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1900-15

1900
The first year of the Darlot Cup. The High School won it each year
for the first seven years.
1901

On 1 January John Forrest, politician, ten years the first Premier The Hon. James L Walker Alexander Phipps Turnbull Thomas A L Davy Frank B Riley
of Western Australia, was appointed the first Federal Treasurer
for the Commonwealth of Australia. After many achievements,
he was to die in 1918 at the age of 71 years. Perhaps his most
visible legacy is King’s Park, of which he was an active proponent,
together with Surveyor-General Malcolm Fraser and Alexander Rhodes Scholars
Forrest. Baron John Forrest of Bunbury was the first President of Hon Sir Walter Hartwell James, KCMG, KC 1904: James L Walker (1902) was the first
the King’s Park Board. Old Boy to become a Rhodes Scholar. He
1902 went on to become Hale’s first Justice of
High School Old Boy Walter James the Supreme Court, W.A.
succeeded George Leake as Premier and
Attorney-General. He was later to be a 1907: Alexander Phipps Turnbull (1906)
Senior Partner of the firm Stone James
& Co, which ultimately merged with 1909: Thomas A L Davy (1909)
Mallesons to create Mallesons Stephen
Jaques, now one of Australia’s leading law 1912: Frank B Riley (1911)
firms. He was also a foundation member
of the UWA senate before serving as its
Chancellor from 1930 to 1936. He was 1908
subsequently knighted, appointed KCMG Headmaster Charles Faulkner formed
(Knight Commander of the Order of St the School’s first cadet unit under the
Michael and St George). blueprint laid down in the Australian Army
and Defence Act of 1908.
1903 Undeterred by the assertion that the CRICKET MATCH
24 January: The Kalgoorlie pipeline is School did not begin until 1878, Old Boys Bishop Hale’s School XV v High School X! - 24 February 1905
opened. A former Governor of High of the 1860s from the Bishop’s Collegiate Back: S Phillips, David Forrest, LS Eliot, Sir Henry Parker, Sir John Forrest, George Lefroy, Morton Craig,
School, Dr John Winthrop Hackett, stated: School played cricket matches against the W Morgans
boys of High School and were pleased to Middle: Oct Burt, RF Sholl, Charles Edwards, Geo Parker, SF Moore, Sept Burt,
‘Two men and two men alone were call themselves ‘Old Boys’. W Clifton, M Bunbury
responsible for the Coolgardie Water Front: FS Brockman, JJ Higham, Knight, AS Roe, HS Ranford, Frank Craig
Scheme, Sir John Forrest and Mr C.Y.
O’Connor, the man who gave his life for 1910s
it’. 2 Bishop’s School Old Boy Sir Edward
Wittenoom heads the Perth directorate of
The official opening of the Goldfields Water Supply scheme. the ‘Jarrah and Karri Company’, one of the
2 Sir Winthrop Hackett, in Bill Edgar (2008), From Slate world’s major timber companies.
to Cyberspace, Wembley Downs, Hale School, p. 69.