Centenary Dinner – bookings open!

The Centenary Dinner celebration will be held on Saturday 2nd November 2019, at the Elwick Racecourse Function Centre.

Time: 6:00pm for 6.30pm start

Cost: $75 per head, for two course buffet dinner and a welcome drink.

Don’t miss this special occasion – a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and be part of the celebration of “the best school of all“, as the song goes!

Former scholars can book individual seats or a table of 10.

Please order your tickets by clicking on this link: https://newtownhigh.tas.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Centenary-Dinner.pdf

For further information, please contact:

Wayne Fletcher Mobile: 0419 034 410 or

Karen Commane Mobile: 0407 445 238

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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