1952 SMC Yearbook by St Margaret's College Foundation

No. 45

St. :ilargaret's Qrnllege magazine Beati Mundo Corde

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' 19y2. ( left to right): Barbara Jenning, Valerie Parker, Margaret Westgarth, Diana Fulton, Barbara Todd, Ali on Greenwood, Avril Jones. ( left to right): Eli abeth Perrott, Elizabeth Pre ton, Beryl Vizer (Head), Barbara Fle her, Jean Richardson.

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS Chairman:

The Right Reverend the Bishop of Christchurch.

Deputy-Chairman:

Rev. I. L. Richards.

Bursar: E. P. Wills, Esq., B.A., LL.M., M.Com.

R. A. Barnsdale, Esq. The R v. L. A. Barnes Commander J.C. Elworthy F. H. H. Bell, E q.

Mrs C. Foster-Browne Rev. J. D. Proud Miss L. Gardner Mrs l . Garland

G. M. Morgan, Esq. Esq. Miss N. Vale H. S. Williams, Esq.

J. Roy-Smith,

THE STAFF Head Mistress:

Miss J. P. Crasher, M.Sc. (N.Z.) Secondary School Mis K. P. Edwards, B.A. (Hon.), Univ rsity of Wales, First A sistant, Head of Engli h Dept. Miss D. Robin on, P.C.T., Head of Commercial Dept. Mr S. Penney, B.A. ( .Z.), B. Cert., Head of History Dept. Mr . Dromgoole, M.A. Cantab, Head of Mathematics Dept. Miss G. Walter, B.A. (Hons.), London, Head of French Dept. Miss E. Duff, M.A. (N.Z.), Head of Latin Dept. Mis A. Clifford, Dip. Chelsea College Phys. Ed., Dip. Phy . Ed. (London), C.S.P., Games Mistre . Mi M. MacKenzie, B.H.S ., Head of Home Science Dept. Mi M. Stewart, Cambridge Geography Dip., Head of Geography Dept. Miss M. Holderne , M.A. ( .Z.), Engii h. Miss M. Morri, B.Sc. ( .Z.), Biology (Terms I and II) Mis B. Gadd, B. . ( .Z.), Biology (Term III). Mrs P. Morri , B.Sc. ( T.Z.), Chemi try (Terms I and II). Miss M. Bowkett, Homecraft Diploma, Homecraft. Mi J. Macfarlane, C. Cert., Librarian. Mrs B, Walton, Art (Term I). Mi s J. Owen, Art (Term II and III). Mr S. Fillenz, German. Primary School

Mi s G. Rankin, C. Certificate, Head of Primary Dept. Form Miss A. G. Thomas, C. Certificate, Head of Junior School Mistres . Mrs M. Thom on, C. Certificate, Form I. Mi D. M. Beattie, C. Certificate, Standard 4.

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Miss H. Heine, B. Certificate, Standard 3 (Terms I and II). Miss M. E. Scrimgeour, M.A., A. Certificate, Standard 3 (Term III). Mr C. Macfarlane, L.T.C.L., C. Certificate, Standard 2. Miss W. M. Armstrong, B.A., B. Certificate, Standard r.

Music Staff: Mrs M. Clark, Dip. Music, L.R.S.M., L.T.C.L., Pianoforte, Head of Mui Dept. Mrs M Thomson, L.T.C.L., Music Speciali t, Singino-. Miss W. Gardiner, L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M., F.T.C.L., Pianoforte. Mi s D. Hight, L.R.S.M., L.T.C.L., Pianoforte. Mi s M. Bruce, L.R.S.M., Pianoforte. Miss H. Eccles, A.T.C.L., Violin and Orchestra. Speech Training: Mis. M. Hopewell,

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Mrs V. Greaves, B.A. (Oxon).

Secretary:

House Staff: Mi s H. Drayton, Housemistress, Kilburn Hou e. Mi . D. Bomhof, Matron, Kilburn House. Miss A. Fisken, Matron, Julius House. Mr D. Sanderson, Housemistres., Julius House. Mrs A. ,velsh, Housekeeper.

Beryl Vizer (Head) Elizabeth Preston (Deputy-Head) Barbara Flesher Diana Fulton Alison Greenwood Barbara Jennings.

Term I. P. Reece-Smith (Convener) K. Ferguson L. Little J.. Orchard V. Benzie G. Prie t U. Trel aven J. Clark on V. Howman A. Wright

Prefects: Avril Jone Valerie Parker Eli abeth Perrott Jean Richardson Barbara Todd Margaret Westgarth

Senior Orderlies: Term II M. Jones (Convener) J. Pickle M. Radcliffe M. Wills E. En or M.. McCree D. Murray P. Littlejohn S. McLean M. Reynolds

Term III P. Chalklin (Convener)

J. Coombe L. Little L. Sparrow J. Dick on M. Scott P. Tobin B. Sherriff P. Latty E. Moore

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House Captains: Rata: Barbara Fle hrr Rimu: Beryl Vizer

Games Committee: Elizabeth Preston Jean Richard on ..l:kryl Vizer Margaret W estgart h

Lorraine Barbour Barbara Fie her Gillian Jenkin Avril Jone Eli abeth Perrott

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Julius House Monitresses: Eleanor Coe

Konini: J can Richar on Kowhai: Elizabeth Preston lviatipo: Elisabeth Perrott

Beryl Vizcr Elizabeth Preston Barbara Fie her Diana Fulton Alison Greenwood Barbara Jennings

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Kilburn House Prefects: (Head) Joan Clarkson

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Librarian : Lois Spar row Barbara Todd Margaret We tgarth Chapel Prefects: Valerie

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. Editorial Committee: Avril Jones Valerie Parker Elisabeth Perrott .Jean Richardson Barbara Todd Margaret We tgarth Form Orderlies: Term 11Term 1P. Chalklin J. Pickles V. Benzie N. Blackley J. Gough M. Reynolds J. Turpin J. Calder H. Harrison J. Williamson J. Iverach J. Chirnside A,. Dunster J. Topltss E. Whitehead S. Edridge P. Thoma C. Hintz P. Kellock S. Bem K. Swain on R. Hill

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K. Ferguson B. Moore P. Fowler

M. Lawry M. Round . Warren J. Powell E. Pickles D. Thorpe H. Rollinson M. Boon

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Form VIA ( Miss Edwards) Jone , Avril (Kowhai) Radcliffe, Mary (Kowhai) Perrott, Elisabeth ( Matipo) Vizer, Beryl (Rimu) Preston, Elizabeth ( Kowhai) Form VIB (Miss Edwards) Chalklin, Patricia ( Rimu) Little, Leonie (Kowhai) Clarkson, Joan (Matipo) Orchard, Jennifer (Kowhai) Coombes, Jennifer ( Rimu) Parker, Valerie (Rimu) Ferguson, Kathleen ( Rata) Pickl , Judith (Rimu) Flesher, Barbara ( Ra ta) keece-Smith, Pamela ( Matipo) Fulton, Diana ( Rimu) Richard on, Jean ( Konini) Greenwood, Alison ( Rimu) Sparrow, Loi (Rimu) J ennrng , Barbara ( Mati po) Todd, Barbara (Rimu) Jones, Mary Rose ( Rimu) Westga rth, Margaret ( Rata) Lawrence, Diana (Konini), Term 1 Will, Margaret (Konini) Form V Upper A ( Mrs Penney) Benzie, Vivienne ( Matipo) Marshall, Gillian (Matipo) Blackley, Nan (Matipo) Minson, Gail ( Rata) Christie, Jennifer (Rimu) Moore, Belinda (Rata) Corru h, Joan (Rimu) Murray, Dorothy (Konini) Dickson, Jill (Konini) iblock, Joanna ( Kowhai) Dickson, Shirley ( Konini) Prie t, Gillian (Matipo) Eciwarde , Joanne ( Kowhai) Scott, Marie ( Rimu) Ensor, Elizabeth (Konini) Shearer, Joan ( Konini) Fulton, Judith (Rimu) Skurr, Jennifer (Matipu) Isherwood, Jocelyn ( Konini) Talbot, Adrienne (Matiµo) Jenkin , Gillian ( Kowhai) Taylor, Diane (Matipo) Tobm, Priscilla (Rata) Joyce, Hilary ( Ra ta) Tobin, Su an (Rata) Macfarlane, Janet (Konini) Treleaven, Eunice ( Rata) McCree, Marion ( Rimu) Wishart, Helen ( Kowha1) McGaughey, Heather (Rata) fair, Virginia (Matipo) Form V Upper M ( Miss Robinson) Barbour, Lorraine (Matipo) Keye, Jewell (Matipo) Brixton, Ailsa (Rata) Latty, Pamela (KoniniJ Callaghan, Roberta (Matipo) Littlejohn, Pamela (Konini) Cotterill, Gillian (Kowhai) McLean, Susie (Konini) De Castro, Dinah (Kowhai) Montgomerie, Ainslie (kimu) Dumpleton, Joy (Rimu) Moore, Elaine (Rimu) Finney, Elizabeth (Kowhai) Par on on, Mary (Rimu) Fogg, Verona (Rata) Reynolds, Marion (Rata) Fowler, Philippa (Rata) Sherriff, Beverley (Kowhai) Gough, Janet (Matipo), Term I Whitehead, Janet (Rimu), Term r and 2 Worsnop, Beverley (Kowhai) Howman, Venetta (Matipo) Wright, Anne (Kowhai)

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Form V Lower A ( Miss Bowkett) Adorian, Margaret (Matipo) Jones, Julie (Konini) Batstone, Beryl (Kowhai) Lawry, Melva (Rimu) Booth, Portia ( Rimu) Leech, Jill ( Rim u) Bradley, Sonia (Rata) Lester, Elizabeth (Matipo) Lightfoot, Lynette ( Konini) Bull, Joan (Matipo) McAlpine, Elspeth (Kowhai) Calder, Jean (Rata) Cox, Margaret (Kowhai) Redpath, Gaye (Rimu) Cromb, Jeannette ( Konini) Reynolds, Jennifer ( Rimu) Dearsley, Anne (Rata) Richmond, Pamela ( Rata) Fenwick, Philippa (Konini) Ross, Mary (Kowhai) Gardner, Diana ( Rata) Sten house, Philippa ( Rata) Hamann, Elizabeth ( Rimu) Tripp, Edith (Kowhai) Hawes, Beverley (Matipo) Turpin, Julie (Kowhai) Hay, Valerie (Rata) Vickery, Anne ( Konini) Holenbergh, Rosita ( Rata) Vile, Denise ( Konini) Jennings, Susan ( Matipo) Walker, Helen (Konini) Form V Lower M ( Miss Morris) Luisetti, Lesyl (Matipo) Bryden, Beverley (Matipo) Moffatt, Margaret ( Kowhai) Carr, Carole (Matipo) Mottram, Caroline ( Rimu) Craythorne, Jacqueline (Rata) Croft, Janet ( Konini) Nimmo, Judith (Rimu) Cross, Pamela ( Kowhai) Parsons, Janice ( Konini) Cox, Juliet (Kowhai) Peddie, Judith (Konini) Phillips, Waverley (Konini) England, Julia ( Rimu) Fairbairn, Lesley ( Matipo) Powell, Betty ( Kowhai) Round, Margaret (Kowhai) Goddard, Maureen l Kowhai), Shrimpton, Fiona (Kowhai) Terms r and 2 Smart, Robin (Rata) Harman, Philippa (Kowhai) Stocks, Dale ( Rimu) Harris, Elizabeth ( Rata) Thomson, Jennifer (Rimu) Harrison, Helen (Rata) Tothill, Janet (Matipo) _ Hobbs, Judith (Konini) Williamson, Janet (Rimu) Kennington, Alison (Rata) Wright, Lois (Konini) Ludecke, Helen (Rata) Form 4A (Miss Clifford) Harrison, Shirley ( Rata) Ballantyne, Ann ( Kowhai) Hew land, Robyn ( Konini) Barri ball, Margaret ( Konini) Iverach, Janet (Matipo) Barton, Anne (Kowhai) Jones, Florence ( Matipo) Bramley, Kay (Konini) Chirnside, Jocelyn (Matipo) Machin, Joy (Rata) Mackay, Shona (Kowhai) Christie, Gillian ( Rimu) McIntyre, Judith Matipo) Corby, Jill (Konini) Denny, Honor (Rata) Miller, Judith (Kowhai) Edwardes, Sally (Kowhai) Moore, Judith (Rimu) 1fountfort, Helen ( Matipo) Elphick, Mary (Kowhai) Gardiner, Prudence ( Kowhai) Mulligan, Robin (Rimu) Needham, Barbara (Rata) Glasgow, Janet ( Rata)

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Form 4A-Continued. Parker, Kathleen Rimu) Warren, Nicola (Kowhai) Powell, Alison ( Konini) Williams, Margaret ( Koni ni) Wilson, Dorothy ( Rata) Steel, Judith (Kowhai) Wilson, Lynette ( Rata) Stevens, Josephine ( Rata) Tobin, Philippa (Rata) 1 Terms r Wright, Judith (Kowhai) and 2 Young, Juliet (Rimu) Form 41\1 (Mrs Dromgoole) Andersen, Elizabeth ( Konini) Maitland, Judette (Kunini) Atkinson, Ann (Rata) Morns, Joyce ( Kowhai) Ballantyne, Dawn ( Rata) Norbert-Munns, Marjorie ( Rimu) Norris, Suzanne (Rimu) Barnard, Janice ( Rimu) Bidwell, Pamela (Matipo) Pearson, Barbara (Matipo) Powell, Janet (Kowhai) Blackley, Jill (Matipo) Price, Jillian ( Rata) Box, Colleen ( Rimu) Read, Elaine (Rimu) Brown, Patricia ( Rata) Richarson, Margaret ( Konini) Brownie, Barbara ( Konini) Robmson, June ( Matipo) Clark, Janis (Matipo) Slytield, Jillian ( Rimu) Corbett, Adrienne ( Konini) Smith, Yvonne (Konini) Cree, Winsome ( Kowhai) Steere, Rewa ( Konini) Croft, Helen (Konini) Stevens, Adrienn~ ( Mat1po) De Castro, Juliet ( Kowhai) Thacker, Janice (Kowh<ti) Dunster, Adrienne ( Rimu) Thomson, Heather (M<ttipo) Edwards, Judith (Matipo) Thomson, Suzanne ( Rimu) Ellis, J;:mette ( Rat a) Gorrnack, Barbara ( Kowhai) Topliss, Jennifer ( Rimu) Willlams, Diana (Kowhai) lnwood, Toni (Rata) Williams, Elizabeth ( Rirnu) Jennings, Nan (Matipo) Vvinskill, Patricia (Rata) Macfarlane, Jane ( Konini) MacGibbon, Rachel (Rimu) Form 3A (Miss Holderness) Macfarlane, Jillian ( Konini) Adair, Jacqueline ( Rimu) MacGibbon, Helen ( Rimu) Bean, Angela ( Kowhai) Mitchell, Jan (Rimu) Bethell, Johanna (Rimu) Bromley, Elizabeth (Kowhai) Munro, Elspeth (Kowhia) Clark, Denise ( Rata) N uthall, Jenifer ( Kowhai) Cleland, Barbara ( Matipo) Ollivier, Margaret (Kunini) Cunningham, Margaret (Matipo) Palmer, Sandra ( Rimu) Edridge, Sally ( Rata) Pickles, Elizabeth ( Rimu) Esson, Rosemary ( Rata) Pickles, Judith (Matipo) Fairbairn, Judith (Matipo) Powell, Margaret (Kowhai) Fernie, Patricia (Matipo) Ritchie, Pamela ( Rata) Gamble, Pauline ( Konini) Robinson, Diana ( Rata) Harris, Elizabeth ( Rimu) Whitehead, Elizabeth ( Rimu) Jackson, Heather (Matipo) Williams, Barbara ( Kowhai) Kent, Nola (Matipo) Wills, Heather (Konini) Latham, Joan (Kowhai) Wilson, Rosemary ( Rata) Luney, Lesley (Konini)

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Form 3M (Mrs Morris) Agar, Philippa (Kowhai) Bamford, Judith (Rata) Beck, Janice (Kowhai) Bishop, Wendy (Kowha1) Clarke, Paddianne (Rat~) Curtis, Julie (Matipo) Dunn, Janice ( Mati po) Ferguson, Jillian (Kowhai) Ferraby, Jill (Kowhai) Guinness, Felicity (Rata) Harrison, Dorothea ( Konini) Hintz, Carmen (Konini), Term 1 Jarvis, Rosemary ( Konini) King, Griselda (Matipo) Lake, Jennifer ( Rimu) Lapthorn, Irene (Konini) MacDonald, Rosemary ( Konini)

Form 2 Andersen, Katrina ( Konini) Angas, Averil (Matipo) Barford, Felicity (Kowhai) Bent, Susan ( Rata) Carl, Penelope (Konini) Coe, Eleanor ( Kowhai) Combellack, Ann ( Kowhai) Crantield, Susan (Konini) Dawson, Belinda ( Mati po) Dunster, Dianne (Rimµ) Hartland, Julie (Rata) Hewlett, Annette ( Rata) Jennings, Gillian (Matipo) Jones, Erica (Konini) Justice, Ann ( Rimu) Kellock, Penelope ( Konini) Lane, Philippa (Rimu) Leeson, Janice (Rata)

N evell, Diana ( Konini) Norbert-Munns, Janice (Rimu) Peddie, Barbara ( Konini) Petrie, Judith ( Rata), Term 1 Price, Janice (Konini) Roberts, Jennifer ( Matipo) Simon, Rosemary (Konini) Smith, Virginia ( Matipo) Strachan, Maruafa ( Rimu) Sutherland, Judith (Mati.eo) . Taylor, Julie (Kowhai) b 1'-'vl. Thomas, Patricia (Rimu) Thorpe, Diana ( Mati po) Undrill, Patricia (Matipo) Walton, Beverley (Kowhai) Woodham, Lois (Rimu) Young, Jill (Konini) ( Miss Rankin)

:tv!cAipinc, Louise (Kowhai) Mair, Geraldine (Matipo) Marshall, Rosemary ( Kowhai) Minson, Kay (Rata) Mosley, Bridget (Rata) Musgrave, Barbara (Rirnu) N eeve, Mary ( Kowhai) Perry, Jocelyn (Konini) Rollinson, Helen (Konini) Shand, Carol ( Rimu) Smith, Leonore ( Mati po) Stevens. Sonya ( Rata) Stock, Erica (Kowhai) Thomson, Marie (Matipo) Ward, Josephine (Matipo) Whitford, Jennifer ( Rimu) Wynn-Williams, Anne (Rimu)

Form 1 ( Mrs Thomson) Adams, Jill (Kowhai) Blunden, Jennifer (Rimu) Boon. Margaret (Matipo) Brander, Kay ( Rata) Brown, Alison (Konini) Bryne, Angela ( Kowhai) Chivers, Dawn (Konini) Flewellyn, Fay ( Rata)

Gilbert, Jeanette (Matipo) Guillermo, Mary ( Rata) Hale, Katrina (Kowhai) Henderson, Susan ( Kowhai) Hill, Rosemary (Konini) Humphries, Anne (Matipo) Humphries, Rae (Rimu) Hyde, Barbara (Konini)

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Form 1-Continued. Jones, Jocelyn (Rimu) MacDonald, Dinah ( Konini) McGill, Robyn ( Rata) Mathieson, Robyn (Matipo) Morten, Suzanne ( Mati po) Moulton, Joan (Rimu) N evell, Jeanette ( Konini) Peate, Helen (Kowhai) Rich, Helen • ( Rata)

Rogers, Susan ( Matipo) Ryder, Diana (Kowhai) Scott, Cynthia ( Rata) Spear, Angela ( Rata) Swamson, Kerry ( Konini) Turner, Penelope (Konini) Wright, Angela (Matipo) Wilis, Philippa (Konini; Woods, Judith (Rata)

Standard 4 ( Miss Beattie) Atkinson, Rosemary Ballantyne, Pauline Bradshaw, Helen Clark, Deborah Cooper, Rachel Courage, Anne Erikson, Rose Etwell, Dianne Ferns, Katinka Frost, Heather Gebbie, Jane Glasson, Wendy Gray, Jennifer Grubb, Christine Hall, Diana Hall, Jennifer Harris, Kathryn Heald, Noeline, Term

Holdgate, Gillian Jarrett, Diana Lawn, Pamela Lester, Louise Maling, Rosemary Marsnall, Janet Neave, Barbara Osmers, Elizabeth Parr, Daphne Rutherford, .Tane Stephenson, Jane Thrower, Isobel Thomson, Carolyn Wales, Rosemary Walker, Michal Watson, Judith Williams, Jennifer I

Standard 3 (Miss Heine, Terms I and 2. Bell, Jacqueline Blunden, Gillian Cox, Sally Cummings, Lynette Deans, Anne Downing, Patricia Goldsmith, Ataneta Gooby, Dianne Grant, Vivienne Harty, Caroline Henderson, Jantje Hewlett, Suzanne Humphries, Jan Jacobs, Vivienne Jones, Marilyn

Miss Scrimgeour, Term 3)

Morten, Diana N eeve, Helen Owen, Susan Parr, Dianne Peate, Geraldine Percival, Chri tine Scandrett, J oycelin Spicer, Rosemary Stone, Pamela Sutherland, Janice Taylor, Janet Wilson, Fay Wilson, Janice Wilson, Marg~ret

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Standard 2 ( Mrs Macfarlane) Hore, Rosemary Barrow, Jacqueline McElroy, Sandra Baudinet, Joanna Munns, Karen Blackler, Marlene Neave, Eleanor Boon, Barbara Rich, Susan Bultin, Louise Scott, Jennifer Byrne, Julie Shand, Elizabeth Carthy, Alison Sundstrom, Sarah Chapman, Deborah "\,Vales, Christine Clark, Jennifer Ward, Cassia Edwards, Jane Young, Hilary Gould, Jill Hamann, Penelope (Term r)

Barnes, Sandra Chivers, Kathleen Clarkson, Susann Cook, Ruth Ann Colirns, Jane Crotr, Lorraine Dawson, Penelope Dudley, Anne England, Sally Gebbie, Susan Halliday, Lesley Hansen, Joann Humphries, Carol

Adamson, Diana Harty, Rosalind

Andersen, Penelope Austin, Felicity. Ballantyne, Heather Batstone, Mary Batt, Elisabeth Boanas, Mary-Ann Brander, Joy Brown, Anth2a Brown, Susan Clark, Susan Costelloc, Denise Denham, Ann Derrett, Susan Duckmanton, J anic'e

Standard I ( Miss Armstrong) Inkster, Judith .Jones, Nancy Lonmer, Kay McKenzie, Pieter Mmrson, Sharon Shand, Helen Sloane, Karen Solomon, Anne Smith, Rosemary Spear, Daintry Wauchop, Susan Whittord, Susan

Primer ,4 ( Miss Armstrong) .Kuston, Philli ppa.

