June 1950 School Magazine

.. MAGAZINE of the

BRISBANE GIRLS' GRA~.IMAR SCHOOL

JUNE, 1950

Regis tered at the G.P.O., Brisbane, for transmission by post a s a Periodical.

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Phone : B 5764

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Call and see them at your favourite shoe store Mathers Pty. Ltd. 143 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE

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T'elephone: L 2631 (6 lines}

All coaching under the expert per- sonal attention of the Principal, Miss S. R. Halstead. Personal inte rviews invited- day and evening classes. Shorthand, Typing, Commercial Eng- lish, Commercial Arithmetic and Book-keeping.

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ART MATERIALS

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Also at 280 - 282 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE

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Wallace Bishop's feature Queens- land's largest and loveliest array of pure-white diamonds . . delicately cut and set by master-craftsmen in exquisite designs of white or yellow gold. All Risks Insurance on Lloyd's of London issued with every diamond a t no extra ccst.

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Consult the Optometric Institute of Harry H. MILLMAN, (I.O.Q. Consulting Rooms, Public Curator Arcade & City Bldgs., 171 Adelaide St. Watch Repairs Guaranteed by MILLMAN BROS. Phone: B 8728 ·······~····~~~··~······· 3

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Queensland's Largest Manufacturing Jewellers 2

CANNON & CRIPPS LTD. Funeral Directors

45 ADELAIDE STREET Phone: B 1971

~ MURIEL HOWSAN, a Past Pupil of Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Many Pupils of the Brisbane Girls' Grammar School are satisfied clients of Ranald Simmonds Studios QUEEN STREET (near Albert Street}, BRISBANE Phone B 5293 or Call for Appointment

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BARKER'S BOOK STORE

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS Come and a re Soon Over

New and Second-Hand Booksellers Stationers, etc. Artists' Materials WE SPECIALISE IN TEXT BOOKS ON ALL SUBJECTS

Then it's BACK TO SCHOOL

B UT before "The Grammar" resumes, thought has to be given to clothing and other requirements. Clothes play a big part in success. It is here that the resources of McWhirters come to parents' assistance. In the pas t years thousands of Grammar School pupils' require- ments have been bought at McWhirters', for it has always and will always be McWhirters' endeavour to assist and advise parents in the selection of correc t "Grammar" outf its - all wear- ing apparel is made from de - pendable fabrics - carefully cut and finished. Write to or visit McWhirters be- fore sending your g irl to the Grammar School - McWhirters' values are best - prices are keenest, consistent with depend- able quality and satisfaction is guaranteed .

Call , Write or Phone to

Kelvin House

ADELAIDE ST'REET

BRISBANE

Phone : B 2401, LM 366'/

P.O. Box 1676 V.

When thinkins Q/ PHOTOGRAPHS think of

A name that has been associated with a ll that is la test and best in Art Photography fo r the past sixty-six years

Ring B 5519 for your appoill!tment

THE POULSEN STUDIOS 14-18 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE -ARTISTS IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND FRAMING

McWHIRTERS' THE VALLEY -: - BRISBANE

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r== s FINNEYS ! SCHOOL ~ CLOTHES

MONET FOR FUTURE USE

ROY COOPER STUDIOS 101 ADELAIDE STREET BRISBANE

E VERY family will have times when it will need money - if not urgently, then to carry out some plan or purpose . A .M.P. policies meet that need for thousands of families every week of the year. They provide money when it is most needed. The need may be the higher education of a daughter. It may be the starting of a son in business, or in a profession . The wise father builds up his A.M.P. policies as his income and h is re- sponsibilities grow, and uses them to the full for the beneft of his family and himself. If YOU would like to make full use of the Society, talk the matter over with an A.M.P. representative or call at any A.M.P . Office . A.M.P. SO(~IETY AUSTRALIAN MTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY (Incorporated in New South Wales) Chai: mcn, Qu eensla nd Board : Sir WILLIAM GLASGOW,. K.C.B ., C.M.G. Ch'.el Offi ce lor Queensland : QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE Doyboro Co-operative Dairy Association Limited AGNES STREET. VALLEY, BRISBANE Pasteurised and Unpasteurised Fresh Milk Produced from Sweet Pastures - Treated by Correc t Methods. Stocks Supplied Wholesale - Quality and Servico Guaranteed Ask for our Association's. Products PUREST -RICHEST-BEST Obtainable in any Suburbs in Greater Brisbane Suppliers to State and Commonwealth Government Hospitals and all Institutions

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Phones B 7526 and B 7536

Cver a pniod of years of specialised service in supply- ing School Wear, Finneys have earned a reputation of which they are justifiably proud. Remember for School Apparel FINNEYS The Hous.e of Quality

FOR ARTISTIC .1:-0RTRAITURE

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SPECIALISTS IN BRIDAL AND CHILD STUDIES

Established 1872

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Phones : B 5820, B 4602

Comprehensive range of new and second- hand school books- correct editions at right prices. We are specialists also in School Stationery, Fountain Pens, Propelling Pencils , etc. Thousands of books on Art, Travel, History, Biography, Fiction, await your inspection in our modern Bookstore.

