboys when they left the cloistered halls of "There ha.Ye been on the Board of GoYernors at different times six Old Boys, learning to take their place in life's stern battle has shown that they took to heart including the Hon. J. A. Hanan, Mr William Macalister (who was chairman for a tlie lessons of the school motto, 'Non scholae secl vitae discimus.' In business and period of 13 years), the Rev. J. A. Asher, John Gilkison and John T. Carswell, all in nll professions Old Boys of this period have taken an honoured part. I would Old Boye; of the first. decade. Mr A. W. Jones, of the third decade, was also a like to muke use of the career of one Old Boy as showing the grit and determination mern ber of the Board." of some of the scholars who passed through the school. As he is 1200 miles away I hope t4at the inclusion of his name will not seem invidious to the other 427 boys who LATER DAYS. passed through the school before 1900. The pupil to whom I refer was Frederick William Reid, who ·was oue qf my schoolmates. Ile came origiually from H,iverton THIRD AND FOURTH DECADES. and was at school from 1888 to 1891. On leaving school he went to Zeehau in MR J. G. IMLAY'S ADDRESS. Tasmania and worked as c-lerk there until times got so bad tliat he lost his job. Nothing tlamrter1, he took off his coat and for several years worked as an. ordinary "'!'he history of the third and fourth decades is of particular interest in the miner. Ile sa,·ed mouey wl1ich lie judiciously in,·estecl in miucs that he knew some annals of the school for several reasons," said l\fr J. G. Imlay, who was entrusted thing abont, and was thus able to pay for his schooling at tbe Adelaide School of with the task of detailing eYeuts of importance during that period of the school's Mines where lie gained diplomas in metallurgy, in mining, and in mechanical engineer- history. 12 16 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. RECTORS "Ju the first place, it was at the encl of Lhe second yem· of Lhi:; pe!'iod LhaL free seeondary educa,tiou ,\·as first gn111!cd by the J<:clucation DeparL1uent to 1tll pupil:; who pas:;(•d Standard VI under the age of 14 years," he contiuued. "Later Lhc Lenn, originally fixed at t\\'O years \1·iLh pro,·ision for au extension of a further t1ro years, was even further extended so that boys could attend aL the s<.:hool for I-ire or six years free of charge. 'l'he immediate effect of the gaining of this privilege was a decided increase in admissious to the school, the year 1903 sho\\·ing an increase in attendance over 1902 of 45 boys. The number gradually grew, until in the last year of the fourth decade, the munber on the roll, which in 1901 was 53, had increased to 220,. and this in spite of the fact that in the iuterim the Go-re High Sc·hool, the 'rerlmical School, and I think, scvci-al district high schools had opened. "Another event of some importance was that early in the third denulc the >-4 Girl:;' School bec:mnc a separate institution witlt a lady principal, and tl1aL in HJU(j w ...J the ucw Girls' High Scnool was completed and was occupied in 1907. I I :::) The School's Teachers. :i ci "During the period the school was fortunate in its tcad1ers. i\Ir II. L. Fowler, who was rector at the beginning of the century, to quote from the School H,egister, 'won the respect of all, pupils and parents, by his conduct, by his discipline, by his scholarship, and by his results.' He was followed in 1904 by -Mr T. D. Pearce who never spared himself during his long period of service in ,\·orking for the good of the school. It must have been a ·source of great gratification to him to see bi,, old pupils taking their places, some of them very prominent places, in business aud professional life. He always encouraged sport and fostered the sporting spirit amongst the boys. ".M.r McGrath holds by three years the record as a member of the sta.ff with the longest period of service. He laboured unceasingly to turn out good footballers and cricketers, ancl we were always counselled, and not only in football, to 'run straight.' A fu1e tri'bute is paid to his work in the School Register. lie was also particularly painstaking, especially with the backward boys, in the class rooms. "Mr James Pow endeared himself to us youngsters, because he was such a 'decent sort.' He would go to no end of trouble to assist a trier who could not u; quite grasp the new subjects the ]Joys entered on ,rhen they first be<.:,une High School N boys. He afterwards had a very distinguished career in the war and is now secretary a, 0.... of !'he Dominion Farmers' Institute. a, "l\fr Dakin is next in length of service to l\fr McGrath; he joined in 1907 and very soon became a school institution. He had a fund of dry humour, ancl was (and no doubt still is) an extremely able teacher of languages and mathematics, besides w (.) being a lc;yal supporter of the school in every aspect. It is perhaps not fair that I er: should speak at length about Messrs McGrath and Dakin, as the speaker for the filth w<( decade will doubtless wish to say a good deal about them. Other teachers have c.. come ::i.nd gone, many of them being Olcl Boys of the school, and all helped in their ci own several ways to de,,elop the intellects and the bodies, and to mould the characters i-..: of those whom they taught. It is impossible in the time at my disposal to refer to all individually, but I would mention l\,fr J. Williams, who was responsible fo1· bringing many of the pupils to New Zealand University Scholarship standard in rnathematics and science. He hacl a quiet manner, was always courteous, ancl was respected by all. "l\Ir Ian Galloway was gymnastic instructor for a number of years, and lost his life exactly 17 years ago to-day whilst gallantly cndeaYouring to save Cyril Soar's life ai the Back Beach at Greenhills. He was succeeded by Mr Page who still holds 13 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. 17 the position, ancl has, like his predecessor, given many men a physique they would. not otherwise have possessed. Both earned the lifelong respect and affection of those whom they taught." 1 At J\fr Jmlay's request all present stood in silence for a fe,i· minutes in respect to llfr Gallowa) 's memor)·. "The scholastic record of the sc·hool during the period was a good one," ron tim1cd 11fr Imlay, "27 pupils who entered the school between the years 1901 and 1920 gaining Kc11· Zealand Uni,·ersity Entrance Srholarships. Two of these, 11Iessrs F. F. Miles and 11. J. Ryburn later secured highe1· honours at theSil.)' ·uniY ersity by being selertcd as Rhodes Scholars for the years 1012 and 1020 respediYel.\'. '\Yithout referring to particular indiYiduals it is perhaps sufficient to that almost all of these, as well as many ot-hers, in the two decades who did not . ·eek or gain schola!' ships ar/3 no\\· occnpying responsible and distinguished positions in their vnrious Yoc:1tions. ".Whilst ;,he scholastic side was being catered for, sport was not by any means forgotten. l<'ootbali honours were competed for with ntrying success against local ..,., !;cams and aga,inst other High 8chools. It was in 1907 that the fi,·st fifteen was first successful in defeating the Otago Bo�·s' High School first fifteen at Dunedin. 11fony ;x, n! en --t of the piayers in these matches after11·a1·ds became proYincial representati s rnan�l 0 some South and North Island repi'·esentnti\·es, New Zealand Maori 1·cp1·esentnLi s, fTl C") and Ail Black footballers. )> 0 "A sufficient number of enthusiasts was always available to field a, team for !'1 crirket, lJut genel'811y speaking, it rould not be said that the teams Yery fre(]nentl�· clist-inguislted theinselvcs. "In spite of this quite a number of future Southland cricket representatives could afterwards dairn that the,v recei\'ed tbeir grounding at the school. Fives and t·ennis were bot-11 introduced in the school grounds during the period and were also very popular gmnes, but hockey sm·,·fred for only two years at that time. "fo athletic sports man)' records were established and seYcral of these rem\),in as school records to the present cla)'. I refer to the re<'ords for the 220 yards- 23 ]-5se.;. by 'I.'. Baird {1908) and CL Kingston (1917); 440 yards, 55sec., R. L. Christie (1909); 1 mile, 4min. 56sec., 1'. Baird (1909); long jump, 22ft., .J. N. 1VIillanl (1908). "Prom 1902 when the g,vmnasium was erected at the Old School gymnastics formed a Yery popular part of the cnrriculuni, and ever)' year since then the various eha.mpionships have been contested. Swimming al,;o was a popular sport, bnt wn,; <'onducted under rather serious difficulties, the baths being out-of-date and finally closing- down in 1909. "The members of these two decades were the Olcl Boys who were later at the age which made them eligible for active sen-ice and many responded to the call, and many did not return. One feels sad even yet, when one thinks of the splendid fellows whom one had assoriated with at tbe old sc-hoo1 and who 'went West.' I had thcught of mentioning names, but I find there w£:re so nrnn)' that I haYe decided not to particularize, liut each and eYery one of us will to-day ha,·c thoughts of those, our particular friends, who fell. Of the 106 Old Bo�s whose names appear on the School Roll of Honour, !JO were members of the.·e decades. Tf one counted all the soldie1·s whose names appear in the School Register the total would be impressi\-e indecil, and e,·en then there nre some who served but whose sen-ire is no!· rerordecl, 14 · 18 19 "In conclusion,"Southland said Boys' Ml' Imlay,High "ifSchool I may Jubilee be allowed Record. to some extent lo "H 11·as inSouthlancl this decade Boys; that weHigh find Sciwolthe Old JubileeBoys' Association Record. once again re plagiarize, I would like to quote the followlllg lines which, with a httle alteratio11, I formed aud fil'lnly established. T!Je Association is 110w incorporated and has a large _ huYe taken from an Otago University song. 'l'he lines seem to be peculiarly appropriate membership. 'l'horc is much that the Association can and will do in the interests at the present moment. They run as follows:- of the school, but it must have the support of every Old Boy. Support its cricket, "Widely are her children scattered, swimming and footlmll clubs, and you are helping to do your bit. Some are sound, and some are shattered; "'l'he history of t.hesc ten years," Mr Smith concluded, "is by no means com Some are fortunate, some battered, plete without some mention of Mr Pearce's long service and his resignation in May, By adversity. 1929. A ,better all-round gentleman would be hard to find. The presentations from Some the young idea arc teaching, the school, the staff, the Old Boys of Dunedin, and the recognition of !Jis services by Some to congrcgatio11s preaching, the Old Hoy:;' Association show plainly the high esteem iu whid t he 11·as held by Some in business life are reachiug those who kao"· him for what he is. His Old Boys' Register is a work he may well To prosperity. be prond of." Some are politicians, Scientists, physicians, THE ROLL CALL. And some in Courts, With briefs and torts Tl,e followi11g "Old Boys" were present at the oflfoial opening ceremouy :- Fulfil their youug ambitions. Fl RST DECADE. Some are single, some are married, Some grim Death from us has carried. 1881 Ent.rants-Rev. J. A. Asher, Napier (4); John E. Bews (6); John Jenkins (28), J. R. Marlin All are brothers who have tarried (32); Alexander C. Matheson, Dunedin (33); Thos. D. A. Moffett (35); William Macalister (39); Chas. B. Rout (49); Jules H. Tapper (56). At Southland Boys' High School." 1882 Entrants-Chas. Oreli McKellar, Dunedin, (69) '· John Henderson Reed (74); Eustace ·Russell ('i7); William H. Sproull, Eltham (78). 1884 Entrant-Chas. E. Borne (92). SCHOLASTIC SUCCESSES. 1885 Entrant-William Young (115). IMPROVEMENTS IN A'l'HLE'rICs. 1886 Ent.nmts-W. H. Dorrie, Dunedin (118); John Collie, North Taieri (121); F. J. Hatch (125); Arnold M. Macdonald (137); E. R. Wilson (149). Replying c1 11 behalf of the fifth decade, 1921-1930, Mr W. A. Comelius Smith 1887 Entrants-John T. Carswell (151); Cuthbert Cowan (152); John Gilkison (155); Gus. Tapper (167). said that it held a prominent place in the histoi·y of the school. "On the scholastic i and 1110s{' important side we have many successes to our credit," he contiJmed. 1888 Enlrant-J. W. McIntyre, Orepuki (177). "Eight New Zealand University Entrance Scholarships have come our way, and in 1889 Entrants-John A. Fraser (18!J); William Scott, Dipton (195). one of these ,J. C. Dakin was fu-st for New Zealand. He has also gaiJ1ecl that 1890 Enlrnnts-James Henderson Baird, Wyndham (200); James Manson (205). honour cornted by all students, a Rhodes Scholarship. ·we are proud of Jimmy, for he has also annexed many athletic houours, and in thi.· respect are also proud SECOND DECADE. of P. McGrath, i"he New Zealand Iutermediate swimming champion. Many University 1891 Entrants-Robert Brownlie (211); William Carswell (213); John Ritchie Gilmour, Roxburgh degrees ha1·e also been gained by our Old Boys of this period. (215); A. N. MacGibbon, Mat-aura (220); James D. Shand (224); H. T. Shanel, Dipton J (225); J. W. St·ead (228). ".Atb le tics ha1·e shown a Yery marked i 11provement. Of the seven seruor 1892 Entrants-James A. Hamilton, Bluff (238); Eric Russell (244); James Peter Wilson, Christ championship records, four have been lowered, and of the six junior championships church (249). tl1·0 ha1·e suffered likewise. w·e haYe been fortunate in havlllg new competitions 1893 Entrant-Ernest A. Nichol, Bluff (256). inaugurated-the Munro Medal (three-mile run), the Bews Trophy (most points 18!J4 Entrants-George F. Griffiths, ,vinton (266); Herbert L. Hay (267); Hugh Colin JlfacGibbon, in lon!! distance) and the Christophers Memorial Shield for competitiou between Gore (273). relay tea.ms from the school and from Old Boys. 1895 Entrants-Andrew Lyall (291); James F. St,raug (297). "In 1926, as a result of the good work of Mr E. C. Isaacs (1505), annual 1896 Entrants-William Corbet, Dunedin (309); J. H. Beattie, Waimate (304); James Augustus sport::; between the secondary schools of Otago and Southland were inaugurated. Fredric (313); Robert Thomas Meredith (322); William J. Maun, Palmerston (321); Iu the ·e sports we have more than held our own and hold most of the records. In William A. Service (327); Garnet J. Yule (334). football we have had our Jean and fat years.. Ju 1922 and again in 1930, after 1897 Enlirants-Adam L. Adamson (336); Dennislon Cuthbertson (345); James Robertson (351). iJ1teresti.ng games, we elllergcd victors of the South Island tournament. 1900 En!rauL-H. W. D. Gazzard (406). '"rhc most important event in this decade is the change over from the old school in li'orth street to thi. · fine building we ha Ye here. Those who have been THIRD DECADE. fortunate enong-h to attend sc:hool here have rnu<:h to thank our Board of G-oYernors 1901 Entrants-Frank 0. V. Acheson, Auckland (429); William StewarL (456); Roland Taylor for. With our playing area adjacent, our "·ell-laid-out gardens in £rout and the (457). ho::;tel wliich will be erected in the near future, we must indeed consider our Yarious 1902 Entrants-John K Brewster, Ma(·aurn (462); W. T. Henaghan, Dunediu (471); Stanley educational needs well catered for. Morell Macalister ( 486). 15 20 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland BoJi High School Jubilee Record. 