05/06/2020 – NTHS&Tech OSA

Garden Project – Can You Help?

Posted on 05/06/202005/06/2020 by Tim Oxley

NTHS&TechOSA is helping the school to develop a garden for students and the community. To be known as the Urban Garden Project, the facility is at 12 St John’s Avenue, New Town. (Many of us will remember marching past on our way to Wednesday afternoon church services with Canon Latta …) With Continue Reading

Annual General Meeting

Posted on 05/06/202005/06/2020 by Tim Oxley

Subject to COVID-19 restrictions it is proposed to conduct the NTHS&TechOSA Annual General Meeting at 5pm on Tuesday 28th July 2020 at the School Hall. A beer and bite function will also follow the meeting, at 6pm. Formal notice of the AGM calling for Committee office bearer positions will be Continue Reading

Hall of Excellence 2020 Nominations

Posted on 05/06/202005/06/2020 by Tim Oxley

The acceptance date for Hall of Excellence nominations has been extended until 31 August 2020. Please consider Old Scholars who may qualify for recognition of their outstanding achievements in the following categories; Academic & Professional Arts / Culture Community Service and Leadership Sport To date 4 nominations have been received Continue Reading

Old Boys: Ken Midson

Posted on 05/06/202005/06/2020 by Ian Peppiatt

Welcome to the latest in our series of stories about the life and times of former students of New Town High School, Hobart Technical High School and Hobart Junior Technical School. In this edition of our Newsletter, we’re very pleased to introduce you to Ken Midson. Ken was a student Continue Reading

Myths and Legends

A Confession

My first contact with the school was in 1942 when the Junior Technical School was in Bathurst Street and I was a student studying Chemistry at University. Our laboratory was on the second floor immediately above the broad driveway on which the school assemblies were held. The boys were tightly packed into the limited space available and we looked down upon them, as it were, from a great height. We used to sprinkle them with a fine spray of water blown from apparatus called wash bottles. They would look up at us in frustrated desperation. They could do nothing about it. They were too crowded to be able to move aside and, under the discipline of the school, unable to create a disturbance. They were sitting ducks. The university students very unfairly took advantage of the situation. But if looks could kill, we would have been consigned to everlasting perdition.

Twenty-four years later I re-appeared on the scene as Headmaster. It is remarkable how greatly perspectives can change in twenty-four years.

Des Mahoney

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