All kinds of SCHOOL BOOI{S

All makes of Fountain Pens serviced and repaired QUEENSLAND BOOK DEPOT 61-63 ADELAIDE STREET (OpposHe City Hall}, BRISBANE

Ring Us - 'Phone L 2444

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GLORIOUS FABRICS FROM BARR.YS For tha t all important occasion , Barrys h ave just the Fabric you want, Silks, Satin s , Laces, Silk Ne ts , Velvet, a nd many other d e lig htful weaves . BARRY &.

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Peters up·to-date factory is placed in a picture.sque setting of beauti- ful gardens, portions of which are shown here.

A few of the l ,000-gallon steel holding vats . Milk, cream, pure cane sugar and flavouring are combined in the ice cream "mix" and held a t an even, low temperature, before being made into ice cream.

QUEEN STREET~ BRISBANE

One of the very latest continuous automatic ice cream freezers . This mach ine churns and freezes the ice cream "mix" into ice cream at the rate of 400 gallons per hour.

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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY PURCHASING ALL REQUIREMENTS FOR FARM AND HOME AT RED COMB HOUSE Roma Street, Blisbane Illustrated Price List on r e q ues t

One of the many specially de- sigend r e frigerate d trucks w hich car ry Pe ters Ice Cream in perfect condi!ion from the fac tory to the shop, in conformity with the policy of scru pulous cleanliness from start to finish.

A battery of cup fi llin g machin e 3. F rom the time of arrival as fresh milk and cream until it reaches the consumer, Peters Ice Cream is untouched by human hands.

Pelers ICE CREAM THE HEALTH FOOD O F A NATION

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GICICE"S Queensland's Leading c/Vfusic House Invites you to inspect their stocks of - PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS . . . SHEET MUSIC . . • ROLLS . . . VIOLINS . . . RADIOS . . . GRAMOPHONES . . . RADIO· GRAMS ... RECORDS . . . BAND INSTRUMENTS VACUUM CLEANERS . . . ELECTRIC AP- PLIANCES KELVINATOR REFRIGERATORS. You can depend on getting the best in service and quality at . . GRice·s 90-92 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE Branches at Toowoomba and Townsville

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Sporting c/V!en and Women Appreciate the honest value they obtain at the B.S.D. They realise too, thai the GOODS they buy cannot be bettered ANYWHERE WE CATER FOR EVERY GAME (Indoor and Outdoor) And our Stocks of TENNIS, GOLF, CRICKET, HOCKEY, CROQUET, BOWLS or BOXING MATERIALS, Etc., Etc. Are the Finest in Australia · MAIL ORDERS ARE SPECIALLY PROVIDED FOR CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE LISTS WE HAVE AN UNRIVALLED SERVICE FOR REPAIRS Expert Workmanship - Prompt Service - Best Materials· Brisbane Sports Depot l "For Everything Good in Sporting Goods" > 342 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE ! Telephone: B 0654 Telegrams: "HUISGOOD," BRISBANE ~ ~~~ l S

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McDONNELL

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EDITORIAL

Where You Pay The Least Specialise in Quality 1·equirements FOR THE PERSON AND THE HOME

Throughout the past century the world has been subject to many unexpected changes which have not failed to pene- trate this State of Queensland and the education of its people. For seventy -five years of that century our School has overcome the difficulties and incorporated the valuable new knowledge in its teaching . Three wars, each more devastating than the last, unsettled peace and a swift transition to a purely mechanical era, have disturbed the continuity necessary for th e desired develop- ment of the numerous pupils who have b een members of the School; yet, influenced by its learning and tradition, they have entered various walks of life well prepared to give of their best to the community. Inspired by their example it is for us, the p resent girls, to strive to maintain a standard worthy of our p redecessors, so that we, too, may contribute materially to the British Empire of the future.

including Frocks and Millinery for women and girls, Men's and Boys' Clothing, Footwear for every member of the family, Househ old Hardware, Soft Furnishings , Household Linens, etc., etc.

SCHOOL OUTFITTERS McDonnell & Eas t Ltd. outfit students fr om all the leading Schools and Colleges in Brisbane and throughout-Queensland, and are acquaint- ed with all special requirements in · this way.

