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The Suburbs catcher, Andy King, tags out John Kottier, of Burnside, in the men’s senior softball match at Burnside High School. The umpire, Neville Hobson, has a clear view of proceedings. Suburbs won, 1-0, in 10 innings.

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10 December 1984

The dual winners of the New Zealand chess championships, Adrian Lloyd, left, of Christchurch, and Ortvin Sarapu, of Auckland, with the trophy they will share for a year. The championships were held at Burnside High School, Christchurch.

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11 January 1986

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29 July 1987

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23 January 1982

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Karl Wannan (left), of Lynfield College (Auckland), attempts to go around a Christchurch Boys’ High School opponent during a match at the national secondary schools soccer tournament at Burnside High School. The match finished in a 3-3 draw.

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25 August 1988

Grant McCarroll (Burnside High School) makes a forehand return against Winston Chin (Christchurch Boys’ High School No. 3 team) in the Canterbury secondary schools’ table tennis tournament at the Selwyn Street hall on Sunday. McCarroll won, 21-9, 21-9.

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30 July 1984

The Christchurch heart-transplant patient, Phillip Robinson, is greeted by some of his friends from Burnside High School, on his arrival at Christchurch airport yesterday. They are (from left), Paul Smith, Daniel Ballinger and Michael Ray, all aged 14.

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31 March 1988

Shane Hunu Hunu, of Rotorua Lakes High School, sprints for first base during a New Zealand secondary schools softball match at Burnside High School yesterday against Aotea College (Porirua). Rotorua Lakes H.S. won, 11-2. —Photograph by JOHN COSGROVE.

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1 April 1989

Burnside High School

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24 May 1958

Burnside’s leading long-ball hitter, Dave Workman, slamming his sixth automatic home run of the senior men’s softball season at Burnside High School on Saturday. Burnside was beaten, 6-5, by United. It was Workman’s first game for Burnside since Christmas.

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4 February 1985

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15 April 1966

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Anthony Raizis (right), of Shirley Boys’ High School pauses before making a move in the first round of the final play-off in “The Press” chess competition. His opponent is Len Mackley, of Burnside High School. This game ended in a draw.

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2 August 1977

Nick Clark (Christchurch Boys’ High School), left, under attack from Andrew Kell (Burnside High School) in the sabre class at the South Island secondary schools’ fencing championships in Christchurch yesterday. Kell won the match, taking first place in the class.

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8 May 1989

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Tomorrow’s Schools ... urge their peers to participate in decision-making. Four Christchurch student trustees. From left (rear) Simon Telfer (Burnside High School) and Jeff Ah Kuoi (Catholic Cathedral College); left (front) Janet Holling (Mairehau High School) and Stacey Daniels (Aranui High School).

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20 December 1989

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School Certificate candidates at Burnside High School sitting their first examination, angusn,English, yesterday morning. Some 53,000 secondary school students throughout New Zealand sat the English paper, a compulsory subject, yesterday. The University Entrance examinations will begin on Monday with economics.

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18 November 1982

Andrew Batie (Christchurch Boys’ High School) plays a backhand return to Brendon Furness (Burnside High School) in the open boys’ singles final of the Christchurch secondary schools’ tennis tournament at Wilding Park yesterday. Batie won, 6-1, 6-4. —Photograph by DAVID WETHEY.

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17 December 1987

Two of the cast from the Burnside High School's production of “The Doctor and the Devil," Katrina Talbot and Craig Young, during rehearsal. The play, by Dylan Thomas, has a cast of 35, with 15 stage crew. It will end tomorrow.

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13 August 1987

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Although other players have their heads bent in concentration, Andrew McIntosh (centre), of Otago, prefers to look ahead during the New Zealand chess championships at Burnside High School yesterday. Andrew was playing Ian McNally, of Auckland, in the premier reserves section.

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4 January 1986

Burnside High School

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3 May 1958

Burnside High School

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9 December 1960

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BURNSIDE HIGH SCHOOL

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21 September 1960

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BURNSIDE HIGH SCHOOL

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12 June 1965

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Burnside School Pool

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2 December 1961

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BURNSIDE HIGH SCHOOL ROLL

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8 December 1961

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St Andrew’s rallies

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22 August 1977

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30 July 1980

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Debating winners

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5 May 1979

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Tuckers Road Site

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24 October 1968

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30 July 1962

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The new 55-metre suspension bridge at The Groynes links the old picnic area with another area of 80 hectares being developed for recreational use. The bridge was built in a joint venture by senior pupils of Burnside High School and the Waimairi County Council’s engineers.