Primers ( Miss Thomas) Gibbons, Lorraine Hadtield, Marilyn Livmgstone, Vicki Mating, Pamela Morris, Sally Newland, Jan Perry, Christine Reay, Christine Renrne, Jacqueline Scott, Jennifer Stevens, Virginia Tan, Judith Whitford, Nicola Williams, Susan

EDITORIAL The everlasting Wisdom has ordained That this rare Sout His earthly service done Shall leave the peoples over whom he reigned For other service at a higher.throne.

THROUGH all the grief attendant on the death of a beloved monarch came expressions of hope and comfort like these words of John Masefield's. Barely had we begun our school year when we were plunged into deep sorrow. Not only we at St. Margaret's but the whole world mourned the passing of one who had set his people a high example of personal fortitude and devotion to duty in difficult times. We now have a Queen on the Throne-a young queen· of dignity and charm who has won the affection of us all. Let us hope and pray that the second Elizabethan Age will be as great as the first, and that England will lead the world in the common quest for peace and prosperity. Just as unity is a prime need in the world today if peace is to be assured, so too is this quality desired in a school. One way in which it has been achieved in St. Margaret's this year is by having our end-of-term services in St. Mary's Church, so that the whole School, from the Primers to the Sixth, may worship together. Thus the danger of one part of the School getting out of touch with the other is lessened. We at Cranmer Square have had our buildings considerably brightened up during the term holidays. Not only have the rooms been painted, but the Entrance Hall and the corridors upstairs have been much improved by new green linoleum. To the detached classrooms has been added a block containing music and elocution rooms. It was our great pleasure in the first term to welcome the swimming and tennis teams from Craighead to compete with us and Rangi Ruru. Then in the second term we joyfully accepted the kind invitation of Craighead to go down to Timaru to play netball and hockey. We shall always remember the

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exciting matches as well as the generous hospitality accorded to us. It was our good fortune also to play Timaru Girls' High School, for the first time in the history of our School. Not only did we enjoy these matches against both Craighead and Timaru Girls' High School but we also valued the opportunity of making and renewing friendships. It is to be hoped that this friendly rivalry in sport with other schools may long remain a regular part of our school life.

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PRIZE-GIVING last year was held in the Radiant Theatre on the evening of December I 2 th. In reviewing the achievements of both past and present pupils during the previous twelve months, Miss Crasher mentioned the names of several Old Girls who had met with outslanc.ling success in their University careers and at the same time stressed the need for two years Sixth Form work as a preparation for university study. She expressed appreciation of all that Archbishop West-Watson had done for the School during his long years of association with it and, in conclusion, advocated the need for State aid for Church Schools. Following his address, the newly-appointed Bishop of Christchurch, the Right Rev. A. K. Warren, presented the prizes and sports trophies which had been won during the year. The evening closed with a presentation by Forms I and 2 of the operetta, "The Boy Mozart," delightfully produced under the able direction of Mrs M. Thomson. Book Prizes-Special awards for a high standard of work: Form I, Ann Justice, Carolyn Shand; Form II, Joan Latham, Judith Pickles; Form IIIM, Janette Ellis, Patricia Winskill; Form IIIA, Margaret Williams, Judith Wright; Form IVM, Margaret Round; Form IVA, Mary Ross, Julie .Turpin; Form VLM, Roberta Callaghan; Form VLA, Vivienne Benzie, Joanne Edwardes, Judith Fulton, Maric;m Mc Cree, Belinda Moore, Marie Scott; Form VUM, Margaret de la Hunt, Janet Heinzmann, Leonie Little, Frances Walker; Form VUA, Barbara Flesher, Diana Fulton, Avril Jones, Mary Radcliffe, Jean Richardson, Barbara Todd; Form VI, Ena Balfour, Judith Mardon, Elizabeth Preston, Ursula Richards, Alison Ross, Beryl Vizer.

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House Games Trophies: Hockey, Rimu; Netball, Kowhai; Swimming, Matipo; Tennis, Rata; Athletics, Kowhai.

The following girls were awarded their colours: For Hockey, Felicity Ower, Sally Harrison, Beryl Vizer ( all reawarded), Elizabeth Preston; for Tennis, Felicity Ower, Judith Mardon, Sally Harrison ( all re-awarded) ; for Swimming, Sally Harrison, Elizabeth Preston; for Netball, Judith Mardon, Janice Smallbone (both re-awarded), Nan Blackley, Elaine Mackenzie; for Athletics, Gillian Jenkin . Colours awarded for all-round ability in sport, Nedra Myers. Honours) Gymnastics: Sally Harrison, edra Myers, Elizabeth Preston ( all re-awarded), Adrienne Adair, Barbara Fle her, Avril Jones, Elaine Mackenzie, Cynthia Smith, Elizabeth Soanes, Beryl Vizer. Other a wards were: Jones-Kissling Tennis Cup: Felicity Ower. Rankin Tennis Cup (Junior): Jacqueline Craythorne. Evelyn Hunt Divinity Prize: Ena Balfour. Miss Hoy1s Mathematics Cup: Judith Mardon. Larcombe French Cup: Alison Ross. Roy Smith History Cup: Beryl Vizer. Stokes Music Cup: Elizabeth Preston. Crosbie Science Cup: Felicity Ower. Alabaster Cup for H omecraf t: Robin Keith. Clothing Cup: Janet Heinzmann. Old Girls) Drawing Cup: Janice Wilson. M ajar Levy1s Current Events Cup: Avril Jones. Starry Essay Cup: Mary Radcliffe. Miss Stock)s G_eography Cup ( awarded for first time): Margaret Boleyn. Myers) Public Speaking Cup ( awarded for first time) : Valerie Parker. Winner in Senior Section of the Public Speaking Competi~ tion: Leonie Little. Winner in the Junior Section of the Public Speaking Competition: Janette Ellis. St. M argare/1s Prize ( awarded to the best all-round girl in the school) : Beryl Vizer. H eadmistress)s Prize ( awarded for outstanding ervice to the chool) : Felicity Ower.

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Higher School Certificate. F. Ower, J. Mardon. University Entrance.

E. Balfour, M. Boleyn, E. Davie, S. Harrison, J. Jenkins, J. la Roche, J. Mardon, N. Myers, E. Perrott, E. Preston, G. Preston, M. Pretsch, V. Richards, A. Ross, E. Roy-Smith, C. Smith, A. Somers, B Vizer. Endorsed School Certificate.

E. Balfour, M. Boleyn, N. Cooper, E. Davie, S. Harrison, J. Jenkins, B. Jennings, J. la Roche, W. Matson, N. Myers, E. Perrott, E. Preston, G. Preston, V. Richards, A. Ross, E. Roy-Smith, C. Smith, A. Somers, B. Vizer. School Certificate.

A. Adair, J. Bell, P. Chalklin, J. Clarkson, J. Coombes, M. de la Hunt, K. Ferguson, B. Flesher, D. Fulton, A. Greenwood, J. Heinzmann, M. Isherwood, D. Jarvie, A. Jones, M. R. Jones, R. Keith, P. King, S. Lake, R. Lawrence, L. Little, E. Mackenzie, J. Nairn, J. Orchard, V. Parker, J. Pickles, M. Radcliffe, J. Smallbone, L. Sparrow, P. Reece-Smith, J. Richardson, J. Spooner, B. Todd, M. Westgarth, A. Williams, M. Wills, J. Wilson.

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Public Service Examination. Junior: F. Walker. Chamber of Commerce.

Shorthand (go w.p.m.): V. Feast, F. Walker. Typewriting: J. Cumming, F. Walker. Pitman's Examinations. Speed Certificates: J. orris, J. Cumming, M. Reynolds. Theory, Stage II: J. Cumming, H. Mounsey, J. Whitehead, F. Walker, M. Reynolds.

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WE were delighted that a member of the present staff, Miss Gwen Rankin) was awarded the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund Scholarship to represent ew Zealand at an International Conference of Girl Scouts and Guides at Edith Macey Training School, Pleasantville, New York. We feel she must have represented New Zealand well as she showed unbounded energy in making a collection of informative material from Government Departments, from Organisations and from friends. We are told that she made good use of this varied collection of films, photographs, pictures, representative school work and Maori Art. On her return she spoke to the whole school and it was then we realised more truly the great importance of International work. A brief encounter in ew York with Mrs Muriel Clemens another Old Girl of S.M.C. when the temperature was at 94 °F., caused intense excitement for the few moments before they departed to continue their journeys. From Mrs Clemens comes too, news of two ex-members of Staff she met in England. Those who attended the School in the early years will be pleased to know that Miss Eleanor Grace ( 1911-12), who still resides in Bournemouth, is looking extremely well and, according to Mrs Clemens has changed little since she left the School. Miss Ethel Baker ( 19 1 1-1 2) has, until recently, been teach- • ing but is now residing at o. 3, The Parks, Highgate, London, (N.6). Miss Francis Morris and Miss Isabel M archment ( 1948-49) are now on the staff of Bishop Spencer Girls' College, St. John's, Newfoundland. They have been teaching in London for some time and have ·spent vacations in France, Italy and Norway. Before leaving finally for Canada they spent several weeks in Spain of which Miss Morris has written some delightful descriptions. She thinks Cadiz is wise for it has some lovely plantations of Australian gums ! Miss Fay Stock ( 1949-51) left Wellington at the end of last January for Sydney and then flew to Saut0 in the New Hebrides. There she boarded a small ship for Aora and the

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Torgil School where she has begun work as a missionary teacher. At this Mission School there are about 40 girls. Miss Fagan and Miss Stock are in complete charge of ordinary lessons, religious instruction, health, cooking, gardening and all types of odd jobs connected with the repair of buildings and grounds. Mrs ]. Morris ( nee Patricia Manhire, 1952), left for France in August by the Rangitane with her husband who has been awarded a two-year bursary to study Forestry in Nancy, Lorraine. Mrs]. Meadowcroft (nee Monica Morris, 1951-52), wa married in August and is now living in Greymouth, where her husband is Curate . . Mrs Bruce Sutherland

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Chapel Prefects: Beryl Vizer, Diana Fulton, Valerie Parker. Organists:

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AN innovation at school prayers this year has been the playing of an organ voluntary each morning as the school are filing into the hall. We greatly appreciate this fitting and beautiful introduction to our services and are grateful to the many girls who have played for us. The Harvest Festival held in the first term again met with a good response and resulted in the donation of fresh fruit and vegetables for S. Saviour's Orphanage and S. Martin's House of Help, as well as hundreds of tins of food which were dispatched to our friends at Liverpool Girls' College. The Holy Week Services in the Cathedral were once again conducted by the Dean who, this year, divided his congregation

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into age groups, holding the first two services for juniors and the last for seniors. The total sum collected for our charities as a result of the Direct Giving Service, Lenten offerings, and Chapel collections, amounted this year to £ I 55. Although this falls far short of last year's amazing total it will, nevertheless, enable us to continue to support our five sponsored children and to make donations to the Melanesian Mission, Dr. Barnardo's Homes, the S.P.C.A., the Church Army, the Community of the Sacred Name, the Friends of the Cathedral, the Church Primary Day Schools, the Leper Mission, the International Student Relief Fund and S. Saviour's Home. This year we have been fortunate in having the Bishop of Tanganyika and Dr.· Fox of the Melanesian Mission, to speak to us. The Bishop gave us some idea· of the life led by school children in East Africa while Dr. Fox gave us a delightful description of his experiences among the war-like natives of the Solomon Islands. Later this year we hope to have a visit from Miss Stella Purchas, an Old Girl of the school, who is on furlough from the mission field in China. Corporate Communion Services have been held at the Cathedral on special festivals of the Church's year and have been well attended. On September 24 the School Confirmation Service was held at S. Mary's, the following girls being confirmed: E. Andersen, M. Barriball, V. Benzie, E. Bromley, J. Chirnside, G. Christie, P. Clarke, A. Corbett, J. Craythorne, S. Edridge, J. Edwards, F. Guinness, E. Harris, S. Harrison, V. Hay, T. Inwood, J. Iverach, B. Jennings, N. Jennings, J. Jones, J. Macfarlane, R. MacGibbon, G. Marshall, J. Moore, R. Mulligan, J. Roberts, D. Robinson, J. Robinson, J. Steel, J. Thacker, H. Thomson, S. Thomson, N. Warren, B. Williams, D. Williams, H. Wills, D. Wilson, J. Young. Archdeacon C. L. Mountfort has again given us a large share of his time this year in his capacity as School Chaplain, by taking services and divinity classes for us and preparing the school candidates for Confirmation. We are most grateful to him for his unfailing interest in the school and its well-being.

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ON the afternoon of Thursday, December 8, many parents and friends visited the school to inspect some of the work that had been done during the year. The exhibition in the Art room which drew many gasps of admiration, showed the number of useful crafts that the girls are taught and also their greatly improved skill and interesting experiments in drawing and painting. Ingenuity had been shown by the Geography students, who, to make their room colourful and attractive, had dressed dolls in the national costumes of many foreign countries. Collections of shells, and posters on the wall, added to the interesting appearance of the Geography room. In the History room, books showing the work that all the history forms had done during the year, were placed for inspection on tables. The wide variety of posters and charts on the walls showed the value of being able to see History at a glance. The Biology room and Chemistry laboratory, where mysterious dissections and experiments were being undertaken, and the French room, and the display of work shown by the pupils of Form 1, attracted many visitors. After the finals of the Senior and Junior Tennis Championships had been played, afternoon tea was served, followed by a mannequin parade in the hall, in which girls taking the HomeLife course displayed garments that they had made during the year. There was a very wide range of clothes-sun frocks, blouses, skirts, house-coats, pyjamas, winter and summer frocks, suits and evening frocks. A large audience watched the parade and accorded the girls generous praise for the high degree of workmanship that was evident in the garments that were displayed.

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absence Miss Lucas, Mrs Howard and Miss Scrimgeour relieved in the infant room and we are grateful to them for their help. Miss Heine was also away through sickness during the latter part of Term II, and in her absence Miss A. M. Powell very kindly took over Standard 3. We are greatly indebted to her for her timely assistance. It was with regret that we said goodbye to Miss Heine at the end of the second term. She had exacted a high standard of work and conduct from her classes, and we were sorry that she could not remain with us longer. We have been fortunate in retaining the services of Miss Scrimgeour in, the Junior School for the remainder of the year, and she has now taken over Standard 3. The concert which was held towards the end of last year was successful in every way. A large and appreciative audience of parents and friends warmly supported it, and a substantial sum of money was raised. This has since been used to procure additional equipment, chiefly to help to build up a Junior School Library more rapidly than .is possible by means of the normal library grant. Mrs Clark has continued to take classes in musicianship and musical appreciation throughout the school thus providing the children, at an early age, with a musical training which they thoroughly enjoy. This year the Athletic Sports were held, like those of the Senior School, in the first term and were well attended by parents and friends. The Senior Championship was won by Katinka Ferris and the Junior Championship by Janet Taylor. The Road Patrol has continued to function daily, and the girls chosen for duty in it have been most willing and reliable. We owe a debt of gratitude to the Traffic Department for their co-operation and advise and for the excellent lectures they have given the school. This year we have joined with the Senior School for combined end-of-term services at St. Mary's, conducted by the School Chaplain, the Ven. Archdeacon C. L. Mountfort. These are the first occasions on which the whole school has met together as a single body and they have proved a fitting climax to our term's endeavour.

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1952 has been a very progressive year for the choir which 1s now under the excellent guidance of Mrs Thomson. This year the membership has increased, so that we now have a roll of 7 1. Unfortunately, it is not convenient for so many girls to be in the choir places in assembly each morning, so that we have divided into two sections-the A group which leads the singing on most occasions, and the B group of younger choir members. For all practices the two groups combine and all sing on special occasions. It has been found necessary to practice in the lunch hour each Tuesday and Thursday instead of in the afternoon as formerly. At the beginning of the year, on Mrs Thomson's suggestion, the choir members agreed that each should bring 3d to every practice, so that the present and future St. Margaret's Choirs may have the use of full hymn books containing music. Thi scheme is being carried out quite successfully and it is hoped by the end of the year to have provided a good number of books. Another innovation is the practice of having one of the girls to play a piano or organ voluntary as the school files into the hall each morning. At the end of last year the choir led the singing in the Carol Service at S. Mary's, while in February it sang the anthem, "Brother James' Air," in S. Luke's at the wedding of one of our former mistresses, Miss Palmer. On Friday, May 9, when we had our end-of-term service at S. Mary's, Merivale, the choir sang the anthem, "I waited for the Lord," from Mendels-

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sohn's "Elijah," while at the end of last term our anthem was, "Fill Thou my Life," by Eric Thiman. In August the choir gave items at the School Choral Concert in Canterbury College. Soloists and small groups from the choir prepared folk-songs and excerpts from opera and oratorio. At the beautiful Confimation Service held at S. Mary's on September 24, the choir received much praise for its singing of the anthem, "O Lord most Holy," by Cesar Franck. This year numerous hymn descants by Alan Gray have been learnt. JUNIOR CHOIR from Forms r and 2 who joined the newly-formed Junior Choir last year made their first appearance in public at the Prize-Giving in December. They presented a programme of Mozart music which included the operetta "The Boy Mozart." Many of the costumes were made by the girls themselves-even the powdered wigs! This year the Junior choir has concentrated on learning to sing together, both in harmony and in unison. For the Festival of Song they sang two traditional airs, "Robina-Thrush" and "The Sandman," two unison songs by George Rathbone-"Shadow March" and "The Lost Shoe." The girls feel very proud of being allowed to sing with the senior choir in excerpts from "The Peasant Cantata" by J. S. Bach. During the third term, they hope to prepare a little operetta "April Fools" by Armstrong Gibbs. Perhaps some Friday afternoon, towards the end of the year, they will give a performance for the rest of the school.