MAIL ORDER CUSTOMERS are specially looked a fter by McDonnell & East Ltd. All orders are executed carefully and promptly. McDONNELL & EAST LTO. GEORGE STREET. BRISBANE

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CURRENT EVENTS 1950 welcomed a record number of new girl s who are now happily settled into the routine of secondary school life. As our Foundation Day fa lls during the Christmas vaca- tion, we observed it as usual on the day the Boys' Grammar School celebrated their anniversary, February 28th. The Life Saving, in which only five Schools participated, was held towards the end of March. We were not very successful in this event and the McWhirter Cup went once more to Clayfield College; but undeterred, we p ractised steadily and gained a gratify ing fourth place in the Inter-School Swimming Carnival on the l st April. Congratulations, Somerville House and Clayfield College on the high standard maintained by your swimmers. We were privileged to be at the presentation of the Thallon Medal by Mr. Maloney to Bernice Cornwell who won this as a result of her high Junior pass. We were visited by Maris King, an old g irl of the SchooL who gave a most interesting talk on China, where she is stationed as a member of the Diplomatic Corps. Maris spoke of the limited freedom of foreigners in Japan and of the un- healthy living conditions of the Chinese peasantry. Maris has visited the School on various occasions and we hope that it will not be long before we see her again. The first social event of our second term was Old Girls' Day, a very pleasant occasion and re-union for past and present pupils, both of whom gave strong competition in the matches which, however, were brought to an untimely end by the rain. The sports training routine is now well in progress with athletics, tennis and basketball all keenly represented. Our clubs and lectures, held on alternate Friday afternoons, p ro- vide most informative diversion, the speakers in particular giving rise to new and varied streams of thought. We are very grateful to Mrs. Wragge who gave us an animated talk on the art of mime and its practical uses; to Mr. Speake who told us about the provisional side of the Coral Sea battle; and to Mr. Campl:::ell for his interesting lecture on Australian art, and art in general. Sixth Form would also like to extend its gratitude to Monsieur Frobelius, who has greatly increased its versatility in the French language by his weekly lectures. Happily for many of us the g reat screen production of Henry V was refilmed and we know that those who saw it for a second or third time enjoyed, as much as appreciated, its fine production more than those who saw it for the first time . 16

LyPic Prize, 1949

A SUMMER NIGHT

Night has flown across the heavens And from her shoulders streams Her many-folded mantle Of d usk, and clouds , and dreams. Here she fixed the moon to clasp it And g liding on afar Jus t behind a cloud she draped it And caught it w ith a star. Close behind, her maiden Slumber, With a dim but liberal hand, Spreads her magic sleeping potion, Mixed in stardust, o'er the land . Wakeful only is a choir Whose song does upwards rise; From the d reaming creek it murmurs, Where the weeping-willow sighs. Out of aullies laced with bracken Com,;s the level, ceaseless drone; Now a strange harmonious chorus, Now one voice, shrill a nd lone. Gravely pipes the earth -bound cr~cket From h is murky, shadowed l01r; Softly hums the gilded beetle Where the fire-fly shows his flare. And from dank and clammy regions Deep within the misty marsh Solemn, earnest, stern and steady, Come the bull-frogs' voices harsh . Breath of Night is in the flowers Deep with scent and warm with balm, Where the leaves are turned to silver In the moonlight clear and calm. In the silence born of slumber, She works soundlessly but well, Soothes away the sins of daylight With the wonder of her spell.

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Senior Public Examination, 1949. Ke y to Subjects :- 1, English; 2, French; 5, Latin; S, Modern His tory; 9, Ancient Hi story, 12; Ma thematics I.; 13, Mathematics II.; 14 Chemistry; 15, Physics; IS, Zoology; 23, Art; 25, Music; 30, Latin-Inte rmediate; 33, Mathematics I.- Intermediate; 40, Physics-Junior. Bruce, Elizabeth A. Burnett, Jill K.

She will tend each one with kindness She w ill wash away the stain And her sympathetic finge rs Soon will calm each nagging pain. See ! far out into the darkness Of the everlasting sky A dim and distant planet W inks its t iny, fi ery eye . It is on our farthe st boundary For from thereon fades the sight But beyond that star, forever, Stretches on this Summer Night We shall never p robe those regions Our conceptions are too small; If by one all were regarded, We should not be seen at all. All our hopes and fears and passions Run a long a common course . We are linked one with a nother By a binding spirit force . Through the universe prevailing- It alone can hold us fast With impenetrable regions And the Future- and the Past.

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Duff in, Margaret J. Harris, I. E. Joan .. Harr ison, Melva D. Jack, Malvene L. Kennedy, Ann E. Madden, Audrey Reedman, Alison G . Roberts , Norah E. W. Skoien, Petra A. . . Smith , Patricia M. \"!atkins, Pamela L. B. Woodgate, Barbara A . .

Junioi' Public Examination, 1949. Key to Subjects :-1, Engl ish; 2, Fre nch; 3, German; 6, Latin; S, English History; 9, Geography; 10, Arithmetic; ll, Algebra; 12, Geometry; 13, Chemistry ; 17, Physiology; I S, Art ; 19, Music; 20, Art of Spech; 26, Steno· typing. Abbott, Joan

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Alla n , Margaret Allison , Shirley Antcliffe, Janet Bannister, Betty Barrale t, Betty

Here, washed by the pure beauty Of the moon, so clear and white,

All earth reioices soft! y In the glory of this n ight.