21 1!)03 Enlranls-Hugh Anderson, Hokonui (ii0l); Rober! W. Hawke, Taramoa (521); William 1923 Entrants-Arthur T. Anderson (1982); William J. Attley (1984); C. T. Bailey (1985); JT. .T. King (528); Alfred W. ,Jones (525); H. Lindsay Mair (532); Francis 0. MacGibbon Franci� J. Beadle, Wyndham (HJ87); W. Norman Buxton, Otautau (1993); G. C. (542); Jallles S. Marshall (533); J. Francis Miller (537); Robert J. Foster (517). Cameron (1997); Alan F. Gilkison (2014), Ian T. Gough (2016); Norman J. Grant, 1!)04 Entrant-William Grieve (598). Nightcaps (2018); Jas. A. Hamilton, Jnr., Dunedin (2021); J. R. Hanan (2024); Morell 1005 Entrants-William Agnew (644); W. 111. Findley, Kamahi (662); W. W. Millar (676); Arlhm F. Hormann (2032); A. C. Horne (2034); Ian McGrath (2059); J. Ross Murray, Ohai E. McGrath (686); Philip A. Poole (692); Harold S. Strang (700). (2054); Ernest S. Nichol, Bluff (2065); R. W. Nicol (2066); J. K. Robbie (2076); David Strang (2090); L. F. J. Taylor, Canterbury College (2093); R. C. Tuck (2098). 1906 Entrnnts-Robert Wylie, Seaward Downs (781); Rober! Neill Porter (7Gl); Thos. McKenzie, 1924 Entrants-A. W. Boyce (2110); Walter W. Butchers (2114); Stanley B. Cassells (2117); Wright's Bush (759). Keith Arthur MacEwan (2155); Francis Noel Mitchell (2153); Norman W. Pryde (2165); 1907 Entrants-Allan Douglas Anderson, Thornbury (784); H. C. Gimblett, Bluff (801); J. G. Eric Rout (2170); Alex. Smillie (2173); W. A. Cornelius Smith (2175); W. R. Strang Imlay (808); Alfred C. J. Robinson, Kurow (829). (2178); E. C. Tapley (2180); Maurice F. Taylor, Nightcaps (2181); Henry R. Watts ]!)08 EnlTanl·s-A. E. Barlow (851); J. S. Ferguson (869); James L. Foster, Thornbury (872); Christchurch (2189); John M. Webb (2190); Alex. Wilson (2192); Geo. G. Wright (2196); D.R. McIntyre, Wendon Valley (895); A. E. Stanley Hanan, Timaru (880). Owen J. Yule (2197). ]!){)9 Entranls-Alcx,uwler Cumming, Auckland (02'5); Robert Glendinning Grieve (937); H. R. 1925 Entrants-L. H. Allott (2198); Louis S. Brash (2208); J. A. Clifford (2213); T. P. Crowe Wilcox !JG9); John Henry Huffadine (930); George Munro (945). (2217); A. W. Cooper (2214); Owen G. Davis (2221); ·Keith Halllilton (2234); Edward P. Hawke (2240); L. G. Hughes (2244); Lloyd H. Jones (2247B); John P. Lynch (2251); l!il0 Entrnnts-FredHick William Dixon (976); W. R. Mabson (994); Allan Roy McKenzie (1006); P. L. Lynch (2252); G. F. Murchison, Queepstown (2Z56); W. Swale, Lirnebills (2277); Percy E. Rice (1012); Aubrey C. Witting, Waimatua (1026). C. L. Wallace (2281); L. P. Wesney (2283). 1926 Entrants-R. D. N. Bisset (2294); R. A. Carman (2303); J. Norman Christie (2306); A. D. FOURTH DECADE. Galt, Hokonui (2314) � Eric Henderson, West Plains (2320); A. L. Hind (2322); F. W. James, Otautau (2327); G. W. Lindsay (2337); Raymond S. Jenkins (2328); Lindsay F. 1911 Entrants-Chas. E. K. Mills (1065); Arnold E. W. McDonald (1060). McCurdy (2344); Geo. Nimmo, Nightcaps (2349); F. R. Miller (2340); J. M. de la Perrelle 1912 Entrants-Hugh L. Brown, Tokanui (1102); Hemy E. Dyer, Christchurch (1115); J. Laurens (2352); Willis Paterson, Hokonui (2351); T. E. Roff (2355); E. A. Sefton (2357); T. T. Cameron (1106); Gordon M. Corbet (1110); Douglas F. Leckie, Makarewa (1139); G. T. Stewart (2362); J. Howard Sutton (2363); J. B. Swale (2364); William G. Tait, Junr, Matheson, Kennington (1143); L. Dalzell, Winton (1112). (2365); J. C. Thomson (2372); Edward A. Webb (2380). 1913 Entr::nl·s-Arthur R. Fraser (1189); Thomas W. Preston (1215); Alister P. McDonald, Bluff rn-27 Entrants-W. H. Gregory, Auckland (2413); F. Bruce Henderson (2420); I. M. Malcolm (1208). Heddon Bush (2437). 1914 Entrants-B. IL Ayling (1232); William T. Johnson, Lumsden (1269); Alfred Buckingham, 1928 Entrants-Arthur Collie, Otautau (2502); James N. Lawry (2540); R. H. Oliver (2565). Rangiora ( 1238) ; Peter Gilfedder (1259B) ; George Heslope Mitchell, Gore ( 1281) ; William 1929 Entrant-Ernest J. McIntyre (2643). John McGregor Henderson, Browns (1265). 1930 Entrant-J. T. H. Plunkett (2736). 191!i Entrants-George Cleland, Winton ( 1322); John E. Fleming, Te Peka ( 1327); C. H. Hartley, Christchurch (1337); C. Dickens (1326); Thomas R. Pryde (1370); J. T. Ross, Grove Bush ·(1372); P. J. Fotheringham (1330). APOLOGIES AND CONGRATULATIONS. FROM ABSENT "OLD BOYS" AND OTHERS. l!llG Entrants-Walter Lionel Bews (1387); Jobn Blue, Jnr., Tokanui (1389); Reginald A. P. Cox, Wnimuhaka (1400); Herbert Calder Cullen (1401); L. S. Gilkison, Lumsden (1413); FROM INVITED GUESTS- Alan D. C. Grindlay (1414); William Richard James, Aparima (1428); George S. McGavock Hon. H. Atmore (Minister of Education), Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle (Minister of Internal (14'15); Peter Kania (1431); R G. Kitto (1433); Percy P. Meffin (1437); Eric H. J. Preston Affairs), Hon. J. A. Hanan (Dunedin), Mr R. A. Anderson, C.M.G., Mr Andrew Bain, Mr J. B. (1452); A. H. Oughton (1450); Roy W. Price, Kauana (1453). Mawson, M.A., Wellington; also from Southland High School Old Girls' Association and from Nelson College. l!l17 Entrants-George Conland (1481); Arch. A. Cook, Roslyn Bush (1482); John R. Gardiner, Clifclen (1497); R. A. Johnston, Manaia (1506); Morris M. Macdonald (1520); Cecil Alfred FROM "OLD BOYS"-Fl RST DECADE. Masters (1515); Owen C. Longuet (1513); Thos. A. D. McFarlane (1523). Oscar B. Ekensteen, Christchurch (16); Dr. George E. Frogga!t, Wembley Park, Middlesex 1918 Entrants-Charles John Blomfield (1557); R. A. Dunnage, Dunedin (1562); Archibald (20); Dr. T. G. McKellar, Dunedin (43); Thos. I-I. Walson (61); W. L. Dartnill, Perth, W.A. (67); Ferguson, South Wyndham (1566); Alan G. Harrington (1577); Cyril E. Kerr (1583); Alex. M. Burns, Christchurch (94); Hon. J. A. Hanan, Dunedin (98); Dr. Vfo1. S. Bi,ird, Wanganui Reg. W. Murray (1596); T. R. Plunkett, South Hillend (1607). (116); Dr. F. J. Borrie, Christchurch (117); Andrew N. Burns, Wellington (120); Chas. J. Martin, Dunedin (130); Cbas. H. Morison, Hokitika (133); J. W. Spence, Stratford (145); Archibald C. 1919 Entrants-James L. G. Chamberlain, Orawia (1632); Lindsay Grnnt de la Perclle, Win!on Mitchell, Wellington (164); Michael J. Forde, Wellington (173); Captain Reginald lyon-Inslone, (1690); A. E. Fortune (1649); William A. Hefford (1653); W. G. Lenihan (1668); Robert Queenscliff, Victoria (174); R. W. Mclachlan, Dipton (178); Professor F. W. Reid, Adelaide (179); Hunter Meredith (1671); E. T. Ottrey, Dunedin (1689); C. C. Rober.ts, Dunedin (1695); Geo. L. Cuthbertson, Oamaru (187); H. C. Hewlett, Woodville (190); R. H. Turton, LL.B., Grey ,John D. Smclair, Nightcaps (1703). town (199); Dr. Jas. A. Cowie, Masterton (203); Alfred J. Scandrett, Perth, WA .. (207). 1920 Entrants-Alister S. Bisset (1718); Duncan Blue, Tokanui (1721); W. M. Carson (1725); SECOND DECADE. N. C. Clapp, Otautau (1726); D. W. Robinson (1771); William Titchener (1787); G. A. Robert J. Gilmour (216); W. N. Wakeling, Masterton Junction (233); H. H. Sharp, Wel Brash ( 1719); Ernest Squires (1781). lington (246); Norman G. Powell, Whangarei (278); Cyril Scandrett, Masterton (279); Rev. Cecil L. Wilson, Akaroa (282); D. G. Thornton, Auckland (299); Cyril P. Brown, M.A., LL.B., Wanganui FIFTH DECADE. (306); A. W. Wheeler, Wellington (331); Chas. R. Howorth, Kingston, Jamaica (382); Ivon V. Wilson, Wellington (428). 1921 Entrants-Gonion D. Anderson, Dunedin (1798); Gordon A. Carswell, Toa (1809); E. Excell, Nightcaps (1820); Eric J. Greenwood (1827); John W. F. Hughes (1834); G. I. Mayhew THIRD DECADE. (1844); Robert J. McDonald (1850); W. P. G. Ritchie (1861), Walter G. Wright (1879). Mr Justice Kennedy, Dunedin (441); G. E. Overton, Nelson (490); Mr Justice Smith, Auck iand (493); H. 0. Findlay, Blenbcim (590); Sinclair C. Sulherland, Dunedin (633); Llewellyn S. 1922 Entrants-Maurice Bleakly (1885); Allan A. Brown (1891); Philip C. Carman (1895); Leslie Piper, Auckland (691); Wm. S. Templeton, Whangape (778); James G. Anderson, Dunedin (785); Peter Clark, Bluff (1897); J. H. Geddes (1911); R. M. Hutton-Potts (1924); Norman A. H. C. Cavel!, Christchurch (792); Alex. I. Milne, Otuulau (814); John K Jameson, Aucklaml R. Hamilton (1918); Hector Macpherson (1940); C. E. Maxted (1929); N. Garnet (883); Freel J. C. Wilson, Auckland (846); G. E. S. Brodie, Kaikohc (917); Q. G. Christophcrs, McAncrgney (1942); Chas. C. McDonald (1943); Stanley Robson (1958); Morton Rodger Christchurch (922); Rev. H. J. Ryburn, M.A., B.D., Dunedin (1015); Dr. S. J. Thompson, Levin (1959); Charles W. Rout (1962); Garfield Todd (1974), (1023). 16 22 23 FOURTH DECADE.Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. David Cody, Wellingfon (1185); Peter Dougall Edmonds, Clyde (1117); F. H. McDowall, Palmerston North (1153); Walter J. MacGibbon, Christchurch (1207); Rev. R. G. McDowall, St. indepencfance aud chee1·:v optimism. fo this economic e1·a, when all forms of manual Clair (1210); II. 0. Jefcoate, Christchurch (1198); ,James Miller, Sydney (1204); Sam. A. Wylie, Pabiatua (1178); Thomas James, Bluff (1343); A ..J. Campbrll, M.A., Christchurch (130'5); Alex. labour are looked npon as degrading ancl rewarded accordingly and a man's worth J. Sligo, Palmerston N. (1460); Alan M. M. Greig, Auckland (1500); Hugh IGrkpafrick, Gore is assessed by the amount of material he may amass, the olcl traditions, ideals and (1585); Ian McK. Miller, Sydney (1593); D. S. Pickford, Timaru (1606); Allan Ramsay Howie, achievements ai·e in clanger of being forgotten. The future policy of the school Christchurch (1659); C. W. Lea, Auckland (1666); H. L. McKinnon, Mosgiel (1685); TI. W. Lea, 1 should act asabsence a deterrent against such a drift and help to usher i 1 a moral era. Ocean Beach (1752); Rowland C. Morgan, Hamilton (1760). ApologyBest wis!1es for for an epoch-mafrom king time. Floreat Southlandia." FIFTH DECADE. Charles E. Graham, Trentham (1826); Massey Spence, Sydenham (1!)65); John P. Brodie, His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy exp1·essing his great regret that he was Wellington (1002); Angus McBean, Auckland (2158); Harold R. Preston, Timaru (2164); John Vernon Li!Licrap, Palmerston North (2436); Ian Robert Wallace, Wanganui (2475). unable to l:e present at the school re-unio11 and jubilee celebrations, which he was sure would be both enjoyable and worthy of the occasion. JUBILEE BALL. JUBILEE JOTTINGS. OVER 300 DANCERS. Recapturing Youthful Irresponsibility. Not for many years lia,e so many Southlanders gathered together in one place to dance as filled the Assembly Hall of the Southland Boys' High School, Herbert "I gl'eatly regret being unable to be present at the jubilee celebrations. I Street, last evening. Despite the belated summer weather and the accompanying wonld hnxc heen glad to meet contemporary Old Boys, now showi11g, like myself, heat, which under other circumstances than the school's jubilee might have proYed many trac-es of the unequal struggle with the advancing years. It would haYe been overpowering, the 300 dancers who at ,arious stages during the night danced to an equal pleasure to have seen assembled tlrn pupils who are 'olcl boys' only in the 'fhompson's augmented orchestra formed one of the jolliest cro1Hls in local dance sense that they are no longer at school. It might have been possible in their presence, history. 'fhe Jubilee Committee had the arrangements well ii1 hand, with the result and in the atmosphere of the school, to 1·ecapture something of the happy inesponsi �hat in all respects the Jubilee Ball wns an outstanding success which will linger long bility of school days. Best wishes for the success of t.he celebr11tio11,-, nnd I join m the m0111ory. It "·as interesting to discover that the older generation, outdistancing with you all in drinking the health of the school. May it grow from strength Lo the younger last night both in nnmbe1· and energy, has lost neither the desire nor strength and play an ever increasing part in building up good chilcb:en and good the ability to dance. ritizenship," stated a telegram from Mr R. J. Gilmour, who was unable to be present Among those present were :-His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. D. Campbell) and through nbsence at a conference in Rotorua, rear1 by the c-hnirman at 1,he reunion the i\fayore.·s (Mrs Campbell), Mr and Mrs R. M. Strang, Mr and Mrs S. M. M:ac dinner on Saturday evening. A Quaking Feeling. alister, Dr. G. H. Uttley and Mrs Uttley, Mr and Mrs J.P. Dakin, i\fr and Mrs J. Page,· Mr and Mrs J. L. Cameron, Mr and Mrs J. Robertson, Mr and Mrs J. G. Imlay, l\fr and Mrs G. Caddie (Gore), Mr and Mrs F. C. Rowley, l\fr and Mrs R. A. Cox (Waima When preparations for the jubilee were under way n. questionnaire was sent haka), Mr and Mrs W. J. Mann (Palmerston South), Mr and Mrs J. A. Fraser, i\fr to every Olcl Boy of the school. One Old Boy, a resident of Hasting,-, :filled in and and M1·s C. C. Roberts (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs J. Manson, l\fr and Mrs H. Gazal'c1, returned his form after the earthquake hacl visited that city. The name of the Old Mr and M:i:s B. H. 1;\yling, Mr and Mrs Fredric, Mr and i\Irs H. Rout, l\fr and Mr.· Boy was Mr Edwin Traill, a Janel agent of Hastings. The questions and the replies A. R. Fraser, Mr and Mrs H. L. Brown (Tokanui), Mr and Mrs W. R. l\fabson, Mr were as follows :-Do you intend being at the ball ?-I have a quaking feeling that I and Mrs W. T. Henaghan (Dtrneclin), Mr and l\frs IT. Dyer (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs won't be able to come .. ... Do you intend being at the dinner�-No. I get my rations l\I. Kean (South Hillend), l\fr and l\frs A. Buckingham (Rangiora), Mr and Mrs F. free here .....Do you intend taking part in the motor rnn?-I am very fast on the run Moore (Winton), l\fr and Mrs D. Leckie (Makarewa), Mr and Mrs A. L. Matheson for the door now. I require no motor car .. ...Do you requir·. e a certificate for an (Kenni11gfon), Mr and Mrs G. Cleland (Lumsden), Mr and M:rs W. L. Bews, M:r and excursion railway ticket?-They are supplied free here ..... Can you provide a car 1\frs J. Strang, i\Ir and Mrs L. Gilkison (Lumsden), Mrs Robertson, Mrs D. A. Robert for the motor run?-Yes, I will make you a present of a Chevrolet (full of bricks). son. 1 Call for it at Russell street, Hastings .... .If you live ii1 Invercargill, can you billet Misses Prue Smitb, Y. Levve.v, Rodger (2), Gilkison (2), i\ 24 · SoutliLand Boy/ Higli Scliool Jubilee Record. :.\Ir A.C. Harrington, His Honour :.\Ir Justice F. 0.V. Acheson (Auckland), D1·. \\'.H. Borrie, l\Iessrs A. C.Matheson (Dunedin), John Gilkison, J.C. Braithwaite, A. H. Dulllop, C. Clark, J. Home, J. N. Annour,. J. Schroeder, :.\1. Rodger, '£. Stewart, L. Robert;;, A. ProYan, R. :.\IcKenzie, A. C. J. Robertson, A. J. Dillon, .\. \Vesney, P.:.\Iaher, C. Wallace, P.James, Bailey, J.Lindsay, A.Hi11d, H.T. Smith, I.W. Smith, Belsham, J. Reed, ,V. Swale, A. l<'. Gilkison, J. Shanel, E. A. Brow11, ,J. K. Robbie, D.Cuthbertson, B.Henderson, H. J. Spiers, W.R. '.l'a.vlor, Horman, Sefton, K Nico'!, .f. Ste,·ens, Green (2), 0.Da,·ie:-;, .\.\Yilson, J.C. Thomson, A.Boyc:c, J. l lcnderson, '.I.'.R. P1·yde, K 1''raser, I•'.Bailey, R. Watts, J. Carswell, J. Hamilton, D ..J. :.Iarli11, lJ. '.l'homson, A. Horne, '.l'. Pryde, Rout (2.), Barham (2), U. Carswell, K Ottrey, C. Clapp, N.J. Grant, A.Robins, 1.Manson, Reed, J. S.Francis, I.l\Iayhew, Kilto, .\. Bissci-, JJ. :.\Icredith, J. Hughes, B. Henderson, Brash (3), J. Webb, Blue (2), L. H.Allott, Anderson (2), J. Hamilton, lHacdonalcl, llov,·orth, H. A. Johnstone, A. l•'allrner, E. Squires, N.Ni.·bet, A. L.:i\Iathcson, ]<'. Beadle, '.l'.Preston, H. J.Geddes , B. Prcslon, A. J[. Oughlon, J. :.\Iurchison, D. Strang, Sulton (2), J. Dobbie, E.. Nichoh;on, A.D. Galt, R. Dunuage, L. P.Joyce, D. :.\I.Page, .\. E. Dakin, J. Gilkison, R Strang, T. Cro11·e, J.Gilbert. JUBILEE DINNER . • '.I. IIAPPY RE-UNION. Owing to heaYy rain falling on the Saturday aftemoon the sports at Orcli w Beach had to be abandoned, but the ut1nost cordiality was witnessed at tlte re (.) union uiJ1nc1· which was held on Saturday e,·ening in l\Iessrs lI. and J. Smith's w C banquet hall. }.fore than 300 Old Boys were assembled and under the chairlllanship < of l\fr S. :.