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Peace.

Then we turn to the living, and there find that , Thrones, Dominions, Peuples, Kiagh', Are changing 'neath our hands." All thoughtful men and women are appalled at the gigantic problems that face us on every side-the Map of the World to be redrawn, Governments to be put down, and others to be put in their places; warring nationalition and classes to be taught to live side by side in peace and friendship; commercial reconstruction. No wonder the bravest and wisest recoil in terror from responsibilities as overwhelming as these. No one country, class or political party can do the work. The co-operation, whole-hearted and open-minded, of the best lrins of all untioHn must be assured if the world is to be a beth'r place in the future than it was before Aug .t 1914. Fortunately for us, such great businc~i is int in our sphere, but we have each of us a part to play, and we each and every individual in the country must try to get rid of our licjudice4w and make an effort-and a continuous effort at that- to see those questions from every point of view. It will be irritating at first, thern bewildering, but as the habit grows and our knowledge I. creases, we stall see where our present ideas are wrong, and we shall at least fully realise that no one nation or party has a monopoly of pobtical wisdom and disinterestedness. If only we all could learn to see, and to see quickly, the other person's point of view, how soon our bitterness and strife would die away and our world he a better place to live in. We should then, ineteed, know what "peace" means, and our boys wmidd not have died in vain.

As suddenly as the war eame, it has ceased, sad we look at one another in stupefication, aid wonder can it be really true. Less than three months ago, we hoped-and yet feared to hope-that it might be over in a year-per- balps-and now, in a few short weeks, hostilities have ceased. What marvellous weeks they have been! How one epoch-making event has erowded on the heels of the last, till we are diusy and surfeited with sensations! Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and then the sPh enemy, Ger- many, come suing for peaee-peaee at any price! turely a vietory as complete as any the world has ever seen! Annus mirabilis indeed P. Slowly out of the welter of our emotions two ideas emerge above all others-how great a price we have paid--and to what use shall we put the victory we have bought. As our soldiers return to us, we shall realise as never before how many are the gaps in their gallant ranks, and for some, the joy of peace will be quite obscured by grief for those who ** went west." Yet even for them it is not all grief-there is a desperate pride in the sacri- fice that helps them to "carry on"; and there is also the conviction that their dear dead know more fully even than we, the blessedness of peace. They shall not grow old, as we who are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, or the years' con- demn; At the going down of the sun, and in the morn- in. We shaiJ remember them.

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Editorial.

Sports ground, and being for Grammar School Girls alone, and the second was an Inter-Schools competition held in the Do- main. The proceeds were given to Patri- otic Funds. In the Junior exam. held last November, 18 of our girls passed, and eight of them returned to school with Extension Scholar. ships. Maisie Cheesman passed for the Civil Service, and though she returned to school for the early part of the year, she received her appointment at the end of June. Mabel Terry, who also gained a scholarship, has been away during the fourth quarter owing to her mother's ill- neas and death. We all tender her our sincerest sympathy. A great improvement was instituted in the middle of this year, when the Educa- tion Department decided to grant the State Scholarships for 2j years instead of two years, as has been the custom since 1914. The result was that there was a great influx of new girls after June, which necessitated the formation of .two new forms in Lower III. A. and B. In order to cope with the extra teaching, Miss Merle Weaves, M.A., from Hobart, joined the staff, this being the only change that has taken place in its personnel. We take this opportunity of thanking Dr. Lilian Cooper for her kindness in giv-. ing up an afternoon to us. in order to de- liver her exceedingly interesting address on Red Cross work in Serbia, when all realised for the first time the great hard- ships suffered by the gallant Serbians, and the heroic efforts of the Red Croea work- ers.

HE year 1918 is drawing to a close, Sana as we look back on its crowded months we realise that it is one of the most eventful that the world has ever seen. Fortunately for us, we are not part of the stage on which this tremendous drama is being enacted, and though we breathlessly follow the course of events it is only as an audience and not as aetors. Still, there are things we can do and the school this year has kept up the fine record of consistent and generous giving that it has Itiade in the past. Subscriptions to the amtodnt of about £80 have been sent to the Red Cross, and to Comforts' Fund, while the two cots at the Children's Hospital are still our charge. We still have a col- leciti of' eatables-eggs, fruit and vege- tables-sent to the Red Cross Kitchen once a for tnight, and we are very glad that the 'gifts are acceptable. A War Savings Group has been opened at the School to which most of the girls contribute: the contributions are brought on Wednesday mornings, and every week there is quite a procession of girls going to the Office to receive their certificates. Wye,had a whole holiday for Anzae Day, and a half in honour of Bulgaria's sur- render, but when Turkey gave in, exams. were. too close for another celebration of that kind, but one lesson was cut out of the morning's work, so that the girls of the Upper School could attend the meeting in Market Square if they like 1. o far there have been ,,o entertainments gicvn 'by the various Forms, but the whole scho 'turned its attention to Sports meet- ia.,-the first one being held on the Boys' IBB WILKINSON writes from Londo, M 4ibre she is a Commissioner for the Coa* Les', Visiting Aeoelatlot--"This is tlhe largesthospitli in London. It is auid that when toU.hove walked to, and through eaeh ward ud bleek you have covered 7 mles, and I eau well belie. it. I receive daily an oSelal list of tke convoy of wounded admitted, and it is my

