The History of Hale School and its Old Boys - Old Haleians Association

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
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
Forrest. Baron John Forrest of Bunbury was the first President of
the King’s Park Board.
The official opening of the Goldfields Water Supply scheme.
Hon Sir Walter Hartwell James, KCMG, KC
1902
High School Old Boy Walter James
succeeded George Leake as Premier and
Attorney-General. He was later to be a
Senior Partner of the firm Stone James
& Co, which ultimately merged with
Mallesons to create Mallesons Stephen
Jaques, now one of Australia’s leading law
firms. He was also a foundation member
of the UWA senate before serving as its
Chancellor from 1930 to 1936. He was
subsequently knighted, appointed KCMG
(Knight Commander of the Order of St
Michael and St George).
1903
24 January: The Kalgoorlie pipeline is
opened. A former Governor of High
School, Dr John Winthrop Hackett,
stated: ‘Two men and two men alone were
responsible for the Coolgardie Water
Scheme, Sir John Forrest and Mr C.Y.
O’Connor, the man who gave his life for
it’. 2
2 Sir Winthrop Hackett, in Bill Edgar (2008), From Slate
to Cyberspace, Wembley Downs, Hale School, p. 69.