\forell Macalister, chairman of the Jubilee Committee, a happy time was ;;pent by one and all. Amongst those present were Mr R. l\'.L Strang, chairman of (.)C tlJe Board of Go,·ernors, Mr John Gilkison and Mr J.T. Carswell, members of the Cl)z Board, Dr. CL II. Uttley, rector of the sc:hool, i\Ir '.l'. D. Pearce, rcc:tor emeritus, 0 Judge _l". 0. V. Acheson, of the Native Land Court, Mr William l\IacalisLer and w l\Ir A.\\'. Jone!S, past go,·ernors, l\Ir R.Brownlie, secrelar.r to tbe Board, Professor John Collie, of Knox College, and Mr C.l\Ic:Lean, a former master. .\ lengthy toast li;;t "·as honoured, and musical items and the retailing of reminisccnc-es furnished entertainment for the eYening. Artistically decorated menu cards wc1·e handed arouud lo be autographed and kept as sou,·enii-s of a memorable evening. Apologie. for absence were recei,·ed frolll the following :-:.\Ir J. Brodie, ·wellington; :i\lessrs James and Ian :i\Iiller, Sydney; l\Ir Q. G. Christopbers, Christchurc:h; Mr J. CL Anderson, Dunedin; Mr W.Te111pleton, Whangape; Mr L. Piper, l\fount �den; l\lr 0. }t'iudlay, Blc11hci1n; Mr .A. C. l\litchell, Wellington. fo additioJJ, mauy lelegrn111s and letters of apology, which 11·ere recei,·ed on Friday, were published in Saturday'::; issue Toast of "The School." of the Southland Times. ◄'. "It is Ill)' duty, my privilege aud my pleasure to propose the toa;;t of 'The School,'" said ,Judge l 0.V. Acheson, who was entrusted with the task of proposing the first r toast of the evening afler the Loyal Toast had been honoured. "Gentlemen, the Ycr_ meution of the words, 'the .school,' bru1gs back memories, Yaried lllemories, gay memories, brarn memories, full of memories for ns Old Boys of the school. lt was at this sc-hool tbat we founded our careers, suc:h as lhey are, and our .futures, such ai:; they are, and made friendships la;;tiug a lifetime. Other memories, perhaps more 1lceting, are of our first Yisit to Puni Creek, of the days in whic:h we waited in the 'Long Room' for the an-ival of the girls from the other sc:hool (loud cheers) ani!- bow emban-asscd lhcy were Lo be ga.:ed upon ,by ;;talwart, haudsome yontbs 18 25 (laugMer), alsoSouthland of the times Boy:/ some Highof us Schoolclimbed tbe/ttbilee partition Recorcl. wall, ,Lt lite risk of i;ci11g expelled, to see the girls 011 the other side. Other memo1·ies are of tender fare wells at t!ie rail\\·ay station eYory afternoon, of the great da.,·!l we had ou the football and <:ricket fields, of stirring figh ls uuder the shelter of the trees, of the ilours at the gymnasium, at the butts and on tour-memories c,f all actil·ities of the school and, most important of all, the friendships formed there. Aud yet \\'hen I reflect upou it, the most iniportant is our realization that the school 11·as more alive thau we "·ere, that it lil'ed in our li,·cs and that we li,·ecl for it. '£be school was more than mere bricks and mortar, it "·as a matter of mo\'ing life, of moving po1rnr, a power to innucnce us not only during our· clays at school, but for the foH011·ing years. So niueh influence did it wield that we felt that a_ living pulse 1nts surging in the school just as in our own hearts. Then, too, c-amc tile realization that a duty had beeu eutrusted to us to preserve the traditions of the .·chool in its highest sense and to pass them on to those who follo.,11·ed us so that they, too, would understand tlrn.t they belonged to a really live .·chool. The li,·es of the pupils and of the masters all joined to make up the life of the school to such an extent that 11·e 11·ere part of the school. Seed of Genius. "Now that the school has been living for so long," !.he speakci· continued, "the cjuestion arises as to what extent it is goiug to live in the future. Are we -; :i: satisfied that the school is continuing to fulfil its purpose in life! Is tile school :x, influeucing not only Invercargill and Southland, but also tile "·hole of New Zealand 9 0 Is it sufficiently active that it will push men forll'ard into the Yery forefront of 0 rr1 onr public life and assist genius to assert itself where genius exists7 I have been (") more and more impressed eYery clay of my life that there is a seed of genius and iJ.1 ):,, 0 the majority of cases that seed is allo\\'ed to die. rr1 "I :1ppcal to the Old Boys of this school ll'ith such fine traditions uot to Ge ::;atisfiecl with 11·hat has been done in the past and wilat is being doue at preseu!., but to bring to light somebc, cly really great. It can be done, not by oue in 26 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. 27 as a body everyone woTks to that end. I ll'Ould like to say t·hat Ll1e Maori chiefs be had the honour to suhmit was one which covered a great deal of ground ,wcl willt of old Nell' Zealand c·onld give us a fell' lessons, for they specialized in edueating the short time ai his disposal it was impossible to individualize. The fu·st ana most young me11 of the tribe t� become leaders." import.ant: g,·onp eonsistccl of t-he Old l3oys who made the supreme sacrifice at the Judge Aeheson concluded by referring to the spirit of the Maoris displayed (i 1•eiil War. during tbei.1· long canoe Yoyage, and urged Old Boys to aim at the fal' horizon in the 1\fte1· thPi1· names had been read, :Mr Nic·hol reacl a letter whic-h had hcen manner of the old Maori chief, to reach out into spaee, f·o extend the palisades of forwarded to 1\Ir J. A. Cushen, of Wyndham, from Mr D. Bellamy, of Glnsgow, who their minds and, if necessary, to pull doll'n the sf·ars with a crooked stick. No limits said that in that city a memorial tablet had been erected to Lieutenant J. B. Strnthcrs. should be placed on the heights to which the young men could attain. In asking The nmncs he had read, conLinuecl l\fr Nichol, would be handed down from generation those prese>nt to charge their glasses, he ·Jioped that, while honouring the school of to o-eneration to boys of t.hc school yet unborn. In group t11·0 he desired to plaf'e the pnst and present, they would bear in mind ho"· they could assist the school of all Old Boy,, who ]�ad departed this life, some prematur_ely and others at the encl the future. oC their allotted span. In group tln·ee the speaker included all those Old Boys who Dr. Uttley's Reply. had gone abroad and had do11e well in the walks of life they had entered upon. Dr. littley responded to the toast. He said that he wished to thank Judge 1\ !though they were far away that eYening, he felt sure that they were present in A<'hcson for his f-ine words. The words of his proposal reached a high plane indeed. spirit. l\fr Niehol said that he ,1·as very proud of the front-rankers in the preYious The pro;:iosal had the right aim and should elicit a reacl. .v response. ,Judge Ac·heson day's parade, and hoped that they would be c,ccupying the same places in the next had spoken of school memories. 111hen boys, from all years back to 1881, were parade at the diamond jubilee. The present boys had also impressed him with !heir gathered together, then those memories should be Yivid indeed. The judge's words smart bearing upon parade. It would not be long before they too were among the had impressed him with the fact that the judge thought that there was sometlling front-rankers of the future. Mr Nichol concluded by stating that in group four he wrong with the educational system of the country. Ile bad pnt his finger on the included '.111 comrades still in New Zealand, and thanked all those who had rome l'ight spot.. The system had been too mechanical. New Zealand had ne\·er had a f;o foyerrnrgill at great inconvenience to themselves to attend !he jubilee. He trnstecl soft sy.-tern; but of recent years there had been something of the kind in the iVIontessori l.hnf; he wonlcl Sf'8 them all agnin at the diamond jubilee. system. There had been too much of a tendency to contrast the work inside the sd1ool with the work outside; to think that a bagful of scholarships counted for Replying f.o the toast, Professor Collie said that the Old Bo.vs were loratecl success. Judge Acheson had also referred to the fact that Old Boys should help i.11 every quarter of the globe. ITe had been told tlrnt one \\'as even in 8iheria. He in bringing out the genius in the school and that every decade should produce a was sure that all had been moved by the calling over of the names of those who hnd great man. He had also quoted the succe.·s of Lord Rutherford. His opinion was given theiJ' lives for their country in the Great War. It was fitting that time should that Lord Rut.herford had attained success in spite of the old educational system. haYe been giYen for reading the names. However, in such ti1nes there was some There was another point to stress, and that was the work of the rank and file of thing, a sentiment higher than sacrifice. He was pleased to see seYeral of the older. the schoQI. 'l'hey, as well as the more brilliant boys, were building up the life of Old Boys present in the persons of .John Asher, William l\facalister, Jules Tapper the school. If anyone were to go around a school he would see boys preparing for and the perennial Eustace Russell. Ile himself had a connexion \\'ith the ea!'ly dnys nn inter-c·ollegiate tournament. Those boys gave up a lot for the sake of the school, in his C'lder hrother Robert; nml his first few years at 'Varsity ,1·erc hnrnhling·, and one thing lha t had impressed him on his arri,·al at the school was the manner in hcc•mJS<' he was alw,ws known as "Collie's hrother." P,·ofessor Collie rclalerl scvernl which the boys were preparing for such a toumament. Judge Acheson had also referred 1·cminisf'enrcs, and 11:ent 011 lo say that as he looked ha.('k he Lhougbt the record oC to the future. The present staff of the school reali:-1ecl that they had a great heritage t.hc school was something to be proud of, althoug·h it had not produced geniuses of the and all the Old Boys had helped to build that up. They had fine equipment, and first rank. He had listened to Judge Acheson and thought that his idea was good. if all worked as those in the past had worked, then the school would rise to great He did not think there were any failures nor had anyone slid back, but there was heights. The school needed the help of the Old Boys and he would like to state a the p:ithetir rase of William Macalister, who had taken up teaching and then left fell' wnys in which they could give assist.ance. They could purchase a copy of the it for law. (Laughter). Moreover, the school had only prodnced one l\frmber o:C /3(•hool Register. Theu there was a magazine at the school which was poorly sup P:nli:ime11t:.-(Lnnghf-er). l\Iany all over tlw Dominion wonld he thinking of: ihern ported by the Old Bo�·s. '1'he magazine contained an Olcl Boys' column for which !hill. night; :incl he hoped that in the ycnr,- fl) c·orne !:hey mig-hl he drnwn r·loser f.o diffic·ulty was found in obtaining news. He wished to suggest that a committee be g'C'1her h�· su(•h £nnr·t,io1is.-(Applause). formed in different parts of the Dominion to get news of Old Boys. 'l'he present boys were interested in the doings of the Old Boys. Then he would like to see more The Association Honoured. \ Old Boys about the school and especially Old Boys from outside lnvercargill. Judge A strilw1g tribute to the popularity of Mr J. S. McGrath was eYident h_v th<' Acheson himself hacl already distinguished himself in a certain direction. His book, hearty reception accorded him as he rose to propose the toast of "The Old Boys' "The Plume of tbe Arawas," was a fine work and he aih·ised all those present to Association." In his characteristically witty manner he asked was it 11ecessary to read it. The work had already been published overseas. The school had indeed speak in favour of the Association when all present were strongly in favour of it. tumcd out one .-uccessful man in Judge Acheson. Dr. Uttle)' concluded by saying Yet his was an important toast in view of the remarkable work of the committee that !:he present spfrit of the school was excellent. organizing the jubilee. Truly that week had been a most marvellous one. Tn exhort ing nil ex-pupils to link up with the Association, Mr McGrath stated that any boy Old Boys, Absent and Abroad. who did not join was 11ot doing harm. to the sehool-he was doing hnrm to himself. The t-o:ist: of "Old Boys-Absent and Abroad" was proposecl h_v Mr JiJ. A. Mr Charles Cbrk, in responding, said thnt the Assorintion hnd commenecrl Nic-hol, who expresserl apprecintion 0£ !'lie hononr conferred upon him. Tbe toast :.iway bHk in 1902, si11ce which t:ime it had had seveml false starts. Recently it 20 28 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. 29 hatl takeu a new lea:;e of life and 11·,v now an iiworpond,ed a:;sociatiou with a 111em advice wbere possible. Generally speaking he had always pulled together with his i masters. After the masters, in that order, came the parents, the Board of Governors, hcrship uf 400. i\fr Clark stated tl at he had enjoyed his period of sccrdary:;hip i1 whi<·h pressure uf l.rnsines� had forced him to relimjlti:;h, aucl paitl a lribulc to I.lie Jhc p11hlir nn ability of bis su.c:eessor, Mr A. G. J.Ianii1gton. i Mr i\f<.Gralh said thn.t he had resolvc<1 [·hilt he wonl 30 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. 31 ham, George Fraser, Norman Fraser, David Frew, John Garmsou, C. Hugh Gibson, ,;cratch iu several e11ents. The same year he had come home with a cup awarded Arthur Gilmour, Os"·.ald Gilmour, Hugh C:rabam, John Graham, Stanley Hain, Leon. by the Chamber of Commerce for the most manly hoy in the sc·hool. He had shown Hauan, Reginald Hay, Stronaeh Hewat, Jolin He1rnt, William Howie, Allan Jamieson, the c-up lo his father, who did not .·eem pleased and who replied: "Show me sorne A. J. Jopp, Neville Joyce, Thomas Kennedy, ,Viii. Laidla11·, Nisbet Lamont, Tom tl11ng 11·on with yo1u brains." Lambetb, Arthur Lindsay, Albert Lyttle, .AJ:thm· lVIacdonald, Bruce Macgregor, George l\facincloe, John Mackay, ,John Mahony, David Manson, Robert Marris, John Marsh, Mr Eustace Russell (77) Discourses. James Mntheson, Thomas Matheson, l\'.lalcolm McCartney, Douglas McCaw, William Mr Eustace Russell, who also related anecdotes of the same decade, com l\foCaw, Chas. McIntyre, Robert :V.CcKay, Ian McKenzie, George McKenzie, Jolm menced by paying a tribute to .i\'.h- McLean than whom he said he had no better friend McLeod, Angus l\foNab, Walter J\IIcQuarrie, John McQuecn, John Mehaffey, John in the world. It was an inspiring sight to look around him that eveHiog to see I.he Millar, Sta.nlc.v Millar, Lyle lVIikhcll, Alex. Mit<-hell, Leslie Mild1ell, :James l\forri::;011, fine stamp of men and to think that they bad all passed through the same school. William Pay, 1\ rnold Petric, SidHey Reid, Il,upcrL Higg, O,ill'alcl Re vuolds, l�ri(· H.1·1Jur11, . l\fr Russell complained jocularly that l\fr 'l'apper had robbed him of much that he William lto::;e, Allan Salalllon::;on, John Seoular, Wilfred Selby, l•'rn11k 8imou, Brian had to say in connexion with the 1881-1890 decade. Holl'cver, he could clear up I.he l:lkect, Lionel Small, Roher!, Sieve11so11, Auclrnw Stobo, .'l'homas SI.out, Jallles 81.rnw, lllystery of the missing keys-Mr Tapper had thrown them into the Puui-(Laughter). James Struf-11crs, Keith Sutton, James Swale, John Taylor, Charles ThornsoH, Co1upio11 'l'othill, Gordon T11·eeclie, Arthur 'l'ulloch, Ken. ·w allis, Frauk Williams, Thoma::; Wilson. Continuing, Mr Russell said I.hat he had had some association with the game of football and was firmly of the opinion that the finest half-back the Southland Bo.vs' High School ever had was Jules Tapper, who had the honour of being the first REMINISCENCES OF FORMER PUPILS. "Old Boy" to 1·epresent Southland in that position. What little success the school met with in football in those clays was also clue to his work as captain. lVIr Russell \VIT AND HUlVIOUll. recalled an em·ly football match against Riverton, when Hector Mills ably filled the What was probably I he rnost popular feature of Lhe du111e1· wa::; the large position of wing-three-quarter and opposite him was a very tall player iu the person 11umber uf remiuiscenecs indulged in by ::;evcral of lite speakers. Excellently I.old, of W. H. Borrie, now Dr. Borrie, of Dunedin. Mills adopted the hurdling dodge until they brought back memories of life in the old srhool in l<'orih street and of the !Joys in the process of so doing he was caught by the ankle by Borrie and came a nasty and their escapades in clays gone by. spill, as the result of which he dislocated his shoulder. The spectators feared the worst, such was the severe ll.ature of the fall. Dr. Bo1Tie was at present attending Reminiscences of the 1881-90 decade were giYen b�, l\1.r Jules Tapper (5G). the jubilee, and "·hen l\fr Russell drew attention to the fact that since those clays both He said that in 1880 he was packing up in preparation for his holidays from the had put on condition, Dr. Borrie had remarked, ''W c both suffered from goitre but Waihopai Sehool and his father told him to get ready to go to Ramsay's Hall to it slipped." (Laughter). register for the opening of the High School. At the time he thought it was terrible 1,o lose his holidaYS. He had started at the old school in Co11011 street and met all One clay when a heavy snowstorm fell, continued Mr Russell, the boy::; thought his old chums ag;in. 