Urban Garden – NTHS&Tech OSA

New Town High School & Tech Old Scholars' Association

Urban Garden Project – September Update

Posted on 07/09/202008/09/2020 by Tim Oxley

The school’s Urban Garden Project continues to take shape, thanks to Rick Cazaly, Wayne Fletcher and their energetic team. Only recently a paddock of weeds, there are now plants and vegetables growing in freshly cultivated soil. The garden, opposite St John’s Church, New Town is being used to teach students Continue Reading

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

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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