Special General Meeting – Constitution changes – Tues 9th June – 5pm

A special general meeting will be held prior to the normal committee meeting to make some changes to the constitution of the New Town High and Tech Old Scholars Association Inc. (NTH&TechOSA Inc.)

The changes to the wording are to better reflect the not for profit and community service nature of the organisation.

9 June 2026 5pm

At Hobart City High School, New Town Campus Midwood St New Town.

To change the constitution.

Under Clause 4 (1)(a)

Add after the 2nd and To encourage community participation and support. and

Delete current Clause 4(1)(b) and replace with To support Hobart City High School in its activities and needs, to advance the education of its students;

Under clause 7 (2)

Delete current clause and replace with

In the event of the organisation being dissolved, the amount that remains after such dissolution and the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities shall be transferred to another charitable or not for profit organisation as the committee determines.

The constitution therefore to read

4. Objects and purposes of Association

The objects and purposes are;

(1) To establish not for profit association of old scholars with membership from former students, teachers and staff of Hobart Junior Technical School, Hobart Technical High School, New Town High School and Hobart City High School and former and current teachers and staff of those schools;

(a) To foster relationships between the School Association and the School, and to encourage community participation and support and

(b) To support Hobart City High School in its activities and needs, to advance the education of its students;

(d) To provide and participate in mentoring current students of Hobart City High School, and

(e) Any other matters the Committee determine.

(7) Income and property of Association

(1) The assets and income of the Association shall be applied solely in furtherance of its objects.

(2) In the event of the organisation being dissolved, the amount that remains after such dissolution and the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities shall be transferred to another charitable or not for profit organisation as the committee determines.

(3) The Association may pay a person or member of the Association as the committee determines.

W FLETCHER PUBLIC OFFICER

19 May 2026

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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