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THE FESTIVAL OF SONG FoR the first time for five or six years a Festival of Song, in which the whole school took part, was held on Thursday, August r 4, in Canterbury College Hall. The whole programme was arranged and planned by Mrs Thomson, to whom we are very grateful indeed for all her hard work, and for the valuable musical training that she has given us. Each Friday afternoon the school practised their songs-the.thirteenth century "Sumer is I cumer in," "Tallis' Canon," "Come Lord and Rule the Earth," the School Hymn and our National Anthems. During

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singing classes, Forms 1-5 lower, practised their groups of songs, which included mostly traditional airs, and the Senior and Junior choirs had their practices twice a week. On the Thursday night, parents and friends came along to hear us give of our best, and the whole Festival was very successful indeed. Several girls who offered voluntarily, sang solos, duets and trios which they •performed very creditably considering that none of them have private tuition. This Festival of Song is only the first of many more concerts which, it is certain will increase the love of music in the school, and most important of all, lead to actual musicmaking by the girls themselves. SCHOOL MUSIC CLASSES Tms year the last period on Friday afternoons has been devoted to music. Usually ten to fifteen minutes has been spent in practising hymns for the following week, while the remainder of the time has been occupied in a variety of interesting ways. One afternoon the Christchurch Technical Orchestra visited us, and their conductor, Mr R. Perks, gave us a preview of each instrument, some of which most of us had only heard of but never seen. They then presented us with one or two items which we applauded heartily. "The Importance of MusicMaking" was the title of a very interesting talk by Dr Vernon Griffiths who gave up his valuable time to stress this important point. We all did do some music-making a term later in the Festival of Song for which we also practised on Friday afternoons. The girls, themselves, entertained us with Piano duets, vocal solos and talks on musical topics, all of which were much appreciated. An Old Girl of the school, Natalie Taylor, gave a very talented performance on the piano and showed us a sample of really accomplished playing that we enjoyed very much. We are looking forward to her second visit which will be at the beginning of the third term. Also in the third term, we shall be practising carols for our Carol Service at St. Mary's. Some of the new carols are:-"A Child this day is Born," English; "All Bethlehem's a-Blazing," Spanish; "There came a little Stranger," French; "Christmas Lullaby," Italian. Thanks to the efforts of Mrs Thomson who has been responsible for these Friday afternoons, the whole school has

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gained a better appreciation of music in its widest sense, and it is to be hoped that they may long continue for the benefit of the School's musical knowledge. PARENTS' DAY PARENTS' DAY this year was held on Thursday, 21st August, when many parents and friends of the girls visited the school. A special timetable of lessons was presented so that parents could see as much as possible of the type of work carried out in the school. The Art room, where the girls were seen painting, and doing embroidery, as usual, attracted a large crowd. On the walls were displayed colourful posters; and the puppets made by the girls of the junior forms called forth favourable comment. Judging by the crowds in the hall, the gymnastics display was also very popular. Afternoon tea was followed by the Direct-Giving Service, the collection from which is added to our School Charities Fund. After the service, the finalists in the Myers' Cup, Public Speaking competition, were judged by Mr E. P. Wills who awarded the cup to Marie Scott, the winner of the intermediate section.

LIBRARY NOTES Tms year has proved a most successful one for the library. Four hundred new books, including several which have been given to us, have gone into circulation, making a total of six thousand books on the shelves, while an average of fifty books are issued each day. The country library request service has been most useful in supplementing our reference section. We are grateful to the library club for processing the new books, and to the art girls who have begun making stiff covers to hold the "floppy" magazines which will insist on touching their toes. A new subject catalogue has also been begun. This year we have two more sixth form librarians than last, making six librarians, and two girls from each form to assist them in their duties. Under the capable direction of Miss Macfarlane the library runs very smoothly even though we wish our shelves would stretch to twice their present size.

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Tms year the music staff have continued their endeavours to increase the interest in music throughout the school. Two musical evenings have been held during the year at Kilburn House. Piano and violin solos and duets were given as well as vocal items. Much enjoyment was derived from community singing and supper afterwards. Instead of a school play this year, a musical and elocution concert was held for the parents in the Canterbury College Hall during the second term. Despite a bitterly cold, rainy night, the hall was packed. The first half of the evening was devoted to individual items, notable among which was a double duo on two pianos, and a humorous recitation, "A mere Nothing," concerning a visit to the dentist. The Senior Drama Club entertained during the second half of the programme with the morality play "Everyman," produced very ably by Miss Hopewell. The cast was as follows : Leonie Little Everyman Gaye Redpath Angel of the Lord Diana Fulton Death Beverley W orsnop Fellowship Marie Scott and Lorraine Barbour Kinsmen Goods Marion Reynolds Good Deeds Dawn Ballantyne Wisdom Valerie Parker We should like to thank the music mistresses and Miss Hopewell for all the hard work they put into arranging the concert, and to congratulate them on t~e success of the evening.

THE SCHOOL DANCE THE School Dance which had to be postponed in the first term was finally held on the second Saturday of the second term. It was too late in the year to obtain the flowers we have formerly had, but we made the most of the autumn leaves and bright streamers and balloons to decorate the hall. Once again some of the art girls painted posters, this time of animals, illustrating several of the latest tunes. However, during the course of the evening these mysteriously seemed to disappear and we believe

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This year we were pleased to welcome Boys' High School as well as St. Andrew's and Christ's College to our dance. The supper and decorations committees are to be congratulated on their efforts, and as this year we did not have the inconvenience of power cuts, everything went off smoothly and successfully. S.C.M. NOTES FoR the St. Margaret's S.C.M. this has been a good year. Our group has been rather small, but we are always keen to welcome new members and hope the numbers will grow steadily. During the first part of this year our leader was Miss Macfarlane, and now our group is taken by a St. Margaret's old girl, Miss Alison Bennett. Our studies and discussions this year have been on "The Manhood of the Master" by H. E. Fosdick, in which are described the varied aspects of the personality of Christ. At one of our meetings Miss Pat Morrison, the S.C.M. schools' secretary, told us something of the work of groups in other schools.

In May two of our members attended the camp at St. Andrew's, while in September at the week-end camp held at Tyndale House, Cashmere, St. Margaret's was represented by four of the girls, two mistresses, Miss Macfarlane and Miss Clifford, an old girl, Miss Bennett and 'our former Headmistress, Mrs Young, who was Camp Hostess. All agree that these camps are well worth while and hope that next year a bigger and better S.C.M. group will be able to send more St. Margaret's campers; In conclusion, we would like to thank Miss Macfarlane and Miss Bennett for all their time and help so freely given during the past year.

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THE Current Events talks this year, given by the sixth form, have set a higher standard than ever. The talks have been particularly interesting and varied and the speakers have managed to express themselves in a simple and direct manner, speaking without noles. It is no light task to express oneself well before several hundred people, but those who took part have gained much experience which we hope will benefit them in after life. Talks have been given by the following girls: Beryl Vizer: The German Pea e Treaty. Mary Radcliffe: Trieste .. Barbara Jennings: The Foot and Mouth Di ease. Diana Fulton: The Swiss Expedition to Everest. Valerie Parker: The Importance of Immigration to the British Empire. Elisabeth Perrott: Malaya. Avril Jones: The Dollar :::ihortage. Pat Chalklin: Jet Aeroplanes. Leonie Little: General Matthew Ridgway. Elizabeth Preston: Flying Saucers. Barbara Todd: Egypt. Jennifer Coombes: Passive Resistance in South Africa. Jennifer Orchard: Pierre and Marie Curie. Kathleen Ferguson: The Significance of Colour. Joan Clarkson: Uranium-Rum Jungle in Australia. Barbara Flesher: Duchess of Kent's Visit to Malaya. Jean Richardson: Science Careers for Women. Margaret Wills: The International Air Race. Lois Sparrow: "The Coronation." Alison Greenwood: Some Modern Musician.

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0 E OF THE TALKS "The Swiss Expedition to Everest" IT is no.t in the nature of man to admit defeat to physical . obstacles. By repeated attempts the poles were conquered. But though many assaults have been made, Mount Everest continues to defy men. Ever since 1852, when a clerk in the office of the Indian Trigonometrical Survey, announced that he had discovered the highest peak in the world, mountaineers have continued to look longingly at Everest's summit, 29,002 feet high. For over half a century after its discovery, Everest was a mountain of mystery, because Tibet and Nepal, on whose frontiers it rises, refused to allow foreigners into their countries. However in 1921 an English party gained permission to approach and if possible to ascend the mountain from the north, or the Tibetan side. This expedition explored the approach to Everest in preparation for an assault on the summit the next year. There are a great many difficulties to overcome when climbing these great Himalayan peaks. To carry the supplies up the mountains, porters have to be hired. The Himalayan climbers have been fortunate in having the service of the fearless Sherpa porters, who dwell in villages near Mt. Everest. As they live at a high altitude, they are accustomed to climbing and to the rarified air. The lack of oxygen at the higher levels is another problem. This is one of the reasons why the early expeditions failed, because any breathing apparatus that was devised was too heavy for the climbers. However wellequipped an expedition is, bad weather can always defeat it. The only time that these Himalayan peaks can be attacked is in the late spring and autumn. Until May the whole region is locked in a savage blizzard-driven winter, while in the summer the Indian monsoon brings treacherous melting snow and ice. In 1922 a small army of Englishmen and porters made their way to Mt. Everest, intent upon conquering it. After two weary weeks of transporting food supplies and equipment up the great Rongbuk glacier, the race against the monsoon began. Five camps were established up the mountain, the last at 25,000 feet. From here two attempts were made for the summit, but 2 ,ooo feet short of their goal, they had to turn back because breathing became so difficult that their senses were numbed, and th~y climbed mechanically, like men in a

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trance. Just before the monsoon broke, another attempt was made, but this ended in disaster. As the party was climbing up a steep face on to the North Col, an avalanche caught them and hurled them down the mountain in tons of soft billowing snow. The three Englishmen were saved, but many of the Sherpas lost their lives. An expedition in 1924 was to prove the most famous of the assaults. At first everything ran smoothly until a blizzard swept down from the north, leaving the camps in shambles. Resolutely they started again. A sixth camp was pitched still higher, and the first team of climbers reached a point higher than any man had stood before; one more assault was to come in the adventure of 1924, and it ended in mystery and tragedy. Mallory, a famous English climber was determined to have one last fling before the monsoon struck. He and Irvine set out along the long north-east ridge from Camp VI. The last that was seen of them were two black specks gallantly fighting upward-they never returned. Did they reach the summit? That is Everest's secret. Again and again through the 'thirties, bands of brave and determined climbers came to challenge the Godess of the World, but everyone failed to achieve its goal. Nevertheless, each successive expedition has added something to the store of man's knowledge; but all the determination of human will and all the ingenuity of science could not get a man up the final thousand feet and down again. Seven English expeditions had challenged Everest from the north, and not one had succeeded. Last year Eric Shipton, a notable English mountaineer, decided to try from the south side. He obtained permission from Nepal, and a party including two New Zealanders set out to try their luck on Everest's southern flanks. This was mainly a reconnaissance trip as this part of the Himalayas had never before been explored by foreigners, but Shipton found a possible way in which to approach the Unconquerable. Last month a Swiss party followed Shipton's advice and launched their attempt on the southern approach. They were provided with the best and newest type of climbing equipment, including a very light third lung to provide the climbers with oxygen at the higher altitudes. The dangerous Ice Fall which had prevented Shipton's party from climbing further was nego-

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tiated safely by the Swiss, a rope bridge being slung over an impassable crevass. After this obstacle had been overcome, the slopes of the western curm and the face of the southern col leading up to the summit were comparatively easy, but still the topmost pinnacle defies men. This time a new record was Will the Swiss finally established 500 feet from the summit. If not, perhaps the British storm the giant next September? might next year. In spite of all formidable obstacles, the fight for Everest will go on. When and how the mountain will be climbed is the secret of the future, but that it will be climbed is sureas sure as that the oceans have been crossed, the continents spanned, the poles discovered. But still men will come, and at last, the day will come when the weather is right, and the mountain is right, and the men are right, and those men will get to the top. Until then, Everest is more than the highest mountain. It is one of the great unfinished adventures of mankind. -Diana Fulton VIB PUBLIC SPEAKING

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IN this second year of competition for the Cup, the number of entrants, 29, was slightly lower than in the preceding year; but the general standard of the speeches given showed marked improvement. Competitors had gained much in the presentation of material, in the choice of subject matter and in general poise. The Junior section in particular, was a strong class and it gives great promise for the standard of the competition in the future. There were again three classes:Senior over r 6 years. Intermediate 14 and under r 6. Junior under r 4. In the preliminary trials members of the Staff acted as adjudicators, Misses J. P. Crasher, K. P. Edwards, E. Duff, G. Walters, M. Holderness and Mrs B. C. Penney who was also responsible for the arrangements for the Competition. Mr Eric Wills, B.A., LL.M., M.Com., acted as adjudicator for the finalists, who spoke on Parents' Day. The subject was "The Spirit of Adventure is not Dead." The winner of the Myers Cup was an Intermediate, Marie

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Scott; Joanne Edwardes gained second place and Valerie Parker third. In the individual Classes, competitors were placed as follows:Senior I. Joanne Edwardes. Valerie Parker. 2. 1. Marie Scott. Intermediate 2. Mary Ross. Florence Jones. Junior I. Judith Pickles. 2. THE WINNING SPEECH "The Spirit of Adventure is not Dead" IT is difficult, perhaps, to know just where to begin with such a vital subject as "The Spirit of Adventure is not Dead." Immediately, hosts of ideas and feats of outstanding adventure in many fields come to mind. Although there are many outward signs of man's change and progress, human nature itself alters little and is fundamentally the same as it was centuries ago. Therefore, if we look at past examples of human endeavour and compare them in the light of present-day events, there is a certain guarantee that the spirit of adventure is as vigorous today as ever. Exploits of Old Testament leaders are good examples of the spirit of adventure in those times; these were men who journeyed across unknown deserts with little navigational aid save a knowledge of the stars. Then we may take some of the great navigators-Colombus, Magellan, Cook: all these and many more showed great daring in their search for new lands. If we think of Polar exploration, there is a wealth of adventure associated with such famous names as Scott, Shackelton, Amunsden and Peary, while in quite recent times was the exciting voyage of Wilkins to the North Pole in a submarine under the ice. Just as the deeds of these men fired the imaginations of their people, so today we have plenty of exciting deeds undertaken for adventure by people who are driven by an irresistable power and determination. But when we talk about adventure it doesn't always mean

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physical adventure in the sense of physical hardship. It embraces also adventure into the realms of thought, religion, literature and science. For examples, Martin Luther broke -away from the established Roman Church to found a new religion. Wordsworth introduced a new era in the development of poetry by decrying the recognised ornamental and superficial style of his day to introduce simplicity and a love of nature. With him we might easily bracket T. S. Eliot who, with his modern approach to poetry, may be Wordsworth's present day counterpart. We could also compare Marconi, the father of radio, with those of today who are developing radar and television. Adventure, however, seems to stimulate us more and catch our imagination when there is achievement in the things we can comprehend easily-climbing the highest peak, sailing un-· charted seas or flying in the rarest atmosphere. How thrilled we were to· read of the latest Swiss attempt on Everest! It failed-but only just-and these dauntless mountaineers, full of courage, plan yet a further attempt despite the known hardships and inevitable . sacrifices. Now we read of a similar British attempt including several New Zealand climbers. Then there is the Kon-tiki expedition, fraught with all the dangers of wind, sea and raft and too well known to need amplification here. In miniature, we have the announcement in our local paper that nine young men and women of New Zealand who are seeking a_dventure, met in Wellington to discuss plans for a voyage in the Pacific. In the air, there is news of the testpilot who, in a small plane aptly called "The Skyrocket" which was launched from a Super Fortress mother aircraft, climbed to the unprecedented heights of 79,000 feet-15 miles up-and flew at the incredible speed of I 248 miles per hour or, if you like, 20 miles a minute. In our very midst if we want a good example of the spirit of adventure, what better can there be than the new settlers arriving in New Zealand from the Old World? These people are leaving homes, friends and relations, all that is dear and familiar to them, to seek a new and unknown life in a strange country. We all revel in adventure. Even if we may not take an active part ourselves, we can, and do, sit by the fireside and thrill as some gripping story unfolds from the pages of a good adventure book. No! The spirit of adventure is not dead!

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Tms year St. Margaret's entered three girls in The Overseas League Public Speaking Contest, held in August. Each girl's speech was interesting and dealt with the subject from a different standpoint. After a very enjoyable buffet tea at the Waldorf, the contest was held in the Automobile Association rooms. Eleven girls and boys from various secondary schools throughout Canterbury and Nelson spoke before the judges, committee, parents and friends. The subject was, "The Importance of Immigration to the British Empire!" We were very proud that the winner should be a St. Margaret's girl, Joanne Edwardes. Joanne and Douglas Evans of Nelson College, who was placed second, were then asked to take part in the Dominion finals which were held in Dunedin. During the three days that they were in Dunedin the ten contestants were well entertained and shown the highlights of the city. The finals were held in the Burns Hall where the ad judicators, Mr Carl Smith and Mr M. A. G. Neill Q.C. awarded first place to John Meiklejohn of Gisborne. We tender our congratulations to the winner and to Gisborne High School, the holder of the Eden Cup. MATHS TALKS Tms year, the series of Maths Talks for Sixth Forms, which was started last year, has been continued. The first one for 1952, was held on March 14th, the subject being "Projective Geometry." Mr Sawyer, well known to Christchurch mathemeticians spoke to us, and Christchurch Technical College were the hosts for the evening. At this meeting it was arranged that each school should be given a slip of paper with ten questions on it,. and that at the next meeting the schools should send representatives to answer the questions as they were called upon. The second meeting was held on May 2nd at St. Andrew's College, where St. Andrew's and St. Bede's were joint hosts. At this meeting the questions given us at Christchurch Technical College were answered. It was arranged that the third meeting of the year was to be held at Papanui Technical High School.

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The subject was "Algebra Without Arithmetic" and we were told that it was possible to prove 2 o, but when we used this in 01:1rexams we did not get very profitable results! The next meeting was held at Xavier's College where Mr A. L. Litt of Greymouth Technical High School, and Mr Harris, spoke on "Determinants in Theory and Practice." The fifth meeting was held on October 3rd at Christ's College where Mr D. Garrett of Xavier's College, spoke on "Cantor's Arithmetic of Infinites," and Mr A. J. Gunderson, spoke for a short while on "Logarithms of Negative Numbers." We are very grateful to Mr Sawyer for giving his valuable time and eagerly look forward to the next meeting in November.

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LE CERCLE FRANCAISde 1952, comme celui de l'annee derniere, a ete compose d'eleves des Sixieme et Cinquieme classes, qui ont pris cette occasion d'augmenter leur connaissance de la langue francai e. Nous avons passe notre temps a lire d'histoires francai es, et nous avons ecrit quelques dictees qui nous ont aide beaucoup. Quelques eleves se sont presentees pour le concours organise par le Cercle Francais de Christchurch, qui offre chaque annee des prix et des Certificats de Merite aux etudiants de la langue francaise. Tous quatre ont eu de succes dans ce concours, et elles ont recu les distinction suivantes: Au section senior: le prix a ete gagne par Mary Radcliff e. Vivienne Benzie a ete recue. Au section junior: Marie Scott a ete recue avec mention. Rosita Holenbergh a ete recue. Nous voulons remercier Miss Walters, qui a donne tant de temps a nous donner des lecons supplementaire . JUNIOR

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AT the beginning of the year we linked up with the British Drama League, and hoped for fresh inspiration from its circulating library, but the junior section is not very big and we have had only one really high-grade play from its shelves: "The House Fairy," author unknown. This i a splendid play, with

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just the tension and climax we were looking for, but unfortunately it is for three players only! Returning to old favourites, we enjoyed "Six Who Pass," and "The King of Barvender." Then we read "Everyman," so that we might listen intelligently when the seniors performed it, and now we hope to start work in earnest on Shaw's "Andrades and the Lion." ORCHESTRA

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DESPITE the fact that it was newly formed at the beginning of the year, our orchestra now has eleven members, nine of whom are violinists, one a recorder player, and one the piano accompanist. Although we have so many violins and so few other instruments, we hope, next year, to have a 'cellist, if one can be found, or even a few wood-wind players. During the first term, in the last period on Friday afternoons, we practised various orchestral exercises, and several short pieces by Charles Woodhouse. In May, we played two of the latter at the Boarders' concert, and although this has been our only performance before other members of the school, we feel, thanks to Miss Eccles, that it was a successful one. In the second term we had hoped to perform at the school music recital in August, but as this was inconvenient, our practices during last term have borne no visible fruit. The beginning of the third term found us hard at work again, and Room 1 5 will be the scene of many busy practices this term, for we are getting ready for the school break-up in December, at which we hope to perform before both parents and girls. Now that we have been playing together for most of the year, I am sure that we all, both individually and as an orchestra, have benefitted by Miss Eccles' helpful advice, for without her, the St. Margaret's Orchestra of 1952 would probably not be in existence. We are all very grateful to her for her patience and skill in dealing with us, and hope to have her with us again next year, to carry on the good work she has begun. Orchestra members are as follows: Miss Clifford, Joan Cornish, Joanne Edwardes, Mary Elphick, Janet Macfarlane, Helen Mountfort, Barbara Needham, Mary Ross, Marie Scott, Helen Walker. Piano: Elspeth Munro ( first and second terms) ; Elizabeth Preston ( third term).

