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“A” grade competition. During the inter-house football we at last triumphed,
the "A” team defeated the other three houses quite comfortably and the “B”
team performing well against very strong opposition. In most of the school
football teams Cunningham was strongly represented.
As soon as the football finished preparations were made for the annual
athletics carnival and in all events Cunningham was not a rival to be taken
lightly. The girls did well in the open events, in the boys events we were
well represented in all divisions and gained three out of the four individual
champions—G. Pearson won the under 16, W. Blaik won the under 15, and
the under 14 championship was won by P. Molyneaux. On the day of the
Athletics, six new records were claimed by Cunningham house boys. G.
Pearson broke the under 16 broad jump and 220 yards, W. Blaik now holds
the under 15, 220 yards and 100 yards. The other records broken were by
W. Morgan (under 16 shot putt) and Buss. Deighton (under 14 high jump).
However, despite our numerous wins we were beaten into second place
by a strong Kennedy team. In the cross country we fared very well and
we came second again but this time to Oxley in the total bouse points. Ian
Ament recorded the best individual effort of the house by coming in 15th.
Other creditable runs were made by Rodney Kennedy, 22nd, and Billy Hase
25th.
Earlier in the year two of the three inter-house cricket matches were
played but unfortunately we were not able to win either of those matches,
however our luck might change in the remaining match which is yet to be
played. In closing, the house captains would like to congratulate the houses
which were successful in the separate carnivals and offer our sincerest thanks
to Mr. Hazell, Miss Nixon and all other members of the staff who gave so
much of their time to make our sporting year one that we will remember
for a long time.

WHEN Oxley discovered the Liverpool Plains in 1818, Cunning
ham accompanied him as botanist. Cunningham then set out
to find a suitable pass to the Plains, and succeeded in finding
Pandora’s Pass which links them with Bathurst and the Hunter
River Valley. In 1826. because of a great drought in New South
Wales, it was necessary to find new pastures for stock of the
Liverpool Plains. With the aim of finding new land, Cunningham
went north, and in 1827. discovered the Darling Downs. In 1828,
he completed this useful discovery by finding Cunningham’s Gap
which links the Downs with Brisbane.

KENNEDY --
HOUSE MISTRESS: Mrs. Taege
HOUSE MASTER: Mr. Christensen
HOUSE CAPTAINS: Glenice Sims; Stuart Robinson
“Type of the wise who soar but never roam.
True to the kindred points of heaven and home.”
A H! How fortunate are we to have obtained the privilege of being the
first to march under that GOLDEN banner and BE collectively known as
Kennedy house. We have reason to suspect that this is not the only name
by which we are recognised, but nevertheless, it is the official one. This
“Annus Mirabilis” has been quite incomparable to the dashing ventures of
our house throughout this year.
It has been whispered among certain house members, that there was,
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