Extracts from Letters.

duty to visit ech man and get partieulars of his country, ete., and ll thor in on printel identity eards. The seeretary then forwards these t the seeretarie of the countiw, who have to prodle them with a visitor from thir owa eoontry, living ia Lndon. I have also t visit all the overseas men, and find out if they would lilu a Els vIsitor.". .. -«

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"Please thank the girls for their prompt re- sponse to my appeal for newspapers, which are now no longer needed. I was much interested -in your news of the Sports Teams."... "I have little to tell f-f interest, because I am entirely occupied with my work. We had a very long and noisy air raid at Whitsuntide. The guns roared for two hours, and the 'planes fought and flew so low down that I thought they would come in at my windows. There are now aeroplanes and balloons up at night carry- ing searchlights, and they look beautiful in the dark blue vault among the stars."' T HE following is an extract of a letter from Miss Cookson, from Dorsetshire. "At last I did what I had for a long time set my heart on-joined the Women's Land Army." I went flrst to a large farm, where I was head of the girls' hostel, and where I managed to get my instructor's armlet from the Board of Agriculture. Then I was sent here to organise a new centre. I have the en- tire charge of the hostel, and of the girls' work T HE school has continued its regular pa- triotie contributions this year, the total amount subscribed till time of going to press being l56 Os. O6d., which has been divided between Red Cross and Soldiers' Comforts' Funds. On April 12th, we had a special day for the Y.M.C.A., the result being £4 Os. Old., which is three times as mueh as we colleet by the usual Friday contributions. Bad to say, however, the quota from each form has been deereaing of late owing, we think, to war ws.-lngs, but this we must not allow to con- tinue, for surely Red Cross is more important as it is straight-out giving. We started our War Havings Campaign after the midwinter holidays, and the 200 odd girls who answered the appeal have already sub- scribed £234 18s., which entails the handing out of 173 boab. We are glad to be abk to report that the girls' interest in the ,itq Goes Pitehe has not" lagged, as our eontribu)eons ia the shape at 'vegetables, fruit, and eggs, stin End their wmy on to the platforma every seeond Friday morainl.

on two large mixed farms (of about 1000 acres each) and a dairy of 52 cows, and 100 pigs! The hours are long-I get up at 5 and go to bed at 8.30 and am "on" most of the time, either in the hostel or on the farms, but the life suits me, and I am wonderfully fit. Our uniform is most comfortable and very servjice able-khaki breeches and tunics down to 'our knees, leggings, strong nailed hoots, and khaki felt hats. Our two cottages are in the mal- ley and the farms lie on the hills aU rou~d-.- it is a tnost lovely spot. "We got in the hay harvest splendidly-and are now having a rather easier time, waiting for the corn. So far the weather is bad, fpr that-rain, rain, rain, every day. Fortunatqly, our boots and leggings are watertight, and we have grand mackintoshes; and oven if we are out in the wet all day, we just shed those, and come out dry underneath. "Please give my love to the girls who re- member me-I often think of them, and of the. happy days I had at the B.G.O.S." In response to an appeal from the Comforts' Fund for newspapers, Miss Ma.ckay i.llotted 'PTe- day as "Paper Day," on which day we And a certain section of the comnunuity-a very small section -regularly fulfilling this small $r- quest. The proceeds of our Annual Sport.. wlith took plice in June, were, as usuial, dvoted to the Patriotic Funds, £10 being handed o,\ er to the Red Cross, and £10 to the Soldiers' Comforts' Fund. These funds were again iruinted by the proceeds of the Intersehool Sports, when the sumn of £<4 was placed to thl'ir ., tlit. HOMPITAL NOTE4. THIN year, we have continrull ,'Ir go.r, terly subscription of £< 'c. 'or :hb main- tenance of our two reota ,t the Chil- dren's Hospital. At the end of last quarter, two "glorified pelicans" were purchased with the surplus money. Some of the girls anlo ,e. sponded to the appeal for warm h!,'d newks for the babies during the winter.

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GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE. Gymnastic Notes.

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IS year, as in former years, Gymnastics have been a favourite exercise with all the Porms. Sixth Fora, contrary to custom, taking part and having leons with Fifth. TUe work on the whole has been very good, especially in the Upper Thirds, in which Forms thres are sme very ged gyuts. T he.Iower Thirds h6 ade a good begintala. Apparently the thousht ef that er too sear event, the Junior, i e itnI d th ethkrwie ",IreS' move- meat of 'he IV. Form Chb y lave again a~de their appearanee, be- A.JLHJL y ItCE the Fifth this year tIs a very small Form, attending to the library, mending books and magasines takes up a great deal of our time. We now have a great variety of books, likely to suit all taste, bat for such a large school there are not ealy enough subscribers, so here we take the opportunity to ask more girls to join. The girls who hate looked after the eup- boards are Laurie, Mary, Marjorie, and Nell, and, no doubt, the subscribers have found them J I *The port' ciommitteo have nobly attended the few meeting, held during the year, and their work in conneetion with our own and the Interiehool i 4 portN haw been niost eMelent The holding of Sports' Days entails an ininite amount of labour undreamt of either by the partleipants or by the onlookers, and the members of the eanmitte applied themselves to the task with right good will. Special thanks are due to klleaor Hart for the long lists she paiastak- 'ngiy produced for the guidane of intending competitors. Next year's eommittee will eer- aif)yregret her departure from their u*.st. the Tennis Blue for the year 1918 ha been awarded to r. Drake, the Swimming Blue to TLirr