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6 October 1979

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Wendy Mollison, of Burnside High School (right), on her way to winning the New Zealand secondary schools’ test against a Canterbury invitation team over 4000 metres at Cuthberts Green on Saturday. Next to her is Michelle Hadley, of Linwood High School, who was second.

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1 September 1976

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Performing in the Christchurch section of the Westpac School Music contest yesterday are (from left) Rachel Doig, of Christchurch Girls’ High School, Claire Martis, of Burnside High School, and Ana Olykan, of Hornby High School.The, contest, at Christchurch Girls’ High School, will finsh tomarrow.

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13 June 1987

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“Students have to be motivated and confident to want to become trustees.” Above: from left (rear) Jeff Ah Kuoi (Catholic Cathedral College), Janet Holling (Mairehau High School), Simon Telfer (Burnside High School); left (front) Stacey Daniels (Aranui High School), Ruth Murrell (Christchurch Girls’ High School).

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13 September 1989

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Eric Monistereo (Burnside High School) leads from the eventual winner, Perry Noyce (Xavier College), in the intermediate boys’ section of the Christchurch inter-secondary schools’ cross-country championships at Cuthberts Green yesterday. Monistereo was second. RIGHT: Katie Harris (Lincoln High School) winning the senior girls’ championship.

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21 September 1983

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17 September 1982

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The Merivale player, Chris Charlton, steals second base on the way to eventually scoring a run during the premier men’s softball match against Papanui at Burnside High School on Saturday. Hamish Clark is the fielder and Mr Eric Hobson the base umpire. Papanui won, 3-2.

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3 November 1986

The two number one players for their teams, Conrad Murray (left), aged 12 (Chisnallwood Intermediate School), and Lawrence Cunningham, aged 12 (Cobham Intermediate School), in “The Press” chess C grade final, at Burnside High School last evening. Cunningham won his match and Cobham won, 6-0.

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14 August 1985

Barry Hurst (Imperial Merivale) mares first base safely as a throw goes wide off the Richmond first baseman, Perry McGee, during the senior A men’s softball match at Burnside High School last evening. Merivale won, 4-3, in eight innings, but Richmond has lodged a protest.

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7 November 1985

Robert Smith, of Auckland, contemplates his next move in his game against Tony Love, of Dunedin, in the New Zealand chess championships at Burnside High School yesterday. Smith drew with Love to tie with the leader of the competition, Ortvin Sarapu, also of Auckland.

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8 January 1986

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22 July 1968

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12 March 1983

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Lisa Gooding leads the Burnside High School girls’ cycling team on their 16km team time trial on the Lower Styx Road yesterday. The Burnside team won the girls’ section of the time trial to win the Litolff Cup. Timaru Boys’ High School won the boys section.

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17 July 1986

Suburbs’ Canadian import, Rodney Fewer, rocks back as he lets go another pitch in the premier men’s softball game against Woolston-Cardinals at Burnside High School on Saturday. Fewer was in awesome form, taking 11 strike-outs and allowing only one hit and no walks. Suburbs won, 10-0.

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31 October 1988

No Breach In Education Decisions: Mr Hanan

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23 September 1964

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25 July 1960

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15 April 1969

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Brian Loughhead. Burnside High School, and Yvonne Adams, Christchurch Girls’ High School, surveying the flow of heavy trucks and their loads at the intersection of Waltham Road and Shakespeare Road for the Christchurch City Council's Engineer’ Division yesterday. The pupils were two of the four working on the survey.

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28 August 1975

Duane Humphreys (left), of Shirley Boys’ High School, clears the final hurdle in the senior boys’ event at the Canterbury secondary schools’ cross-country championships at Riccarton Racecourse. Humphreys won the event. Rachel Depree (right), of Burnside High School, strides to a comfortable win in the senior girls’ race.

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25 September 1985

The base umpire, Peter McAllister, calls Brett Seaward (Suburbs) “safe” as he steals to second base in the premier men’s softball match against Merivale at Burnside High School last evening. Michael Lake is-the Merivale fielder. Seaward went on to score the first run for Suburbs which eventually won, 3-0.

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12 November 1986

Adele Smaill, of Burnside High School, contemplates her next move against her opponent, Emma-Louise Davey, of St Margaret’s College, in the last of a series of matches in “The Press” chess inter-school tournament at St Margaret’s College on Thursday. Davey won the game, but Burnside won the match, 3-1.

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6 August 1988

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Ellery Hanley, wrapped against the cool Christchurch air, moves the ball to a team-mate in the Great Britain rugby league team’s training run at Burnside High School yesterday. Behind him is John Joyner, another outside back in Britain’s squad for the second test at the Show Grounds tomorrow.