Barry, Joan Bartlett, Joan Biggs, Barbara Birmingham, Margaret . Boshier, Barbara Bowman, Patricia Brown, Corrine Bubb, Judith Clapham, Joan Clemesha, Honora Collard, Lenore .. Colledge, Rhonda Cornwell, Bernice Cranley, Judith Cumming, Margaret

The grass w ith dew is pearly

In the starlight's magic charm; A thousand fairy gems reflect That radiance, b right and calm.

And the rustling leaves and rushes With the mystic light entwine, Casting fragile, trembling shadows In an intricate design. Here, behold a peerless wonder- Equa l none in sound or sight To the ear th at peace and resting On a clear Midsummer Night

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Darling, Elsie Davies, Laurel Dillon, June .. Dixon, Marcene

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Junior Public Examination, 1949.

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Mackaway, Patricia Manchester, Barbara Mapleston, Elizabeth Marsh, Valerie Marshall, Norma Martin, Jennifer May, Jean Moffat, Margaret .. Muir, Fay Muir, Iolanthe .Newcombe, Beverley

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Duggan, Margaret Duncan, Shirley . . Evans, Claire Farquhar, Pearl . . Findlay, Margaret Fitzsimmons, Valerie Fraser, Nanette Gebbie, Heather Gentner, Zeita Graham, Mary Grimes, Joan .. Haberman, Valma Hall , Helen .. Hall , Maureen Hamilton, Norma Hare, Janice .. Hemming, Ailsa Hervey, Judith Hetherington, Ann Hewitt, Margaret Hill, Patricia .. Hobson, Valda Hodges, Kaye, Hooper, Ruth Howden, Barbara .. Huxham, Judith Johnson, Sally Kaye, Ninna .. Kemp, Roslyn Kemp, Marjorie Kennedy, Una Klemm, Shirley Knight, Joan .. Lake, Gloria .. Lansbury, Barbara Lean, Valma Leggett, Rhonda . . Lennon, Dorothy . . Lightbody, Janice . .

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Noble, Glenda Pickup, Maida Pledger, Leone Popper, Eva . . Power, Estelle Raeside, Jean Redhead, Shirley Rudduck, Shirley 'Searle, Coralyn

'Shaw, Jeanette Smeed, Valerie Stothard, Rhonda ·street, Cecily .. Summersgill, Margaret . Taylor, Ailsa Tregenza, Helen . . Van Embden, Morag

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Wacker, Janette Wadley, Patricia Webster, Noela White, Gillian Wood, Olwyn Ward, Judith . .

Key to Subjects :-1, English; 2, French; 3, German; 6, Latin; S, English History; 9, Geography; 10, Arithmetic; ll, Algebra; 12, Geometry; 13, Chemistry; 17, Physiology; I S, Ar t; 19, Music; 20, Art of Spech; 26, Steno- iyping.

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MacAndrew, Glenda MacDonald, Audrey Mciver, Margot McKay, Alison MacLennan, Leticia McLeod, Fiona

Key to Subjects :- 1, English; 2, French; 3, German; 6, Latin; 8, English His tory; 9, Geography; 10, Arithmetic; 11 , Algebra; 12, Geometry; 13, Chemistry; 17, Physiology; I S, Art; 19, Music; 20, Art of Spech; 26, Steno- typing. 2G

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From Betty Bruce (VI, 1949)

44 Don Street, Grangemonth, Stirlingshire, Scotland We arrived at Tilbury at a quarter past three on the morning of the 25th March. We were up early that morning as the ship was a ll noise and bustle with stewards carry ing luggage and dockyard workers shouting. The hatches were open and the luggage was being unloaded. Once up en deck, we saw that Tilbury docks are the same as many others -drab and very noisy. We disembarked and from the train we took our last look at the "Strathnaver" which had been our home for five unforgetable weeks. We spent about three hours in London before our tra in left for Scotland. There I was, on a sunny spring Saturday afternoon, walking through Hyde Park, watching the children feed the birds, seeing the beautifully groomed horses trot by. The gardens were a mass of daffodils. Nothing can be more beautiful. I shall never forget the way they hold up their golden heads with a happy promise of sunshine to come. We next walked along Park Lane and took a 'bus through Piccadilly Circus and a long past St. James' Park. The time posed all too quickly and we were forced to return to Euston to catch our train. Our arrival next morning in Falkirk, my mother's home town, is unforgettable. Since then, the kindness of many folk here has made our holiday very happy. We are living, not in Falkirk, but about three miles away in Grangemouth, which is a small port on the Forth estuary. It is the terminus of the Forth a nd Clyde canal wh ich is u sed nowadays only by fishi ng smacks. We next began to see the country about which I had heard so much from my parents. Edinburgh is a beautiful city. We spent the afternoon at the castle, a dmiring its impressive approach, its solid structure and prominent position. A great deal of the castle is used as military barracks. Inside the museum section we saw hosts of we apons, suits of armour, and army and naval uniforms in the styles of centuries past. We stood with awe in Queen Mary's Room, looking down on the cannon lining the castle walls . The Scottish National War Memorial , opened in 1927, stands in the central and h ighest part of the castle.

