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The Gisborne Photo News

 

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Pictures from the Past

Next month the annual re-union dinner of members of former Gisborne High School First-Fifteens will be held in the Assembly Hall at the school.

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The picture above shows the School's First First-Fifteen, photographed in 1909. Back row: F. S. Harding, G. Porter, R. Douglas, M. Oman, G. Bremner, G. Redpath, F. Stevenson and D. McIldowie.
Middle row: A. Trafford, L. Torrie, D. McLeod, R. Gaitshore, W. Grant.
Front row: L. Clare, E. Hookey, L. Butler, H. Patterson.

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Perce Edmondson, long-time teacher at the School, who was football coach from 1914 to 1941

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Here's another old-time team. It is the first Rugby football team to leave Gisborne for Napier, 1878. They lost the game by two tries to four. Back row: C. E. Major, H. Humphries, H. TeKani Pere, J. White, G. J. Winter, Regan, W. S. Haig, Eniha Parau, G. R. Wyllie, and Meredith. Front row: T. H. Bourke, F. R. Arthur, G. F. Henderson (capt.), D. Ferguson, W. B. Mill. (Picture from Alan Muir, 150 Stanley Road).