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21 July 1984

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Erik Monasterio (Burnside High School) clears the final obstacle in the senior boys’ race in the annual Christchurch intersecondary schools’ cross-country championships at Riccarton Racecourse yesterday. He won the title. RIGHT: Rowyn Hocking (Christchurch Girls’ High School) nears the end of her winning run in the senior girls championship.

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19 September 1984

Kerryn Painter (left), aged 17; Rebecca Porton, aged 14; and Miss Alison Powell, a science teacher at Burnside High School, wear hats of their favourite book characters before a parade at the school yesterday. The parade was part of a Drop Everything and Read week at the school.

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23 July 1986

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A central striker with the Everton soccer team, Adrian Heath (left), signs a football belonging to Hayden Yarrall, a member of the Burnside High School soccer team, at the Worcester Street Youth Centre. The English side arrived in Christchurch yesterday and will play a Canterbury Invitation XI tomorrow.

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29 May 1987

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Does Christchurch have a culture?

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15 June 1987

Burnside U.S. new block

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1 March 1971

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12 May 1978

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Chch model scoops awards

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23 August 1988

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Pupils prepare for trip to Dallas

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18 April 1989

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Rep. soccer side

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29 August 1985

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Burnside High given a mainframe

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27 July 1982

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Schools’ Council On Future Of Burnside

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28 October 1964

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Education expanding with the performing arts

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5 October 1988

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REPORTEING THEIR PLACINGS.- The new Burnside High School held its first swimming Sports at the Papanui High School baths last week. Here, from left to right, D. Wright (third) I. Gardiner (second), and K. Mckay (first) report their placings in th under 14 boys' championship 66 2-3 yds breaststroke event.

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24 February 1960

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School Buys Art Works

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4 June 1968

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11 June 1965

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Tashi Williams (Burnside High School), right, wins her heat of the intermediate girls’ 100 metres at the Christchurch secondary schools athletics championships at Queen Elizabeth II Park, yesterday. Joanne Weddell (Villa Maria College) was second. Preliminary events will continue today, and the finals will be held at the park on Saturday.

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14 March 1989

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Floodlit School

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25 November 1960

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Boys’ Association Results

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21 March 1966

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SUZANNE BUXTON, of Burnside High School, is shown performing part of her free standing exercise in preparation for the South Island gymnastics championships. The championships, which are to be held in the Bryndwr Y.M.C.A. today, have attracted entries from as far north as Picton and Nelson and as far south as Invercargill.

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20 July 1963

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Burnside School Shares Sports

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23 July 1964

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Mr F. B. Chennells, principal of Medbury Preparatory School, addressing part of a group of 80 educationists from the United States who are in New Zealand to study trends in education here. The remainder of the group spent part of the day at Christ’s College, Burnside High School, and Westburn Primary School.

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8 July 1975

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Pupils of Burnside High School watch Susan Cliffin riding a power cycle in the school grounds during a lunch-hour instruction period yesterday. Fifty pupils are being taught to ride by an instructor from a Riccarton firm of motor-dealers. It is the first time such a course has been held in a Christchurch school.

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11 February 1975

THE OLD POWER OF J. R. REID’S BATTING was displayed again in Christchurch yesterday in the Shirley Lodge single-wicket tournament. He is shown batting against J. W. Grocott in a first-round match. The wicket-keeper is K. Collins, a Burnside High School pupil, judged one of the two outstanding fieldsmen of the day.

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27 March 1972

Chris Boulton, a fourth former at Burnside High School, with the award he received for being named the best all-round cadet at the City of Christchurch cadet unit’s final parade for 1989 on Monday. The unit was reviewed by Colonel lan Boulton, the deputy commander of the New Zealand Army Third Task Force.

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14 December 1989

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Derek Calder (left) aged 17, and Rachel Depree, aged 15, both from Burnside High School, win the senior grades at the Christchurch inter-secondary schools’ road race championships on a course around the Avon River in Avonside yesterday. Behind Calder is Duane Humphreys, aged 17, who was second in the senior boys’ race.

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25 October 1984

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Toni Batey, from Burnside High School, plays an iron shot in the Canterbury inter-collegiate golf championships at Waimairi Beach. She was one of two girls representing their schools. The other was Rebecca Prescott, of Kaiapoi High School. The tournament was won by Shirley Boys’ High School, which will advance to the regional final.

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25 May 1988

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Eight records bettered in secondary finals

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25 March 1985

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25 November 1960

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THE FIRST JUMP IN THE 120YDS OPEN HURDLES at the schools’ athletics meeting on Saturday. From the camera are W. Latham (Burnside High School), C. Hartnell (Christ’s College). C. Sawers (Christchurch Boys’ High School), P. Geoghegan (St. Bede’s College), A. Inglis (Linwood High School), and R. Moore (St. Andrew’s College). Moore was the winner.