'l'he masters were Mr Blanchilower ancl l\Ir l\1arii11. In those they had been blessed by heaven and immediately made preparatioHs for snowballi11g, du.vs I.he school opposite (the Catholic School) had kept them very much alive. l,tking cr.i'e to lay in plenty of a111111unition and eYery passer-by was greeted wiih a li'ights and other occurrences kept them occupied. Then there was a fire iu which fu,;ilacle. Thi11gs, however, did not look too well when the boys later came out of the Royal Hotel and the Catholic School were burned clo,rn. The boys had hoped school, for a man named Foley had gathered a small army about him and tbe situatiou !,hat their school would also be bumecl. Another clay I.be school was locked up a11cl looked decidedly ugly. His old friend, Mr McLean, however, looki11g fierce ancl, grasp there were no keys. He, with a few others, went along to the jetty for the day. ing a stick resembling a broom-handle, sallied forth and later a posse of police arrived Next day at the school they were summoned to the Long Room and fioggecl. l\fr and the boys "·ere enabled to go home. Tapper remarked that just the clay before Mr McLean had said that the old school building was a prison-like place and the best sight was the faces of the pupils. In Practical Jokes. those clays they could only play King Caesar and such games. I.f they played foot l\fr Rus::;ell also recounted how Godfrey (Joss) l\IcCulloch, a friend of hi::;, ball in lhc gardens the curator eJ1asccl them out. A 11olic-e was pnt up to the effcd diseoverecl a nest of young rabbits which in some Jnysierious way or other became that 110 football was al1011·cd; but this had been so alle1·ccl as io read tlnti fool.ball liberated iu the classroom, causing Mr McLean to become momentarily speec·hless. was alloll'ecl. Another time when Mr McLean was caused discomfort in school was when his gown Early Football Team. caught alight while he was engaged in warming himself at the open fire. How Joe After relating rc!lliniscences o.f his school clays i\[l' 'l'appcr weut ou to say Bray, the tl'am\\'ay driver in those clays and a great practical joker, induced a boy, tlui(· he regretted that, they would noi find his name on the Dux Boarcl. -(Laughter). one of a family at Skippers and a guileless lad, io enter the shop of Peter the Barber, II01rnrnl', the,v 11·ould Iilld Jiis Han:c in connexion 11·iih football, and they had liad ,L and ask for sixpence\\'C•rth of pigeon's mill,, was also told by Mr Ru.·sell, who said good team. If they had had a good instructor like Mr i\'kGrath, 110 team ll'Oulcl have that the boy came out of. the shop at a great rate followed by a most annoyed barber. beaf;en them. ]\fr 'l'apper then made references to various Old Boy,;, inclucliug l\fr l\fr Russell ,rnnt on to detail how anothm· boy, a brother of the one he had just A. l\L Bums, chai:rman of the 1 ew Zealand Pres::; Association, who, he said, had been mentioned, dealt with a bully "·hom he found tormenting smalle1· boys. He dealt the a magnific-cnt Ol'ganizer. On looking a.t the old team published in the "Southland hull )' one hloll' which lrnoc·ked him out, and just at the c-riti!'al moment, lhc J1eacl 'l'i111(',.;," lie ll';t;.; sorry to find ll1al hnlf of' (he !ll('11tb('1·s h,ul passed uwny. M1· Tnpp!.'1' master appeal'ecl on the scene. lle iolcl the boy io sec him 11ext day, when to his then referred io Mr l\frLean, 11·ho had in::;lituled the sdiool sports. He l1acl only one eternal credit, said Mr Russell, the headmaster merely remarked that he should not clo grudge agaiust l\-Ir McLean, and that ll'HS that in the iast year he had been put on ::;uch things in public. 22 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. ----�--32 1\1,:· R 1vsell then told an amusing story in eonnexion "·ith his friend, :Mr Jnles Tapper, who had led somewhat of a roving life. For a period he was a compositor .in the Sout.hland Times Office and later he went off to Buenos Aires. Upon his arriv::d l,J1ere he contracted a serious illness, and being unacquainted ,\·ith Spanish, experien<'ccl great clifficuH.v in making himself nnderstoocl. He was l_\·ing sick and lonely when suddenly he heard a rooster crowing-. "Thank Hea,·en," he hrea thed. fer vently, "that's English at last." Together with Jack Carswell, Jack Collie used to win all the prizes at school, and :Mr Russell described how these two boys toiled hard in contrast to the other members of the class. On t.he last clay of one examination practical chemistry ,ms the subject, and the boys ,Yere left to cany out certain experiments. These were done quirkly by the majorit.,· of the boys who left Collie toiling- in the laboratory. Later on a rude surprise awaited them when they discoYered their marks. 'rhe mas!,er had provided the boys with a certain mineral specimen which required time in analysing, otherwise incorrect results were obtained. Consequently only one-Jack Collie submitted accurate work. "That taught me a Yaluable lesson," remarked Mr Russell, "11 nd that was: It pay.· to be accurate in whatever one does." In conclusion, he expressed his great pleasure at being present and to learn that the school was on such a g-ood foundation. In Dr. Uttle.v the�• had the right man in the 1·ight place. A breezy account of incidents of the 1901-10 decade was gi,·en by Mr George ( ) g McChesney 487 , who recalled H,u by exploits, the cYentnal clucking in the Pnni r.J of an elusi,·e ne\\' boy, nnd picnics at the bac-k beach at Greenhills. 0 < <.> The following- were in attendance at the dinner:- w 0 Armour, J. N. Carson, V.'. Fleming, E. :c Anderson, T. H. Carswell, G. Fleck, W. 1-' Anderson, A. D. Carswell, J. T. Falconer, A. a:: ::, Anderson, A. T. Carswell, Wm. Fraser, J. A. 0 Andrews, J. Carswell, I-I. Fraser, C. R. LL. Adamson, A. L. Cunningham, C. Ferguson, .J. Allott, L. H. Chaplin, J. Fortune, A. E. Atley, W. A. Cox, Reg. Francis, J. S. Aitken, A. H. W. Cullen, H. Foster, J. L. Agnew, W. Corb�t, G. M. Foster, R. .T. Acheson, Judge Corbet, W. Fox, H. A. Brash, J. M. Cowie, F. fredric, G. Brownlie, R. Carman, P. Greenwood, E.. J. Borne, C. E. Carman, A. Gimblett, H. C. Brown, A. Caddie, G. Galt, A. D. Ilrash, S. Crowe, T. Grindlay, A. Bisset, A. Cleland, G. Grieve, R. G. Bath, 0. F. Cuthbertson, D. Grieve, W. Bews, W. L. Clark, C. Gregory, W. H. Bews, J. E. Cassels, S. Gardner, P. C. Bath, A. E. H. Dolamore, L. Gardiner, J. Bleakley, M. C. Dixon, F. W. Gilkison, J., Snr. Buxton, W. Deacon, D. Gilkison, J., ,Jnr. Buxton, W. N. Dakin, J. P. Gilkison, L. Brass, H. D. Dickens, C. Gilkison, A. Barlow, A. E. Derbic, A. Grant, N. J. Burt, J. M. Dillon, A. J. Grant, E. Brown, H. L. Dyer, H. E. Gazzard, H. Buckingham, A. Davis, 0. Gilmour, J. R. Clapp, N. C. Excell, E. Geddes, J. H. Collie, A. Ewan, J. P. Green, J. Collie, J. Evans, C. Green, S. Collie, Prof. Findley, W. M. Harrington, A. G. Cameron, J. L, Fleming, A. S. Hartley, H. C. 23 33 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Hawke, E. J. McGrath, A. E. Robinson, D. Hawke, R. V{. McKay, R. Robins, A. H. Hawke, I-I. McChesney, G. Roberts, C. C. Henderson, M. McIntyre, J. W. Roycls, J. S. Henderson, F. B. McIntyre, L. C. Robertson, .J. W. Henderson, W. J. McCallum, J. A. Robertson, .J. Henderson, E. McKenzie, A. R. Rout, C. B. Henaghan, W. T. McKenzie, T. Rout, H. Huffadine, J. I-I. McGrath, J. S. Rodger, M. Hamilton, J. 1\ McCurdy, L. Ritchie, D. Hamilton, A. McDonald, A. Ritchie, P. Horne, A. McDonald, R. J. Russell, Eustace. Swale, W. Horne, J. McGavock, G. S. Service, W. A. Hutton-Potts, I. R. McArthur, A. Swale, W., Snr. Hanan, A. E. S. Mayhew, I. Swale, J. D. Hanan, G. R. Munro, G. Sutton, H. G. Hanan, J. R. Maxted, C. F. Sutton, .J. H. Hazlett, H. A. Martin, D. J. Scobie, W. Hefford, W. Mair, H. L. Strang, R. M. Hughes, L. Martin, .J. R. Slrang, J. F. Hughes, J. W. Manson, J. Strang, D. U. Hormann, M. Manson, I. Strang, H. S. .., Hind, A. Murray, R. Schroeder, J. ...,-I Hay, H. L. Miller, .J. F. Smith, W. A. C. ::c Hatch, F. J. Millar, W. W. Scott, Wm. Imlay, J. G. Mann, W. J. Stout, E. C, r,'1 Irving, H. D. Meffin, P. Stewart, T. T. ·(") Irving, H. T. Mitchel, M. H. Speirs, R. G. C, Joyce, J. P. Mitchell, C. G. Stobo, .J. Jenkins, R. Mitchell, N. Stanway, W. )> Jenkins, J. Marshall, J. S. Shand, J. D. !Tl Jones, A. W. Marshall, E. C. Shand, H. T. Jones, L. Marshall, H. M. Shand, I. Johnson, W. Matheson, G. T. Sproull, W. H. Johnstone, R. A. Malcolm, I. Sefton, E. Johnson, F. H. Mills, K. Shaw, N. Kerr, C. Nicol, R._ W. Stead, W. J. Kennedy, M. S. C. Nichol, E. A. Sim, E. Kitto, R. G. Nichol, E. Smillie, A. King, W. H. J. Nimmo, G. Shirley, V. Lopdell, L. Nicholson, P. H. Todd, J. C. Liddell, E. A. Ottrey, E. I. Todd, G. Lyon, C. J. Oliver, R. H. Titchener, W. Lennan, W. J. Oughton, J. Thom.son, J. C. Lyall, A. Pearce, T. D. Thompson, H. Pearce, R. Taylor, R. I I I I I Lipscombe, C. M. 2:1!1!1:l=t,., ,,:,:,: lewis, C. L . Preston, T. W. Taylor, M. Lewis, T. S. Preston, E. I-I. J. Tangney, G. Lenihan, W. Poole, P. A. Tuck, W. Lynch, P. L. de la Perrelle, F. Tapper, J. H. Lynch, J. P. de la Perrelle, L. G. Tapper, G. Longuet, 0. de la Perrelle, .J. M. Uttley, Dr. Leckie, D. F. Provan, A. Webb, J. Lindsay, G. Paterson, 'vV. Webb, E. A. Macpherson, H. Paterson, B. J. Wilson, A. MacGibbon, A. N. Pollock, J. Wilson, J. -P. MacGibbon, H. C. Pryde, T. R. Wilcox, H. R. MacGibbon, D. A. Pryde, N. W. Wills, R. MacGibbon, Dr. F. 0. Price, R. W. Watts, H. P. Macdonald, D. Reed, D. W. Wesney, A. , • • :i;i:1:1: I•• Macdonald, A. M. Reed, J. H. Wesney, P. 1 • • • , 1 1 Reed, G . .J. Wesney, R. '•!mla! I ' ! 1l1'li'1'•'1'1'1'1_ ! I ,._a I t l J1 'I 1I-1 Macalister, S. M. Macalister, Wm. Royds, R .. 111. Yule, Dr. Mclean, Chas. Robbie, J. K. Yule, 0. McGruer, E, Robinson, A. C, .J, Young, W, 24 34 35 Mr Simpson (Photographer). Mr C. Slocombe (GoreRecorcl. H.S.). l\fr A:sherSouthland Lhcn recalled Boys' to hisHigh hearers School some Jubileeof "former Record. things of old" when Southland Boy/ High School Jubilee r Mr B. Hewat (Waitaki B.H.S.). Mr C. A. Stewart (Southland Technical College he entered the �chool half a century ago. He spoke of the fi st classes beino- held in Mr F. G. O'Beirne (Nelson College). Mr W. Torrance (Otago B.H.S.). Ramsay'::; Hall m Tay street and of the lau11ching of the school proper in February Mr H. Russell (Christ's College). Dr. G. Crawford (Timaru B.H.S.). Mr W. R. J. Smythe (Christchurch B.H.S.). 1881, when he and 61 other boys enrolled as the first pupils. He briefly traced th� scl1ool:s grow�l� unLil it bad acquired the present buildings of outstanding grace, beaut) aucl ut1ltty. He said th t, though he had travelled through every part of the _ _ � . Domuuo�1, he kucw no school buildmgs of such distinction and charm as the Southland Boys' High School. RELIGIOUS SERVICE AT SCHOOL. l\fr A.sher went on to pay warm tributes to the five men who had been head mastei:s ef the �chool. The first three had been Englishmen and they bad rendered xcept10u l serncc . The last two had l een New Zealanders, distinguished sous of � � . . _ ? tlie Newr Zealand umvers1ties.. "As an mveterate New Zealander " said cu-.,,· r· ,'sl ... . • ADDH,ESS BY REV. J. A. ASHER. ' ici, "I am_ prouc1 l ha t f~o �· · more than _half of the fifty years of the school's existence its tlest1111cs ha1·e becu rn ihe hands of products of our own schools and universities rce's spacious period of 25 years l\fr Pe� _ was marked by high efficiency, zeal and It was fitting that Lhe jubilee celebrations should conclude 011 Sunday enthusiasm on lus part. I have always held that to do effective work a man must with a deeply impressive religious service which was characterized by a revereut have t1m�, and particularly is this so in the case of a headmaster. I hope that Dr. note of thanksgiving. The school Assembly Hall in which the service was held was Uttley will be spared for many years to lead it on from strength to strength." filled with Old Boys, present boy� and parents. 'l'he Rev. J. A. 1\sher, B.A., of Napier, l\fr Asher then paid a tribute to the work of the assistant masters at the the first boy to be enrolled when the school was opened in 1881, presided; and associ school , the team of men at the back of the headmaster. The school register showed atad with him were the Rev. Professor Collie, M.A., Knox College, Dunedin, and that there had been 68 assistant masters at the school and all had subordinated Dr. G. II. Uttley, Rector of the School. everything else to its interests. He referred to the devoted service rendered by Messrs McLean, McGrath and Dakin, three very highly esteemed masters. The service commenced with a call to worship pronounced by the chairman. "BL1t fter all," contiuued Mr Asher, "the most important people at the school Dr. Uttley then read the prayer which was used at Assembly in the old school, after . � rn the past fifty years have been the boys. I say we can thank God for the boys who which all present joined in the Lord's Prayer. Then followed the hymn, "0 ! God ha1·e passed through the school and who haYe covered it with glory. We are proud of Bethel"; an Old Testament Lesson (Psalm 90) which was read by Professor Collie; of our Rhode Scholars, our Judges and of all our other distinguished sons. It ha:s the hymn "Thou Gracious God"; and a New •restament Lesson (I Corinthians 13), � bee truly s,ud that no other schoo in New Zealand, whether larger or smaller, has which was also read b�• Professor Collie. The hymn "The Toil of Brain" was then � _ � _ to its_ credit better records of d1strngmshed men than those of Uw 11wu who have ,mug, and Professor Collie pronounced a prayer of t,hanksgiving. Then came the solo passed through the Southland Boys' High School. "A Dream of Paradise," 1d1ich was beautifully sung by Master Len Jones, a pupil of the school. During an interlude played by the school orchestra a collection was Mr Asher proceeded by referring to the multitude of average boys and girls "It. attended school. Just as 1\.braham Lincoln said that he thought God must love ta.ken up, tlie proceeds of which were devoted to the Hawke's Bay Earthqtrnke � Fund. plam people because He made so many of them, so did it seem to him (the speaker) that G_od must lo,·e t!rn average boy and girl. These average boys were to-day The Rev. J. A. Asher's Sermon. renderrng a great service to the community and had brought glory to the school 110 less than had the more brilliant pupils. The sermon "·as preached by the Rev. John Asher. Taking in the first place Lhe Old Testtiment words "Remc111ber the former things of old" as his text, he dealt 'rhen there were the mauy Old Boys who llad passetl .1way. He felt that as with the history and great traditions of the school. He then passed on to the future of they were gathered together that clay they were compassed abuut with a great cloud the school, basing his remarks on the text "Forgetting those things which are llehind." of witnesses, the Old Boys who had departed. Before passing on to the future of the school Mr Asher commended the work Mr Asher said that during the jubilee celebrations all had been drawn together of the Board of Govemors who were in no small measure responsible for its success. a feeling through devotion to their school. There "·ould exist among all Old Boys years of gratitude to Goel for the great benefits that they had received during their Looking Forward. and at school. The Southland Boys' High School bad sen·ed the province well l\fr Asher said that uot only did Old Boys det,ire to remember the things that faithfully and it had exerted an influence for good throughout the whole Dominion. 