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Art Appreciation Club, under the auspices of Mrs Penney, has had a most successful year with a large membership of about fifty. Careful planning has resulted in a wide variety of outings and talks so that an interesting programme was assured if weather prevented us from leaving the school. Many of the other clubs accompanied us to see the late Mr C. Scott's films "Holiday in New Zealand." These showed us many of the beautiful scenic resorts to be seen throughout our country. The following Wednesday, whilst we admired reproductions of Gainborough's paintings, we were able by discussion and by reading carefully selected passages, to understand certain similarities in his landscape work and appreciate the beauty of his portraiture. The following Wednesday found us in one of the most up-to-date factories in Christchurch. Here we were shown the different processes from the time the grain was put into the crusher till the tins of Ovaltine were packed into cartons. From the top of the building we admired, too, the well-kept lawns and flower gardens surrounding it. At another meeting, with the aid of photographs and native handwork, Mrs Penney described her visit to the Pacific Islands. We were able to extend our knowledge of this subject by a visit during the next week to the Pacific Islands' display at the Museum. From amongst the many models, costumes and figures depicting every day life of the Islands, we all greatly admired the huge and ornately carved war canoe. That same day, we

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Later we attended the Oriental Art Display where, perhaps, the carved ivory was the most admired out of a large selection of beautiful articles. One club day we spent in the McDougall Art Gallery and during another period, we visited the Botanical Gardens, where the autumn foliage was at its best. During the third term the beauty of the Gardens and Millbrook Reserve drew our steps that way when the azaleas were in bloom. At the beginning of the term we were indebted to Miss Rankin for a most instructive, amusing and interesting talk on her trip to America and we all wished that we could have accompanied her. We hope once again to end the year with a visit to the Takahe.

ART CLUB Tms year under the supervision of Mrs Walton we have specialized in life drawings. Each Wednesday afternoon one of the girls who had volunteered to pose for us, would come in wearing some kind of costume or fancy-dress. We could draw the models as we sa\Y them, or as we liked to imagine them. This club is mainly for girls who are really interested in art, and it has been a great help to all of us, as we had never previously had people to model for us. Mrs Walton has been a very kind and helpful instructor, and we would all like to thank her for her interest in developing our own individual styles. We were very sorry to use her so soon, but we have all learned a tremendous amount in the short time she was with us. Although we have not had clubs since Miss Owen has taken @ver the art room, we are all looking forward to many enjoyable and instructive club periods with her.

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EMBROIDERY AND TOYMAKING CLUB THE girls have taken a great interest in toymaking and embroidery this year and under the careful supervision of Mis Bowkett some beautiful and artistic ar6cles have resulted. A great variety of work has been completed, including pla tic table mats, tea cosies, many kinds of felt toys, crocheting and tatting, embroidery, lace insertion, tapestry and smocking. The club members wish to thank Miss Bowkett for her help and patience and they feel that the success of their work is due to her.

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AT the beginning of this year the Drama Club discussed the possibility of producing a short play for the Junior Drama Festival as there was to be no school play for 1952. It was finally decided that the mediaeval morality play, "Everyman" was the most suitable for this purpose. We also discussed characters, their relationships, setting and costuming and decided to do the play in modern costumes. After having read the play together several times the girls began to learn their parts. Quite soon Miss Hopewell was able to set the moves and the play pulled together much better. Those girls who were lucky enough to be taken by Miss Hopewell to see the Catholic Youth Movement's production of "Everyman" at Maryknoll, soon showed signs of benefiting from it. During rehearsals not only the girls acting, but also those managing behind the scenes gained a great deal of useful knowledge of stage techique and balanced stage production. Although club were not officially held in the second term we were able

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to do much solid practice. Unfortunately the Junior Drama Festival was cancelled, but we were able to present our play at the annual Music and Elocution Concert. All the girls did their best to help to present a really first-class play. We should like to take this opportunity of thanking Miss Hopewell for the valuable work she has done for the Drama Club.

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WE have been exceedingly fortunate in having as our president this year Miss M. Stewart who is herself widely travelled, and has been able to give us many interesting accounts of her experiences in other lands. We are also indebted to our guest speakers who have entertained us so well-Miss K. P. Edwards, who talked to us about her homeland, Wales, Miss B. Trenwith, an ex-member of the Staff who told us of her recent visit to France, and Mr N. Greaves who gave us a most informative and interesting talk on Persia. We are planning further talks for this term which opened well with Miss Rankin's description of her recent visit to the United States. We wish next year's "travellers" equal success in their voyaging.

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Tms year a Library Club has been formed with two representatives from each form. We have learned to process the continuous stream of new books that have entered the library, work which enables us to see the new additions before the rest of the school, and which consequently provides much competition among prospective borrowers. Outings to several public libraries have proved very popular and informative. We are most grateful to Miss Macfarlane, who has made this club such a success and we look forward to many more enjoyable hours in the future ..

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DURING this, its first year of existence, the Fencing Club has been making steady progress under Mrs Bromley's tutorship.

As it is the first club of its kind in the school the membership is rather small, but it is to be hoped that some of the wondering, and sometimes derisive, spectators who gaze from doors and windows will join the club in the future. Not much is known of fencing for it is rarely that it receives any publicity. However one or two schools have lately taken an interest in the sport, and so enthusiastic have they been, that supplies of equipment ran out. We look forward to possible inter-school competitions in the not too distant future. St. Margaret's Pioneer Fencers are: Elizabeth Bromley, Jenny Lake, Heather Wills, teel, Heather Thomson, Janet I verach, Jacqueline Elizabeth Harris, Captain.

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we returned to Kilburn House this year we were very pleased to find that the interior of the house had been painted, and the prefects were particularly thrilled to find their study transformed. We welcomed Miss Drayton, from the orth Island, to be our house mistress, and Miss Harding a our new matron. There were al o a large number of new girls to welcome and a few from Julius House come to join us. A most enjoyable day w~ spent by staff and girl alike at a picnic at Waikuku Beach on the first Saturday of the term from which we all managed to arrive home safe and sound. The second term brought the prospect of winter sports in the weekend , and several dances for the eniors-which included Christ's College, St. Andrew's and our own school dances. We all thoroughly enjoyed the outings to the picture we had on two wet Saturdays, and we spent a delightful, although not victorious, afternoon with Rangi-ruru, when our hockey and netball teams played their boarders' team . During the term Miss Harding left us and we welcomed Miss Bomhof, who had recently come to ew Zealand from Holland, as our new matron. We were very sorry to say goodbye to Miss Sigley who, after being with us for over three years, first as our house mistress and then as the chool secretary and a resident mistress, left us to seek adventure in Dunedin, but we were glad to have Miss Mead, Miss Lethbridge and Mis Robb to join the other mistresses at Ridley House. We were al o v ry plea ed to welcome Mrs Welsh as our housekeeper and soon had reason to be grateful to her for the delicious afternoon teas and suppers which she provided for the various functions held at the house. Although we did not suffer nearly as severely as some other boarding schools we were afflicted with a few cases of influenza, measles and mumps during the second term. We are mo t grateful to Mi~s Drayton and Miss Bomhof for nursing them so tirelessly. WHEN

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baths in the weekends. Tennis is already the most popular pa time at the house. There has been keen competition this year between Grigg and Grey Houses for the House Cup which was won by Grey House during the first and second terms but is at present in the possession of Grigg. We are grateful to Archdeacon Mountfort for celebrating Holy Communion for us in the Chapel at the beginning of the year and hope that we may conclude this term with a similar service before some of us leave our school days behind us. JULIUS

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A FRESHLY painted house welcomed old and new girls alike, after the Christmas holidays. For many years Form II has been our most senior form but this year we welcomed five new third formers as our seniors. We all enjoyed the wonderful boarders' picnic at Waikuku Beach on the first Saturday of the first term and we have appreciated very much the many other outings on which Miss Crosher and other members of the staff have taken us. In the school swimming sports anc;l athletic sports in the first term Julius House was well represented in many events and we would like especially to congratulate Bridget Mosley, Louise McAlpine and Jane Stephenson on their successes. In the second term Carol Shand and Eleanor Coe were appointed monitresses and we re-introduced our old houses Cavell and Nightingale. Since then, there has been a great deal of house spirit among the girls and keen competition for the House Cup. We should like to thank Miss Fisken, our matron, for all she did for us during the second term when there was so much sickness, and Mrs Sanderson, our house-mistress for the kindly interest she has taken in us this year. KONINI

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ning of this year, many of whom have gained a number of points for their House and also have a keen house spirit. At the first major house event of the year, the Swimming Sports, Konini remained discreetly in the background leaving the other Houses to fight for positions. We wish to congratulate Dorothy Murray for gaining her Scholar-Instructor Certificate and also those who gained other life-saving awards. Later in the term, the Athletic Sports were held when Konini once again left the honours to another House. As usual the house hockey and netball matches were held in the second term. Although we were eliminated in the first round of both the hockey and junior netball, we managed to win the Senior Net ball Shield, after a close game against Kowhai. We wish to congratulate Pamela Latty, who was a warded her netball colours. The House Tennis, is a thought which is foremost in our minds as this magazine goes to press. Our hopes are high. We are relying on our juniors to retain the Junior Tennis Cup, which at present is the only cup resting on the Konini shelf. We also wish the seniors the best of luck. We should like to thank all Konini girls who have, throughout the year, worked and played so hard, in the interests of their House. We all wish to extend our congratulations to our Vicecaptain, Elizabeth Ensor, who was runner-up in the South Island Secondary Schools' Art Competition to a Kowhai girl. I should like to wish next year's captain the best of luck and I hope that Konini will always remain the best House in the school. Term I Term II Red Work Bars 7 9 Green Work Bars 6 9 Gym. Badges 8 8 Posture Badges 12 14 Jean Richardson. KOWHAI

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second term succeeded in taking the Bates' House Cup from our shelf. This was due, unfortunately, to an epidemic which spread in the Kowhai House during Term II, and that was the fatal disease of coming off the House Roll. It is to be hoped that three weeks' holiday will cure all signs and symptoms of it. The summer term, bringing with it the Swimming and Athletic Sports had both its successes and its failures. The Junior Swimming Championship was won by one of our juniors, Angela Bean, and several other girls competed well and gained a considerable number of points for Kowhai. In the Crocodile House Relay six yellow caps bobbed along to finish in second place where we also finished in the Senior Relay. The Athletic Sports proved to be a great day for Kowhai; Three of our girls were champions-Gillian Jenkins, Senior; Nicola Warren, Junior; Joan Latham, Under 1 3. The Junior Relay team finished first thus helping to win the Junior Points Cup, while the Seniors, although they lost the coveted Senior House Points Cup, coming second to Rata, were second in the Sack Relay. Congratulations to Gillian on being reawarded her Athletic Colours, and also for representing Canterbury in the New Zealand Athleti«s Championships. In the second term our hockey team excelled themselves, and after a hard match against Rata in the final, which seems to be becoming an almost annual event, succeeded in winning the Hockey Shield. Congratulations to all our A team hockey players and especially to Anne Wright who was awarded her colours. Our netball teams did not do so well, but our vicecaptain Avril Jones won her netball colours. Congratulations, Avril! Towards the end of the term the Public Speaking Contest for the Myers Cup was held, and in the final were two Kowhai gi~ls-Joanne Edwardes and Mary Ross, the former of whom did very well indeed to win the Senior Section. Joanne also came first in the Canterbury, Section of the Overseas' League Public Speaking Contest and later in the term won a National Skiing Junior Scholarship. Congratulations Joanne for all these praiseworthy efforts. Another of our girls, Dinah de Castro distinguished herself in the Star-Sun's Secondary Schools' Art Competition which she won. Thus as the magazine goes to print, Kowhai can look back on a good two terms' work and hope that the last term of 1952

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will be just as, if not more, successful. Finally we should like to thank all the girls, and there are many of them who have contributed to the House's various activities, work as well as sport, and wish everyone the best of luck to help keep up the fine tradition of Kowhai House. Term 2 Term r 10 Red Work Bars 14 Green Work Bars 14 9 Gym. Badges 19 17 Posture Badges 17 14 -Elizabeth Preston. MATIPO

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Captain: Elizabeth Perrott. Vice-Captain: Barbara Jennings. 1952 has been a successful and encouraging year for Matipo but, as yet, the Bates' House Cup is far away. During the first and second term Matipo took third place, perhaps "third time lucky" may mean a victory in the last term. The year started in a splendid way. Matipo won the Swimming Cup by a substantial margin. The Senior Relay_Cup was won again and our Junior team gained second place in the Junior Relay Cup. Nan Jennings, with her effortless style, gained for us the Intermediate Championship Cup. This year keen interest was taken in life-saving, and we congratulate those who gained awards, especially Gillian Marshall and Janet Tothill who gained their Swimming Colours. In the Athletic Sports, Matipo won the Senior House Relay and came third in the Junior Relay. Special congratulations must go to Lorraine Barbour, who by a splendid performance, became not only runner-up in the Senior Championship but also gained her Athletic Colours. After securing second place in the Whole House Relay we finally attained third placing in the Senior Athletic, House Cup. During the second term we competed in the House Hockey and Netball Matches. The Hockey team was very enthusiastic but not as successful as we had hoped. In the Netball matches, however, our Senior Team did valiantly .and gained_ second place in the final result. Congratulations to Lorraine Barbour

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who won her netball colours and to an Blackley whose colours were re-awarded. This term we are looking forward to the tennis season and the House Championships, and I am certain Matipo will again carry on their grand tradition. Interest was aroused in the house by the Myers Public Speaking Contest. The junior section was won by Florence Jones and to her we say "Well done." We are fortunate in our new girls this year. They are keen and lively members of the House and have gained many mentions. Keep it up ! ! ! We should like to thank everyone who has helped to make the year a success in work and play. I would like to express by appreciation to the House for being so co-operative during the year, and I wish you all every success in the future and the best of luck to my succes or. Floreat Matiponia ! Term 1 Term 2 Red Work Bar II I I Green Work Bars 13 9 Gym. Badges 13 13 Posture Badges 18 19 -Elizabeth Perrott. RATA HOUSE

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House Captain: Barbara Flesher. Vice-Captain: Margaret W estgarth. s we look back on the records of Rata's achievements in previous years we find that our House has had many succe ses This year too, Rata has come to the fore in most events. The first exciting event of the year was the Swimming Sports in which we gained third place in the House Championship, the senior and obstacle relay teams coming second in their respective races. We should like to congratulate Margaret W estgarth, our Vice-Captain who, on gaining her Silver Medallion, was awarded her Swimming Colours. She was runner-up in the Senior Championship and gained her Swimming pocket. Congratulations to Verona Fogg who also won her pocket.

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In the Athletic Sports we were more fortunate: with the co-operation of the House we won the Whole House Relay again, also the House Sack Relay for the third time in succession, and with delight we broke Kowhai's spell over the Senior House Points Cup by gaining 98 points. Good work, Rimu, on your narrow win over us in the Senior House Relay! How pleased we were with Jean Calder as she broke several records, won the Intermediate Championship and gained her colours. For a moment we thought that we had won the Bates' Cup but our hopes were dashed when we found that there was a mistake in the points. Congratulations Kowhai ! There was keen competition in the House Netball. Our Juniors were runners-up but the Seniors were not so fortunate. In the Hockey we were beaten in a most enjoyable game by Kowhai in the final. Four girls represented Rata in the "A" Hockey Team this year. Well done Helen Harrison, Jean Calder and Margaret W estgarth on gaining Hockey Pockets. This term there was no mistake in the Bates' Cup marks and it did come to our shelf. We are now watching the Tennis Ladders for prospective House Teams. We hope to retain the Junior House Tennis Cup and perhaps win the Senior Tennis Cup, as we are ambitious! Congratulations to Jacqueline Craythorne who was chosen to go to a Tennis Coaching School in Auckland during the August holidays. We wonder if we would improve if we went next year! We wish to thank all those who have worked hard to win points for Rata and hope that our new girls have enjoyed being in the best house. We hope that the Bates' Cup will remain in our possessio~ at the end of the term and may 1953 see renewed efforts in work and sport and Rata carrying on its good traditions. [ Congratulations to Barbara on being awarded her hockey colours.-Ed.] RIMU

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fitting for the best House in the School. Perhaps it is because we have lost the services of one of our best ex-members, Felicity Ower, our captain last year, who was such an asset to us in hockey and tennis. Whatever the reason is, we are satisfied that this is merely a temporary phase and are glad to give other Houses a chance to come to the fore. In the first term Rimu hardly shone at all in the Swimming Sports with such fierce competition from other Houses. We congratulate all those who won life-saving awards, especially Judith Pickles who won the highest award for life-saving that the School has so far gained-the bar to her silver medallion, and Diana Fulton who gained a bar to her bronze medallion and her Instructor's Certificate. Congratulations to Judith also on being re-awarded her swimming colours, and to Anne Wynn Williams on being a runner-up in the Junior Championship. In Athletics, as in Swimming, Rimu's representatives are in the 'moderate ability' class, with one or two outstanding performers. Although we did not win a large number of points, Rimu did come second in the Senior House Relay after a thrilling race with Rata over the last lap. Gaye Redpath it was who just managed to head off the Rata representative, and we congratulate her on being runner-up in the Intermediate Championship. Congratulations also to Jacqueline Adair who is a joint holder of the cup awarded to the girl gaining the most points for her House at the Sports. In the second term we hoped to retain our reputation for having the best hockey and junior netball teams in the School, and perhaps surprise everybody, ourselves included, by winning the senior netball shield. Needless to say, this last hope remained unfulfilled. Both the senior netball and hockey teams were by no means weak but the trouble was that other houses seemed to supply more members to A teams than we. Here we should like to congratulate Janet Williamson, our sole representative in the A netball team. We were very sorry to say good-bye to the Hockey Shield. Yet our team in no way disgraced itself, in two valiant fights defeating Matipo 1-0, and losing to Rata only by 2-3 after ten minutes' extra time had to be played. The Junior Netball team overwhelmed the opposition, winning the final I 7-8. We hope that when some of these play in the Senior Netball team next year, they will so strengthen the ranks that the Shield will find its way to our shelf.

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ow in the third term we are hoping to show our ability at tennis. We have already an excellent prospect in Janet Williamson, whom we congratulate on being selected to go to the Junior Tennis Coaching School held in Auckland in September. As happened last year, the Public Speaking Contest for the Myers Cup resulted in a win .for a Rimu girl. Congratulations to Marie Scott for thus keeping up Rimu's fine reputation for public speaking. We wish to thank all those girls who have won points for Rimu throughout the year, especially Marie Scott, Jennifer

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Topliss, Ann Justice and Jennifer Blunden, who have gained o many marks in mentions. If the policy of 'play hard, work hard' is taken to heart by every member of the House, it will not be long before we win that coveted possession-the Bates' House Cup. This cup seems constantly to elude us, but in the event of Kowhai and Rata slightly decreasing their number of mentions, work bars, etc., etc., Rimu may this last term manage to fight her way back to her rightful and accepted position as 'THE House' ( not that we don't think we are: non-Rimu girls seem, however, to want some material evidence of the fact). Finally I should like to wish 1953's captain the best of luck and the co-operation of all who go to make up that grand hou eRimu. Term I

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This year owing partly to the fine weather as well a to the k en enthusiasm of the girls, swimming enjoyed a long and profitable season. Besides the usual interest taken in the sport, life- aving received full attention this year, thanks to Miss Clifford's coaching and also to the four girl-instructors who spent a great deal of patience and time in instructing their cla es. The results of their efforts, as seen below, produced encouraging and good results, while the individual standard of swimming was also improved. We are also very grateful to Mary Ballantyne who supervised in the baths many time during the season. Formerly when the Silver Life-saving Medallion was won by any girl, she was immediately awarded her swimming colour • However, this year, with a revival of life-saving, and with so many girls going for their Silver Medallion, the games committee decided that from next year colours should be awarded on individual merit only.

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M. McCree M. Scott J. Dickson

Granted Bar to Bronze Medallion: D. Fulton

P. Fenwick

Granted Scholar-Instructor Certificate: D. Fulton M. Westgarth

D. Murray

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J. Bull

Granted Award of Merit: J. Tothill M. W~tgarth E. Preston S. Harrison

H. Joyce

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Granted Bar to Award of Merit: J. Pickles

The Swimming Sports were held on Wednesday, 5th March, on a warm, sunny day, and many parents and friends were present. We were very fortunate to have Miss Hills, Games Mistress at Timaru Girls' High School, to judge the diving and style events, and we would like to thank her very much for all her trouble. The majority of the championship events were held in the morning, while the various novelty races held in the afternoon, and mainly devised by Miss Clifford, were a source of much amusement to both the spectators and the participants. The climax of the day was the House Relays, and this year a Crocodile House Relay was added in which the long lines of red, green. brown, yellow and blue bathing caps formed an unusual spectacle.