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29 March 1965

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2 July 1971

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’Mini Brigames

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10 June 1978

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OLD MASTER.—This action photograph of J. R. Reid could have been taken several years ago when he was in his prime. It was, however, an attacking shot he played during the Shirley Lodge single-wicket tournament at Burwood Oval at the end of last month. The wicket-keeper is the promising Burnside High School captain, K. Collins.

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8 April 1972

CIGARETTES STOLEN

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2 December 1972

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Student wins scholarship

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4 March 1988

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Twin brothers Steven Hunter (left), and David, aged five, and Rachael Delore, aged four, enjoy their ride on the baby ferris wheel at the Burnside High School fair on Saturday. Other activities at the fair included pillow fights, and rides around the grounds. A garden plant sale was held in conjunction with the fair.

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3 November 1986

HISTORIC CABBAGE TREES.—The Canterbury Pilgrims and Early Settlers’ Association has provided this stone wall and seating round the historic clump of cabbage trees in the Burnside High School grounds, which were an early landmark of the Maoris and which appear in the school crest. A plaque telling the story will be unveiled at a ceremony later in the year.

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24 March 1961

SURPRISE WIN.—J. Bailey (left) breaking the tape inches ahead of his rivals to win the senior 220 yards final for Hagley High School at the boys’ inter-secondary school sports on Saturday. The reigning Canterbury junior champion, R. Jones (right), of Burnside High School was second. Third place went to D. Berry (middle), of St Bede’s College.

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1 April 1968

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CLOSELY-CONTESTED SPRINT.—R. Stevenson (Burnside High School) breaking the tape in the final of the 100yds open at the secondary schools’ athletics meeting at Rugby Park on Saturday. A. Tweedie (Christchurch Boys’ High School), in the middle, was second, and C. Baker (Riccarton High School) third. In the 220yds event, the positions were reversed, Tweedie beating Stevenson.

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29 March 1965

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16 April 1966

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15 June 1966

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Schools’ music exchange

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29 April 1977

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Members of the new Christchurch-Avon Athletic Club show off their old and new uniforms during training at Burnside High School Clearing a hurdle in the new colours is the club president, Ross Nicholas. Wearing the old Christchurch club’s singlet at left, is lan McGregor and, at right, wearing the old Avon uniform, is Kirsty Austin. —Photograph by DEAN KOZANIC.

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26 September 1989

Mr Vic Ellena conducts the Burnside High School jubilee choir which will perform at the school’s silver anniversary concert in the Christchurch Town Hall on April 4. The choir comprises former pupils and present pupils at the school. Dorothy Buchanan, a Christchurch composer now living in Wellington, has been commissioned to write a work to mark the occasion.

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28 March 1985

Annette Paulsen, a sixth form pupil at Marian College, Christchurch, models the two-piece ensemble that won her the premier award in the Zonta Clothing Awards, judged at Burnside High School last evening. Two boys and 195 girls from 15 Christchurch secondary schools took part in the Contest, organised by Zonta in North Canterbury. Results, page 4.

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18 September 1984

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The Vienna Trio, winner of the instrumental group section in the Christchurch district final of the Westpac School Music Contest. From left are Robyn Cormack, aged 17, Justine Cormack, aged 15, both of Christchurch Girls’ High School, and Sarah Watkins, aged 16, of Burnside High School. The trio will compete in the national final in Wellington on August 11.

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18 June 1984

Burnside triathlon

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31 October 1985

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Michelle Gillrnan (right), aged 14, of Burnside High School, and Erika Pockson (left), aged 13, of Aranui High School, bone flaps of lamb at a trade introductory course at Christchurch Polytechnic yesterday. About 100 fourth-form girls from Christchurch schools attended the Polytechnic to get experience in male-dominated trades. The course was organised in conjunction with the Department of Labour.

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11 April 1986

Blair Rowe (Burnside High School) wins the boys’ under-14 1500m title at the ANZ Bank Christchurch secondary schools’ athletics championships at Queen Elizabeth II Park on Saturday. He is flanked by Craig Stevens (Christchurch Boys’ High School) (left), who was the runner-up, and Reon Rollo (Rangiora High School), who was third. Report, page) 26. -Photograph by DEAN KOZANIC

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21 March 1988

Practising at Linwood High School yesterday for the Christchurch Secondary Schools’ Music Festival are saxophone players in the schools’ band, Jeremy Thompson (Cashmere High School), right, Linda O’Brien (Linwood High School), and Michael Anderson (Burnside High School). The festival, in which about 20 secondary schools are taking part, will be' held in the' Christchurch Town Hall tomorrow evening.

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8 April 1987

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