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TI-IE GOLDEN MILE , ............................................ I I I I I I ........... 0 ••1••1 ••1••1 ...••1 .. 1-1.... •1••1 - 1••1•• .....••• ......... 1 ••••1 ........1 .....! t + ; ~ ' 4 + iI T I CONTENTS l +4 I: + Page ! t + i School Prefects · . 3 ! I ~:::,:~," 7. s.• \: I t University Examination Results 11, 12 I t ! t Alliance Francaise Results . 17 f i Ex-Students' Notes . 21 ! + ! i Perseus Visits the E.G.H.S. 21 ! i ! f The Trials and Tribulations of Car Buying 22 f ! I i Fourth Year . 22 ; f t ! Just a Bird's Eye View . 23 t !' + I Les Heros de 1' Australie Occidentale 23 ; • t i "Emma"-a Criticism . 24 I • i f Zitate Und Redensarten 24 ; ~ Work! World Work! 24 i ! + School Sports . 25, 27 i4 i• ~ Faction Notes . 27, 28 I t• t+ t t t' 4~ !--··· -·--"'' r--- ......- ...........; + THE GOLDEN M ILE John Wills & Co. LIMITED Boulder's Ideal Shopping House for Better Value in Groceries, Household-Hardware, Wallpaper Linoleums, Hearthrugs, Carpet Squares Gramophones· and Records Agents for ((BERGERS" PAINTS EZYWALKIN LTD. Boulder and Kalgoorlie FOR ALL SPORTING GOODS We Specialise in 1 ennis Shoes and Football Boots. Special Prices for Students EZYW ALKIN LIMITED EVERYWHERE Page 2 SCHOOL PREFECTS, 1929 Boys: Girls: Richard Lawn (School Captain) Miss Alma Irvine (Senior Girl) J Bremner Miss D. Brewis R. Matheson Miss N. Bright J. Roberts R. Simpson Miss C. Denman S. Watson Miss N. Mileson SPECIAL PREFECTS. Sports: Miss C. Denman Library: Misses D. Gansberg and R. Brewis Pound : G. Sanfeliu Bell: B. Franetovich Recorder : M. Don FORM PREFECTS: Boys: Girls : i. Year: Frank Laver, Ken Hair i. Year: Una De Passy, Nancy Eccles n. Year: H. Roberts, J. ]ones 11. Year: M. Daly, G. Young iii. Year: J. Vincent, D. Hair iii. Year: M. Marchant, J. Hadden iv. Year: F . Mezger iv. Year: Lila Crutchett v. Year: K. Miles v. Year: Jean Yates MAGAZINE OFFICIALS: Editors: Misses N. Mileson and J. Bremner Business Manager: J. Simpson Page 3 T I J E COJ, DE J M IL E BRENNAN'S (Kalgoor]ie) Limited For BEST STYLES and VALUES in WINTER GOODS The Kalgoorlie Educational Specialist ]. W. HAIR . (Next Albany Bells) For ALL SCHOOL REQUISITES Pag· 'J . 0 . 36 JUNE, 1929 P ri ce 1/ 3 EDITORIAL m=~~~ HE present issue of the "Gol­ ers and Hackett Bursars. A detailed list den Mile" is the thirty-sixth, of the certificates and distinctions won the first number being pub­ by the school will be found in another lished in 1915. column. T he enrolment of students for the The final assembly for the school for present year is 243 c:nd consists of 112 1928 was held in the gymnasium on boys and 131 girls. Last year the enrol­ Thursday, December 13, and the Mayor ment was 239 students. The figures for of Kalgoorlie (Mr. Bernard Leslie) pre- the present year indicate that the school ented the prizes won at the Alliance continues to display the remarkable Francaise examinations and at the An­ vigor and vitality which have been its nual Sports Meeting. In a brief address outstanding feature·s during many years to the students Mr. Leslie complimented of depression in the mining industry and the school on its sporting and scholastic of consequent decline in the population achievements. of the district. Since the publication of the last issue We offer our heartiest congratulations of the magazine two changes have taken to the successful candidates for the Uni­ place in the school staff. Miss Eileen versity and Alliance Francaise examina­ Farmaner, B.A., after a year's service at tions, and especially to the Exhibition- the school, was transferred at the end of Page 5 THE GOL DE N MILE the year to the metropolitan area. Miss tics will indicate on the pocket the sports Dorothy Winton-Smith, B.A., has been section of students wearing the blazer ; appointed in her place to take Biology the old English lettering E.G.H .S. above :md English. Miss Marjorie Tarling, the shield will indicate the students who B.A., after four years' service with us, have either completed the full five years' was transferred to the Perth Modern course or are completing the fifth year. School to fill the position of Art Mis­ The innovation has been made after very tress in succession to Miss Lucy Prynne careful consideration to meet the wishes Jones, B.A., who resigned to engage in of ex-students who are representing the missionary work in Tanganyika, Central school at the University and Teachers' Africa. Miss Jones was a member of the College. High School staff some years ago. Miss During the summer vacation two of Lily Hocking has been appointed to the school tennis courts were top-dressed succeed Miss Tarling as Art Mistress, ·Nith a new kind of gravel. We have and as Sports Mistress should