ing now included' in the lessons of VI. and V. Forms, and with these, very good pegres has been made. Another exereise for VI. and V. Forms only is that on the parallel bars, and very sa;issfatory work has been done in this direction also. Instead of clubs and parallel bar,. the other Forms have skipping steps and 'free movements. Though there have bees no Inter-Form com- petitions this year, yet enthusiasm for Gymnas- ties has led many girls of the lower Forms to practise in the diser-hoer. . .. very. helpful in the recommending ef books. Every Friday, at dinner-time, there is a seramble of girls into the Fifth Form room, where Hilda is busily looking after the books, and Katharine the magasines. For the benet of any girls who do not know, we will state here, that it is the custom to pre- sent a book to the library on leaving. Thus a girl may leave her Tame inside a library book, if not on the Honour Board. NTesP

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Sports Notes.

D. Stephens, and the two Basket Ball Blues to H. Jackson and M. Wagner. A. Carmiehael played a very good game, but cireumstances prevented herfrom playing in three matches, thus rendering her ineligible for a Blue. The Swimming and Tennis Champlons for 1917, generously gave up their priee, receiving in- stead eertleatee, and in consequence the Soek Fund benefted to the etent of £13. Last year the broooh, anoaymouly donated, to be awarded to the girl judged by the Sports' Mistreeses to be the beet all-round sport, fell to Ese Wilsen. This year, Itarjore Lamb le the winner. It proved no easy task this year, .to decide who was beet entitled to the brooel,

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but after much weighty deliberbtlon, M. Lamb was chosen, as she has represented the school In two tegms, and also in the Inteesehools Sports team-H. Jackson and 8. Drake, who have both represented the school in two teams, ran very eqse, and E. Hart would have proved a dan. gerous rival but that, owing to illness, she wnas anable to tke part in the Intersehool sports. In connection with this broocb, the donor also very generously 9tered primes for the three

best designs. The prizes were won by D. te phens, E. Hart, and 0. Burton, Dorothea's de- sign being chosen. Once again we are most proad to have we- taiaed the 8.S.A. Cup, as the result of ourt hav- ing managed to secure both the Tennis ad Ba.- ket Ball pennants for 1918. May we be alil. to repeat the performance in 1919! . O. L,

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HIA year, the pennant has hrneu woni for the first tinme since 1913, but the tennig ot' the schlool as a whole i. very weak, and when, owing to Margaret Haym,'."e 'a illnco,, there was a vacancy In the teamca, we haud to borrow Marjorie Lamh from the basket-hall seven. All the members of the team will he leaving at the end of the year, so everyone must buck up and prcitise hard for next year'a lour. At the beginning of the seasn, N. Drake was the only member of last year's team, the new ones beiag-M. lowler, .T. Fraser, and M. Lamb. Prospects did not seem very bright, but owing to hard praeties we hsve managed to win all our matches, except the one against Tpswleh, on their court, which we lost by 3 points in spite tf the very valuable assistance of M. Haymen.

~11inea WXilk i;:son'as t'hulle',ee 'up has again Ueen ison by I'orn, VI. with 1'. as verv close ,seonid. The Nchlaeel 'rournament is acot yet Iiniahed. 'Tht' team takes this opportunity of thanking !Jiss $t.'eedlceun for the great interest abe has takec in the' tennis of the ,whool, and also for the' hard woe~rk she has desee for the Club. We would alse like to thnnk the Hoya' team and Mfr. B rhouer, aned Mlr. Davilso, for the exellent practlee. they have giv'en us through the year. fur. no doubt, their help went a long way towards 'aur w inning the pennant.

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RESULTS OF INTER-SCHOOL MATCHES. . v. B.G.H.8., played home .... 2 . v. C.E.H.8., played home .... 2 . v. I.G.8., played home .... 2; . v. B.G.H.8., played away .... 2: . v. C.E.H.8., played away .... 2; . v. I.G.M., played away .... 2:

The team girls worked well and swam well, but our opponents were too strong, and the Brockway Cup Race resulted in a win for the High ,ehool, who did the race in 90 4/5 seconds, beating us by two seconds. In the Intersehool Carnival, D. Sylow, a new strong meminer of the team, who was unfortun- ately not eligible for the Broekway Cup team, came second in the championship being only 1/5 second behind the winner; she also won the breast stroke race. In the inal results we came third, being b