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SWIMMING SPORTS, 1952 Senior Championship: 25yds. Freestyle-E. Preston 1, V. Fogg 2, J. Pickles 3. Time 16sec . 25yds. Backcrawl-V. Fogg 1, D. Murray 2, J. Pickles 3. Time 20 ecs. 25yds Breast trokc Race-M. Westgarth 1, G. Cotterill 2, J. Pickle 3. Time 20 ecs. Breast troke Style-D. Murray 1, M. Westgarth 2, D. Fulton 3. Diving-B. Flesher 1, E. Preston 2, M. Westgarth 3. 5oyds. Freestyle-E. Pre ton r, J. Pickles 2, L. Barbour 3. Time 35 3-5secs. Intermediate Championship: 25yds. Freestyle-. Jennings 1, J. Tothill 2, P. Stenhouse 3. Time r 4 1-5secs. 25yds Backcrawl. Jenning 1, M. Barriball 2, J. Tothill 3. Time 17secs. 25yds. Brea tstroke Race--J. Calder 1, N. Jennings 2, J. Tothill 3. Time 19 2-5 ecs. Breaststroke Style-P. Stenhou e 1, G. Marshall 2, L. Luisetti 3. Diving-S. Jenning 1, G. Redpath 2, . Jennings 3. Junior Championship: 25yds. Freestyle-A. Wynn-Williams 1, J. Latham 2, P. Lane 3. Time 16 4-5secs. 25yds. Backcrawl-G. Jennings 1, S. Edwardes 2, A. Bean 3. Time 2 rsecs. Breaststroke Style-A. Bean 1, A. Ballantyne 2, J. Pickles 3. Diving-A. Bean 1, A. Ballantyne 2, B. eedham 3. Other Events: Diving (Under 12)-B. Hyde 1, H. Rich 2, G. Mair and H. Peate 3. 25yds. Freestyle (Under 12)-G. Mair 1, H. Peate 2, B. Hyde 3. Time 2ose s. I width Back troke (Under 12)-B. Dawson 1, G. Mair 2, A. Justice 3. Time 8secs. Dog Paddle Style (Forms I and II)-R. Marshall 1, G. Jennings 2, G. Mair 3. Breaststroke Style (Forms I and II)-B. Mosley 1, H. Peate 2, S. Bent 3. Running Jump off Top Board (Junior)-H. MacGibbon 1, P. Lane 2, M. Ollivier 3. Sculling Race-N. Jennings 1, S. Jennings 2, J. Turpin and A. Bean 3. Water Stunt (Senior)--J. Pickles 1, E. Preston 2, D. Murray 3. Dressing-up Race-V. Fogg 1, L. Barbour 2, J. McIntyre 3. • Candle Race-E. Pickles 1, A. Wynn Williams 2, K. Parker 3. Obstacle House Relay-Matipo 1, Rata 2, Konini 3. House Crocodile-Matipo 1, Kowhai 2, Konini 3. Junior Hou e Relay-Kowhai r, Matipo 2, Konini 3. Senior House Relay-Matipo 1, Rata 2, Kowhai 3.

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Life-saving Race- J. Pickles and D. Fulton r, N. Jennings Lester 2, V. Mair and G. Marshall 3. Surface Dive (Intermediate). Jennings r, J. Tothill 2, ren and P. Harman 3.

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Triangular Tournament Craighead, Rangi-Ruru, and St. Margaret's were the participants in this tournament which is becoming an annual fixture. This year we had the honour of being hostesses, and the Craighead girls were billetted out by our own girls. On the Saturday morning the three schools met at the School baths, the warm weather adding to the success of the tournament. The events were much the same as last year's, but with the addition of team novelty races. St. Margaret's won many of the events and resulted as the winners in the final score: St. Margaret's go Craighead 64 Rangi-Ruru 50 The members of the team were :-E. Preston, J. Pickles, M. Westgarth, V. Fogg, S. Jennings, P. Harman, J. Tothill, N. Jennings-all of whom gave of their very best to help us win. Congratulations to Margaret Westgarth, Verona Fogg and Philippa Harman who won their swimming pockets this year. Also our special congratulations to Janet Tothill, Gillian Marshall and Margaret Westgarth, who were awarded their swimming colours, and to Judith Pickles who had her colours ~eawarded. -Elizabeth Preston, Captain. [Congratulations to Elizabeth swimming colours.-Ed.]

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During the first term of this year, we held our athletic and swimming sports, so tennis played only a minor role; the only tennis event, being the Secondary Schools' Championships. These were held in March and April. In previous years they had been held in December, after the school had broken up, but it has been found to be more convenient to hold them during the first term. Unfortunately the weather was poor, and the senior girls' doubles were left unfinished. The junior girls' singles was won by Jacqueline Craythorne, and Margaret Westgarth was runner-up in the senior singles. Janet Williamson and Beryl Vizer have reached the emi-finals, and Lorraine Barbour and Margaret Westgarth, the finals. These matches have still to be played. At the end of the third term, last year, Felicity Ower won the senior championship, in a very close match against Judith Mardon. Jacqueline Craythorne won the junior championship.

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( left to right): Jacqueline Craythorne, Judith Hobbs, Dorothy Murray, Gaye Redpath, Lorraine Barbour. Sitting (left to right): Beryl Vizer, Margaret We tgarth (Captain), Janet William on.

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We would like to congratulate the Old Girls on their victory, in our annual match against them last November. The senior house tennis cup was won by Rata and the junior by Konini. We played matches on Wednesdays against the other Secondary Schools. In the first term, this year, a triangular tournament, with Craighead and Rangi-Ruru, was held at Kilburn House. Our top six girls won 5 matches, while Craighead and Rangi-Ruru, drew '2 all. Our primary school has shown great keenness in their tennis, and in the teams that played at Wilding Park on Saturday mornings, our A Grade were runners-up and the B were the wmners. Two of our girls, J. Williamson and J. Craythorne, were fortunate to be chosen to represent Canterbury at a Junior Coaching School at Ardmore, Auckland, held during the August holidays. F. Ower, J. Mardon and S. Harrison were re-awarded their colours at the end of last year. Finally we would like to thank Miss Clifford for her untiring patience in coaching us. M. Westgarth, L. Barbour, B. Vizer and J. Williamson were awarded their tennis pockets. --Margaret Westgarth, Captain. A Tennis Team-.J. Williamson, M. Westgarth, B. Vizer, L. Barbour, J. Craythorne, D. Murray, J. Hobbs, G. Redpath.

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This year the Annual Sports were held at Lancaster Park on 2nd April. We were fortunate in having fine weather although in the afternoon a following wind meant that many times records put up could not be counted as School records.

In the morning Gillian Jenkins, the senior champion, broke the 75 yards and equalled the I oo yards records. In the intermediate events, Jean Calder established a new record for the 100 yards and equalled the 75 yards. Sally Edwardes equalled the 75 yards under 15 record and Joan Lathem equalled the 50 yards hurdles under 13 record. In the junior throwing the rounders ball Heather Thompson set a new record of 5 7 yards I foot 5 inches.

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We congratulate Gillian Jenkins, who was re-awarded her colours, becau e she was chosen to represent Canterbury at the ew Zealand Championships. Our congratulations al o go to Jean Calder and Lorraine Barbour who were awarded their athletic colours, and to Venetta Howman and Nicola Warren on gaining their athletic pockets this year. It was decided that as very few Juniors played hockey, the junior hockey dribbling would be replaced by slipping in twos. Another new event was kipping in twos which took the place of the three-legged race under 14. In the whole-House relay the seniors hurdled over the low hurdle and the juniors ran. This took a great deal of organization, but the House captains managed to see that everyone in their Houses took part. We should like to congratulate Miss Clifford on the efficient way she organized the ports and many thanks are due to the officials who as i ted in making it a succes ful sports day. We were very pleased to have Mrs Garland with us to present the prizes. -Barbara Flesher, Captain.

ATHLETIC CH MPIO S, 1952. (Left to right): Ni ola Warren (Junior), Jean Calder (Intermediate), Gillian Jenkin ( enior), Joan Latham ( nder 13).

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Senior Championship Events: 100 Yards (Record 11 3-5sec., G. de Their, 1940 )-Gillian Jenkins 1, Venetta Howman 2, Hilary Joyce 3. Time, 11 3-5sec.-equals record. *80 Yards Hurdles (Record 11 4-5sec., R. Godfrey, 1948, J. Dickson, 1949 )-Gillian Jenkins 1, Lorraine Barbour 2, Bery 1 Vizer 3. Time, I 1 3-5sec. 75 Yards (Record 9 2-5sec., M. Falck, 1950 )-Gillian Jenkins 1, Lorraine Barbour 2, Anne Wright 3. Time, 9sec.-a record. High Jump (Record 4ft. 101/ain., W. Morgan, 1944)-Barbara Flesher 1, Gillian Jenkins 2, Elizabeth Preston 3. Height, 4ft. 6in. Long Jump (Record 17ft. 6in., G. de Thier, 1940)-Anne Wright 1, Kathleen Ferguson 2, Beryl Vizer 3. Distance, 15ft. 2in. Intermediate Championship Events: 100 Yards (Record 12sec., G. Jenkins, 1951 )-Jean Calder 1, Gaye Redpath 2, Adrienne Talbot 3. Time, 12secs.-equals record. *65 Yards Hurdles (Record 9 4-5sec., G. Jenkins, 1951 )-Gaye Redpath 1, Jean Calder 2, Pamela Cross 3. Time, 9 3-5sec.-a record. 75 Yards (Record 9 2-5sec., G. Jenkins, 1951 )-Jean Calder 1, Gaye record. Redpath 2, Adrienne Talbot 3. Time, 9 2-5sec.-equals High Jump (Record 4ft. 71/sin., J. Jones, 1948)-Jean Calder 1, Gaye Redpath 2, Susan Jennings, Pat Chalklin equal 3. Height, 4ft. 5in. *Long Jump (Record 14ft. nin., J. Jones, 1948)-Jean Calder 1, Elaine Reed 2, Pat Chalklin 3. Distance, 15ft. 1in.-a record. Junior Championship Events: 100 Yards (Record 12sec., V. Mears, 1940 )-Shirley Harrison 1, Nicola Warren 2, Valerie Hay 3. Time, 12 4-5sec. *65 Yards Hurdles (Record 10sec., G. Jenkins, 1950, G. Redpath, 1951) -Nicola Warren 1, Sally Edwardes 2, Virginia Smith 3. Time, 1osec.-equals record. 75 Yards (Record 9 3-5sec., G. Jenkins, 1950, G. Redpath, 1951 )-Sally Edwardes r, Shirley Harrison 2, Nicola Warren 3. Time, 9 3-5sec. -equals record. Warren r, High Jump (Record, 4ft. rr1/sin., M. Falck, 1947)-Nicola Margaret Richardson 2, Belinda Moore 3. Height, 4ft. 4in. Long Jump (Record 16ft. 2in., W. Morgan, 1943)-Nicola Warren r, Jill Leech, Shirley Harrison equal 2. Distance, 14ft. 1 r ½in. Under 13 Championship Events: *100 Yards (Record 13sec., S. Harrison, 1950 )-Anne Wynn Williams r, Joan Latham 2, Katrina Andersen 3. Time, r 2 2-5sec.-a record. 50 Yards Hurdles (Record 8sec., E. Withell, 1948, N. Warren, 1950 )Joan Latham r, Katrina Andersen 2, Cynthia Scott. Time, 8sec.equals record. Wynn Williams r, 50 Yards (Record 6%sec., J. Cooke, 1940 )-Anne Joan Latham 2, Cynthia Scott 3. Time, 7sec. High Jump (Record 4ft. 5¾in., J. Allison, 1947)-Katrina Andersen, Jacqueline Adair and Joan Latham equal 2. Height .1-ft.

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Long Jump (Record 14ft. g½in., H. Talbot, 1944)-Louise McAlpine 1, Joan Latham 2, Jacqueline Adair 3. Distance, 12ft. 5in. Open Events: Sack Race (Senior)-Joanne Edwardes r, Barbara Todd 2, Anne Wright 3. Sack Race (Under 14)-Jacqueline Adair 1, Barbara Needham 2, Judith Bamford 3. an Throwing Cricket Ball (Record 57yds. 5in., J. Robilliard, 1950)Blackley r, Gillian Cotterill 2, Janet Tothill 3. Distance, 50yd . rft. 3ins. Throwing Rounders Ball, Junior ( Record 5oyds., J. Riddolls, 1950 )Heather Thompson 1, Florence Jones 2, Jennifer Lake 3. Distance, 5 7Yds. r ft. 5ins.-a record. Hockey Dribbling ( Senior )-Helen Harrison 1, Beryl Vizer 2, Barbara Flesher 3. Skipping in Twos (Under 14)-Janet Glasgow and Joy Machin 1, Jennifer Lake and Joanna· Bethell 2, Barbara eedham and Josephine Stevens 3. Three-Legged Race ( Senior )-Barbara Flesher and Margaret Westgarth r, Janet Tothill and Nan Jennings 2, Virginia Mair and Adrienne Talbot 3. Slipping in Twos (Under 14)-Robin Mulligan and Elaine Reed 1, Nan Jennings and Judith McIntyre 2, Rosemary Wilson and Sally Edridge 3. Slow Bicycle Race (Open)-Elizabeth Ander en 1, Sonia Bradley 2, Jacqueline Adair 3. Ob tacle Race (Senior)-Margaret Westgarth 1, Helen Harrison 2, Roberta Callaghan 3. Obstacle Race (Under 15 )-Alison Powell 1, Dorothy Wilson 2, Gillian Jennings 3. Obstacle Race (Under 13)-Jacqueline Adair 1, Eleanor Coe 2, Felicity Barford 3. *100 Yards Consolation, Senior (Record 13 2-5sec., M. Boleyn, 1949, S. McLean, 1951 )-Elizabeth Preston 1, Barbara Todd 2, Roberta Callaghan 3. Time, 12 1-5sec.-a record. *100 Yards Consolation, Under 15 (Record 13 1-5sec., A. Kennington, r 950 )- Judith teel 1, Belinda Moore 2, Joy e Morris 3. Time I 2 2-5sec-a record. *100 Yards Consolation, nder 13 (Record 14 4-5sec., A. Morris, 1950, B. Needham, 1951 )-Louise McAlpine 1, Judith Bamford 2, Gillian Macfarlane 3. Time, 13 4-5sec.-a record. Whole House Relay-Ra ta 1, Matipo 2, Kowhai 3. Senior Hou e Relay-Matipo 1, Rimu 2, Rata 3. Junior House Relay-Kowhai 1, Rata 2, Matipo 3. Sack House Relay-Rata 1, Kowhai 2, Konini 3. Little Visitors' Race-Jocelyn Robinson r, Geoffrey Norris 2, Jane Wynn William 3.

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enior Championship-Gillian Jenkins, 18 point ; runners-up, Wright and Lorraine Batbour (equal), 6 point. Intermediate Champion hip-Jean Calder, 23 points; runner-up, Redpath, 14 points. Junior Champion hipicola Warren, Harri on, 1 o point . Under 13 Championship-Joan Wynn-William , ro points.

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House C.hampionship, Junior Kowhai point 104 Rata point 71 Rimu points 51 Matipo points 45 Konini points 32 *The e record were not ••counted becau e of a following wind.

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The 1952 hockey season has been most successful and enjoyable. With the weather kinder to us than last year, all the matches in the Inter-School Competition were able to be played. The A, B, C and E2 teams won their respective grades, while the D and EI teams were runners-up. A number of girls played on Saturdays in club matches, and Elisabeth Perrott, Barbara Flesher, Anne Wright and Venetta Howman were selected to play for Canterbury against outh Canterbury. Incidentally there were several Craighead girls in the latter teams. Thi year the House Hockey Shield was carried off by Kowhai who narrowly defeated Rata 2-1 in the final. All the matches were keenly contested, each player striving to win for the sake of her House, but accepting defeat in a good spirit if it came.

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It wa decided thi year to make the team for the Daygirls v. Boarders' match repre entative of all grade -from the A right down to the £. Thi prO\ ed a ucces , the match being a particularly thrilling one. After being down 0-2, the Daygirls, with some quick scoring, juvt managed to win 3-2. The netball match played between the A hockey and the A netball teams turned out to be very exciting. !though we seven hockey girls held a territorial advantage, the netball shooter were too good and, just a in hockey, goal are the things which win a game. The highlight of the eason, a far as the A team wa oncerned, was the trip down to Timaru on 18th Augu t on the kind invitation of Craighead and Timaru Girls' High chool. The thrilling match with Craighead, which we lost 2-3, was one of the best of the season, the standard of hockey on both sides being high. On the following day we played Timaru Girls'

"A" HOCKEY TEAM, 1952 ( left to right): Betty Powell, Janet Toth ill, Jean Calder, Margaret Westgarth, Helen Harri on, Mary Radcliff e. itting ( left to right): Anne Wright, Elizabeth Pre ton, Beryl Vizer (Captain), Barbara Fie her, Eli abeth Perrott. tanding

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High-the first occasion we have competed in sport against this school. After another exciting and evenly-contested game, the final score was 5 all. All the teams would like to extend their thanks to Mrs Tankard for her valuable and patient coaching throughout the season, and to Miss Clifford for her willing help and for refereeing on several occasions. Congratulations to Elizabeth Preston on being re-awarded her colour , and to Anne Wright, Elisabeth Perrott and Barbara Flesher on gaining their colour . -Beryl [Congratulation colours-Ed.]

Vizer, Captain.

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HOCKEY TEAMS A Team-G., M. Radcliffe; R.B., M. We tgarth; L.B., H. Harri on; R.H., E. Perrott*; C.H., J. Tothill; L.H., E. Pre ton* (Vice-Captain); R.W., A. Wright-l<·;R.I, B. Powell; C.F., B. Vizer* (Captain); L.I., B. Fle her*; L.W., J. Calder. B Team-G., G. Mar hall; R.B., P. Chalklin; L.B., . Vickery; R.H., P. Tobin; C.H., .J. Di k on; L.H., H. Wi hart; R.W., . Warren; R.I., D. Fulton (Captain); C.F., V. Howman; L.I., G. Redpath; L.W., P Reece mith. C Team-G., J. Corni h; RB., M. Reynold ; L.B., A. Greenwood (Captain); R.H., M. Ro ; C.H., B. Moore; L.H., H. Joyce; R.W., K. Fergu on; R.I., V. Hay; C.F., J. Croft; L.I., L. Lui etti; L.W., . McLean. D Team-G., M. Cox; R.B., M. :Moffatt; L.B., P. Harman R.H., J. Coombe ; C.H., J. Edwarde ; L.B., J. Reynolds; R.W., J. Fulton (Captain); R.I., P Booth· C.F. E. Mc Ipine; L.I., M. Scott; L.W., S. Bradley. Er Team-G., S. Mackay; RB., J. Powell (Captain); L.B., M. Elphick; L.H., S. orris; R.W., R.H., J. Robin on; C.H., J. Iverach; '. Harri on; R.I., H. Thom on; C.F., . Edwarde ; L.I., A. Powell; L.W, J. Steel.

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J. Wright; R.B., J. Chirn ide; L.B., M. Powell; R.H., R. Mulligan; C.H., W. Cree; LH., J. Macfarlane (Captain); R.W., J. Pickles; R.I, B. Jeedham; C.F., A. Ballantyne; L.I., J. McIntyre; L.W., A. Bean. *Denote

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St. :Margaret'

v. Papanui Te-:hnical, won 11-1. \'. Rangi Ruru, won 6-1. v .. \vonsidc G.H .. , won .1-2. v. Girl.' High School, won 3-0. Technical ollege, won 6-o. v. Chri tchurch We t, won 7-0. \·. Crai head, lost 2-3. v. Timaru .H ... , drew 5-5. Played 8 matche ·, won 6, drew I, lo t 1; goal for 44, goal :10-aint

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B St. Margaret'

v. t\von idc G.H .. , \von 2-r. v. Girl ' High School, won 5-0. v. Rangi Ruru, won 5-3. v. hri tchurch We t, ·won 2-1. v. Technical College, won by default. Played 4 matche , won 4, won I by default; goal again t 5.

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C St. Margaret'

v. Girl ' High chool, won 7-0. v. Rangi Ruru, dr w r-r. v. von ide G.H.S., won 1-0. v. Technical ·,...,ollege,won 7-0. v. Chri tchurch We t, won 5-0. v. Papanui Technical, lost 2-3. Played 6 matche , won 4, drew r, lo t r; goals for 23, goal again t

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D St. Margaret'

v. Chri tchurch We t, won 8-r. von ide G.H.S. 2, won r r-o. v. von ide G.H.S. r, drew, no core. v. Rangi Ruru, drew r- r. Girl ' High hool, won 5-r. Played 5 matche , won 3, drew 2; goal for 25, goal again t 3. V.