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SKETCHING A sketch does not require to be an exact reproduction of the subject or a complete PICture . It is the interpretation of the subject by the artist. Sketching developes the powers of observation of the artist and helps him to notice the small things as well as the large. The artist obtains a great deal of enjoyment from sketching and the sketches may late r be combined to make an attractive picture.

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flowering fruit trees. It was here I saw a snow shower for the first time. The snow was very light and melted almost immediately it touched the ground, but it gave me the thrill of a lifetime just to watch it falling. We went from Balfron further north west to Balmaha, a tiny village nestling at the foot of a steep hill that runs down to the shore of the beautiful Loch Lomond. From here we could overlook the tree-clad islands of the loch. The one directly opposite Balmaha is Inchcailloch which is Gaelic for Women's Island from a nunnery that once stood there. The reflections on the water were superb and it is hard to believe that the same calm loch can be so treacherous in stormy weather. The drive from Balfron to Stirling comes through several picturesque villages with market squares and cobbled stone streets. Whichever way you come into Stirling, the castle on the rock commands your attention. With Stirling between the mountain country on the west and Forth estuary on the east, it can easily be understood why Bannockburn was the site of the nation's life and death struggle in 1314. So, too, why Wallace's victory was at Stirling Bridge. Centuries of history are here crowded into a few square miles, and whether we look abroad, over the hills and the windings of the Forth from the castle parapet, or whether we look up from the road below, that rock stands for something impressively self reliant and national in the best sense o f the word. We have since had a most interesting and enjoyable trip through Callander to the famous Braes of Balquhidder. . Wherever you go there is some connection with the past. The people will tell you that centuries ago so-and-so lived in this cottage and knew this countryside like the palm of his hand, or so-and-so died in this field of battle, or somebody else was imprisoned in this very room. All this and the appeal of the everchanging but ever beautiful countryside charm the sightseer and fill him with wonder. 25

The Hall of Honours is separated from the Shrine by wrought iron gates. In the beautiful bronze frieze we read the effort of the nation as a whole, and in the huge stained glass windows and the figure of St. Michael above us, we see suggested the feelings and forces of human nature which make first for war and then the trivmph of peace. We visited Queensferry and saw the famous Forth Bridge at close range . Being an Australian, my thoughts went im- mediately to the Harbour Bridge I had sailed beneath twelve weeks before . I thought of the deep blue water and the warm sun and pulled my overcoat collar up round my ears and wished the wind would stop being so icy for a while. One day we motored south to Thornhill, a village just a few miles north of Dumfries. The fields along the road were newly p loughed and the black crows and seagulls were circling above, eager to search the newly-turned earth for food . We crossed the Southern Highlands by the Dalveen Pass . Snow lay in the crevices on the tops of the highest hills. There were sheep on the slopes and from the road we looked down on the headwaters of the Clyde. It was hard to believe that the stream in this quiet pastoral scene could ever become the site for the launching of the "Queen Mary". The last week in April we visited my aunt and uncle in Balfron, which is a small v illage about twenty miles west of Stirling. My uncle is the gardener on an estate about one and a half miles from the village. The house on the estate, "Old Ballikinrain", is over six hundred years old and is supposed to have housed that colourful historical figure, Rob Roy. The drive from the main gate up to the house is through a thick wood. Daffodils lined the roadway and, in front of the house, the green was covered with them. The woods at this time are very beautiful. The chestnuts and plane trees were just a mass of bursting buds, and the fresh , young green of their leaves made a striking contrast with the dark green, weather beaten foliage of the firs and pines. The oaks and ash trees were still bare while the young larch trees made a bright green slash on the hillside among the copper-brown beeches. The hawthorn hedges which line many of the country roads here had been green since early April. During the week we spent at Old Ballikimain the weather was fine but very cold. One morning we had eleven degrees of frost, which was most unfortunate as it set back the newly