11'ere pasL but thc_v looked Lo what the futui:e held in store for the school. .All would In the past three clays Old Boys had gathered with the common purpose of com l'Ouiideutly hope lhat Lim next fi.J:l,y years would be marked by even o-reater success memorating everything in the school's history which could legitimately be regarded for the school, so that when the centeuary came to be celebrated, th�se taking part with pride and satisfaction. Every boy kept in hjs mind a hall of memories where would be able to say that the second fifty years of the school's existence had been treasured up scenes intimately connected with his school days. As the years he even fuller and ore influential thau the splendid 50 years which now lay behind. passed, it, ,Yas a source of infinite pleasure to 1·evive these picLurc. · of the past. The � �e had been gratified to leam that a hostel was lo lJe erected ,Ll the school ,LlmosL older one grew, the deeper was the sense of gratitude and affection for the school nnmedia lel - A hostel would be a .centre of life, and its iniluelll:e would permeate which had. doue ;;o much for the Jnany lmnclred:s of boys who had passed through its ! every detail of work at Lhe s<:hool. "·alls. 25 36 37 set out to becomeSouthland a scholal'. Boys' Her schoolHigh Schoolwas held Jubileein a cottage, Record. situated a little to province of ]\fr AsherSouthland saicl that Boys'he had High always School been Jubileeconvince dRecord. that the the nortli, and east of David Smyth's grocer's shop ill Tay street. SubsequenLly, s s. His confidence had Southland and its capiLal city had very prosperou future Miss Wood flitted to a house in Esk street, very near the spot where the late ]\fr d l s felt that not been misplaced, for both had developed surely and stea i y. He till David Strang afterwards built his home. success when the present wave of depression passed, Southlanad would reap greater There I remained till it was thought, I suppose, that d and prospe1·ity than it had yet known. I require some harsher discipline, and I became a pupil in the school for boys, conducted by a Mr Evans, the speaker, "I say from the heart, 'l\fay God ble�s "In conclusion," said k s a venerable but indly old gentleman. This school was held in Ythan street in a 8ontliland and the fair city of Invercargill and may God bless Dr. Uttley and tlu small hall-"the Ythan Street Hall" it used to be called-just opposite First Church dear old school of o�rs.'" ' whose property 1t. af terwards became. Quite a number of boys from well-lmown n our help in Ages '.f'hC' scl'\'iC-C ron<·luclecl with the singing of the hym "Our God Invercargill families attended this school. Pnst.," thr prononHrerncnt or the BC'nediction, and the singing of the National Anthem. Mr Evans was quite efficient, and had a flue taste i..t1 ca11e::;, Lhe like of ll'hich NOTE. I have never seen since. I suppose he had specially imported them for the backs s l articles by of the primeval Southlanders. In order to stimulate interest in the JulJilee Celebrations, evera ded by the Com The Puni "Old Dovs" and others appearecl in the local press, and it was dec� Creek, then a winding, sluggish stream, was not very fu,r u,way, e Rerol'Cl of the aud some mittee t� inc·ludc these in the Jubilee Record, along with th Offi.crnl part, at least, of our dinner hour was spent in fishing for small crayfish and c:ockabullies. various fnnctions. ·y of' Lhe school, These articles throw interesting sidelights upon the past histo� Beyond the Puni C1·eek stretched a weary and dreary stretGh of land, which Mr T. D. aml should be read in conjunrtion with the S.B.H.S. Register, compiled by everybody called "The Swamp." Pe:ure, M.A., Rector emeritus of the school. . . Grammar School. (in brac·kct-s) fol10,1·ing the ex-pupils' names are those assigned The numbers I remained with Mr Evans till the Grammar School (now known as the i\Iicldle in 1 he Regist·e1-. to them School) opened, if my memory serves me rightly, in 1875. Witli ils opening, the they l\re ohtainal.Jle on application Rhonlcl c·opies of the Register he clcsirecl, . days of private schools in Invercargill came to an encl. I remember my mother taking at a c•osl. of 15/-, posta�c mcluded. to ]\fr Peal'f•e (Gala Street, Tm·crcargill) me for enrolment to an old building, associated from its inceptio11 with the interests Boys' of education, i s The .J1ibilee Record is ohtflinahle from l\fr A. G. Harrington, Southland wh ch tood on the site of Lbe present Education Offices in Tay street. High School, Invercargill. J.C. Much exuberance attended the openillg of the fir::;t public school, ancl oue was constantly hearing what, to me, was a ucll' word, the word Conuuittec, with the accent very much on the last syllable. FIFTY OR SIXTY YEARS SYNE. of Napi ·, I, along with the other boys, fondly imagined that a soiree, [The following article is from the pen of Rev. J. A. Asher, B.A. (4), �: or lea-fight would d school. Mr shei s inaugu ·ate the opening of the new school. No such thing happened, but very much who was the first pupil enrolled and also the first ux of the � � not on y 1·egardmg the otherwise. article will be found to contain much valuable information, . � _ s of primary early history of the Boys' High School, I.Jut also of the beg111mng The Grammar School was unfortunate in its first Lwo headmasters-Mr education in Invercargill.] Andrew Fleming, and Mr George H,, Miller. i\fr Fleming died before the first year l Fil'st Church-"the had run its course. His successor, ]\fr Miller, a pale and sickly-looking man, did When I was very young, there was housed in the ha l of collection of bo ks, not long survive him. ]ml! behind the church," as it used to be called-a very respectable � i ol and young alike. which was available to the members of the congregat on, to � Tbe third headmaster, l\fr Angus McGregor, M.A., and bis first a:;::;istant, Mr anyt mg, and you could Jt was a kind of lending library, but it did not cost )'.ou � . George McLeod, M.A., made a lasting impression upon all who had the good luck I l1111k I must get out a new book at the close of any Sunday mormn� service. ! to he their pupils. Both of them had. adequate s<: holarsbip aud dri viug force. They As one have worked my way through the most readable books m the c?llect1on. had fine material to work on, for example, the Drabbles, especia,lly ArUrnr ll'ho was l hool(s wr ·e n�i"'ht have expected in a Scottish Church library, all Hugh Mi ler's � most brilliant, Bob McNab, Jack Watson, Archie Hawke, Bob Anderson, the Kiugs i Dr. Thomas Chalmers once said "that when he clHl lands, and many otliers. th:re-Hu"'h" M ller' of whom . · e of time to 1 oad" . go off, hE. was_ a great gun, but he 1·eqmr cl a deal It was a real Grammar· School, for, ll'hilst the primary subjects were taught, d Miller's books was-"My Perhaps the ·best known, and most rea of Hu�h _ _ many of us, and we were all fairly young, took up secondary work, aml went co11- m those far-off Schools and Schoolmasters"-! haven't seen the book sm�e I read it siderably beyond the rudiments of the classics, French, and mathematics. The s that. days no1· do I remember a single thing that I read, but it ha occurred to me memory of the Grnmmar School is, to me, always sweet and refreshing. It must it mi"'ht be of interest at least to old Invercargillites, if I should lead up to what have been about 1878 when I left school to go into my fat!Jer's office; but ill 1880, it I wa�t to say ahout ti,e Southland Boys' High School by writing sornethu1g about was determined t!Jat I should return, and prepare for the Christian ministry. my previous schools-and so altogether about "My Southland Schools and School- masters." High School Opened. l i chap, Although it must be fully 60 years ago, I can sti l vividly picture a l ttle l'l'O"identw,lly for me, Lhi,; was lhe ,vear when sleps were being taken to settin" off from Richmond Grove with his mother down the lonely and muddy East institute the Southland Boys' High 8chool, a!lll the Rev. Jolin Ferguson, the great ' n n s have Road "to his first school, conducted by a Miss Wood. Time s effaci g fi ger friend of my youth, made it a matter of urgency that I should IJe the first pupil to altogethe1· blurred my memory of her face, but under her I was taught my ABC, and 26 39 enrol,38 a11d I sec Southlandfrom Mr Pearce's Boys' RegisterHigh Schoolthat t.he Jubileeenrolment Record. took place in Ramsay's Southland Boys' FinalHigh Message. School Jubilee Record. Hall, •ray street, on December 17, 1880. I C'an just remembel' that the late Mr P. ·what am J to say about the bo_1·s 9 Well! I think we were a fairly decent Goyen, who enrolled fifteen of us, C'OJTie>cl on n kinrl of srhool in the Hall nnl ii ahont lot, who have not been a discredit to our school. Out of 62, seventeen have died. December 22, buL what we did dming those fonr or five 4.o Soutliland 011Boys' High School Jubilee Record. l 0 traiu. '.l.'J1e Eng ish lesson the fin,tl day gave me my first iutroductiou1 t.o Euglisli literature; and I still l'Cmember"Awake, my the St. ines John, from leave Pope's all meaner "Essay things 1 J\Ian," ll'hich formed the lessou : To low ambition and the pride 9f kings. Let us, since life can little more suppfy Than just to look about us and to die Expatiate free o'er all this scene of n'.an, A 111ighty maze, yet not wit,Jiout a plan." 011. And so 1 I Duriug all my time at school English ll'aS my favourite aud 11 0::;t suc:c:cssful subject. But it is cmious that my study of it euded with my sc·hool days. I suppose am one of the Yery few divinity students of my ChurchA. who haYe nc,·er taken a university course in English. The teachers at that time were A. H. Ilighto11, M.A., of . St. John';: College, Cambridge (head), C. McLean, and G. Stewa,,l t. :Miss Christie and Miss Bain were lin charge of the girl.·' school, which met for rol -c-all and prayers in the saine assemb y hall with us. Some threeUC\\' years or so later a drastic chaJJge ll'as made, at the instance of the headmaster, so it ll'as understood, and a completely :E new staff of assistants ,,·asl appointed. The mistress of lhe girls'rn school was as a bead. '!'here ,,·as sometimes a ·certai11 tendency to l san•a;:;1n and an aloofness that was partly due to 11en·ousnes::;. Ile ne,·er :;eemed ab e lo he quite at home ,,·ith . the genus "boy," and ·eemed to feel the need of this kind or defe11sive11 arrnour.11 He used to ride in e,·ery morning- from the Bay Road, get, t.he morni g paper i ioll'n, and read it as lie walked up to school. On oc·c-asions he r·ould be se,·e1·e, and I reme1uher his gi,·ing a sixth form boy an imposition oC (iOOO lines of Milton for presuming on his dignity as a senior and c·utt.ing det.cntion. Compa.red with the l school of the preseut. day,l our small sc·hool suffered from many limitation,;,11 especia ly in equipment. Possib y !here was for some a certain c·ompensatio for these disadntntages iu the sensey of something select, in parentag() if not iu brains, in being a High School bo_ . But l!hat was a dubious ground of ::;atisfactiou. And e,·en the brainie;;t should be humb e-rninded in I he refle<:tiou t.llatl the aYeragc Southlander is prolrn,bl)· prouder of Southland s!oc·k than of any scho ars that our schools haYe produced.l Our jubilee c·elebralions must not, gi"e us an exaggerated idea of the p ace that the sc·hf)ol holds in the public· estimation. l3ut to relurn1 t0 the disabilities of the earlier days. There was no gymnasium and no cadet c·o 11pany. Our only outlet in this direction was half an hour's cxerc·isc with [ndiau <:luhs once or twice a week in the girls' playground. ', c, Cricket for one was practically nou-cxistent.011 I lbink it had a prec-ari us hold l season. l�ivcs were played enthusiastic·ally in a fashion against the sr·hoo walls. l And even iu our chief re,;oun·e the sports side, footba l, we ha,l diffir·ult ies. We had no. adequate ground. \Ve were giYeu lhc use of garden rescl·,·cs near !he school, but they ll'ere rather small, and sometimes a player o,·er-ran lhe mark when t.i-ying 28 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. 4,1 Lo head a ball before it reached th in being able to practise on the Eastern Resen·e. There were 110 otber secouclary schools in those clays witb which to play matches. The combined public schools, a Itiverton school team strengthened by some ex-pupils ·and some miscellaneous youths' rn � rn..., teams about the town, provided us with our ouly matches. On the educational side ::l ;,. an important addition was made in my time by the building of a small laboratory z z for the physics and chemistry classes. 0 8 I z s:: 0 Despite the small school-roll the annual sports clay "·as a Yery :;uccessful I and popular occasion. It and the annual prize-giving were the two great public � a: functions of the school, and parents and friends took a. keeu interest iu both. Dr. J. '.'-< K Roger:;, 110\\· of Gore, was om clrn,mpion long-distance runner, while in lhe spriuL:; "rj the late ]i'. B. Macdonald was facile princelJS. Of the speeches we listened Lo ,tt Liu, ;- '.'-< ::, break-ups I remember but one. A local merchant, whose son, though a most likeable ::, "'-0 ""-"' fellow, had been more or less of a pest to the masters, was given a kind of fast minute inviLation to speak. On expressing bis good wishes for the future 01' the school he cau:;ecl a little amusement and made t.lie son bea:n round with conscious 1-i:rtuc by .·aying, "Though my son is leaving, I hope the school will get on." 'iVe were practically untroubled by school inspectors in those days. The inspector-general of scbooh;, Rev. V{. J. Habens, irreverently kuowu as "old Haybags," certai11ly came down from Wellington once a year and uo doubt looked through the school recoTds. But he chd not examine us, and, as far as \\·e could see conteuted himself with sitt.ing by the master's table and blinking peacefully at pro<.:eedu1gs. Visits to tbe schools -f ::i:: by distinguished outsiders were then almo:;t unknown. ITl (I) It only remains to recall the names of some of my old .·cbool-fello11·s. The -f ...,)> taptain of the senior football team when I was a smaller boy was Jules Tapper. A _..., later captain was V\T. H. Borrie, now Dr. Borrie, of Dunedin, ·who has since won fame in t.he C!