Er St. fargaret

v. Giri ' High chool 2, won 12-0. v. von ide G.H.S., lo t by default. v. Girl ' High School r, won 7-0. v. t. Maraaret' 2, drew, no score. Played 3 matche , won 2, drew r, lo t r by default; goals for rg, goal ao-ain t o.

St. Margaret'

v. Girl ' High School r, won 2-0. v. Girl ' High School 2, won 6-1. v. von ide G.H.S., won 4-r. v. St. Margaret' 1, drew, no core. Played 4 mate he , won 3, drew I; goal for I 2, goals again t 2.

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( left to right): Janet Williamson, Gi Iiian Jenkin , Susan Jennings. (left to right): Pamela Latty, an Blackley, Avril Jone (Captain), Lorraine Barbour.

ETBALL NOTES This year we have been able to have much more practice than previously, although with the epidemic of influenza which reduced our numbers considerably, our teams have been weakened. A great highlight of the season was our trip to Timaiu, when we played Craighead in netball and Timaru Girls' High School in basketball. After a very close and exciting game against Craighead we finally emerged triumphant, but we did not fare so well against Timaru Girls' High as we had had very little practice in basketball. However we all enjoyed the matches and altogether had a marvellous time. Another great event of the netball season was the match against the staff. Our team changed its positions but this was hardly necessary as the staff revealed hidden qualities especially for breaking rules, and we had a hard fight to maintain our lead.

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Once again, thi year the netball match between the A netball team and the hockey tearn was played. It was a thrilling game and fortunately we were able to keep up our reputation. A match between the Boarders and Day-girls was also arranged, and in order to have a more evenly-matched game no more than two Day-girls from each team were chosen to play. From tart to finish the game was exceedingly close, but the Day-girls were finally victorious. This term al o we held the House tournament and some very good game were played. In the junior Rimu defeated Rata, while in the senior, after a hard struggle Konini at last managed to defeat Matipo by a narrow margin of two goals. Under the name of "All Greens" the A team has again played in the Canterbury etball Association matches held at West High School on Saturday mornings. Some of the fourth formers calling themselves "The Grasshoppers," and some fifth formers under the name of "Live Wires" have also played, while a few girls have been receiving coaching in umpiring. We have all en_joyed these game which have given us more practice and experience. The teams would like to congratulate Pamela Latty and Lorraine Barbour on being awarded their netball colours, and an Blackley on being re-a warded hers. They would also like to thank Mis Clifford for her valuable and patient coaching. -Avril Jone , Captain. [Congratulations to Avril on being a warded her netball colours.-Ed.] TETBALL TEAMS A. Team.-G.S., S. Jenning ; A., J. Williamson; C .. , L. Barbour*; C., P. Latty*; C.D., A. Jones '' (Captain); D., . Blackley* (ViceCaptain); G.D., G. Jenkins. B Team.-G .. , D. Wilson; lahan; C., M. McCre ; Smart.

., P. Littlejohn (Captain); C.D., R. Cal.A., B. Sherriff; D., D. _ forray; G.D., R.

C Team.-G.S., A. Dunster; A., P. Lane; C.A., V. mith; C., G. Price; C.D., 1\1{.Richard on; D., K. Parker (Captain); G.D., J. Elli . C .. , P. D Team (under 14).-G.S., K. 1in on; A., G. Jenning; Fernie; C., J. Bethell; C.D., L. Wil on (Captain); D., K. Ander on; G.D., D. Dunster. •::•Deno~e colour .

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v. irl ' High S hool, won 15-11. v. hristchur h Technical, lo t 17-18. v. a red Heart, won 21-19. v. t. Mary's, drew 23-23. v. Papanui Technical, lo t \'. Chri tchur h Wet, lost 24-17. v. Avonside, lo t 26-30. v. Rangi Ruru, lost 17-29. v. Te vVai Pounamu, won 26-13.

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v. Avon idc, won 7-6. v. Chri tchurch We t, won 17-9. v. Girl ' High S hool, lost 14-18. v. Te Wai Pounamu, won 22-16. v. Rangi Ruru, won v. Christchurch Technical won by default. v. Villa Maria, lo t 16-18. v. t. Mary's, won 20-18. v. Papanui Technical, lost 12-13. v. a red Heart, lo t 9-23.

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v. Chri tchurch Wet, lot 8-15. v. Girls' High School, lo t 17-2 1. v. Te Wai pounamu, lo t 16-26. v. Rangi Ruru, won 17-5. v. Chri tchurch Technical, won by default. v. Villa Maria, won 21-20. v. St. Mary's, lo t 15-18. v. Papanui Technical, lo t v. Sacred Heart, lo t 17-27. v. Avon ide, lo t

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v. Girl ' Hi h School, lo t 10-15. v. Te Wai Pounamu, won by default. v. Ranui Ruru, won 20-5. v. Chri tchurch Technical, lot 16-20. v. ilia Maria, won 18-14. v. St. Mary' , lo t 11-18. v. Papanui, lo~t 11-13. v. Sacred Heart, won 16--13. v. Avon ide, won 16-14. v. Chri tchurch Wet, won 17-16.

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Scientific Development Which Has Been Of Use To Mankind· RADARand its many important u es have been of great benefit in the last ten to fifteen years to mankind, and during the second World War, especially to the Allies. Most people have heard the name Radar and realise vaguely that it has something to do with aeroplanes and ships, but that is practically the extent of their knowledge. Radar is a sy tern of locating objects, whether on land, on or in the sea or in the air by means of pulses of radiowaves. A transmitter sends out a pulse to the target which reflects back its object to a receiver alongside the transmitter. The basic principle of radar, the fact that short radio waves can be reflected has been known since the 192o's. Sir Edward Appleton sugge ted using it for the navigation of aeroplanes and ships, and also for detecting enemy aircraft in time of war. Radio engineers and amateur wireless operators had also observed that a nearby aeroplane often interfered with short wave messages. But it is a long step from the knowledge of a principle to the production of a practical apparatus. This fact did not deter the scientists who were always seeking to find more or to better what they had, and when the second Great War broke out in September 1939, Great Britain alone had a complete and highly developed radar system of proved reliability. Around her coasts there existed two chains of radar stations, one to detect low flying aircraft, and the other to detect those at higher altitudes. Their value in winning the Battle of Britain, the key battle of the war, can never be underestimated, for with them, our few British pilots and their fighter planes could remain on the ground till enemy aircraft or shipping were located, and then they could be sent to the point where they were most needed. This seemingly uncanny knack of always knowing the exact position of their aeroplanes must have puzzled the Germans immensely, although they soon realised that the Allies had developed some weapon of which they were ignorant. Even the Anti-Aircraft guns had their own radar equipment, the result being that many large bombers

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intent on· destruction were themselves destroyed indirectly by the echo which they sent back to the radar receiver of the Allied Gunners. These uses of radar did not perhaps benefit the whole of mankind at the actual time of their use, but surely, it would not be too blindly patriotic to say that it was for the ultimate benefit of mankind, since it helped the Allies to win the war and saved the world from Hitler's tyranny. Later on during the war, a very light peice of equipment, was developed for use in the small fighter aeroplanes. The transmitter and the receiver were both present in the 'plane itself so that the pilot could "see" his target before it actually came into sight. As the very short radio waves used in radar are unaffected by darkness, thick smoke, fog, mist, rain or falling snow, radar can also see when the human eye is blind. By using this development the Allies often gave surprisingly accurate attacks on enemy ships or ~ubmarines which had surfaced in the black of night for fresh air. One particular allied air crew had carried out several of these attacks quite successfully, except that the navigational officer, a stolid, slow, but very reliable man always gave the signal to drop the bombs a fraction of a;Second too late. Therefore the pilot always dropped the bombs two seconds after the signal instead of the required thr~e. However, one night, the navigational officer decided to give the signal at the correct time and consequently the pilot dropped his bombs a second too early. The enemy ship, always on the alert, took advantage of the mistake and opened fire on the invisible aeroplane which nearly met its end, as a result of the sudden desire of one of its crew to be more quick-witted. As well as being used for "blind flying," radar also helps a pilot to make a "blind landing." In a violent storm the pilot is led into a safe area where he can circle around until he is "talked down" from the ground by an operator, who, by means of radar, knows the 'plane's altitude, speed and position at every second. One system of radar has earned a peculiar name for itself. This is "H2S." It is reputed to have arisen from the fact that when a radar research worker was asked to perfect this system, his only reply was-"It stinks!" However, its unsavoury name does not detract from its use in peace time navigation. The ships which bring coal to London for the huge gasworks there,

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are often guided in through the thick London fog by "H2S. ,, In many countries today, including ew Zealand, radar beacons, known as "Rebecca-Eureka" are used as navigational and landing aids for passenger and freight 'planes, to guide ships into entrances of angerous and rocky harbours and even to explore the vast wildernesses of Africa. Another peace time use which saves a great deal time on important trips, is the refuelling of airliners in the air from tanker aeroplanes. Ever since the existence of radar has been known, meterologists have used it as a means of detecting and then locating cold fronts and violent storms, and also to determine the heights of clouds. Scientists have observed radar echoes from the moon, while meteors are predicted and their presence located, as the radar receives echoes from the trail of ionised air left in their path. That radar has been of great use to mankind in the past cannot be denied and that it will continue to be so in the future is also another almost indisputable fact. Man's already considerable interest in the world of space will become a practical interest in the years to come and here radar will have another use, because it has already been used for measuring the distances between the nearer planets. Its protection of man in time of war and its subsequent uses in peace time show that radar i indeed a scientific development which has been, and will be of benefit to mankind. EARLY

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I wander on the river banks Away from strident hoots and clanks Of modern motor-cars. The willows tangle in the stream By speckled trout with burnished gleam. High in the heavens the soaring lark Trills her song across the park. Stately dog-daisy and pimpernel shy Await the radiant dragon-fly. And ducks swoop down in curving flight Or idly drift in pools of light. -Angela

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(Jennifer Topli s, IV M)

TE WAI POUNAMU A race of dark-skinned Moriories Dwelt along our wind-swept shores Driven here by storm or purpose, Or by man's primaeval laws? Why their coming? What their seeking? Moa hunters long ago. Who their chieftain? What their worship? Maybe we shall never know. Eager hunter after whale, Kupe ventured many miles Braving all the storm and tempest Till he found our lovely isles. Later still, the Polynesians, Toi and Whatonga, came, Exalting back in far Tahiti Ao-tea-roa's name.

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Through the years of preparation Shaped and carved were sturdy trees Then, with tohungas' chanted blessings, They were launched upon the seas. Takitimu, Tokomaru. Ao tea, Ara wa These and other mighty vessels Sought the long white cloud from far. With Pacific's stretch behind them First they viewed the western coast Aorangi, giant supreme, A welcoming but lofty host. First, to land upon the beaches Then to fight the native race, To separate, each brave canoe To build a pa in every place.

0 Id Tain ui, steeped in wisdom, Chose Te Wai Pounamu's beach To where the rivers from the Alps And from the hillside springlets reach, Where greenstone from the Arahura And Teramakau river beds Is used to make the strong "mere," Or the adze and spear-heads .. There the great giants of the forest Totara and rimu tall, As before the axe of Rata, To his children's axes fall. There the will of Father Rangi And the ro-ro fairies spright, In vales of mystic, deep enchantment, Dwell, and breathe eternal night. -Florence Jones, IV A THE

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A short story THE knocking at the door grew louder. The silent house listened for the opening of the door. Even the darkness ceased her eerie noises. No stairs creaked, no footfall on the wood,

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the shadows stiffened as they too tensed themselves, waiting, listening. Only the wind with its deathly coldness moved through the empty rooms. Would that step never come, would that door never be opened? Where was she, the mistress of this house, who was she? Ah, who was she, what was her dreaded name, the name that could not be sounded, not even whispered, far better if it were never formed in the deep recesses of the mind. The knocking at the door grew louder. Who was it at the door? He seemed very eager to enter, yet who could be eager to enter this house from the cool, clear, midnight air? Go, go quickly, before it is too late. Run, run anywhere as long as it is away from this damp, dark, evil-smelling house. No one who has once entered it has ever seen the light of day again. Beware, if once this door opens, it will close upon one more victim. What does the outside world look like-take your last glance, the door is going to open. Can you hear that faint rustle? That's her black gown. Can you hear a sly footstep? That's her slippered feet. She's noiseless-she's coming nearer! Take one last look at the moon-fill your eyes with the clear sky -look at the light of the stars-that is the last night you will look upon. Her hand is on the latch-your last chance-fly! She is unbolting the heavy door. See that massive door-you will not see it from the outside again. You will see the inside -you will beat upon it with your hands, you will cry out till your voice grows hoarse and weak, you will sink down in despair. Whoever you are now, you are lost, damned. Whoever you are now, from hence forward you will be one of the lost souls, one of the many doomed to eternal darkness. Do you know what that will be like? To leave the world, leave pleasures, friends, loved ones, leave the cities with their bustling throng that someday will stand in front of this door, leave the fresh air for the damp of this dungeon, leave the trees, flowers, birds, to be closed within these walls. For this is the house of Death, Death with the smiling face, the willing door, so eager to let you in, but never to let you out. A noise of bolts, the creaking of a heavy door and a shaft of pale yellow light shot in through the open door. A whisper ran through the shadows as of satisfaction, and. then the door clanged shut again. -L. Sparrow, VIB 1

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THE BALL On the thirty-first of April, The fairies have their ball. They have it in the woodlands In their tessilated hall. The Fairy Queen flies down, And sits upon her throne. And the bees hum the music, In a sleepy sort of drone. And little elfin footmen Stand about and wait. Then dish up all the dainties, On a lovely golden plate. When the moon is feeling tired, And the sun is full of glee, Away the little pixies fly, On a bumble bee. -Diana Jarrett Std. 4. THE

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I WOKE to the sound of the ducks quacking amongst the pinktipped water lilies which surrounded our houseboat on the Dal lake. The sunlight was dancing on the water, making clear reflections on the wall beside my bed. The lake was only a few inches below my window, and in it could be seen reflected the snow-capped peaks of the Tabht-i-Suliman ( throne of Solomon) surmounted by a clear sky of palest pink merging to pnmose. I dressed quickly and climbed on to the upper deck of our houseboat where Ahmadu, our table servant met me. He was busily laying the table with attractive Kashmiri pottery. He asked me whether I would like fish or boiled eggs for breakfast. I said I would have both, and some of the delicious little rolls that his father baked so cleverly in the little cook-boat moored alongside. The fish had yet to be caught, but in the distance, Lal Gul could be seen poised on the prow of his canoe, silhouetted against the sky. A long spear wa held aloft in his hand and I knew that when it descended, my breakfast wa assured.

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After breakfast, clad in my bathing suit, I rowed into the middle of the lake, choosing a place where there were no reeds. There was no need to anchor the boat as there was no current, so I plunged into the cool water as soon as I could. As I floated on my back on this translucent surface, I caught sight of a kingfisher hovering with quivering wings above me. With a sudden flash of blue, he hurled himself down and disappeared, to reappear with a minnow in his beak. On returning after my swim, I was told we were going to visit the Shalimar gardens, and that it was possible to go there all the way in a shikana or Kashmiri canoe. The journey took about two hours. We went through many narrow waterways and past the curious floating gardens with their jungle of vegetation. We entered the gardens through a Moghul gateway. Ahead of me, I saw a long vista of waterfalls and fountains throwing their spray high into the air, to fall on dazzling beds of exotic flowers that almost blinded me with their brilliance. From the flowering shrubs around come the song of the bul-buls ( nightingales), and clouds of scarlet and green parrots flew screaming across the sky, from one lofty dome to another. As evening fell, the call for prayer from a distant minaret broke the stillness. An old, white-bearded faquir, who was walking in front of us, stopped in his tracks. He removed his sandals and dropped to his knees with face towards Mecca. Reverently he lowered his face to the ground and began intoning his evening prayer. We left him amid the long shadows and returned to the waiting canoe. The journey home seemed short, for, with the full moon overhead, we listened to the rhythmic chant of the four Kashmiri boatmen who sang in unison as they paddled us quickly home. Just before we reached our houseboat, we passed close to a Hindu temple where worshippers were assembled on the steps leading from the river. The copper dome soared high above us, and the eery note of the horns, blown by the priests, echoed far into the distance, telling us that another day had ended. -Elisabeth

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SNOW Falling, falling, falling, Falling without a sound, Falling quiet and listlessly, Gently to the ground. Blanketing the countryside With a cloak of white, Blocking out the sun hine, Shutting out the light. Covering trees and hedges, Roofs both high and low, Falling quiet and listlessly, Is the snow. -Ann Justice, Form II.

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RESERVE COMMISSION "YOUR college daughter should apply now for summer camp if she wants to train herself for a reserve commission in the Marines or Waves ..... " This announcement in a newsletter to American women arre ted my attention as I carelessly scanned the opening pages of a popular magazine. Its significance struck me at oncethe more I thought of it, the more I wondered at the contrast between the opportunities available to the girls at our college and to those at its American counterpart. How would the girls at S.M.C. react? Of course, more details would help. Over the page the text continued, "that the camp would run for six weeks . . . . all expenses paid." It sounded very attractive, particularly the reference to "Reserve Commission" which might be obtained in six sunny weeks in the summer break. The term, "pressure cooked," sometimes applied to short term training of N.Z. teachers, came to mind. A commission in six weeks and all expenses paid! I imagined it might be done; but my imagination needed halting as I could almost see the gold braid on my blazer cuffs. There was no use spending more time considering this apptal. The U.S. is too far away and it would take far more than six weeks to get the magic dollars, apart from other difficulties I could see looming up.

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Better read what else was nationally addressed to women. Oh yes! "Children who sit down to breakfast with their families spend more time and eat more than those who prepare their own or eat alone." All very well in America, perhaps, but not of particular application to the S.M.C. girls of my intimate acquaintance. vVho wants to eat more? Our breakfast problem is to eat less in less than the minimum time available so that "Times Late" on the term report does not look like a cricket score. From the final item I concluded that the commission even when "reserved for college girls" might be less desirable than my imagination had led me to believe. It certainly was addressed to women, but had a suspicious masculine tint when it informed readers that members of the armed forces would feel as light as a feather and be quite sick when they made their first trip in a space-ship planned for routine flights to the moon. Still, it was some consolation to know that doctors are already seeking a remedy to combat space sickness and make the trip comfortable. -Marie Scott, V Upper A. A WINTER

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A whiteness stiff has fallen on the ground. The road-one sheet of black and slipp'ry glass The pale sun sends a gleaming all around And frozen is the crackling, springing grass. The mountains far are shadowed in blue lightThe sky is pale above the distant snow. The air is cutting with a cruel bite, Because as yet, the morning sun is low. A wisp of cloud lies low before the trees, And crystals gleaming-dazzling light the gorse. A gull, unruffled by the faintest breeze Glides slowly on a wide, indefinite course. This morning scene so crisp, so cold, so clear Has caught my mind and held it, for a year. -Joanne

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THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM There was a star of Bethlehem, Brightly guiding three wise men, To where the baby Jesus lay, Quietly sleeping on the hay. Frankincense and myrrh they bring, To their tiny new born King. They gently place them at His feet, And look upon His face so sweet. -Geraldine

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IN PRAISE OF COUNTRY LIFE I can speak with deep feeling on the subject of country life, as I live in the country, and my immediate environment is very lovely indeed. From my window stretches a scene of great tranquility. From an ash and elmgrove on my right, (how beautiful is the song of the birds each morning) I turn to face wide stretches of the Canterbury Plains, with the majestic Southern Alps towering beyond. It is tr~ly a magnificent sight. Suddenly the stillness of the morning is broken by the barking of my two eager sheep dogs, Laddie and Lassie. Ahead of us lies a busy day and the dogs know it! My happiest job of the morning is to catch my coal-black thoroughbred, Wonder, I 6 hands high and well loved by me. And now for an exhilarating canter across the dewy paddocks. The work of drafting and shearing has already begun, and the shearing shed is a hive of industry. The sheep are handled with firmness and dexterity and quickly the fleeces mount in number. At the end of the day, hundreds of fleeces have been pressed into bales and the sheep are out in the paddocks frantically baaing for their lambs. The sun .goes down on a hard day's work, and all concerned sleep the sleep of the just. Spring and autumn are beautiful seasons in the country. The warm rays of spring turn the wheat and oat fields into fields of waving green. Slowly the crops mature and ripen, and harvest is upon us. All hands work early and late, and farm machinery of all types buzzes and whirls all day. The great headers separate the grain from the straw, thus saving man much labour. In the next fields, rows and rows of neatly packed bales lie in the wake of the hay baler. Very soon great haystacks stand against the horizon. The farmer breathes a sig_h of relief when he knows that he has again beaten the ram. There are no sooty factories and smoking chimney stacks in the farmer's vision-the air of smoke-filled towns does not worry him! His is the open beauty of nature. The beauties of nature recompense him for any advantages the town might offer. Truly "a thing of beauty is a joy for ever," and the hills and the valley and the mountains and the plains present an ever-changing panorama of nature's magic. -Shona Mackay, IV A.