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BASKET BALL NOTES. T HIS year, we have succeeded in winning the Basket Ball pennant, in spite of hav- ing had rather bad luck with the mema- bers of the team. Two of the girls dropped out during the season, and we have had emergen- cies in most of the matches. The first time we ployed the Ipswich Grammar School they beat us, but we won the return match. In conse- quence, we tied for Arst place. It had been decided at the end of the 1917 season, that if ever again two schools were each entitled to a pennant, a final mateh should be played on a neutral court. Misses Harker and Jarett kindly allowed us the use of their grounds, and we enjoyed a hard-fought battle, the plea- sures being naturally heightened by the fact that we were the vietors. The C team for 1918-formed entirely of girls who entered the sehool at Christma-- has done good work. Indeed, several members were promoted to the B. team during the sea- son, and one proved herself thoroughly eapable of flling a vacant place in the A. Team for two natehes. The general play has been quite satisfactory, free from roughness for the maost part, each player remembering that she was working for the sueess of the team, and not for any personal glory. After some most harrowing experieneos, Form VI. have managed to become the proud posses- sees of the Inter-Porm hield. We all sincerely thank Miss Lyons, who, once .more, has devoted a great deal of time to oeeach- in us. We shall be sorry to have to say fare- well to the majority of our A. team girls, and iemloe those who will sueeeed them next year to "Carry On." LH.H. SWIMMING NOTES We have had rather hard luck in swimming this year, the eshool not having dletinguished itlf at this sport.

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legistrar, afternoon te was served ia the Uni- veatty Common Booms. The proeeed from this itd firo the sale of weets and programme (amsuting to *64), were divided between the Soldiers' Soak Fund sad the Red Cross Fund. The results of the empetition-were:-B.G.GJ. 451 points, IG.O.8. 13j points, Teehnieal Col- lege 7 points, and "Craigrd" 5i points. Mrs. Stephens has kindly presented a eup for annual eompetition between eeondary schools, which we hold for this year, and hope to hold for many more. At the presetation, Mrs. Stephens tied a streamer of royal blue to the handle of the eup, asklag that it sbould be untied and kept by the girl who seeured the maximum num- ber of points for her school. The honour fell to P. Franeli, who seeared 7 points; with H. Jackson 0t points, L. Maddiseon, 0. Heyworth, and M. White 6 points se1h.. The most amusing race was the chariot race; six teams started, but some forgot that they had to return to the startin point, and wandered blindly about amid shrieks of laughter from the elookers Aaother amuasin event was the three-legged race; in this, as in moot of the events, the pistol frightened the eompetitors uad some ehoee the ground for a resting plase for a few minutes. even though it was rather damp. The height cleared by the winner of the High Jump, M. Hall (I.O.), 4ft. eins., was a surprise to most people. L Maddison wus a close second, clearing 4ft. Sins. The jumping on the whole was very good, even the judgel remarkinag on the excellence of style displayed. The times in the Championship and the Hur- dles were also good. nl some of the events the appearance of dogs who seemed to imagine they could join in and have a try, as well as the girls, eaned omme annoyasee, but the dogs eventually retired, seeing the girls were winning easily. It was too dark to deids the Long Jump, so this wau postpoed till the followig Monday afterses. NIet year, let a hope, we shall not have t heat ad uge the sempetlter to prasti, for m shal have a harder tkph, sise some of the ether scheel wiD badly want that enp. N. J.

SBCOOL 8POBTS. The annual School Sports took place on Wed- nesday afternoon, June 19th. This year's 8port. had a great advantage over last year', as they were held on the Boys' Turf, and so the girb were able to run the raees withoUt turning. This year, we had hurdles for the frnt time, and we have to thank Mr. Connal for briaing. over two boys, to instruct us in the art of "'urlingout leg." The Flag race was won by Perm VI., sad the Chariot race, also an innovation, by Form V. Afternoon tea was served at tables on the grass, and the proeede from this, together with the entry fees, and the entrance money, amount- ing to £20, was again divided between the Red Cross and the Comforts' Funds. We again have to thank Nestle's, and Mr. Spriagall for sending donations of ice-resam. We wish to thank Miss Mollisen for giving up so much time to us, and also to thank Miss Lyons, and the Mistresses who looked after the afternoon tea. . H. H. B.G.G.I. 4PORTS' COMMITTU, 1918. Misses Mackay (preaident), Lyons (Hon. Sec.), Steedman, Mollison, E. Hart (assaiat. Hoa. eec.), D. Stephens, 8. Drake, A. Brrell, G. Jones, M. Lamb, J. Sharp.

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rmmm 01O UEOOL TRAMS: Tenal.-S. Drake (Capt.), J. Fraser, M. Fowler, M. Haymen, M. Lamnb. askit BaU--E. Hart (Capt.), H. Jackson, M. Lamb, M. Wagner, A. Carmichael, I. Ir- vine, E. Crick, N. Morris, N. Wilkinson, M. MeFarlane. Swimmng-D. Stephens (Capt.), D. Sylow, N.