prove an been fortunate in the splendid rains acquisition to the school. which broke the long period of drought It will be of interest to many ex­ in May and have helped very much to gtudents to hear that Mrs. S. Jackson, bring our courts to perfect order. The who was a member of the school staff P-ew top-dressing is firmer and more during the war period, is reputed at pre­ binding than that used in previous years. sent to be the highest paid lady journal­ Considerable improvements have been ist in Australia. She is m 1king good made to the school buildings. The girls use of her literary talent in Sydney. Mrs. are now provided with a commodious Jackson may be remembered as Miss shelter house, which has been located Alice Archibald. Her marriage to Cap­ between the courts and Boulder Road. tain Sam Jackson took place during her A store room for sports material has association with the school. been added and placed behind the boys' Mr. Victor Brown, our Rhodes Scholar shelter shed. The roof of the main build­ for 1929, will complete the Science ing has been repainted with cement and course at the W.A. University before oil. leaving for Oxford next November. By The Centenary and second term vaca­ completing hi~ course and attaining his tions o£ the coastal High Schools are to degree of Bachelor of Science in West be held in September and October. The Australia he will be admitted as a Science Goldfields High School Centenary and student at Oxford. During the sEcond terminal holidays will be held in August term the school will make an effort to and September. These conflicting ar­ provide Victor with his passage money rangements unfortunately debar the to England. Ex-students who desire to school from taking part this year in the help in this undertaking are invited to Annual State Secondary School Sports send contributions to the Editor. meeting in Perth. We hope that next Ex-students of the school are now year the schools will be able to arrange wearing the school blazer. The shield for the renewal of the annual meeting. and Pegasus on the pocket are to be en­ It is quite probable, however, that our larged and improvements made in the school may be able to send representa­ scroll and lettering of the school motto. The sports badges won by students in tives to play metropolitan schools either the various branches of sport and athle- in August or at the end of the year. ~ ·class Notes L: - I V. YEAR GIRLS. humorous, and it is not meant that V. We take this opportunity of publicly ye3r should be frivolous. thanking last year's V. Year for leaving a bill and a small sum of money. V. YEAR BOYS. Please, may we keep the change? It is Cub's turn to tell this week's fairy A me-mber of our Year displayed an tale. Will he begin? "Once upon a time unsuspected sense of humor in writing I gave a kid sixpence ...." We are sure of our "roar" products whose present and of it being a fairy tale if he does so. potential value is so much vaunted by Billy has been experimenting with centennial speakers. electricity this term. At least one per­ One of our frimds kindly left her warm son was shocked by his manner of doing velour hat near the rubbish bin, presum­ it. That person being himself. ably for the goats, as the weather has We will take this opportunity of com­ been cold. A first year girl returned plimenting Dick Lawn on his promotion the hat. from the "B" to the "A" grade ranks in Who are the culprits of the "va-et­ senior football this season. vient" to the cloak room between During this year's cricket the school periods? - team rem3ined triumphant throughout, If a record were kept of the sarcasm ground fielding being its trump card. of one of our instructors, in future years We are hoping to gain similar success he would surely be known as Swift's en the football field this season. rival. They say that Cub came early for "Girls, what is death?" asked the mas­ school the other morning We are still ter, impressively. Both students of bio­ wondering how such a rumor could have logy and students of scripture pondered originated. deeply before answering concisely, "La mort." IV. YEAR GIRLS. To our classmate, Katie Svicarovich, who has just recovered from a long ill­ Having survived the Junior, we now ness, we extend our best wishes for sh3re the privileges of the Senior School. health and success. Early exponents of the art of country It is not inability that makes us say dancing must undoubtedly have turned "au revoir." Classmates should be in their well-earned graves at the sight P age 7 THE GOLDEN M I LE of fourth year girls' exhibition, but the Our numbers have been increased by modern comment was only, "It is still a recruit from Bunbury.

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