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The Great Debate: School Team v The Justice Crew

Posted on 09/05/201927/06/2019 by Tim Oxley

On 6th March 2019, the school debating team took on some rather serious opposition. Three Supreme Court Judges, all former NTHS scholars had agreed to a debate to help celebrate the school’s Centenary. Here’s Head of English and Debating Coach Grace Guerzoni’s report: In the Affirmative Corner, we had ‘their Continue Reading

Old Boy: George Goodwin

Posted on 03/05/201931/03/2020 by Tim Oxley

George Goodwin second from right with Harry Gilbert and prefects at Government House, February 2019. Our oldest old boy is George Goodwin, who turned 101 in 2019. George attended Hobart Junior Technical School, leaving in 1934. He joined the Royal Australian Air Force and trained as an Air-Frame Fitter. George Continue Reading

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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