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Intersehool Sports-H. Jackson CCapt.), G. Hey- worth, L. Maddleon, U. Morrir, P. Francia, M. Lamb, M. White, T. Bird, N. Jakes, B. Carr, H. Wagner, 0. 8purgin, M. Stephenson, N. Cribb, N. Wilkinson, B. Skinner, R. Hal- lam, E. Jones, M. Terry.

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T HE B.G.G.8.O.G.A. has now over a hun- dred members, several of the young girls who have recently left school having joined this year. The first general meeting at which the oMoers for the year were elected, was held in Finney's Cafe. The Tennis match, which is usually held to- wards the latter end of the year, waa this year arranged for April, owing to the fact that' the day was almost invariably wet. Unfortunately, this change of date did not effect a change of weather, and the match could not be finished. The Association represented by MiMes Dol- lar, Hurwood, Coghlan, and Margaret Campbell challenged the Present Girls, Misses J. Fraser, Lamb, C. Drake, and Fowler, and won by seven games in three sets. A social afternoon was held at the sehool in June, and those present were much interated in a game of Basket Ball played by two teams of "Old Girls," arranged by Mis Lyons. The river trip on the "Lucinda" which took place a little earlier this year, was very popu- lar, and the afternoon was very pleanantly spent by many of our members and their friends. The Social Evening which formed the fnal meeting of the year was held at the School ia aid of the Australian Comforts' Fund, which, in spite of the heavy rain, will beneit to the extent of almost £5. Misses Engel and Green- ield contributed a humorous duologue and a musieal programme in which Misses . Quinn, Rhire, K. and U. Jones, and Mr. Templetoe a- silted, was brought to a cloae by a play eharla terised by M'selle Ellis and Misses Lyons and Gasteen. Mra. Fisher (Doris Wright) has a sa. Mr. Drew (Jean MeWhirter) has a sm. Mrs Jaeebs (Olg Retere) has a daughter.

Mrs. J. 8. Wood (Leader Milne) has a son. Oona Brown married Erie Plant. Adelaide Marsall married Arehibald Sinclair. Doris Marehant married Albert Elliott. Ella Hood married Albert Lewis. Mollie CoHin married Mr. Chriatopherson, who has gone to the Front. ATENT news from Dr. Bourne tells of a week's holiday in August, spent with sonie friends from London at Ilkley, on the Yorkahire Moors. Lovely long walks were taken and eurious pre-historie seratehinp found on roeks-the meaning of which seems obscure. The beautiful town of Bolton Abbey was ex- plored, and with the glorious woods and the swiftly rushing Wharfe, with its tributary the Stride, greatly admired and enjoyed. In the following month, while on an inspecting tour at lipon, opportunity was taken to visit Fountains Abbey, the mosat beautiful ruin in the country-and to live over in imagination the life lived by the ola monks in this lovely re* treat. Where did they dine, where cook their food--eatch their fsh-entertain their guests- nurse their sicek, ete.? Ripen Cathedral was also most interesting-- with its crypt dating baek to 1.W--in which is a hole through which people had to erawl for trial by ordeal. The hole is really big enoagh for inyone to get through, but if one had a bad eonaience it might put the fear of God into one, so that one would be afraid to try. The choir seats are most beautifully earved thelgh the mbjeete choaen are very amuriag, sreh a Jonah eeming out of the Whale-Poatia Pilate hetag earried away ia a barrow by Judae lJass. lot-tram an old Italia mytery play eeaed Lizzie Mills married H. W. Webster. Edna Hull married Alan Campbell.

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Pinehinello, the original of our Punch and Judy -Pontias and Judas. Altogether a most delightful summer has been experienced. The clear, stimulating northern cli- mate being most enjoyable. W HEN war broke out, Miss Grace Wilson was Matron of the Brisbane General Hospital; she volunteered for service abrod, and organised a hospital to go to France. When they -eached Egypt the wounded were coming in so fast, that they were sent to Lemnos. Here they had a very bad time owing to shortage of supplies, danger from Austria aeroplanes, and the gales which knocked the tents over. How-- ever, Matron Wilson held her staff together imostl wonderfully, in spite of all hardships and was - mentioned in the "London Gazette" for din- tinguished and gallant services rendered in con- nection with the Mediterraneai Expeditionary Force, and she was awarded the Royal ied Cross of the First Class; at the end of the time she was present on the "Agamemnon" when the midshipman cane t6 report to the comamnder that all the boats had left Oallipoli without mim- hap. From Lemnos she went to Abassia in Egypt, where she established the No. 3 A.G.H., at the old Egyptian Military Barracks, and then did administrative work in connection with all the hospitals in Egypt and was so successful that she was mentioned in the "London Gazette." Her next move was to England, where she established No. 3 A.O.H. in Kitchener Hospital. at 9righton, where the inimense buildings con- tained nearly 2000 beds. From Brighton she and UR examination marks may not be much to look at, but, in other directions-'!!! This year we have won the Basket Ball $hield, the Tennis Cup, and the Slag for the tea rae, in the Interform competitions. The Tennis, Basket Baell, and Swimming Captains are all members of VI.th, and in. addition to these, J. Fraser is a member of the Tennis team. sad L. Maddaom and U. Morris represented us in the Athletle bports, the former winning the Hur- dies Championship and obtaining second place to the !Iigh Jurmp VL O