·omwcll Gorge. My closest companion in school clays was W. S. Baird, now Dr. Baird, of \Yanganui, the first of five doctors to come from the same family. D. A. Mitchell and W. Mitchell (no relation to each other) were in ni'y class. The latter especially "·as a pupil of f:iue ability, who might ha1·e gone far if he had entered on an academic cour ·e. The genius of our time was J. A. Erskine. In mathern.atics none of us could approach him. But unfortunately he was hampered by indifferent health. Fred Reid, of RiYerton, later principal of the Adelaide Sehool. of Mines, I knew weil through our travelling together in the train. There "·ere four Maedonalds from the well-kuown In1·ercargill family, t1rn l.laasts, A. i\foCalluru, D. N[acpherson, now of Palmerston North, E. Russell and John Gilkison, both of whom are still happily in e1·idence, Paul Morgan, three A.spin alls, four i\foN abs, R. N. "'atsou, now Dr. 'i\'atson of Harrogate, who. e C'hoice of England rather than Scotland as a dwellingplacc remains au unsoh-ed myf'tery for his eldest brother, and many others. Of some of tbem my memory is Yery dim, of others very vivid. And as the day approacbe.· e1·ening, I think of the old school-fellows 11·ho have passed fro1n our sight for cYer and feel with a sudden shock how large the list is. Jack Aspina 11, killed by lightning in Australia nearly thirty-five years ago; Charlie Howells, killed in a trap accident just about half an hour after he had called at my manse at Dumobi11 to sa�, good-bye as he was lea1·ing the district; his brothcr-iu-law, Dr. ,Yillie Logan, "·ho died unexpectedly in England; Farquha1· and Donal cl i\Iathesou; L<'rank and Arthur :i\Iacclonald; Leo Bews, who lost his life bra1·ely tr_viug io sal'c another in a boating accident in the Estuary; Angus Mc-Nab (140) bayoneted whils� (;ending the wounded when on active service with the Lonclon Scottish in the Greai War; Willie Grigor, one of the most popular of our boys; Geo. Brown, who was untimel.v eut of'l' by scarlet fe1·er while a doetor in the Dunedin liospiLal; \Y. Qni,m, the well-kuown choir-leader. A boy whom I did not know particularly well, as he was :;omewbat my junior, was Joe Davey of Wyndham. He was uot particularly 29 42 43 n no n a o l . abbreviatiHigh Schoolon of "HipJubilee Va 'Ninlde,"Record. he being by brillia t t schSouthlando . But later Boys' 011 Highhe became .School a cr JubileeIStrnguished · · Recor practicald. chemist in It could Southlandnot !,ave been Boys' an . . s n times in scholarship-quite the reverse Australia and when he cl"edI a gooc,, many years ao-o , he s g n someti nng Yery ns a "hayseed," or 40 year behi d the . ·" wa ive mea a o on o sions • ., , · mewhat of a peacem ker, f r cca nearly ap' ]Jroachino- a Stunt ·e f uneraI TiereI a'1 • e some otl . iers wl'.o:n I remember, nc-lnde that. it was because he was so . so I c-o on l let o n s a o n bullying n smaller e he would exc· aim, "Oh! and wh I thi k have pas ed aw ; but I �annot be qmte certarn and therefore when a hig hoy was t r111e11f'i g or f•annot mention them . But the one ,:1',. io se pass1110- o o in peace). touched me m st was iV . W . B r wn, hi111 J'ip" (l'cst o o n a. . o s niscent of I.hose "twin who was killed in a m t r accide t 45 44 r u timber t ade, Southland Boys'SCHOOL High NICKNAMES. School Jubilee Record. ,Ul ,�·elSchooll -known Jubilee in t.hc Record.So thland _,1. l ...tSonthland s. . ol'·c·i·u OldBoys' Bov • 'High uow • o rcpu '1' 1ere ,, re o Ii n !M c I nt )• r e , f O 1 i of "Jumbo"-1 fel' tu }Irr[ J \\'ho rcjoii:cd iu the ::;obr quet and a po\\'erf u 1 1'f not O\·e• 1 ·fast< INTERESTING COMMENTS. u et · bo , ver, heavy and shong Ja< k was a_ n ""'"" ) ) ' . ) c fi e he was very bard · s e l on the football eld wher i clmam o e e runner. Jack's � ;\ , ,, not �et round un ppon nt, h � a po,, e . �::�� a11d if he could to collar. H ha � ver the top of him, like the ROME DERTVA 'l'TONR. t _ 1a�:uost· , s· to speak trample o would pnsh u1m o, er and ' e named. elephant after whom h was Commenting upon the recent article by Mr J. T. Carswell under the heading M Lo u you must l)e �ffo_ug i1'. "School Nicknames," a contemporar)' "Old Boy" writes :-"I have read ¥r Carswell's . 't it� Geor"c 'M<'Chcsncy ! h t . ILud. < . hcc, :se ., ·.1 11 o s pr1nc1pal dairy article tln·oug-h with great interest though I have not yet picked Dick 'Macdonald's __ � u tu as f> uthl.wd' sc ]i l ,' n were "'ort.cn referred ou ( he p1<.:L11rc, too. AL u the finest llrnt c ld nickname. I do not remember F1·ank having any. ,Y- M's. 'Rip' was from Wash � . o 110 l· "·L-iuchnlizecl''" ' ' · either ' h t prudnd,, aud \\'C tru> 46 47 '.l'wo boysSouthland had the sobriquet Boys' Highof "Bu1111y" School couferred Jubilee uponRecord. lhem, Yiz.: William coupled wiLh hisSouthland reputation Boys'for learning, High wa:;School C"alculatecl !nbilee to Record.impress the In,·er<:argill Hare (N0. 22 in Register) and Alexander J. K. Cross (No. 81 in Register). Why youth of those days and was no doubt a fa<:lc•r in helping him to maintain a high Cross should lu1,·e been called "Bunny" I cannot hazard a guess unless he was a standard of discipline. He wa:; a fine classic·al scholar, ll'idely read in both Roman "silly rabbit" in class; but, as applied to Hare, the nickname was surely appropriate. a11d Greek literature and deeply \'er::;ed in anc·ient and modern history. l Lis lcs::;ous, And no\\· for the story. Bunny IIare came to school one da,v ll'ith a sho<:king or lecturettes, iu Eugli::;h history were bright and sparklillg. Looking ba<:k, however, piece of ne\\·s. One of the masters ( shall we call him X '/) had been seen the wor::;e to my experience of l\1r Blanch!lower, both in the school aud privately, I doubt very for liquor. much whether his erndition was as deep and critical as it was showy. Like John A.sher, I had at that time unbounded admiration for l\:Ir Blanchflower but, unlike him, Yes, there was no doubt, said Bunny, X was drunk. I was destined to pass through a period of disillusionment. Before the end of the 'L'lte boys howe\'er "·ere incredulous, and moreo,·e,· greatly i1H.:ensed at Hare first year, I think, I left; s<:hool and ll'ith one or tll'o other youths, amongst them the for l'a::;ling such an aspersiou upon Ure master, and indi,·ctt,l,v upon lire sd1ool. late Dr. Roderick l\:Iacleod, read Lalin and Greek with lVIr Blauchflower privately. :-:;o lhey decided lo make him "run the gauntlet." It was during this period that I got to know l\lr Blanc:hflower intimately as a mun. The whole s<:hool of about 60 boys 1rn::; formed inlo lwu parallel line::;, anti With all liis brillianC"e as a sc:holar and a teacher, it must be admitted that as a head ''Bunny" Lael lo pass up one liHc and down the other whilst the boys "belted" hi111 of the school- he was a failure. Iu the great qualities of character which go to make with knotted handkerchiefs. the man he was deficient. He was a C,\'nic, without moral earnestness and high ideals, qualities wlii<:h all his successors posse. sed in a high degree. Character, not learning, Bunny never turned a "hare," but took his gruelling like a hero; aucl when it i::; said, determines a man's destiny. Chara<:ler, I think, determined his. His destiny it was all over, lie exclai1uecl: was a satl c,ne. In later life he eked out a preeariou::; existence on the streets of "Well! chaps, you haYe made me lhe scapegoat, but X was drnnk." London, within sight of bis Alma Mater and the scene of his early academic triumphs. 1\'ith all sincerity I can say with ;\fr .Asher "Peace to his ashes!" Now, I trust lhe Old Boys of the 1881-1885 period will not think me ungenerous, or that I have transgressed the time-honoured rule of silence. "De mortuis nihil uisi bonun1." I RECTORS OF THE PAST. regard that period holl'ever as being now historical and the first Principal of the school a historical figure. (By Willialll Macalister, B.A., LL.B., 3\J). It mav be of some interest here that I should recall some of the boys of lhc B1.rn<:htlowC1: period of ll'hose faces and get-up I ha\'e a elear mental pic·turc. 'l'berc I ha,·c been asked to write some notes ou the beginnings aud early hi::;tory of ll'as, first of all, my mate, John Ashe!'. There were .Jack Bell'::;, Jae!, Brodrick, Bob the Southland Boys' High School, with special referellce to the pa::;t Rectors. In Coilie, Oscar Ekenstecn, George l<'roggatt, Willie Grigor, Gus Hume, Jamie Mail, Jack a�tempting to recall, on an occasion such as this, persons and incidents connected Martin, Alec: �lathe::;on, '.l'om Moffett, Bert i\faedonald, Ernest Stock, Jules Tapper, 1nth the early history of the school, one bas to guard a"'ai11st iudulcring in what my George iYat::;on. It is wonderful how c·lcar miuiature pi<:tures of class-room incidents old friend, John Asher, c·alls "genial hyperbole." One 171ust aYoicl the illu::;ion Lhat remain embedded in one's memory after tbe lapse of fifty years. Let me recall one there ll'ere giant::; iu tho::;c 48 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. phian !" I do noL know how tl1is rendering would suil Mr Carswell',; application of the line to l\lr Pearce's register. Mr Pearce might object to the idea that the uew Register had sa,·ed him from Perdition.Mr Highton's Regime. The se<•Oll(l re<:t,or was .\. H. Highton, l\f .. \., of St. .John's C'ollcge, C'nmbriclgc. ]\fr IIighton I knew as m:v chi<'f. Hr had filled positions in .\ustralin and in J\nc·klnnd Grammar School ns seienre master. Mr Ilighton wa;; a lypi<·al Englishman, fond of c-ountrv life and animalR. Withal he was a Reholarh· man and was considered to he an ·exc·elleni .fearher of science. Although i\fr ITiihton aimed at high ideal::; foi· the school and worked hard to arhieve them, his 1·esen-ecl manner told very much against him. He larked what one might call a soc·ial personalit.,·. The members of the staff liked him as a man, hut it could not he said that he was looked up to as a director of the destinies of the school. He always treated his1 staff with kindness nncl con;:;ideration. He resigned inMr 1893. H. L.He Fowler. died ·in ,\ustralia i 1 1915. l\fr Fowler, who had been first assistant on lhe stall', now bec·ame red or. l fi:s sc·holarship in classics, English and modem languages was rN·ognized as being beyond question. He was a most efficient teaeher and a horn disciplinarian. He was not harsh; but when occasion arose aml punishment had to be administered, ii 0 was administered with fe\\" words and n romplete absence of passion or anger. Boys .,;· 11ernr felt resentment against the rector for being punished. The punishment seemed a: to follow from the transgression: the boy was not punished because the rector was z: a:. ang1·y. \Yith i\Ir J<�owlc1· all the boy,,; Yiewed pu11ishment uncler the aspect of jusl'ire. Clw "i\Ir Fowler became principal of Nelson Boys' College in J 904 and eonlinued I here >I.I... 011 c, till he retired in 1921. Tn retirement he lived at Days' Ba.v, Wellington. ln compan�· Cl with his wife he set ont; in the beginning of 1927 a trip to England via Syclne�·. a:: -i: Ile contrarted pneumonia on the Yo�·agc to 8.vclne:,·, "·as f hree days in hospital, and C> lr:l di<'d thert on February 10, 1927, atMr the T. ageD. ofPearce. sixt�·-five." (8rhool Register). R.The fourth rec-t.or was a New Zealande1·, T. D. Pcnrc·e, �I.A. 1\fr Pearc·e was appointed rector in 1904, when I was c·hairn::111 of the Board. His runner-up .was :- 1\fr T. Cresswell, i\I.A., who subsequent] brc-ame headmaster· of \\"ellington College. By a curions irony of fate it was i\Ir Cresswell ,yho, twenty-five yc>ars later, followed :M:r Pearce as ac·ting-rcc·tor on Mr Pearce's re! irement. 1\ fair]�- full and interesting arcount of 1\Ir Pearce's brilliant scholastir c·areer is giYe11 in the 8chool Register, whic>h every Old Boy should possess. I sh,tll therc>forp make that excellent nnd timdy p11blic·ation the subject of Thesome School appreciati,·e Register. eommen!s. '.l'he Ileg'ister is a handsome oda,·o volume of three hnnrlred pages, well printed on good paper, tastefully bound in blue eloth and bac·ked in gold letlers-"8outhland B.H.S. Register, J 881-1930." We all welcome it a,; the first outward symbol of. t.he historical and corporate unity of the school. ,\s suc·h it was OYerdue and will proYe of great value. The Register as already mentioned is the work of the Rector Emeritus, Mr T. D. Pearce. It only needs lo girn it the most c-m·sory pernsal to appreciate the enom10us amount of time, i11dusti-�· and patienc·e inYolved in its preparation. Mr Pearce has executed this self-imposed task in a splendid mnnner, nnd all who take the trouble to examine it will agree that: it g-i,·es a 1·ounded finish to a quarter of a century's faithful sen·ice as head of the sc·hool. Who c-an clonht }\fr Penrce's sii1cerit,Y whe11 he sa>•s it wns a la hour of _!on• i 33 The bookSouthland consists of Boys'two parts, High the School lfogister Jubilee and the Record. Annals. The Register49 i.- proYided with an index of 1ian1es and is anangccl in fifty groups of entrants, be ginning with "1881 entrants (62)" and ending with "1!)30 entrants (102)." The roll number in 1881 1ras 62; in 1930 it ll'as 310, having exartl.v quintupled in fifty years. Remarkabl,Y fnll information is gi1·cn about ea<'h Old Boy-career, ll'ar servic·e, etc·., with here and there tragedy and death, all of ll'hich makes for some of us "·ho attended the school thirty, forty, fifty years ago, a rerord of absorbing interest. The Annals of the School cover eighty pages dealing with a great Yariety of subjects, such as the leg-isl at ion of 1877 which laid the legal foundations of the sd100I, the personnel of the Hrst Board of Governors, the endowments to which the Board had to look for its revenue, the first formal enrolment in Ramsay's Hall 011 December 17, 1880, a c·hronicle of hi torical inridents, free educ·ation, the old school and the new, t·he sc·hool haka, the sehool bell, the sehool prefects, the adoption of tlw Litle of' "Rector," a record of past members of the staff ( o,·er seventy) ll'ith personal notes, past secretaries, past caretakers, complete sport records including football c·aptains, football teams from 1886 to 1930, fooihall matc·hes, crieket captains, cricket teams, notes on cric·ket matches, gymnastic champion:;, s"·imming champions, firns champions, tennis champions, c·hampion shots, with sad promine11re to the :i\Iemorial Roll of Honom. 'l'he activities and quiesc·ences of tlw Old Bo�·s' 1\1-;soc·iation arc gi,·ell. The constitution of the Board of GoYernor · is explained, ll'ilh a ro111plete rec·ord oC past memhers. Suc·h is the Register and the .Annals of. the School. Like all rec·ords of the kind there are, here and there, imperfections and inadequac-ies inseparahle from sueh a compilation, where the compiler has had to rel.v on earl.,· reeord.- and infor111a tion glea!led from a mulliplicity of somc·es. These, howernr, are but ".