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ADVENTURES WITH GRAPES All day I had been crisscrossing, over and back the mulga-lined Murray and its tributaries; and now at evening we were swooping down towards Mildura, a green oasis on the brown ricbon of the Murray. Below, as the plane circled, I could see the irrigation channels sparkling through the vineyards like a handful of diamond necklaces flung care- lessly on the ground. My brother had invited me to spend the Christmas holi- days with him in Merbein, a grape growing town with about 3,000 inhabitants, where he works on a C.S. and I.R. research station; and after getting out of the plane and collecting my luggage, I looked uncertainly round for him. The Mildura air pert is the barest place I have seen, all around to the pink rimmed horizon stretched flat parched land, a bitumen road ran by it vanishing each . way into hot shimmering nothingness. The only sign of habitation . was an unpainted broken down wooden building in the middle distance, that in structure vaguely resembled a church. My brother soon arrived . It appeared that his car "Chloe" a Chic of dubious antecedents had finally given up the ghost a few days before. When I had visited him in Adelaide the previous year it had even then been in a process of gradual disintegration, first one headlight then · the other having to be tied on with string, the hood finally subsiding in sullen obstinacy, and the doors havin·g an unnerving tend- ency to fly open when going round corners, so this came as no surprise, the roads around Merbein being of the rough · country variety. However, he had borrowed the car of the bank ma-nager who lived in the same hotel as he did, so we arrived at the one and only hotel Merbein possesses in style . Cars or bikes are quite necessary possessions of people who live in Merbein, for the only way to get into Mildura is by either a bus which runs at rather infrequent intervals, or by a bi-weekly train which bears a distinct resemblance . to Steven- son's "Rocket" and which nobody ever uses. While there, some p laces of interest which he showed me, were the loch at Wentworth, the pumping station for Mercein on Winery Hili, a slight rise and the only eminence of which the district can boast, where the irrigation water is pumped from the Murray, the packing shed where c:in endless procession of oranges moved a long in a grader, dropping out in their various sizes; and, of course, he showed me all over 27

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the research station with its attached block of vines and explained all the research work which he was doing most carefully to me. As a matter of fact nobody is supposed to go into the pumping station, which is enclosed by a high barbed wire fence on three sides and the Murray on the fourth. There was a very high padlocked gate on one side too, with a great notice on it saying, "Keep Out", but as the gate was unlocked and being curious, we sneaked in. We peered cautiously inside the station which was full of great red and blue painted pipes twisting convulsively throughout its length, beside which ran iron platforms, and on top of which at intervals were dotted lighted indicators. There was some sort of a machine making a deafening racket in there too, and nobody seemed to be about. We were just discussing how easy it would be for a saboteur to throw a bomb into the place when we caught sight of someone coming in at the other end and dashed madly out and up the hilL Here we came upon the Murray looking darkly sinister in the pale twilight. At this point and for some distance along its length, the banks of the Murray drop down in sheer convoluted red cliffs, sometimes 200 feet in height. One of the settlements in the Sunraysia district is, in fact, called Red Cliffs. And this made a weirdly attractive sight, dark red in the dying sunlight, the drab stunted grey green acacias now silhouetted in sharp black outlines on the opposite bank. At the research station I peered down the microscopes, which had adjustable sights for both eyes and were very powerful indeed, at slides of grape flower buds, a lovely tracery of orange lines streaked with grey and saw the grape in the yet unopened flower. I admired a fearsome collection of assorted bugs and moths, all neatly named and pinned out in folders, which attack grapes and grape vines, looked at a large map of the district which showed its various types of soil in different shades of colour, listened to a learned disserta· lion on the constitutents of different types of sprays for killing weeds and plant viruses; went into the dark room which is always kept at an unpleasantly humid temperature, and which is completely dark, and by the light of a small infra red light looked at some plant hormones. We also toured the blockJ of grape vines and ate a great many currants, fresh ones that is. My brother told me the correct method of 28

pruning and training grape vines, how and when to irrigate and harvest them, and a great many more things besides. But if you are still reading and still want to know what he said, I'm sorry to say that I've forgotten nearly all of it. However, here is what I found in a book which he sent us on the subject. · "Harvesting of currants usually starts al:;>out February lst and is followed by harvesting of other vine fruits, most of which are off the vines beore the end of March and dried by the middle of April. The pruning of vines begins towards the end of May after leaf-fall, and is completed during the period of winter dormancy. During the late winter, spring and up till harvest, the vines are alternately cultivated and irrigated about four times, the irrigation water being made available to each holding on a roster system." And from memory, the types of grapes grown around Merbein are the very small sweet currants which are dried, a larger type which when dried are called sultanas, and a very large white eating grape called a Gourdo. When I was there the drying racks were all empty but they consist of a series of racks or shelves one above the other out in the open air, a roof being over the topmost shelf. The vines are all trained along trellises, the trellises being of different heights with different grapes. After I had seen everything and sampled the station's grapes a nd peaches my brother's friend presented me with a treatise on th e diseases which affect tomatoes as a memento of my visit and after I had thanked them all for their kind attention we went away. It was all most interesting and most instructive. -JANET ANTCLIFF