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Shove home the plug and turn the taps on full ot for me the puddle when the bath can hold a pool, Let the water flood the tub right up to the brim, And throw my ducks and fishes in to see if they can swim.

If I hunch my back and bring my knees up to my chin I make a sheltered harbour where the boats can enter in. And if I move my legs I make a mighty ocean wave 'ee, here' a soap-dish that can be an under water cave. Here's a stately galleon returning from the Main, Loaded high with treasure for the king and queen of Spain; And here is Drake, the Englishman emerging from the strait To send the Spanish vessel to its very watery fate. The "Cutty Sark" is trading from di tant far Cathay The "Mayflower" is toiling to the ew World's dawning day The "Endeavour," the "Discovery," the "Zeehan" and the "Hind" And see what undreamt countries those gallant ships will find. Here's the Ancient Mariner on watery wastes afloat; And here's Magellan in a badly-battered boat. The Maori fleet has left behind Tahiti's tropic shore Guided by the tides and by the starry heaven's lore. Behold the isle where Crusoe was ship-wrecked in the gale And view the bark canoes in which the South Sea natives sail A kayak from Alaska, Nelson's "Victory"Bchold them all assembled in the port beneath my knee. But in the ocean's darkest depths that only mermaids know Within the mystic doldrums just beside my little toe, eptune's pearly palaces are gleaming white as snow, By Davy Jones's lock-up where all bad sailors go. So shove home the plug and turn the taps on full ot for me the puddle when the bath will hold a pool. Let the water flood the tub right up to the brim, I'll be there to see the fun and watch the ship-wrecked swim. -Florence Jones, IVA

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A RARE PLANT paucifolius is a rare plant which will not grow anywhere else in the world excepting at my home at Castle Hill. It belongs to a distinct group of species mainly found in the great shingle slips of the South Island of New Zealand. Since 1858, when the Porter brothers took over the Castle Hill station, the basin-like hollow filled with limestone where this rare plant is found, was open to stock. Now, this area RANuNcuLus

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of about three and a half acres has been fenced in to prevent the stock crushing and eating the precious plants. First named by Sir Julius von Haast, this plant grows in low clumps in the limestone basin. Its rounded leaves, one to three inches long, and about two inches in diameter, grow on stiff, spreading stalks. They are three-lobed with the lobes overlapping and their margins finely toothed or crenate. Their aspen purple colour and fleshy blades give the plant a primitive appearance somewhat resembling a seaweed. It flowers in late October or early November and has petals of the typical golden-yellow colour although they are more widely spaced than those of the meadow buttercup. A single flower may arise from the clump of leaves and may be followed by the appearance of one to four buds which expand only when the first flower has almost withered. From one to one and a half inches in diameter, the shallow cup-like flowers are composed of from five to eight rounded petals which encircle the densely clustered yellow stamens and the green pistils which terminate the flower stalk. The flowers are replaced by clusters of greenish-grey fruits, each somewhat pear-shaped. Some of the plants have been grown and cultivated in front of the homestead by my uncle who brought them down from their native habitat many years ago, but although the fruits have been sent to botanists all over the world, none of them have been induced to grow. The world-famous Swedish botanist, Dr. Gotsberg, has visited us twice to see this very rare plant and on both occasions he took seeds of it back to Sweden where he, also, attempted to grow them, but without success. It would seem that Ranunculus paucifolius will only grow within its own very restricted area of distribution, although why this is so remains a mystery to botanists. One might think that it depends upon a specialised soil or climatic conditions, but it has even· failed to develop at our neighbour's sheep station where the conditions are, to all appearances, exactly similar to those at Castle Hill. -Nan Blackley, V Upper A.

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Hon. Treasurer: Miss Sandra Dowland Committee: Mesdames A. Benzie, N. Morton- mith, R. Steel, W. Quirk, W. Partridge, Misses Marlene Bell, Felicity Ower. Hon. Auditor:

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As the School Magazine is being printed this year, prior to the end of our financial year, we cannot submit our Annual Report and Balance Sheet with these notes. Your Committee however is able to review the year's activities up to the time of these notes going to press. Membership: Seventy-six new members joined the As ociation thi year, 47 of these being Life Members. There are now 675 financial members, including 310 Life Members. Social Evening: The President and Commitee entertained 36 new "Old Girl " at an evening social held in Hay's Lounge on 13th February. Film Evening: To enable the Association to give a donation to the Lord Rutherford Memorial Fund, a Film Evening was held in the School Hall on 25th February. The films which were shown by the courtesy of Mr S. V. Turnbull, comprised some excellent film of Centennial events, beautiful studies in the Botanic Gardens, and one of the Pan-Pacific ,vomen's Conference. The sale of home-made sweets added further to the financial results.

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Storry Shield: The annual tennis tournament for the Starry Shield was held in March at the United Tennis Courts, and for the first time in many years the Shield was won by our own team which, captained by Mis. Betty Hatherley, comprised Mrs M. Lawrence, Mis es F. Ower, G. Napier, J. Mardon, B. Murray, B. Burrows, and M. John on. Annual Ball: This was held at the Winter Garden on 8th May and proved most successfu 1. There were 38 debutantes, all trained again by Mi Sandra Dowland, and presented by Mrs Heathcote Garland to the Bishop of Chri tchurch, the Right Rev. A. K. Warren. For the first time the debutantes carried posies in the school colours, the work of Miss Margaret Perry, who had backed each posy of white flowers with lovely green magnolia leaves, imported from Italy, and finished with a tiny silver bow. We should like to take this opportunity of expre sing our thanks to Mrs Chapman and Miss Edith Mason who so ably assisted members of the Committee in doing the flowers. Buffet Dinner: This was held in the Mayfair Ball and was attended by about 60 member .

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At Home: At this function we entertained representative from I 6 kindred associations, and all enjoyed an excellent programme provided by Misses Dora Charters, Marie Ashby, and Joan Ballantyne. A trio was played by Misses Shirley Salmond, Ellen Doyle and William Hawkey, and Miss Rose Reynolds was responsible for the presentation of a one-act comedy. Assembly Hall Fund: This fund now stands at £1425/r/4. Sister Winifred Memorial

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£44/5/9. Cookery Boole As these notes go to press, we have £1 75 in hand from the sale of the same, and are almost completely sold out. The "Cookery Book" has proved so succesful° that we now have a Supplementary Book in the process of being printed, and copies will be available at the Annual General Meeting. One of the main features in the Supplementary Book will be the Children's Section. Nelson Sub-Branch Old Girls' Note: We are orry to learn that the Nelson Bran h have decided to go into recess as so few Old Girls are at present living in Nelson. We hope that this will only be temporary and that those who are left will meet one another constantly. Obituary: It was with deep regret that we learnt of the death of Miss .T.P. Crasher's mother, and expression of sympathy were sent to Mis Cro her from the Old Girls' Association. Thanks: In conclusion, our thanks to our Retiring President Heathcote Garland) for her splendid leadership and invaluable over the past two year .

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We should like to thank Mi s J. P. Crosher for the use of the School for some of our Committee meetings. As the winter approached we decided to hold our meetings in our own homes-this has proved most successful and we should like to thank those members of the Committee who have lent their homes and also to all members who have in turn p:·ovided the suppers. We also wi h to thank Mr David S. Cowie for his services as Hon. Auditor. For the Committee, MARY GUILLERMO, Hon. Secretary. 80 Mansfield Avenue, St. Albans. Telephone 23-427.

ANNUAL REUNION Holy Communion: There was a large attendance at this service, which was conducted by Archdeacon C. L. Mountfort at St. Mary's, Merivale, on Saturday, 17th ovember, 1951. Mrs C. Clemens, who wa shortly to leave for England, provided a delicious morning tea which was served in the Schoolroom after tht; service. • Tennis Match: The Betty Thomas Challenge .Cup Match was played on Saturday afternoon, qth ovembcr, 1951, on the courts of the House, Papanui Road, and resulted in the Cup being won by the Old Girls' Team, the member of which were Mrs M. Lawrence, Misse M. Falck, N. Vile, B. Burrowes, M. Johnson, A. Macdonald, M. Cameron, and J. Macleod. The Old Girls' Race for the Addeh Perkins Cup was won by Mrs J. T. M. Fi her, with Mrs K. Harris second, and Mrs A. Benzie third. Afternoon tea was erved by the President and members of the Committee. 0

ANNUAL DINNER One hundred and fifty members attended the Dinner which was held at the Sign of the Takahe on Monday, 19th November, 195 r. Among the many gue ts who were welcomed by the President were Mrs C. L. Young (Patron of the Association), Miss J. P. Crosher, Mrs A. C. Barton ( President of the Timaru Branch), Mrs A. G. Christie ( President of the Nelson Branch), and Miss Chessell Boon, representing the Wellington Branch.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING There was a large attendance of members at the Annual General Meeting, which was held in the Lounge of the Sign of the Takahe, following the Dinner. Mrs Heathcote Garland presided, and after welcoming the guests, the activities of the past year were reviewed. Presentations were made to Betty and Jean Hatherley on their retiring from the offices of Secretary and Assistant Secretary.

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Miss J. P. Crasher gave an interesting review of the School's activities during the pa t year. Election of Officers: Mrs J. . Hamilton was lected an Honorary Vi e-President in appreciation of the plendid service she had renderd the A ociation as a Vice-Pre ident, Secretary and member of the Committee over a period of 20 year . The following is the result of the Election of Officers for 1952:President: Mrs Heathcote Garland. Vice-Pre idents: Mrs E. M. Gibson, Mrs E. Cleland and Mis Lila Gardner. Hon. Trea urer: Nliss Sandra Dowland. Hon. Secretary: :Mrs E. A. Guillermo. Assistant Secretary: Mrs C. L. Sturge. Committee: Mrs A. Benzie, Mr . Morton-Smith, Mrs W. L. Partridge, Mrs W. Quirk, Mrs R. Steel, and Miss Marlene Bell. Hon. Auditor: Mr David S. Cowie.

ARMAGH CIRCLE IN ovember a Jumble ale was organi ed by the Armagh Circle to aid our Assembly Hall Fund. This was most successful, the um of nearly £40 being raised. Special thanks are due to all the helpers. Morning Tea Party: In May a most enjoyable morning tea party wa given in honour of our first head prefect, Chris ie Grigg (now Mrs Shaw of England). It was nice to see o many of the "old clan" at this function. Gladys Scott (nee Andrew), who is a patient at Dunedin Hospital and has been ill for some con iderable time, was transferred to Fitzroy Convale cent Home for a month's change. A she had not lived in Christchurch for many year , gaire Satchell (nee Hunt), who has been the Convener of the Armagh Circle, arranged for many Old Girls to visit her. She was delighted to meet so many old friends and was mo t interested to hear news of the School. It was decided at the Annual Meeting not to increase the membership of the Armagh Circle. As these <Rote go to press, the Committee and Armagh Circle are to be the guests of Janet Starry at a luncheon party at Beath's, the guest of honour to be Stella Purcha , who is on furlough m ew Zealand.

NOTES OF OLD GIRLS Alison Morton (Thomas), who e husband is a civil engineer, now Jive in Tasmania. Ailsa Gallagher (Crompton) ha her home in Africa. Beatrice Ha tings (Hamilton) and her hu band left ew Zealand early this year and have gone to live in orthcrn Ireland. Brenda Baynes (.Jewell) lives in Sydney. Paula Rands (McIntyre) and her hu band, who is an engineer, have been on an extended tour of England and the Continent. They intend to return to New Zealand at the end of the year and will probably settle in Wellington.

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Marie Morri is in England doing re earch work in Chemistry. Isobel Matson (Wright) and her small daughter have returned to their home in the Gold Coast, West Africa. Mona Grubb was chosen as the Town Queen for Methven. The proceeds for the Queen Carnival are for the Methven War Memorial. Gwynda Chappell, who left New Zealand at the end of last year for a tour abroad, was married in England to a New Zealander, Mr G. Williams. Since their marriage both have been sight-seeing in \Vales, Ireland, and the Scottish Lakes, besides visiting the Contin<"nt. Gwynda's husband is very keen on ski-ing, so they both went to Norway for the winter sports. Another old girl married in England is Marie Owen-she has married Hans, son of Dr. F. and Dr. D. Tietze, and at present they are living in Devon. Jean Bartlett (Broome), who left New Zealand about two years ago, is returning this month accompanied by her husband and infant daughter. Jean's hu band, who was studying at Oxford University, recently gained his B.A. with honours in journalism. Muriel Thomas, a fourth-year student at Canterbury College, will be New Zealand representative of the Student Christian Movement ::it a world Youth Conference at Travancore, India. Lorna Bunt was this year elected Secretary for the Junior avy League. Natalie Vale was elected President of the newly-formed "Middle Watch" of the Navy League. Dorianne Andrews played the part of Celia in "As You Like It" in the open-air performance held in Abberley Park, and played by the Theatre Art ' Guild. We should like to congratulate Nancy Wise on her being awarded a Government bursary for two years to enable her to study at ::i School of Drama in London. ancy has chosen the Webber Douglas School and left New Zealand in August. gaio Marsh wa elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts at ::i meetin~ of the council of the Society in London. Jennifer Warren, who graduated Bachelor of Arts at Canterbury University College, has gone to Oxford University where she will study Classics. This year the Ada Gresham Memorial Gown which is worn by the most distinguished woman graduate of the year was worn by Jennifer. Our congratulations to Jennifer and ·we wish her every success while overseas. Gwen Rankin. who has had a long and distinguished association with the Girl Guide movement in Canterbury, was awarded a Juliet Low World Friendship Scholarship to attend an International gathering arranged by girl scouts in America. The Conference was held at the Edith Macy Training School, which is a permanent camp at Pleasantville. We hope to hear interesting details of her trip when Gwen returns. Five years ago while a member of the staff of St. George's Hospital, Dorothy Perkins formed a "Nurses' Drama Club" which has proved most successful. The object wa to provide regular play-readings for the nursing staff, and to present one-act plays and sketches ::it various hospital functions held throughout the year.

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Congratulations to Anne Darwin who played her own composition at a concert presented by the Civic Music Council and at which only works by New Zealand Composers were performed. Lesley Anderson is the leader of the Christchurch Chamber Players. Margaret Inwood is teaching music and is also an active member of the Harmonic Society. Another Old Girl who has chosen music for her career is Dora Charters who, besides teaching privately, teaches singing at St. Andrew's College and music at Christ's College. Many Old Girls will remember Edna Milne (nee Gill) ~nd her dancing. After a period of retirement she has now resumed her ballet classes. Theresa Taylor is a land girl in Central Otago; she has also been herdtcsting. Penelope Pocock, who is a reporter for the Christchurch "Star-Sun," i also a successful contributor of articles on varied topics. Assisting with the work of the Girl Guides are Madeline Hamilton ( nee Pyne) and Davina Bates. Janet Gould, Audrey Barlow (nee McNish), Dorothy MacDonald (nee Quill), Janice McLeod, and Margaret Josling are all interested in amateur theatrical work. Robin Keith has also been actively engaged in plays until she started her training as a nurse at the Christchurch Hospital. Beryl Lake (nee Bonnington), whose husband is M.P. for Lyttelton, recently accompanied him on a trip to the Chatham Islands. Doris Chisnall (nee Crespin), who went Home last year, has gained her secretarial diploma. Before settling down she has gone for an unusual cruise through the Mediterranean and right round the coast of Africa. Mae Leslie (nee Milliken) is District urse at Murupara, Rotorua.

OUR MISSIONARY OLD GIRLS Violet Bargrove is at present working among the Maoris at Ruatoki. Stella Purchas is back in Christchurch. Leaving Shanghai at the beginning of 195 r she pent several months in Hong Kong, followed by a ten months' stay in England, partly on vacation and partly working for the Church Missionary Societv a the Financial Secretary. While in England Stella stayed with her sister, Ho~e, now Mrs Morton. Betty Purchas, who is till studying for her final language examination in India, is at present working in an orphanage in Calcutta. She was in Dayeeby at a language school, and while there the students went for a number of climbs in the mountains, i:he highlight being a twelve-day climb with coolies and guides where a magnificent view was obtained of :Mt. Everest and the surrounding mountains. Elaine Howell (nee Wickenden), who married a medical missionary, lives in the Belgian Congo and has a small daughter. Be ides being a successful artist and her husband's "right hand man," she has had to acquire fluent French and the local dialect.

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OLD GIRLS NURSING AT CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL Our congratulations to Marjorie Chambers (nee Nancarrow who has been appointed Lady Suprintendent of the Christchurch Public Hospital. Joining the staff of the Christchurch Hospital as a student nurse in 1936, she graduated in 1940, gaining honours in surgery. She obtained her Certificate of Plunket ur ing in 1941 and gained her post-graduate Diploma of ursing in 1944. Granted a bursary to gain post-graduate experience at the Po t-Graduate School in Wellington and maternity training at the Hutt Hospital, she gained first pla e for the Dominion in the maternity examinations in 1948. For the last three years she has been matron of the Oamaru Public Hospital. Sisters: J. Gardiner, C. Hill, B. Rastrick. Staff Nurses: A. Thacker, M. Foster, . Plimmer, R. Godfrey. 4th Year Nur es: N. Glas, J. Lamb, J. Gibb, A. Hulse. 3rd Year ur es: S. He lop, B. orth, E. A. Wilson, J. Wil on, J. Taylor. 2nd Year ur e : E. Iver on, J. Jone, L. Luney, J. Vile, J. Webley, P. Wittington, S. Milnes, E. Thom on, M. Henshall, A. Greenwood. 1st Year urse : E. Matson, M. Pickering, B. Beasley, D. Benty., Myer , J. Gardiner, S. Lake, R. Keith, J. Blackler, B. Rountree.

NEWS OF THIS YEAR'S NEW OLD GIRLS 1st Year Varsity-Ena Balfour, Elizabeth Davie, Jennifer Jenkin , Felicity Ower, Gillian Preston, Ur ula Richards, Ali on Ross. 1st Year urse at Christchurch-Robin Keith, Sally Lake, Jennifer Gardiner, Jocelyn Blackler, Mary Pickering, edra Myer , Bernadette Rountree. In Dunedin-Adrienne Adair, Judith Spooner. In Timaru-Janice Smallbone. \.'Villiams. In Greymouth-Anne 1st Year Training College-Margaret Boleyn, Margaret De La Hunt, Cynthia Smith, gaire Cooper. 1st Year Art School-Pamela King, Myfawny Coxhead, Jacqueline la Roche. In Offices-Janice Cummings, Valerie Feat, Judith Mellish, Frances Walker. rst Year Horti ulture Student at Lincoln-Mary Pretsch, Ann Somers. Fay Schluter-Doctor's Rooms. visiting England. Raewyn Lawrence-Overseas, Joy Nairn-Kindergarten teaching in Wellington. oelene Levy-Kindergarten teaching in Christchurch. Joan D' Arey, Margaret Isherwood, Elaine Mackenzie-at pre ent m Dentists' Room but doing nursing training next year. Judith Bell, Janice Wilson-Window dre sers and designers. Enid Roy-Smith ( "Pre "), Alison Anderson (" tar-Sun" )-Reporters.

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OLD GIRLS AT CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Capped This Year: B.A., Rosalind Carey, Elizabeth Champion, Elizabeth Page, Prudence Tobin, Jennifer Warren, Jennifer Wood. Diploma in Fine Art, Gwylfa Gerard (nee Owen), Julie Paron, Lorelei Treleaven. Completing M.A.: Prudence Tobin. Third Year: B.A., Mary ewton; B.Sc., Robyn Jenkin. Second Year: B.A., Ann Acton Adam , Marlene Bell, Margaret Cameron, Margaret Lewi , Eloi e Marshall, Janice McLeod, Alison Perry, Ro emary Smith; B.Sc., Ann Hudson. Fir t year: B.A., Elizabeth Davie, Jennifer Jenkins (part time), Gillian Pre ton, Ursula Richards, Alison Ross, Enid Roy Smith (part time); B.Sc., Ena Balfour, Felicity Ower. Lincoln College: Mary Pretsch, Ann Somers.