-pot,; in the snn" and do not de!Tact from the valne of lhe record as a ll'hole. In ronclusion, although exc-eeding the limits of my task, I should like on behalf of the Old Bo�·s of '81, to offer congratulations to the Board of Go,·ernors and lhe HeC'tor, Dr. Uttley, 011 the happy auspices uHcler whieh the Jubill'e of th<' school is being- c·elebrated. The new sc-hool buildings am admittedly among the finest in �ell' Zealand, and under the present wise administration, Dr. uttley, with his srholn.rl.v and etncient staff, ma�· confldentl.v look forll'ard to the Southlanrl Boys' High S<'hool nttai11ing e1·e11 a highe1 place a111ong the serondary sc·hools of th<' Dominion. :i\facte nont Yirtute, Uttley; sir itnr ad astra ! SOUTHLANDIAN TEACHERS I HAVE KNOWN. (B�· J. T. Carswell, 151). When, as a result of m:v gaining an Education Board Scholarship, I entel'ed the portals of the Routhlancl Boys' High School in September, 1887, the teaching stall' c·onsisled of Alfred H. Highton, l\LA. (of Cambridge), headma.st'er, Charles McLean, first assistant, and A. G. :Stewart, second assistant. A. H. Highton, M.A. There were, at that time, about sixt.v bo�·s attending the school, and :i\fr Highton, besides eanying ont the duties deYoh·ing upon the principal, taught mathe matics and sc·ienre to the upper forms. Mr Highton was a tall, handsome, well-sct-np man, who li,·ed first of all on Bay Hoad and afterll'ards in what is noll' i\Irs Campbell's house in Gala street. He had a splendid knowledge oC mathematics, hut was not, I think, a particularly good teacher of the subject. He was, o to s1 eak a little � '. i _ above all hut his cleverest pupils and so rould not fully apprec·1ate then· cl1ffin1lt1ei:: or lift them out of those difficulties by patiently and pel'sistcntl�, instilling into th<>ir 34 51 50 artl a n e oo o o Record.'l'his was p y Mr l\leLeSouthlandn joi ed theBoy/ staff Highof th Schoolsch l Jubileein 1882 tRecord.gether with Mr A. G. '". ,.,. Boys' hHighe irroundwork School Jubileef the subject. · , ti , u,ider·lSouthlandlD IJrincirJles t I 1 a . no n h n nted lrnn from wummg 1e e 1· t_s �tewart (familiarly k wn amo gst t e pupils as "Jerry"), and remai ed here until e nature,' which� preve . h n a JIIIIl(ISl to hi1()s shv. andJ "reserYed a . a . ti nannc t:he end of 1888, when they bot resig ed nd went back to Melbourne wbeuc:e they an certain .l ck of dram tic and dy llL h d partly. perhaps to a n 0 ' ( � l us· . ),0uthfu i earers ' h . J es o . had c: 111e in ! he first im;tauee. h h hes to make is pup1·1 s :1,-:ua r1se . ie ;0 necessary in a teac er if e wis 1 �h force ha espe:ti 11 , e'. At th at time Lhere was a LJOarding establisluneut connected with the school a much better teacher of -�ience t n mathemattes, � � � � He was, I thiuk, o a h CJ' 1101 s a n n o n h h _c cy that t e Board of C,o, aud this was placed in Mac's ch rge. It was situated ill Gladsto e a d had acc m a n experime ts. It was t roug Ins adv c rryi g out l o sc ho_oL .A,, a a n o o h o n h a small chenucal aborat ry t Lhe mod tion for only about half doze sch lars. .Am ngst t e first f these were added, in 1889, a scie ce room wit � il t n b) l11s pup s. In J. J.l. Reed (of Messrs Henderson and Co., Ltd.), John Rogers, and Ernest a respec ed both by I s staff and (now he dmaster Mr Uighton was o 0 n h ness than of sternness, but he, n_ernrthe D ctor) Rogers. Later 11, the three .Aspinalls (Miles, Jack a d Dan) ' LoYel Davis ) there was muc more of kindli hoo! ' his make-u{ h l o ill ?ut of _s� , n n o a a line. Altho�1g a ways, b th and a d Jeny a cl Dickie Turton were h used there. less, m int ined splendid discip 1 be Yery sat1ncal, aud I well r_emcmber 1111 1 adn11mste1- When, in 1882, Mac joined the staff, he was evidently eugaged to teach rna.the the perfect gentleman, he could ne o h l rebuke, bnmful of sar_casm, to _o n iiw in the pre.·ence f the whole sc oo , a severe matil's. Mr Bla c�flower (the then principal) teaching languages. But iu my time, n o duru1g examrna� h o h had bee guilty of levity or misc nduct he taught the seni or forms Latin, ] rench, English, and History, the instructiou oltlrn sixt form b ys ,,· o h l in especially kind, and after I ad left scb?o he h lion. To me the }ate :Mr llighton ,,·as h "mat s" and scieuce being given by Mr Highton, and mathelllatics �fr ll1g t?11 h my post-school studies in science . h n o elped me with o In those far-off days t ere was o central heating system, aud the ro ms .,. first of all at Underwo d and later m V1ctona. resi"" ned in 1893 to "o-o into business, were warmed hy means of coal fires, a,ud the fires were, in the schoolboy language of He cliecl iu 1915. to-day, "pearlers." "Mac" (as indeed were, \\·ithout exception, all of ou1· masters) was very fond of stantliug wilh his l>ack to the fire, with his gown held up so tbat' the heat could '.nore_ readily permeate. 'l'he secrnt, but ill-concealed joy of the class may well be 11uaguied when, upou 011e oc-casio11, Mac's gown caught fire. Mr :i\I<-Lean still takes a very keen interest ill the old school and in his old pupils. . He presented prizes to the boys at the break-up ceremony in 1925 and he still corresponds with Messrs Eustace Russell, Chas. B. Rout and several other of his old pupils, includingt!1e myself. A. G. Stewart. i\h A. U. t:lle11·art was lhe secoml assistant at lhe time of my entrance. He laughl LaLi11, Frnnc:h, Euglish aud geography to the lower forms. He was a rather cxactiug teacher aud very fond of imposing detentiou. I must say, however, that I made gocd progress under his tuition; and whether because he liked me or because Charles Mclean. I esca�ed detection in various boyish escapades, I, personally, had n� reason to i o ed o . n h t n l or "Mac" as we scho lboys nick-mu� complam f over-stnct ess in is discipline. 'l'he first assis a t, Char es McLean, wal h o cheek-bones of the typ broad-shouldered man wit the pr minent o o him ,rn.- a tall he was_ also "Jerry" ( as we 11ickna111cd hirn) was made the butt of tw practical j kes o 1 h h "perfervidum ingenium Sco(c,rum," Jli -i lander. \\� ilst he possessed t e which c,wsed quite a stir in the school ut the time. h o his Celtic "forbears"-fierrness lib:rallv endowed with that ot er characteristic f n h o but, once cooled down, a o o o of tem ;er. lle ,rnuld flare up upo the slig test pr vocation; l1� 1883, Arthur H rvey (23), arriving at scho l very early ue m rning, 1 o a n o o it was all oYer and he ],arboured no ill-will. thought it w uld be a grc,Lt ''l rk" lo lock the windows a d d or f "Jerry's" class a e e n a o n o h h a ry dinn r, �·oom .. H menti_o ed the idea to u�ther b y, Jules I-I. '.L'apper (56), a d it was h ry w ic he told t a compliment T i., was well illustrated by a st . o ago. muned1ately put 111to effect, the key be111g thrown mt the Puni Creek. tendered to him by his old pupils about five years h o recall, who had beeu At a later elate (1886) "Jerry" aud. l he whole of his class were locked in by of one of the boys, whose name e c uld not He spoke n a a l l who had, in co sequence, been locked m uothcr hoy, Edmuud WiJsou (now wel -k1rnw11 as an architect). M:r Wilson himself · him most unmerc-ifu ly. a,ud 1 ,,1111ovino"·'" ho dfor lunc· h , an d"Mac,_ " told the story at an Olcl Boys' dinner rel'entl_v and explained how he acted on the y h Half an hour afterward,; the sc ol disperse· room b imself. o lns a h h a his temper so badly, pr ceeded on pTilICiple that att ck ,ms the surest me!hod of defence. Ile had promised his mother for.,ettino- all about t e boy w o h d tried a h h "prisoner" was released. to be home at a certain hour, uut "Jeny" had given him deteutiou for some trivial 1;, it was ne rly two ours before t e ,n ancf in consequence, o n l n o a ffence of which he was ot rea ly guilty a d refused to let him ff. Rather than be (Cfel� v�ry sorry for t�i t J Or "I have often sinC"e," said our old teac_her, � ,� detained himself, he decided to "detain" "Jerry," and locked him and his class in. depnved of ]us hbert�, and his dnme1. boy who, through my thoughtlessness, \\'as o serious l>y the headlllasters involved, h n Macpherson "I was the bo!, These incidents were lo ked 011 as rather sorry, sir," c ipped in Dunca . o "You needn't be a h but on apologies being made, the b ys were, after suitable punishment had been had my dinne1· and was l., ck in t e room agam aud l climl.,ed out of the window, meted out to them, duly forgiven. before you retm·ned." 35 53 52 h The senctSouthland of ]\fr l•'oll'ler's Boys' sn<:cess High asSchool a tead1er Jubilee \\'as hisRecord. t oroughness ancl the Southland Boys'W. E.High P. Austin,School B.A. Jubilee Record. h n prol.Jlems clear-cut way in ll'hicli he man; alled his ideas a d explained any knotty Mr i\fc•L :m's su,·ressor ,1s "c·lassir·al_ mns!er'' wns l\f1· \\'. R P. Austin, B ..A.. to his pupils. _ , �h h h h n 1 h h (of OxfoHl),_ \\ o <·arne from t e Boys' Jlig Sc· ool i Geelo w. l\Ir Austin was He was a stern disciplinarian, and 011e of his pupils clc:-;c:ribcd im in t e words n n h lie was a promptl c·lm_stened "Bony" (Lati os, ossis-a bo e) by his acl:uring pupils. Not spoken about a famous l!;uglisb sc:boohnasler: "'C ukje' ll'US a beast, but h y n h t at he was 111 �ny _way _a gular-quite t e reverse. He was, indeed, a splendidly just beast." developed man, ripplmg with muscle, having been a noted athlete even at Oxford. He h as the But his pupils liked aml respected im, and this respel't has deepened was a good teacher too-one of tl1e ,·e 1· .Y es t . IT· e J lfl<1 a J Jl'JO'· J 1t breezy e11gn0'1110·· b · years ha,·e gone by. manner that went well with the boys; but he was n good disripli1�arian too· 'nnc1 \l'�nl� · ' he encl of 1003 Lo bel'o1nc Rcdor of Nelson College, a post stand no nonsense. He resigned at t whit'h he ltelcl until Jiis retirement at the end of 1920. He was lueicl and thorough nncl I personnlly consider mysrlf forhmntr to haYe 011 a l rip to Englaud . ]\fr .!<'owler, a<:companiecl hy Mrs Fowler, had slarlecl had l11m, and late1' 011, the late :.Vfr Jt'owler :1s my tutors in Jangnnges. n in Syd11c ,· in l•'ebruary, 1927. when he 1111fortu11alcly l'O!llra<:lctl pneumo i.t a11d died . :\fr Anstin ha , prior to t_aking up teaching, been a bank clerk and was a real Boys of lite f:>outhlancl Iligb School, ,� He will 1011g be remembered not only by Old " man of the ll'Orld. He, at t1111es, had most entertainii1"' chats with us and we those of Nelson College. n bul abo by were all ,·ery fo d of him. nut woe to the boy who trod up�n his dignity! ' J. E. Vernon, M.A., B.Sc. On one O('(•ni.ion the late 1<"l'ank Jlforison ltad, during the interval, placed , 1u, although c:011siderably my Bony s h at upon a �ootball lhat was reposing upon the top of the euphoal'd in the l\Ir \'erno11 I knew very well, and counted hi n of St. Paul's Presbyterian classroom. _It was mtended purely as n11 innorent "bit or fun" hut :\Ir ,\ustin would amongst rny frie ds. \\"e were both members senior, until his elevation n h n n h h h :-;t'hool aucl Dehaling 8oc:iety, ttnd, ot regard it as suc, . _He tool� it as int<' ded lo co ve_v to the c-lass t at he was C.: urch, ll'orkers in l e f:;uDclay n 11 n c Court together. l\lr Yer o was i deed ernply-hea 54 55 Southland Boys'Rev. High W. White, School M.A. Jubilee Record. Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. He, along with the sports' masters, did his best to encourage school football, When Mr Vernon resigned in August, 1902, his place was filled temporarily by and ericket and the result is seen in the very creditable record of the S.B.H.S. in the Rev. Wm. White, M.A., of Wallacetown. Mr White was a brilliant; mathematician, inter-Collegiate games.• hut perhaps rather "swift!' in his methods 1o be a good teacher.t He coRrhecl me It is also seen in the fac-t that, of the ten "All Blacks" who claim onr "olcl for a few months, and I must.confess that it wa,:; ,rit.h diffenlty thnt· I followed his s<·hool" as their "A.Ima Mater," eight \\·ere pupils under Mr Pearce. "short cuts," although he inv.ariablyF. W. Hilgendorf, arrived atM.A., the correctB.Sc. answer or solution. But perhaps the most amazing thing about Mr Pearce's rectorship has been the way in whirh he kept in touch with "his boys" after they left school, and follo\\·ed At the beginning of 1903, Mr (now Doctor) F. W. Hilgendorf, M.A., B.Sc., their careers when they went forth into the world to take their pRrt in the battle of life. received the pernrnnent appointment. Hilgy (as the boys called him) was short in During the whole of his 25 years' senice, Mr Pearce was constantl�• and stature, hut bright and very pleasant in manner. To meet socially, both he and the c-a.l'efully gathering information regarding the school and its pupils, pRst and present. late Mrs 1Tilgendo1·f were very charming people. Even whilst in Invercargill he was keenl.v interested in Science as applied to agriculture, and he had only been with When in 1929 the time came for him to resign, he promised to compile a. 11s a year when he resigned to take Johnup a positionMcKinnon. at Lincoln College as Scienee Master. Register of all the pupils who passed through the school dming the past fifty yeal'R nncl to place on record therein some of theil' noteworthy achievements. WflS In 1903 an extra teacher was appointed in the person of Mr John McKinnon. The Register has now been completed, and bears eloquent testimon.v to the Mr McKinnon had been for a number of years a "primary school" teacher, and this tremendon.· amount of work, and of patient researi;h that he has pnt into it. his first experience of teaching in a secondary school. Ile passed to the Great It is extremely concise and acrnrate, and the method in which the information Beyond in 1!)08 after a very long illness patiently borne. Re was a man of exemplRry is nrrangerl is wholly admirable. d1arac·tcr, and a very earnest and painstaking teacher. We have seen how, at the end of 1903, Mr H. L. Fowler 1·esigned the rectorship To Mr Pearce the school owes a great debt of gratitude for this, his wonderful l'Ce oC Lhe sc-hool to take up a similarT. positionD. Pearce, in Nelson M.A. College. gift to it-a debt which, indeed, it- can never repay. The Register is, so to speak, a part of himself, and :-fr Pen may well nnrl truly say in the words of the immortal Roman bard: After careful deliberation, the Board of Governors chose as his successor "Exegi monumentum aere perennius Mr Thomas D. Pearce, M.A., who had twelve years' teaching experience, first as Regalique situ pyramidum altius." English Master at Nelson College, and then at the Otago Boys' High School. Thus began Mr Pearce's long and intimate connect.ion with the school, which was to last "Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei. for over a quarter of a century. He came here a young man full of enthusiasm and Vitabit Libitinam !" vigour, and during his "headship" he saw the school roll double in number, and his stnfl' of four teachers (Messrs McKay, Hilgendorf, McKinnon, and Hanna, physical When Mr J .G. McKa�· resigned in March, 1904, and Dr. Hilgendorf in j_\fa�· instructor) inereasc to thirteen. of the same year, the Board of Governors appointed Messrs J. S. l\frGrath and ·1 I. 0. Stuckey to fill the vacant positions. They also, in April, 1904, appointed j_\fr Himself a splendid teacher, a good organizer and an indefatigable worker, Mr _ ,James Pow as an arlditional master, so that the school had, in that )'car, not onl)· Pearce was also able to enhst the hearty co-operation of his staff who with one or ' a new Rector (Mr Pearce), but also, with the exception of 'Mr John l\IcKinnon, an two exceptions, were intensely loyal to him. entirely new staff. Is it any wonder that the able, conscientious, and thorough manner in whirh The number of enrolments of new scholars had, from 1903 onwards, greatly he and his assistants carried out their duties in the class-room is reflected in the inerensed owing to the granting of free places for "proficiency" in primar�• school work. signal sucecsses gained by their pupils during the past 25 years, 0£ these three J. S. McGrath, B.A. ( v z,, l<'. F. Mi es, H. J. Ryburn and J. - Dakin) gained Rhodes Scholarships; two ! � . � (viz., Robert h..ennedy and David S. Snuth) became Judges of the Supreme Court ' whilst many others gained high University honours. l\fr McGrathll has now completed 27 years of teaching ser vice in the school. In the professions, too, and in the hurly-burly of business, Old Boys, who He is, a.nd al 'ays has heen, one of its most popular teaehers. He has taught a "sat nnrler" l\fr Pearre have played a very worthy and prominent, if less spectacular variety of subjects, hut English and hi. tor:v have always been amongst them. "Joey" part. (as he is affectionatelyf referred to by his pupils) is not a belieYer in corporal punish ment, prefening to inlict the lash of the tongue rnther than that of the strap. Like In the outdoor life of the schoolboys, Mr Pearce also evinced the keenest most Irishmen, he has a nimble wit, which added to a Yein of sarcasm, has proYcd interest, believing s he did that true education includes the development of the body � _ quite effectirn in mainta.ining diseipline. It is, however, in connexion 11·ith the out as well as of the mrncl. "Mens sana m corpore sano." door life of the school that l\fr MrGrath ll'ill, perhaps, be longef 56 Southland Boy/ Higli School Jubilee Record. Southland Boys'· High School Jubilee Record. 