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THE PE'AK DOWNS FOOD-FOR-BRITAIN SCHEME For nearly a hundred years many fine sheep and horses grazed over the Peak Downs area. Every year the shearing sheds were full and the men worked hard to complete the shearing of the flocks. Then in 1946 large stations such as Peak, Magenta, Wolfang and later, Langton, were taken over by the British Food Corporation. The mana~ers of each station were permitted to stay on if they wished, but many families left the district after living in the homes of their ancestors for years. The scheme moved rather slowly in the early stages and for some time many Clermont and Capella people were un- aware of its existence. Grain sheds were erected within a mile of the township, Capella, and later on more were con- structed near the railway line towards Clermont. Many mistakes were made in the beginning and certain areas of land had to be ploughed many times. Many telephone poles were knocked down qt night by the large bulldozers which were in constant use. The scanty rainfall prevented immediate planting but this was done as soon as the rain did fall. The majority of the local people thought that the scheme was doomed to failure, owing to the condition of the country. However, by April the sorghum was growing at a rapid pace, and was beginning "to head". It was thought that the first large crop would be harvested in early May of 1949, but the work began some weeks later. All the headers were assembled ready to commence and for weeks the newspapers- especially "The Bulletin"- were full of pictures of the area . The harvesting began in the early morning, and without ceremony, as the large headers roared into action. The first paddock to be cleared was near Magenta homestead. Large trucks carried the grain to the sheds, where it was neatly stacked. Visitors were c<"nstantly seen driving past the sheds on their way to see the harvesting being done. Many were give:-1 rides on the headers, which came over the horizon working in groups of seven. They worked stripping the grain until they arrived at a stack of bags. The men emptied the grain from the containers into these bags. As each header moved on another drew level, a little further over. As soon as all the headers were gone the bags were taken to an awaiting truck. 31

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Owing to frost which caused many plants to drop, much · grain was lost. Besides sorghum, sunfl owers were planted and many miles of yellow haze were to be seen. Oil was extracted from the seeds. After the work was completed in each paddock, cattle were turned onto the stubble, which has proved excellent fodder. When the harvest was completed the grain was railed to Port Alma from where the las t of it was shipped late in the year, and fed to pigs. The scheme was partly successful, a lthough much more money was lost than was admitted. The Corporation plans to enlarge the scheme and more properties are being procured whenever possible. Vegetables are now being set, a long with a larger amoun t of sorghum. Another good season was experienced, and the harvesting is now being done once more and will continue for a few months . Although it seems a g reat p ity that a ll the sheep have been taken away, we all hope that the Scheme will go on to do great things. -;- JUDITH A. WALKER, Form IV A.

SUGAR

In the north of Queensland there is a word that is on everyone's lips - Sugar. .. Upon this product depends the wealth of the district, and around sugar cane their entire lives revolve. Despite this, many people in the South are ignorant of the manner in which sugar is produced. A cane inspector travels from farm to farm examining and grading the different types of cane. The farmer sends two or three sticks of cane from each grade to the mill 's laboratory where each sample is tested to find its sugar content. Before the ripe cane is cut, fire is put through the field. This burns away the dead trash, thus making the work of the cane-cutter much easier. After being cut the cane is loaded on to cane trucks, which are taken to the mill by locomotives. Before entering the mill each truck of cane is weighed, a nd the weight is put down agains t the name of the farmer. Each truck then enters the mill where it is hooked with chains to a p latform. A handle is turned, the p latform tips, and the cane falls from the truck into the carrier, wh ich slowly carries it upwards. On this upward journey it passes through revolving knives and is cut into small p ieces. These pieces pass through huge rollers where as much juice as possible is extracted. These crushing processes go on until there is absolutely no juice left. The waste matter is known as megass and is used fo r fu el. The juice has meanwhile been conveyed to huge boilers where it goes through many boiling stages. Gradually the liquid becomes thicker and g rains of sugar appear. This substance is transferred in to cylinders which revolve a t a great speed. The molasses is whisked away leaving the raw or brown sugar. The sugar is then conveyed through a slowly, rolling, cylindrical drum. From this the sugar falls through a cone into bags, which are sewn at the top by a machine. Later, these bags of raw sugar will be taken to the harbour from where they will be s hipped to southern refineries . CECILY WEST, Form IV.C. 33

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THE BIRD He soars across the summer sky, feeling soft breezes ·pass beneath his downy body. The open air is his fr~e home. In that warm paradise he may roam where he wrl l. A gay greeting to a fe llow bird is the only sound heard near him. He flutt ers and res ts happily on a high branch and looks, laughing, down to the earth below him. The world is his servant. At his will, those priceless wings may enable him to reach any spot on the earth's surface. He is master o f space ! Then, suddenly , a shot rings out ! The panting _body fails to the grass underneath the tree, a n ugly wound m the soft breast. No more will life stir in that crumpled frame. His life is ended. - JILL FARRAR, Form III. A.