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OLD GIRLS' NETBALL TEAM The old girls again entered a team in the etball Association's competitions held on Saturday mornings, and a great deal of plea ure was had by all its members. The team con isted of the following old girls: Eloise Marshall, Helen Watson, Pamela Miller ( captain), Elaine McKenzie, Joy Watson, Shirley Galbraith, Judy Mardon. Results of Matches: St. Margaret's College O.G. v. Strowan, lost 11-g. v. Monowai, won 6-4. v. Western, drew 5 all. v. Maheno, lost 14-5. v. All Greens, lost 15-6. v. Training College, drew v. 11:onowai, won 19-5. v. All Greens, lost 10-5. v. We tern, lost 14-5.

ENGAGEMENTS Peggy Anderson to C. Kernahan. Ali on Besley to D. Armstrong. Joan Harding to Peter Carrick.

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Zora Treleaven to W. J. Price. fargaret Collett to Andrew Paulsen. Margaret Reed to Morris Feary. Louise Peek to I van Hamer. Beverley Wilson to Denis Bowater. Tes a Calder to John Veale. Marjorie Dalzell to David Cattell. Helen Starr to Douglas Shaw. Edith Ashby to Stuart Sinclair. Dale Elley to Alan Mather. Denise Simmance to John Welsford. Margaret Dougall to Theodoor Kraa yvanger. Kathleen Moore to Walter orri . hirley Lamond to Graham Reynolds. Margaret Souter to Charles Seed. Mare:aret Wilkinson to Alan McFarlane. D::.rbara Ra trick to Anthony Davi on. :\n11c: Ollivier to Edward Latter. Anne Mitchel~ to Roger Stoddart. Helen Johnstone to Alan Familton. Kathleen Gillespie to Malcolm Macdonald. Judith Baylis to Ronald Newburgh. Anne Darwin to James Drummond. Betty Glas on to Ian Fleming. Noelene Read to George Doak. Rosemary Godfrey to David Owen.

MARRIAGES nn Roberts to R. Bierwirth . .Jocelyn Roy-Smith to David Broughton. Margaret Barrell to Erol Blair. Janet Purcha to R. J. Doak. Jocelyn Goggin to G. Devore. Joy Robilliard to ? Smith. Marion Fisher to Brian Donovan. Joan Macfarlane to Bruce Howarth . .Jean Broome to Anthony Bartlett. Leonie Anderson to I. Cowlishaw. Audrey Mc ish to Richard Barlow. Fay Soanes to C. W. Hay. Gwylfa Owen to S. Gerard. Gwynda Chappell to G. A. William . Marie Owen to Hans Tietze. ancy Morri to Ian Ja cobs. Cecily Gunn to David Adams. Margot Segue to G. Wethey. Margaret Reed to Morris Feary. Mae Milliken to Jim Le lie. Enid Hurst to _ orman Hardie.

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BIRTH Diana W ir (Mackenzie), son. Ali on Morton (Thomas), daughter. Reim a T ntori (Smith), daughter. Ann Loveil-Smith (Mitchell), son. Eleanor Macfarlane ( utherland), son. Joyce Peters (Collett), son. Patricia Wornall (Greenwood), son. Nancy Ackroyd (Price), daughter. Cecilia Elder (Thomas), daughter. Janet Fairclough ( McKillop), son. Jean Bartlett (Broome), daughter. on. Joan Hamilton (, lexander), Shirley Woolf (Gilbert), son. Merania Stott (Warren), son. Jennifer Meredith-Kaye (Stephenson), son. Margaret Thompson ( ), daughter. Rewa Symonds (Radley), daughter. Mary Gu threy ( orri ) , son. Janet Holland (Will ), daughter. Myrle Dendle (Corrick), daughter. Cicily Wright (Gillander ), daughter. Margaret Maclachan (MacLennan), daughter. Claire Thompson (Roberts), daughter. Margaret Knowle (Elder), daughter. Bobbie Robert on (MacKenzie), daughter. Margaret Shad bolt (Ritchie), daughter. Mary Jacobson (Purchas), daughter. Valerie Bettle (Wilson), son. ancy Halliday (Brown), son. Patri ia Arm trong (McKenzie), daughter. Paula Rands (McIntyre), daughter. Mary Knight ( Leece), daughter.

TIMARU BRANCH PRESIDE T'S REPORT I ha Ye very much pleasure in reviewing the year's activiti of the Timaru Branch f the S.M.C.O.G.A. As we are a very small Branch with members widely scattered over outh Canterbury we have but few fun tions during the year; but those function have proved very enjoyable indeed. On 14th D cember we held a Christmas Luncheon Party at the Crown Hotel ( the duck on the menu being raised on the Pre ident's farm!). As each member arrived the President pre ented her with a mall Chri tmas gift, a boulder pray in the School colours .. fter luncheon, whilst coffee wa being served, a Christma cake decorated in the School colours, with a chool hat badge as centrepiece, was cut. We took this opportunity to have a hort meeting, at which the President gave a ieeting in Christchurch and the Balance Sheet report on the Annual of the previou year wa. read by the Secretary.

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The Cookery Book proved very popular indeed, especially a Christmas present , all copies being sold. We wish to congratulate Mrs Partridge and her committee for their magnificent effort. In December the Secretary and President as repre entative of thi Branch were the guest of the Timaru High School Old Girl ' A ociation at th ir Christmas Party. In February the Craighead Old Girls' Association entertained their member and representative of kindred associations at a Buffet Dinner Party held at "Belmont" Cave, the home of Mr and Mr E. W. Kerr. t this function Mrs 0. D. Wale by represented the President, who was in hospital. The President and Secretary also attended a 5 o'clock Party held on 16th \ugust, given by the Ota go Ex-Girls' Association to entertain their members and representative of kindred a sociations. The Pre iclent of the Chri tchurch Bran h, Mrs Heathcote Garland, paid a short vi it to the Timaru Bran h. She wa entertained :it a small but very enjoyable afternoon tea party held at the home of Mrs Payne. The president presented Mr Garland with a shoulder . pray in the School colour.. Mrs Garland gave us a very intere ting talk on the running of the Parent Branch. It was decided to rai e the Annual Subscription of the Timaru Bran h to b the same as that of the Chri tchurch Branch. During the year flowers were sent from the Branch to the following members who pent varying period in ho pita!: Mesrlame Barton, Harris, Kerr and Sievwright.

A member, Miss Joan Spooner, was presented with a trip-book Diary on her leaving for a trip to England in April. Since her arrival in England, Joan has repre. ented ew Zealand at the 6th International Congress on Accounting. She intends to further her studie while in England and take a course of Cost Accounting. A a Cub-Master she has repre ented New Zealand at a Scout Indaba. Also he was sole ew Zealand repre entative at an International Guide Camp at Beacon field. 1 ew member are Eunice Lee and Mrs C. W. Hay ( Fay Soane ) . We are sorry to lose Mrs Ellis (Jean Ritchie), who has moved to the North Island, living now near Marton. Dorothy Talbot .is now Tutor Sister at the Timaru Public Ho pita!. Joy immons is doing Occupational Therapy work at the same hospital.

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daughter; Barbara Kerr (Cotter), a son; Ruth Sievwright (Hamilton), a daughter. We have tentatively set the date for the Annual Meeting of this Branch for 24th October. Mrs Averill has very kindly consented to be the guest speaker at this meeting and to give us a short talk. CHRISSIE BAR TO , President.

NELSON BRANCH Fay Cowper (Hamilton) lost her hu band after a very long illne s. She i left with two small children. E ther Keesing spent many weeks in Nel on Hospital following an operation to her knee. vVe are pleased to note her recovery and return to Auckland to her Kindergarten work. Janet Atchley (Rowe) is now living at Havelock North. Molly Biggs (Hunt) leaves in October for England for an indefinite period. JEAN CHRISTIE, Hon. Secretary.

AUCKLAND BRANCH Reunion: The first Reunion of members of this Branch took the form of a Luncheon Party held at the Trans-Ta man Hotel on 16th ovember, 1951. This was a very happy occasion and the fourteen member present were welcomed by Mrs F. R. Foote, the Immediate Past President. Meetings: There have been five meeting held during the year at two-monthly intervals. These meetings have been held at the homes of individual members and at three we have had speakers. Miss Joan Rattray gave us a most interesting account of the Pan Pacific Conference in Christchurch. Mary Morten gave a comprehensive account of the work of the Wrens at H.M.S. Philomel, and Margaret Broadhead held everyone's interest with her description of Leeds where she spent •two and a half years at the University Library. A most valuable demonstration of Hat-Making was given by Betty Dunsheath and Ngaire Irvine at another meeting. To all the e people we are most grateful for making our meetings interesting and in tructive. The Annual Meeting will take place on 22nd October and we hope to hold a Children's Party as a celebration of Reunion Day on 13th ovember, and to attend a church service on the 16th. A collection of children's clothing was made at one meeting during the year and as a result three large parcels were sent to St. Mary's Home, Otahuhu, and the Brett Home, Takapuna. Membership: The membership ha grown to thirty-four and ·we have welcomed during the year Dorothy Fleming, Dorothy Aitken (Green), Rina Thorne George ( Fraer), Barbara Downey (Jagger), Paddy Thompson, Doreen Schluter, Miles Hill (Kempthorne), Josephine Horman, Norma Wright and Howard Plimmer. We were very orry to lose France McKay (Rigg), who left at the end of 195 I to make her home in Au tralia. Also Dorothy Mirams (Parsons) has just left us for a trip to England and the Continent, and on

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her return will settle in Wellington. We shall miss her very much a he ha been a mo t faithful and enthusiastic member. Mona King ( Coath) left during the year for a vi it to England and the Continent. We shall look forward to her return in the near future. It has been a pleasure to have Margaret Broadhead with u at our la t two meetings. Margaret is at the Auckland University Library for a short period. Cookery Books: The sale of Cookery Books has brought in £6/ r 2/6. Building Fund: As a result of the decision that each member should pay a tax of r/- at each meeting, the sum of £3/ 4/- has come in to date for the School Building Fund.

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WELLINGTON BRANCH We have held several enjoyable meetings this year, and we should like to thank the Pre id nt, Mrs G. Deldyck, Mrs Prime and Mrs Wallace, who have kindly l nt their homes. It is very much appreciated. A party was held at the home of Mrs Prime, Wadestown, for Mrs Deldyck before her departure for France, England and the Continent. Mr Deldyck is accompanied by her husband and daughter. A pre entation wa made. We have had several new members this year and have been very pleased to welcome them. We are having our Annual Meeting in October and our Annual Dinner in ovember, as Mrs Deldyck will be back then. Mrs Deldyck was al o taken to lunch at the Royal Oak Hotel. Che sell Boon has her B.A. and has finished her Speech Therapist course at Chri tchurch and is now a Speech Therapist and i. at the Thorndon Speech Clinic. Jennifer Ken ington i, a Drafting Assistant at the Hydro Design Office, Mini try of Works. Jacqueline McCall is Director of Berhampore Kindergarten. Joy Tairn is training to be a Kindergarten Teach r and i at the Wellington Kindergarten School. Pauline Evans is a Dental urse. Roslyn Davi has recently returned from a trip over. eas, where he was nursing some of the time, and is now working for a Doctor. Ann Yate is a clerk-typist at the orwich Union Fire Insurance Society. Dorothy Smith ha returned from a trip to Australia wh re she was nur ing and i at the Dunedin hospital. Polydora Soteros is a shorthand-typi. t to the Canadian Trade Commi ioner in Wellington. Elizabeth Page ha her B.A. and is taking a library cour e at the Wellington Library School.

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I should like to give very special thank to Mrs Deldyck for her very helpful co-operation to me. Many thank to all who have helped to make the meetings so pleasant. Chessell Boon is Acting Pre ident and is at 8A Talavera Terrace, Wellington. The Secretary and Acting Pre ident would be very plea ed to get into touch with any Old Girls pa sing through Wellington. Gwynneth Boulton has returned from overseas and i working at Army Headquart r , Wellington. Wedding: Alison Lu h to Ian Williams. Chessell Boon, Polydora Soteros, Acting President, 20 Pirie Street, 8A Talavera Terrace, Wellington. Wellington. 'Phone 70-644 (Office).

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The Dunedin Branch is now a very small one and as most of our members are students at the University of Otago our activities are limited to the niversity term . A very pleasant and informal party was held by the Branch at the end of la t year and a omewhat imilar function i planned for thi year. The Annual Meeting was held on 5th May. oelene Vale' resignation from the Committee was regretfully received. Helen Starr was elected President for this year and Ann Coates Secretary. Following the meeting we had a pleasant supper and fire ide chat. The activities of the Branch are rather restricted by a lack of older and more permanent members as the tudent member hip is such a variable one. We would be most pleased if any Old Girls who would like to join our Branch would contact either the President or Secretary at 5 75 George Street or telephone 12-970. Old Girls at the University of Otago: Ann Coates passed her 1st Professional exam. m medicine la t year and is now a 4th year Medical student. Caroline Curtis is completing her B.Sc. thi year. Marian Cotter and Basil Unwin have passed their exam. in Physiotherapy. • Ballinda Myers is a 3rd year Home cience student. Mary Falck i a 1st year Diploma of Home Science student. Helen Starr was capped B.H.Sc. in May and this year i doing a Ma ter' Degree in Home Science. At Dunedin Hospital: Owen Fulton has qualified a a Radiographer and now doing Radio Therapy. Audrey Elms and Ann McDonald are nursing. Kindergarten Training: Christine McDonald i a 1st year Kindergarten tudent.

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RENEWING OLD SCHOOL DAYS It was with some concern and not a few misgivings I consented to try and form a Branch of our Association in England-London if possible. After a long search and many enquiries as to a suitable small room in which to hold the initial meeting I read quite by chance an account of a similar gathering of Wellington College Old Girls so I decided to tread the same path and approached the Secretary of the Arts Theatre Club. He was very helpful and so my first difficulty was overcome and a prospective date arranged, then to work-with Noeline's help and the tireless efforts of Rae Brownlee in hunting up lost addresses, out went over fifty notices. Our first function on Friday, the 30th May, 1953, was meeting for Tea from 5-7 p.m. with much cheery chat. Seventeen in all attended and were keen to arrange further gatherings. I read a cablegram of welcome from the Parent Association i'1 Christchurch, New Zealand. Unfortunately the long distances separating the girls-the formation of a Comittee • seemed a difficult problem, so perhaps the idea of an annual gathering at some suitable time of the year would be more satisfactory. There was no lack of enthusiasm even among the letters apologising for absence, and so there's hope for more fruitful results in the future. Lost old girls appeared like magic and brought addresses of others who can be contacted later. When one realises the size and population of London as compared with Christchurch this first effort seemed more than satisfactory. Those present were: Miss Ethel Baker, early staff Member. Mrs Pedro Varjas (D~rothea Low). Mrs Wells (Wanaka Hayes). Mrs Matthews ( Molly Carrington). Mrs Istai le ( Lynette Grant). Mrs Sholto Farris (Vivienne Ellis). Mrs Matthais ( Barbara Scott). Mrs Kibblewhite (Annette Stouppe) . Mrs Hardie (Enid Hurst) Mrs Wigley (Patty Hart) Dr. Noeline Clemens. Misses Ray Brownlee, Kathleen Hanafin, Joan Smail, Joan Matravers, Kathleen Wickham and myself Apologies were received from: Dr. Betty Flint. Dr. Mary Hanafin. Miss Eleanor Grace ( early Staff member). Mrs Vincent Gerard ( Betty Buckley). Mrs Ben Hully (Joan Carrington). Mrs H. E. Porter ( Doris Barker). Mrs Percy Cox ( Irene Dunnage).

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Mrs Mayfield (Claire Mason). Mrs Hardy ( Bes ie Brown). Mrs Phi Iip Carter ( Lesley Ja mes). Mrs Buxton ( Iorah Hoare). Mr Bartleet (Jean Broome). Mi e Hope and Stella Purchas, Elizabeth William , Jan Ballantyne, Robin Stevens, Marna Stevens, Margaret Horten-Smith, Margaret Ru se1l, Rosalin Carey, Jean Hudson, Mildred Hui e and Jane Wilding. All were either living too far away or were touring on the Continent or elsewhere. (Signed) Muriel Clemen .

NOTES OF OLD GIRLS Dr. Noeline Clemen , at London House (late Edgeware Hospital). Dorothea Varjas has one daughter, married, live in South Kenington. Betty Gerard is living in Rotherham. Bessie Hardy lives in Chester. Doris Barker live at Sutton-Courtney. Wanaka Wells in South Kensington. Claire Mayfield in Tauranga. Dr. Blanch in Toorak, Melbourne (Hon. Phy.). ovember on. Je ie Barling ? in England from Dr. Maxine Wanty on staff at Edgeware Hospital, London. Molly Matthews at Haileybury College in England. The younger marrieds: (nee Elli ), Barbara Mathias (nee Scott), Enid Vivienne Farri Hardie ( nee Hurst), Patty ·wigley ( nee Hart), Lynette Isdaile ( n, e Grant), Jean Bartlett (nee Broome), Annette Kibblewhite (nee Stouppe). Those working at various occupations are: Kathleen Hanafin, Joan Smail, Joan Matraver .

MISS ELEA OR GRACE Noeline and I found Miss Grace at home on Easter Monday and we pent everal happy hour talking over old school days-later she conducted us on a motor tour of the lovely ea ide town of Bournemouth and Christchurch on the Avon. We returned to tea with her, finally saying farewell at 7.30 p.rn.-no voices but wi er for our time together.

AN ACCOUNT OF MRS J. ROY SMITH'S (NEE JAGGER) CONTINENTAL TRIP It all began ,vh n the tran -Channel plane touched down at Le Touquet and we drove our flying companion, the car, out of the aerodrome into a confu ed world of seething peopl , gabbling tongues and trange habits. Gradually throwing off the continually squeaking 'peep " of the fa t and furious French driver , we passed through

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Boulonge and Calais to Dunkirk. From the war wrecked town, we. gazed across the great expanse of sand so utterly devoid of tussock or sandhill. Over this heart-breaking landmark of misery and heoric death lay an overpowering atmosphere of solemn serenity, of immortality and of eternal glory. Slowly we travelled on into Belgium. Unscathed by war, her people and buildings give an air of peace, beauty and happiness. Bruges, renowned for its "Brussels Lace" attracted us with the world's finest set of carillons. Here we visited the Chapel of the Holy Blood, where the casket said to contain a relic of Christ's Blood reposes. Then on to a dainty lace shop, to watch an expert at work on a 2 inch handkerchief edging "250 Bodkins!" she said with a smile, "it takes me six ,,veeks, and costs £25 !" Later, we approached Antwerp through the dazzling white-tiled tunnel under the river Scheldt. Friends took us to the "Hotel des Landres" for dinner; my host asked to order for me, "As," he said, "in England you eat to live, we live to eat". How right he was. A long succession of dishes passed almost untasted in front of me. Did I wish I was a College Boarder! We passed on to Holland, its traditional windmills and canals landmarking its rugged flatness. Once we had met the Dutch people we knew why they had flooded their land against German invasion. We left quietly pleasant folk of such strong and purposeful character, for Germany. We drove with dusk into our first German town and began searching for our hotel in the ruins of Munchen Gladbach. I slipped out of the car and questioned a nurse-she replied in halting English and so w~ found the place at last, on the top floor of the unly reconstructed building in a large area of rubble. The ground floor was Woolworthsthe first floor a picture theatre. What a ghastly view from the breakfast table! We saw sections of the debris absolutely untouched-these were unclaimed holdings which had to remain as they were for r o years. If still unclaimed by 1955, they will become Council property. In the sunny brilliance of the following day we drove through the famously beautiful city of Cologne to Frankfurt, closely following the curves of the Rhine. Its quaint linked barges glided slowly and smoothly along beside the cruising pleasure launches crowded with gaily dressed tourists. The rambling old castles towering above the thick forests which graduate from the water, seemed to frown at their occasional reflections. How cool and lovely it all looked. The German autobahn is a driver's paradise-we were thankful for it when we left the town Stuttgart ( which was bombed in retaliation for Coventry) with its violently anti-British people. We really owed this hostility to our G.B. number plate, because once they knew we were New Zealanders they melted considerably. And so we passed into Switzerland, clean, friendly and picturesque. Here we discovered an exquite miniature NiagaraThe Rhine Falls; and again met a delapidated carload of English students. Nothing daunted with their own or their car's appearance, they tooted and cheered in the usual manner of "G.B." acknowledgment and unsuccessfully raced back to Paris with us. Paris, the beautiful, with her famed monuments and boulevards, arched bridges and ornate cathedrals, and forever her typical gendarmes, flu tered and gesticulating, strutting up and down her fashionable rues. There is so so very little time. much to ;ee-but

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