57 James Pow, D.S.O. In October, J915, l\Ir James Stobo, M.A., was appoinLccl to IJtc :;taJI, and 1919, when he took up a po,;ition at Lhc Southlancl Mr James Pow had been rc111aiuecl with us until July, . . first a pupil aud t!Jen a teacher in the Wyndham l _, ulic S<·hool. Afte · :;ci· ·mg- for seven years on the staff: the S.B.H.S., he, Tec:hnical College. t � _ � of in M. Alexander, M.Sc. L)ll,_ acc:epted a. position 111 the Otago Boys' Hi"'h School. Thence he ,Yent to take pa.rt 1 1 the Great ;, \\.ar, and rose to: be Colonel, ,�inning his D.S.O. On bis return to Iu 1916, l\fr Matthew Alexander, M.Sc., was appointed i.\fatbematies l\fa:;ter r e � �v Zealand he took up the pos1lto11 of organizing secretary of the N.Z. Farmers' in place of Mr J. Williams ,,·ho had resigned. Mr Alexander was an "Old Boy'' of Umon with hcac)quarters at Vi'ellington. l\Ir Pow was a good aud popular teacher the school and had a distinguished academical career. He won both a junior and and wa:; Ill ' keenly rnterested the activities of the pupils in the playground. senior EJuca.tion Board Scholarship and tied with K. G. l<'raser as Dux of the school i11 1907. He wou a UniYersity Entrance Scholarship; the Beverly , 'c•holarsltip in H. 0. Stuckey, M.A., B.Sc. Advanced Phy ·ics, a Senior University Scholarship in ElectrieiLy and .£100 llc:;eareh at Victoria College in 1912. He graclua.ted a.· l\.L8<·. at OLago Uniq•rsiL:v 1'fr II. 0. Stuckey, M.A., B.Sc., took Dr. Ililgcndorf's pla<'e as Science ,wd Scholarship in 1011. After tea<:hing for four ,Years in the Thames and Gore High Sehool:;, lte niuthe111at�cs aster. lie had gained distinction at Nel::;011 College and afterwards m came back to Inverca1·gill to take charge of the mathematical das::;es in hi:; old at the Unn·ersrty, "·here he "·as a c:lassmate and no mean rival of Ernest (now Sir school. Iu 1923, the Board of Governors (of which I was one), appointed an outside Ernest! Ilutherfo_rc1 and ]'rank Milner. He was a painstaking and thorough teacher, applicant- to a senior position on the staff instead of promoting Mr Alexander, much and bemg of a bright cheerful nature, be was well liked by the boys. He coached the · : to the chagrin of the latter and of the Rector. In consequence of this Mr Alexander boy:; in �ootb l durrng the period_ 1905 07 and was intensely proud of the victory , � � _ � shortly afterwards resigned, ha\·ing been appointed mathematics master in the Napier ?f,thc l◄rrst l◄ifteen agamst the Fu·st Fifteen c,f the Otago High School at Dunedin v Boys' High Scbool, a position he still holds. Mr Alexander was a splendid teacher 111 the latter , ear. At about this time the first match bet\,·ecn an Old Boys team and and his pupils got good results in examination. There i:; HO doubt that his going tbe school was played, tbe boys having the assista11cc of Mr Stuckey and another was a· distinct loss to the .-chool, and I have regretted it, although 1 share the re maste1 . l�or tl c first ten minutes or so the Old Boys did fairly well. Then want of : '. sponsibility of the Board's action. cond1fion told its tale, a11d we got a good "walloping" by the school team. After be111g threP. years a� tbe_ school,_ Mr _ Stuckey resigned to take up fruit-farming near 1n February, 1917, Mr James Flannery was appoi11tecl to the .-t,d.l'. He has Hobart. He took with h11n as Ills bnde one of my sisters. Tn his new arncatiou Mr siuce gained promotion, and is still with us. tuckey was Yery succe :;ful, � _ � bt�t, unfortunately, he caught a chill which devel�pe 59 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. �- G. Butchers, M.A. Southland Boys'RUGBY High REMINISCENCES. School Jubilee Record. In 1\p1·il, 1923, nn extra teac·h�r was appointed iu the person of l\Ir A. G. Rnh·h�1·s, Al..\. AJr Bn!<·hcrs had prenously been headmaster of l\feGlashan College, D11ned11 1. He wn,; a man full of ene1•0-,·,-,J and ' t, ., t1 • , !o • n, <>Teat �t dent I le I�l«S more "I.Jail( 11 e.· . l11s 1111111e Lhau almosl 1111y olher mastel' who has passed through lhe SC'hool. Ile The foo!lrnll history of ·1 he 8011 1 hl,111d Boys' High Sc·hool, su<·<·inf.J.v t·hroni1 lcd 1s an '\I.,\.,• an • LL.B., aud holds e< , '-', 1111"- lC · the Diploma of Edu ation · i11 fa,.< I ti · ]· J I l3S. 'l'. D. Pearce, Hector emeritus of: the 110w attan�c>d in the monumental register compiled by llh· l11s Doctor�t�. 'l'hese de,g-ree.· cannot be obtained unles.· by hard eoupled work school. is divided conveniently inlo three periods, the first of which ends in 1904, the wi!h natural abil1tv. :i\Ir Butchers r. . resio•ned· " in 19?9-· in .., 1•de r ! o comp Ic t·e of ll'hic-h goes on after its blaze of glory in 1930. ] 11s_· "ffis_ t ory of b:ch_1Cat1on, • second in 1914, and the lhird _ ·1_n New Zealand." This work is very interesting and is '11·1tt n 1 1 n be 1 1t1ful !ncile style, but it has _ � '. . _ _1 '. created ronsiderahle conl';·ovcr.·y, c•entres of nniversil,v c·lnssic rngger, t.he sc·hool C'Sf)N 1nll.' 111 ie,g-,11 d to l11s 'l'ho11g-h far fr-om I he 1101'1 hel'll stn!ements anent the Young women of this n . fair Dominion. lrad fo1· Year,:; lhe shining- pxamplcs of .f. \\". Rlencl, of origi al All Blac·ks' fame, of J\. B. ·Li11ds,1y, Hrotti,;h international, ol'. ,J. 111. Mehnffey, enpli1in of the Eastern PRESENT STAFF. ('01111 1 ies of Rngland, and inclred of' n. c-lass of footbnll thnt rose to exc•ellence on Exc·cp! so in Yarrow S!1·ect. These nrc gl'eat names and they belong fnl' nR il ''.·ns nec-essary lo preserve <'Onti11uity, I did not intend fhe old Union Ground lo refer to the pre;;ent Rugby excellence in Southland, an era which continued just as long as lcac-h111g ::;taff, nnd, nl' thi. stagc, I shall do Iii-tie more thnn lo an era of enumerate them. Sou[hlandcrs had a fast metropolitan ground upon which to play their club games. James Hamillon belongs to the last decade of the 19 century, reaching Dublin Besides Messrs ] 897-90, and l::i ter playing for Royal City of Dublin. m· . i'lfrGrath, Dakin, Jt�lannery and Cameron, whom I haYe alrend,· Unirnr;;ity honours in � mentioned, there n1·c Christophers as its idol and its inspirer during the representative G. H. Uttle.v, M.A., D.Sc. (Rec·tor) a1Hl l\Icssrs A.• J. Denkr;·, sehool had .Julian M.A., If. J?rces, M.A., C in Inver·c·arg-ill in 1902-03, und veteran,; slill make mention of his A. S. Hog-g, 11.S '., A.H. Dunlop, B.A., A.G. Harringlon, :;\J.S,·., g-ames he played A. 11. hobrns, B.A., on the wing, as well as of l1is lightning right-foot line-finding .J. C. Braithwaite, B.A., and F' ..J. E. Baillie, B.Sc., Dip. Ed. almost rc,:i,;fless clnsh pnnt. I won!d like lo say, J1owe1·er, t hnt Dr. of the second era of our school , . . _ t..:ttlc)·';; work during hi. Jir;;t Yeal' ns 'l'he vear 1906 is token as the beginning h •d_or has fully �onfmncd XV lo '. the high opinion whic·h the Board of Governors · former] foothall bec�use the late l\Ir H. 0. Sluckey, of happy memory, took the First of Jr1n1 when nrnk111g the appointment. Duneclin on what he realised was a hopeless expedition-the defeat of the redoubt able Olago Boys' Iligh School First_ XV; but the initiat!1·e displayed by that ;vho_lc of good football 111 the Southland Boys II1gh PHYSICAL INSTRUCTORS. souled master was really the genesis Hc-hool. The n ext season his team erushed an Otago Second XV reinforced with 'I'hcre remains for me 11011· only lo refer hriefl.1· to fhe mastt?J'S in chnrge of n, fhe li'ir.·ts. Then, greatly encouraged, he snatched vic-tory from an Otago Boys' hraneh o� prcscnt day _- eduC'ation which was hardly thought of when I was a bov nt l<'irst XV next season in Dunedin, and om· school was placed on a different level of c·hool, nz., physic-al _de\·clopmcnt. � . Thc sc·hool has been partiC'ularh· forlunat� in :whie1·e111eut. '.l'oo much 1-;tress cannot be laid upon this reall.v astonishing succ-ess, 1ls choice o:f g_nnnnslic 1 1 1struc-tors. The first was :i\Ir .J. V. Hanna· (1902-06). I and lhe pitv w::is that llfr Stuckcy's ill-health compelled him to retire that year from '.'cmem_h · 111111 well, � _f�r I formed one of a rlass of "old buffers" whom he the profes;ion. Among the names of those players who di.·tinguished themselves 1 111 . . taught, 1 1clud ,,, i\Iessrs 1\ JIham 81 1\ . n . 111th, R. •\nder,;on , ,\. ]!.,. J !.. ,1•1-c, TTT" . D . ] r unt ' .J o Im in that "great" game are Archie Brown, Sam Cupples, the diminufo·e full-back, a 1 ·1krs n, A. ll . faC'donald ' � ; � an_d many others. He rertainly knew his work. Then '.romm,v Baird, Jack Spiers, the wizard dribhler, Syd. Smith, Tom Timpany, fearless follo\\ cd lan_ (,. (,alloway (lDOt-13), page who gaye his life in tr.1·i11g- to sa1·e Cui! F. Som· nnd re1-;onr<•eful half-back, and indeed eYer_v olhcr member of the team (see from dr·o,i·nrng- on thnt "hlac-k" day al· the back beach nea�r Greenhill� 233 S.B.l LS. Register), hut especiall.v and particularly Norman Milla.rd, the captain, ycnn; ago. scvenlccn whose name is no\\" a ho11sehold wowl in ever.v university province of New Zealnncl y :111rl A11s!mlia, nnd \\"h08l' senic·C's lo Hngh_ football in school, u11i1·ersity, province 1fr -John Page, who was nppointed in .Julv 1913 whcn Mr Gallowav was nnrl Dominion :ue unique. fransf_·errcd to !he Educ-ation De1>nrtnwnt, 1 · is still ,;.,!tl 11.�., .' II e ] 1as a perfect under- standmg of his job, 1 and 1�1a1 y 11 deli<'ate ho_v has been built up and reinforced '.l'he sc-1100! stmggled to field its fifteens ::igninst the strong northern secondary pl ieally a.· tire resul� of Ins J�a!ient n 1:"� a d unremitting rare. He has done a wonderful institutions of Otago, Wai!"aki and Timaru. Wins were not frequent, but in 1910 the sci I ice for the school in orga111:;111g R gymnastic· di plavs bv the boys to provide f 11 cl 8 PiTst XV gained a narrO\\' 1·idory from a formidable Otago side on Rugby Park, for school purposes. His son, Lieutenant ; � fielded. Jnrnes Rn�sell ·Pao-e is· 011 Old B O 1 e Dave McGibbon captaining one of lhe fastest teams the school has ever sr·hool who distingui hed himself ?Y i . in alhletic-s, . In 19·J.9-· 1,"e ',,.'.,� 60 Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. Southland Boys' High School Jubilee Record. 61 player of !:11at year "·as Bob Mani,;, the Liny lrnlf, whose geuiu,; in clrnuge of play rn that spirit they will be acccpt·ed. l!'ar as our school is from Lhc gre t nor her c � � n foll" of our ,;<:lwol b::wks haYe sinc-c Ji,;played. He, too, lies far fr -111 here, where centres 01 Rugby, the wish is expressed tha� _the player� to con ma) eont11lmt �: � licans the turf in many a mouk1'ring heap. their quota towards maintaining the high tra�1t10ns ?f then· favouute game, and om The year 1915 marks the opening of the South Island 8ec-oudar.v Schools' srhool, a� leflst in some small degree, gives tins pronusc. Annual Tournr,ment, and the standard of school football was more than maintained against opposition that was skilled and, at times, overwhelming. All things con sidered, the school First XV has done well, securing champion honours in 1918, 1922 SCHOOL ATHLETICS. and 1930. Perhaps the outstanding tournament success came to the school in 1922, whcu Mr .J. B. Mall"son <·oac-hcd the fifteen which, under Rex Murray, defeated Ota.go, Tinmru aud Clu·i,-;tc-hun·.h suc·eessively. (By fl Present ]\faster). 1 n Tl c juurnc_,· tu Ghri:;tc-hurd1 dircdly aflerll"ards and the fact that four hard h to knock p runs, to howl down To srore das ino- ti-ies to kirk cliffic·nlt goals, 1 mall-he,; in ten day,; bad left hardly a suuud man in the tea1u, ga,·c om· school small degi_·re s 10 h res of every ordinary boy. In no less a ! n wickets, are t e natur:1 desi _ _ drnnce agaiust a. strong side from the A. cklancl Grammar School, and the Moasear h sho�. _ So we find that athleti s attracted by the taped arena and t e sp� 62 Southland Hoy:/ High School JnbiLee ·Record. year. Jan Mauson led the field of six home but a blaukct would have covered Urn field at the finish. At the same meeting Charlie Rout stepped OYer the ba1· at the l1eight of 5 feet 4} inches aud Harold Shirreffs threw the cricket ball OH the Puui Creek ground 106 yards 3 iuehes. 'l'his is the only throw of 100 yards recorded in the school's history and it may be years before the record is increased. .Iii the following year, still at Hugby Park, young Lance Clark, who died rec-ently under dis tressing circumstances, astoni�hed the sc·hool by e:lea.riug 4 feet 101 inches in the uuder 15 e,·ent. A great senior COJ1test took place between H. Page and 'I'. Thomson, iu which Page's faster running succumbed to Thomson's stamina. The year 1926 marks the introduction of the all importaut inler-::;ecumlm·y schools' championships of Otago and Southland. This innovation was due tu the efforts of an Old Boy in '£eddy Isaacs, who about that time 11101·ed to Duuediu. These aunual sports haYe been a great boon to the school and we can, each year, now measure strides with the best of Otago. At the first meeting in Dunedin Russell Page wou the Long Jump and the 220 _1·ards while Johnny Gardiner and Freel Blake brought home the junior shield. It was not t-ill 1929 that school won the senior shield thanks to tbe fine running of Gardiner (who won the 100, 220 and 440 yards) aud the assistauee of G. Henry ancl Tom Crowe. At the same meeting M. Hamilton increased the juniol' high jump record to 4ft. 101 iuches, jumpi11g- more than his 011·n height. A most exciting relay ra<:e ga rn the shield to school. This was the dec·idiug ernnt and after school had lost 20 yards in the half-mile, Tom Crowe ran a wonderful quarter and sent Mitc·hell off with a yard to ::;pare which the 220 men slightly increased, Gardiner wi1111iug with 3 yards lo spare. 'l'he next year at foven:argill, school retained the shield by the good sprinting of "L"ttley and Henry and the fine efforts of Crowe in the middle di::;tances. In 1929, under Mr Cresswell, we returned to the school grounds and had excellent sports. Again in 1930 we held the meeting at school when Hamilton, in pouring rain, made the Yery line high jump of 5ft". 5iu. It may be some time before that effort is bettered. Flinee the inauguration of tbe annual sec-oudary schools' :;ports, our middle distan<:e r11nning has steaclily improved and the half-111ile rct·ortl ha:; been lowered in turn li.1· C:. l\It-u:donald, L. 'J'ho111pson, and T. Crowe, Lill iu 1930 we haYc Crowther'::; fine effort on a wet track of 2mi11. 9:-;ee. after a .fine tussle with Crowe. Tlrn three-mile mce has always been a most popular event. In 1024, startiug out at Waikiwi and finishing al the old sthool, 01·er 180 boys took part; this number has not been exceeded. A p<•c·uliar incident k�ppc.11ed iu 1925 when VB lost the l<'on11s' Shield because one of !heir lealll hung on lo a. bitycle <:orning up the Water 'rower rise. The future of athlclie:; iu the sthool is pru1111,rn1g. 'l'he bnu:iug dimale of Southland turns out boys of souud eo11stitution who can stand mu(·h ruuniug with iucrea::;ing stamina. The le,·elling of the sdiool ground.· will make that area ideal for sport,; meetings. It lllust be reme111herecl always, however, that the value of athlelic-s in a school is 110! to he gaug-ecl hy the Rtars it produces. The c-hampion may be a rc::;ull, of the training rc<·eivccl al. sthool, but what is more important i:; the great gain iu hcallh aucl physique hy large muubcr:; of lhc boys.