We are doing a bit more tidying up of our constitution and that requires a special general meeting. It is being held just prior to the normal monthly committee meeting. All members are welcome (and to the committee meetings too). Committee meetings are normally held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. This one is a Wednesday to avoid issues with school holidays.

Wed 8th July 2026 5pm

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

To change the constitution.

To Add Clause

1. Name of Association

New Town High and Tech Old Scholars Association (NTH&TechOSA) Inc.

And to delete Clause 3 then change Clause 3a number to read 3

To read

3. Association’s office

The office shall be at Hobart City High School, New Town Campus, Midwood Street, New Town, or any other place the committee may determine.

P W FLETCHER
PUBLIC OFFICER

11 June 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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1. Name of Association

3. Association’s office

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