Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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says he hopes to be on this coast by the New Year, and is ap- plying for a nomination as Cadet in the R. C. N. His address is Cadboro Bay, B.C. S. Garrard has joined the staff of the Pacific Cable Co. S. E. E. Morres is at the R.M.C., Kingston, and is play- ing left half in their soccer eleven. H. Cotton has gone to Paris and is at school there. T. J. Moore is at Tacoma Uunversity. J. H. B. Watson is taking a course in Accountancy and hopes to go later to the West Indies. J. Mair has left for England for a year, and then hopes to go to Ceylon and learn tea planting. A Message from the Sea A corked bottle was found at Mill Bay during the holi- days. In it was a document,, parts of its undecipherable, pur- porting to come from a boy who had been fortunate to get a passage to San Francisco on one of the ships of the Special Service Squadron that was at Victoria in June. It may not be authentic, but we subjoin parts as likely to interest our nautical readers — Feeling that I may not live to see land again, being now, in spite of ' Mothersill ' , so violently sick, I will try to put on paper, which I will cork up in a bottle, some of my experiences, to fulfil my promise to my Headmaster. I got on board this horrible vessel, so well named the ' Danae, ' at Esquimalt, well armed with candy and other sea- sick remedies . She is called a light cruiser because those on board soon become very light beneath the waist as they cruise around . I felt fine until we left the harbour about 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 5th, but it was rather upsetting having to wait about for the ' Hood, ' still even that now seems to have been a happy time! I have just called the Sergeant-at-Arms to take off my boots and clean them, as I do not wish to die in them dirty. The young officers rather meaningly suggested I should not 27

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Student — Surely you are mistaken. We feel that more was known of the prophet Elijah than that he went for a cruise with a widow. Perhaps you are thinking of the prophet Elisha, who, so a correspondent informs us, was in the habit of using a popular make of car because he went up to Heaven on ' high, ' and only a Ford could do that. Fond Parent — Yes; it is quite true that an American science teacher was had up the other day for putting a boy in an electric chair. Of course, these American schools are so well equipped. Old Boys ' Notes F. Gooch is spending his week-ends at Shawnigan again, having gone into business in Victoria. J. Musgrave is back at Quamichan Lake. C. E. Tryon was a welcome visitor during the Summer holidays, and has now returned to Glenalmond, where he is the O. T. C. L. Wollaston is to be congratulated on rowing for his House Second Eight at Monckton Coombe, Bath, England. J. Lander has brought us much credit at Shrewsbury. He hopes to go to Cambridge next year, and meanwhile he stroked the school boat at Henley, beating Jesus College, Cam- bridge, in the finals for the Ladies ' Plate, in what The Field describes as the second most notable feature of the regatta, and to quote homThe Times, Lander stroked with great judgment in all the races. Our hearty congratulations! N. Christison is living at Coldingham, Berwickshire, where he is serving his engineering apprenticeship. A. M. Robertson has entered the firm of Evans, Coleman Evans in Vancouver. R. Eddison is in the Sixth Form at Charterhouse. T. Eddison is a Senior Cadet at the R. N. C, Dartmouth, and helped materially towards the winning of the Good Losers ' Prize in boxing for his year. T. Golby has written a most interesting letter from H. M. S. Velox, in which ship he is doing his R.N.R. course, and 26

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sleep in a hammock — they knew. I am told that we shall be there on Monday afternoon; is that next year or is it . . . ? I felt better again and tried to take an interest in the reciprocating turbines which fire 30 knots or splices a minute. Also in the anti-aircraft torpedoes fired under water, and in the tiny six-inch firing guns, but in vain . . . They try to take my mind off my trouble and tell me that on Sunday there is a cinematograph service operated by the Captain; and someone tried to teach me how to make 30 knots an hour with ropes. I suppose they pull the ship along, but my brain wanders — I may have got it wrong .... Nearly all over, San Francisco is in sight. Shall I live until we get there? Two American destroyers coming out, probably to prevent any but dead Englishmen from being landed . I can write no more, so will cork up the bottle and throw it into the sea, accompanied, I fear, by something else. (Editorial Note — We fancy the above may be partly fic- titious, for we have received a long account of his voyage from the father of a boy who did go to ' Frisco on the Danae, full of interesting facts and accurate details. We are very grateful for it, but the demands of space and fear of DORA prevent us from printing it here, so we have decided to print the shorter and more vivid bottle document, even if some of its informa- tion is less accurate. We might mention the fact that H.M.S. Danae was provided with better steering gear than that pro- vided by King Acrisius) . 28