her hospital staff went to Abbeville in France, where they still were when she wrote last. For six months she was appointed Matron in Charge at Horseferry Road, London, but she returned early in the year. This hospital is housed in huts and tents, and they had a very anxious time when the (Germans broke through near Amiens in April last; the bombs were continu- zlly falling round them, onie actually fell in the middle of the hospital, but no one was hurt, and they had everthing in readiness to leave at a moment's notice. Mister '.unice Muriel Paten, of the Australian Army Nursing Merviee, left on active service on eptembher 24, 1l14, being one of four Army Nurnes c'hosen to rcconrllmay the first troops to leave Q(ueenslaud. After absmt ten months servie in Egy it, she was truHsferred to Englnnd and served iL. vari- on Military Hospitals there, being promoted to the rnk of Heed Hinter. In the Birthdny Honours list of 191T, she re- ceived the Royal Red Cross, 2nr c.las, in recog- nition of her servies as Acting..Matron of No. 2 Auptruliun Auxiliary Hospital, Mouthull. She is now Divisional Sister in a British Genera Hospital in Frtince. ind before eace was de- clareld, had been offered long service furlough to return to Australin. Pearl ('contanCe Paten. Australinn Army Mas- snge Corps. ifter being attauched for .some time to the staff of the Uanne Hospital. Ktinlngron Point, left on netive service on October 14. 1!)18. Mister Mona Meonreh is still in Indin. blue for swinlnming. and 8. )Drak. for tennis, ulso S. Drake and .I. Frazer, who won the School- girls' l)oubles Chnipionnhip of (queenstland. Our efforts in the scholastic field have some- how not mitet with e(quall Sue'en. We seem to he doteriorating, and one of our clussienl schol- nrs has confessed thnt the only I 4 tin she knows is '"Ignis Via," an idiomaltic wny of translat- ing "Fire away." There is a heated argument going on between two ,,members of the Form as to wthther fat' new may be measured by the average weight \We ,ongrntulate I). Stephens on winning her

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'1 be it tald 4k~daft e the yer hs besi ear visit to Biuthport dutisg the .14 inatr yactlem sad to it the most sesatiol veait was "'The CLIty, held oa x.,a. nigt, ~rrd~alla bult e vrid and eempllea Ce tdecie We~ had Bseety Bells and heavely twts. Boaw, Cthprty wa em -r Of 383 thisg, "all heatful oud brighrt" as it we, scrd we eae prtla~l ma to - ws emm~lAlrin beah One of the met ds~Lhfu sad ps~Yg dlsevrles wik w madek was the musical talent, exiting t our for. NeIin to fesY, we taskfull advantage sembs f-r or pemrs em the hleeu. Veril, the erea ha ris e t h top aad hbitoat, Iagt d'aprf be : Laglh lae burr by te vbrat lssds whichr rise frm hIew. Meet of us are leaving at tie 6.4 of thisr yeas. eare sre flt wth vrbeb It will be a ease of, "Werc bsr't west to los you, het we k;Ow you have t o, For te world sa its people bth asid pto us." Out 3orm AT the begluumla of the year we were a I' eterogeneous eolleetin, sixteeanoall, but we ar nowr feer sad atlly le, and esa onlyboast of elvenmess strwalrill we ea makef ourse herd, .oetlmss moe them we tor- tended orinll, fr ear muemories are not quito able to rasp te fact tht our voices Wtle are well represented in the rsehool teams. u cief represenatlvb to te swimmagn team, D. Sylo, won a lare number of pont. fe the seee In the laterehoo Carnival, and we hope; tht she will b e a sueer In our sehee emualvl Ia Deemnber; we les hathre ether gr~s ssmetlag.n Our r9)eresstatl to the ten ik ham is 31. Fowl~r, wh, hs derge rb pe the seheeL We ha' es-s -temw tr iegl th ie 1mIs tm,'mt-.dwe wishlr ~ smesss. W only h r relrestalve If th h esheeto, 5. Jeess butr .hrr mr. Atg - whel rrsuto oweda Is th