THE CITRUS INDUSTRY OF GAYNDAH Citrus growing is one of the major rural industries of the Gayndah district. Its development and progress have been meritorious and spectacular, for although the area is subject to more severe drought conditions than coasta l districts, the waters of the Burnett River and its subsidiary creeks provide adequate insurance against extreme conditions. In order to make full use of the water, most orchards are equipped with necessary p lant and pumping machinery. These conditions are ideal for the production of oranges, mandarins, lemons and grapefruit, and these grow to perfection. The bulk of the fruit is marketed in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne but some is distributed to a ll parts of Australia and overseas. A consignment of ora:nges sent to Ch ina prior to the second World War arrived in excel!ent condition and mandarins and oranges shipped to Singapore in 1947 were much sought after and highly commended by buyers. Over the past fifteen years, the citrus industry has made considerable progress, and new orchards coming into bearing have added greatly to the output which in 1947 was approxi- mately three thousand tons of fruit, all of which was trans- ported by rail from the various stations a nd sidings in the district. After the fruit is p icked, it is sized by machine, graded, wrapped in tissue paper and expertly packed in standard cases which are machine wifed and labelled. It is then trans- por ted to rail by motor vehicle, then bulk-loaded into trucks and transported by rail to market. Prices up to five shillings a dozen have been realised. Since 1920, a strong growers' organisation has been oper- ating in the interests of the g rower. It has been of much assistance in supplying his needs, finding markets and adver- tising the luscious quality of the fruit. It has staged exhibits at the Queensland Royal National Exhibition and has annexed the citrus shield eleven times out of twelve. Unfortunately, the public must pay high prices while costs of production remain high. The cost of transport of growers' requirements from far southern s tates is a major problem con- fronting the industry and it is fe lt tha t Queensland should cease to be so independent on these states for the manufacture and distribution of so many commodities essential to rural indus tries in this State. Meanwhile, citrus growers in the Gayndah district will con- tinue to grow quality fruit second to none in the Commonweal th. - ELWYNNE MEYER, Form III.C. 35

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SHERLOCK DUNKLEY'S FIRST CASE I, Sherlock Dunkley, do hereby declare the following state- ment to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Having made this declaration, I shall proceed to relate the most exciting event of my short detective career. For about a year, I have been caretaker at the C.I.B. One day, while I was dusting Detective Burgess' office desk, the telephone rang. I picked up the receiver. "Detective Burgess? Good! Our silver's been stolen. Do hurry. Twenty-one Almond Drive, Subiaco." The voice gave me no time to reply. The woman had "hung up". I pondered the situation, then bethought me that this might be the opportunity of a life-time. The Detective was out. I changed my pipe for a professional-looking cherrywood in the Detective's rack, gave my tie an artistic twist and dis- carded the duster and broom. Within five minutes I had arrived at the scene of the robbery. I was soon acquainted with all the particulars of the event. The thief had introduced h imself as a salesman and had pilfered the silver as the maid ran to show her mistress his card. On this card was the tell-tale name of the printer. Having reassured the lady, I ran into the street. I had come by the 'bus, but it had gone. I saw a black car with chromium streamlining standing a t the kerb. Taking this to be a taxi, I called for the driver, but he was not in sight. I reflected. 'Td better take it," I thought. "Explanations later. I must get my man." Jumping in, I quickly drove to the C.I.B. to glean particulars concerning Ballmore, Johns and Co., printers. Suddenly, however, as I sprang from the car, another car drew up behind, and two policemen emerged from it. "All right. You can't get away", cried one. "It's the right car, Joe," he said to his companion. "What's in that sack in the back seat? I bet it's the silver." Then I suddenly realised that I had unwittingly taken the car in which the crook had been escaping. Evidently he had deposited his first haul in the car, driven round the corner, and then had gone to steal more valuables from another house. Later, of course, I explained it all to the chief, who was very impolite to me, and who ordered a qualified detective to take over the case. Now that I have related my part in the solution of this case (which mas my first, last and only part in the work of detecting crime), I beg you to excuse me, as I must sweep the stairs before the chief arrives. - JUDITH C. GREEN, Form III.A. 37

A SOLDIER'S BIBLE If there is one book in any Christian home which is cherished above all the rest, it is the Holy Bible. This book can be made more sacred only if it is has beautiful memories woven around it. Such is a Soldier's Bible. .... It was given to him on his last days of leave by his mother. She had a promise from him that he would read it every night, even in the thick of the fighting, and he had kept that promise. On the slightly torn fly-leaf of the little black book, she had written, "To my only son, from his mother". The writing was fading now, but he had read those words so many times that, no matter how long he lived, he could never forget them. His Bible went with him everywhere. It went through Tobruk with him, and suffered, for a short period (for its owner escaped) in a German internment camp. Then the soldier and his Bible came home again for a v:ery short leave, before leaving for New Guinea. Here again the Bible went with him everywhere. It was with him the day that a Japanese sniper shot him in the back, and it lay with him on his rough hospital bed as he was dying. He clasped it in his fevered hand, and realised that its beauty would be with him always . With this thought in his mind, and a quiet smile on his lips, he slept, forever. - ELIZABETH OLIVER, Form III.D.

SONG OF THE RAIN. When the skies are dark and grey, You will hear the rain drops say, "Pitter patter, come and play In the puddles by the way, Come and play while it is day In the rainy weather." See the little drops of rain, Sliding down the window pane, Knocking as they come again, Begging you to come in vafn, Telling you to come and gain The joy of rainy weather. Do not heed their merry way, Or their chant-"come play, come play, Come and join us while there's day, Do no: linger do not stay." Soon their song will pass away With the rainy weather.

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