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had adorned the cup, kindly presented by her for Inter-School competition. However, our teams have all worked hard, which, after all, is the main thing. We have lept up our Red Cross contribu- tions, all the year, but of late they have dropped of sadly. We sent twelve Christmas parcels to the soldiers, two or three months ago. Sometimes during school hours our minds are greatly distracted by distant musie, which Mademoiselle says is "The Spring Song," (al- though some of us do not seem to recognise it); also by a certain trill, which many of the musicians seem to find rather dificult to manage. We were very sorry to say good-bye to Mar- garet Haymen, when she left for Armidale, and we wish her the best of luck at her new whool. Although our school exams, are over, the dreaded Junior is only three weeks' of. May we all be fortunate enough to find the papers to our liking so that many of us may return to revel in the joys of Senior work for the next two yean. We also wish "good luck" to the Seniorsn, who must is feeling even av "wobbly'' than we are, if sueh a thing be poseble. V B. consasts of 2 girls, sand is of rather mixed origin at preseat, being eompowd of IV.a, IV.b, sad IV.e, girls. Although the majority of us do not obtain very brilliant results in examinations, we are fairly well rep* resented in sports, thre o ooar girls being mem- bere of the A Basket-ball team, and onr first emorgesy of the Tennis Team, and several ethe memben of the B. Teams. We managed to some third in Tennis and BU- ket-ball this year, being teaten by Vl. and V. Forms. We did not do very brilliantly in our Rehool Sports, and we all rgret very mush the loss of ew beantiful royal-blue pennant, which was wrested from s by VI. Porm. We are a fairly well-behaved Porn on the whole, hbt it would tend to inerease the respeet- ability of the Form if one or two girls with partieularly loud voices would not exereise them during hamage of leuen. Meet of the girls in our Form are going in for the Junior Examination at the end of this quartr, and ae working very ard. IV.b. hear. tOly wah all the girls who have entered for the rtheseotig examination the gratest sueeus. 9 ,- .

IV.e. We are not not d for our marvellous br in power, but then IV.c. never was, anrd as all can- tiot have brains, the girls of IV.a have a vt.y largv share to make up for our deficiency. (The world is very unfair). We have two girls in the B. Basket-ball Team. and one of *,urgirls distinguished herself both at our Anr.m.1 Sports and the Inter-sehool Sports. We can boast various amateur artists in the Form, some rather troublesome ones, as they exercise their talents at awkward times of the day, but one girl secured first prize for a paint- ing at the Exhibition, and we all congratulate her, and also those candidates who were sue- cessful at the recent music examination, both theory and practical. We all have loud voices, some can keep them under control, and some cannot, but there is still a ray of hope shining, and those girls may have the ant before this term has expired. Though we tried very hard for the Tennis Cup, we did not secure it, but came fifth. The - majority of us are most fortunate in that we are not haunted by the visions of Junior examiners waiting to squeeze and draw dry, but intensely wish success to those of our les fortunate sisters, who must face the ordeal of the Junior in a few weeks' time. ORM Il.a consists of, about 32 girls among whom the Form Captain endeav- ours to keep order. Several of our number distinguished themselves in the Sports held last August. Rome of us dis- display enthusiasm in Basket-ball, the seasor for which, to the general sorrow of the Form, is past, tennis being now taken up with much en- thesiasm. In both Tennis and Masket-ball rneatehes, III.a has not been found wanting, and it is to be hoped that we shall continue to be successful. Nine months of the year have peased. during which we have devoted ourselves, with vary- ing degrees of diligence to our studies, and though we shall all be glad, when the examina- tions are over, we shall not be altogether glad to leave school for eight weeks Our lesson hours are made as pleasant as pos- sible, owing to the fact that we posess a large and cool class-room, with plenty of room for 9** '

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Jardialeres were bought by members of oar Form, for owere to beaatiy ou room, but whoe anyoe i sin nd of chalk, it i sure to be fomd in the Jardinieres of II.e. We may be able to talk of our "Chalk Containers," but not of our brmlns. On a Wednaeday moinrg, we think of everything but our War avings, which we should not forget, as the soldiers never forget to Ight for us. Now we ar begnalag to think of these things as w re getting older, and get a few more brains (for War 8avng). The Juniors will be having their examination soon. III.e all wih the Juniors of the Boys' and Girs' Grammar Sehools every success, aad we hope that our Behool tops the list for the meet passes in the examination. Miss Wise, ear Form Mistres, has tried to make s obey and leara graphs. We thanak her and the other Mistresses for their patience and efforts to teaeh us. We are sorry to say a poetess doesn't belong to our Form, so we cannot ask you to admire the beautiful lines from IIIe. At the Inter-sehool Sperts, our school came out with fying colours, obtaining more points than any of the other schools. 0. H. 8. We are a bhand of thirty-three girls, and each tries to do her share of Red Cross work. We sent twelve boxes to the soldiers, ad we sin- cerely hope that they will reach their destina- tion safely, and the contents will please and help to brighten the boys in the trenehes for Christmas. We have been playing a tourna- ment for the last fortniagt, whih gave us good practice. It was a very elose contest as the win- ners, Elfrida Walsh and Nola Wilkinson, only beat Jessie Btephenson and Lexie Drake by one point. Swimming has tarted again, and every girl is pratising very hard in order to get a place in the Form team. Our Form Captain, 'Granny' has distinguished herself greatly, as she is a member of the c8hool Swimming and Basket-ball teams. "Babblee" is a good swimmer Ilo; "Joee,' "Sqlib" ad "Bouneer," though the cleverest, are by no means the life of the class, for this title goes to "Squeak," whobeo hum- oros laildents are too numerous to mentio.. "Baby," oar Form beauty, is a promisirg all- youad sport, who having contracted inhaueas, Iw gastly missed dring her etay in bed. We a

everybody. The results of some of the tennis- ni~ehkes are not' yt determined, bat we hope, t at both in sports bad study, III. will con- ftbue to' hold its own amongst the Thirds. * : * ni year III.b, sad to say, has not been very good so fa as general conduct is con- cerned, hut on the whole we are supposed to have a fair amount of sortex in our brains. Our tennis has been splendid, for we only lost seven out .of ei.gh matehes, and thus achieved the distinction of being second (last) in the Inter Form contest. With a little les practice we might have been able to lose the remaining match. Ifowever, we are not very proud of our perfornlance at tennis, but hope with the as pistanee of our best player, Dorothy Stubbin, to improve our position later. Baske-hall is much more in our line. We are the bert in the Third Forms at it, and the Form is represented in the A, B, and C teams. We heartily congratulate Mavis MeFarlane on obtaining a place in the A team, and eouider- ing that she did not play Basket Ball till she came here, we think she has done remarkably well. We are looking forward to the Gymnaatie contest, and are hoping to do well. The girls are all keen. We seLt a number of .Christmas boxes to our soldiers, and it is to be hoped that the boat which conveys them will not be torpedoed this year as one was last year. In conclusion, we wish the girls who are sit- ting for their Junior or Senior examinations the best of luck. ALTHOUGH there are only twenty-one girls in our Form, enough noise is made for twenty-one boys. We are the smallest of the Third Forms, and our Form-room is in the old studio, and .we are often worried (9) by girls walking out "pour une promenade" from IU.b. III. can elaim three girls in the Basket-ball "C" Teem, one being the Captain of the teem, and of the Form also. We are all ready when Sports eome along, and although we like our own Ulttle game of tennIa, oet many of us make mueh headway. If we did, we would have w amre mathea. .TI

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We have just finished a Teanis Toarnauet under Miss Weaver's superysion, over whisch there ha ben great excitement ,as to who would win the inal. It chanced that the last game was a very elose one and the vietors triumphed by only one point. 8even Christmas boxes were sent by our Form to the Front, and we sincerely hope that they will assist in making the Christmas of a few boys somewhat happier. RUMOV. Our Forum containas ifteen girls, Beryl Donna. being our captain. Though our Form is the lowest in the school, we take part in all Tennis matehes, but this year we have not played Basket-ball. We have just started swimming, and hope to get a team to swim off for the "Burrell Cup." During last term, we learnt a small Freneh play, and now we are learning a French carol. repoidng in the middle of the tennis-court. W.e think the ducks must have laid them .during the night. We have to congratulate our last year's head- boarder, Grace Rankin, on passing her senior at the end of the year, also the successful can- didates in the recent music examinations, namely Maisice in Advanced Grade, Phyllis ir the Lower Division, Rosa in Elementary, and Mary in Primary. This year we have revisited our old picnic haunts, and we owe many thanks to Miss Wall and Miss Mollison for their kindness in taking us for so many enjoyable outings. This season we formed a Basket-hall Club with Isobel as our Captain and Runner, and "Ctquib" as chief mainstay. Phyllis miarlle an emcient thrower, and many of the other put up a pretty fair game. The year is drawitr to a close, and we are all looking forward to the holiday, though sonmc of u, will not be returning next year, so we bid farewell to school and its associations. On Monday night, the memorable Novemnber 11th, after we commenced prep.. Miss Mackay announced to us the glorious ,Iws of the sign- Ing of the Armistice. Wherelupon, we "downed tools," namely, ink-bottles and Geometry hooks and, rushing to the front verandah close upon the heels of Miss Mackay, Miss Pate. and Miss

lad to say~ "Bouncer" has oveeo e her anr- vouse- and has stopped bouncnag up and down when neagr to dislose her knwldge. Qwing to the 4eat, we have giveja up )aaket-baUl for the preseut, and are deyoting our time to tennis and swimming. LOWEB I.b. Our motto: " Manners Makyth Man. " T HIRTY-two in all, we are just settling down into our new school life, and under the able guidance of our Form captain, we are enjoying it much better than we would other- wise have done. Although we have not been here long enough to have any of our number in a team, we are proud to say that our captain, who was here some six months before we came, is in the III.a Tennis Team. AT the beginning of the year, we returned to And only four of last year's girls and seven newcomers, but at midwinter we were reinforced by seven "newies," and we can now lay just claims to being an enterprising and talented crew. Just judge from the following extracta, taken fronm the "Odes" of a budding genius: " Baby dimple, baby pimple, Moreover, great detective faculties have been displayed by some of the juniors, who having dim-overed suspicious signalling to probable enemy planes by some of our brethren, made heroic attempts to wee who could reach the top of the atlirs first. The well-known Grammar cry of "Go on Grammar, blue, blue, blue," has been changed to the very appropriate, Wallaby, wallaby, kan- garoo, applicable to a certain frisky member who has a slight inelination to 'op. Early in the year we were awakened one morn- ing ia the "wee sma' hours," by a shrill cry of "Come and look at the dock eggs," and arising, we beheld some rather commodious duck eggs 80 sweet, so innocent and simple.'' Laughing eyes and red, red lips, All wreathed in youthful smiles, By far he is the sweetest kid In all the British Isles.

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