sun and crouching like a metallic dinghy." With four helpers holding on to ropes in case it ran adrift, he rose six inches into the air and travelled 300 feet, with something ofthe aplomb of Wilbur and Orville Wright!This is but the beginning, he hopes, of bigger and better flights. The machine took two years to build, and is designed to float,should he decide to travel over water. M.W.Sutton(57-60)is working with Mushroom Products,Hill Crest,Natal. C. W.Sparks(25-26), now boasting of three grandchildren, has let his farm at Swinburne, O.F.S., and is Manager for the hardware section of MacDonald Bros., Pietermaritzburg, Seed Merchants. Those needing wheelbarrows, please apply. J.O.N.Schofield(31-34)is now with Stenhouse, Natal,Insurance Consult ants. I. Silson (56-59)is with the Guardian Insurance Co., Johannesburg. D. M.Sinclair (21-23), Quantity Surveyor in East London, who has the unique honour (if that is the right word)of being our oldest Old Boy, writes: "Fortunately I have been too busy and occupied to feel my age ...I was in Natal a few weeks ago, and I motored up to the Old Kearsney College and walked round the Chapel and graveyard where I saw so many familiar names, including that of Walter Hulett, who was a close friend of mine." A.P. Stiebal (53-58) has formed a Company known as Labour Services, Durban. With a fleet of Kombis and a gang of Africans he cleans buildings, windows, renovates and repairs, and applies repellants to statues and the like where birds are not welcome. Dr. H. H. Stott (22-26), founder and Chairman of the Valley Trust, is convinced that the vast amount of money spent on hospital buildings could be drastically cut if more money was spent on preventitive measures. He mentions particularly the ineidence of T.B. through malnutrition. The Valley Trust, he says,is teaching Africans to help themselves. It gives guidance on soil and water conservation methods, nutrition and crop management,and has 53 fish dams in the Trust's reserves, many built by the African people themselves. N.C.H.Stott(51-57),son of the above, has gained his B.Sc.(Hons.) with a First-class Pass, at Edinburgh University. By June he will have qualified as a Doctor and will thereafter for six months continue to study Tropical Diseases at the Durham Medical School. His wife's grandfather was a medical missionary in India and his own great-grandfather was a missionary in Ceylon,an interesting coincidence. A.J. Tedder(46-50) has given up the unequal struggle against Nature as a farmer,and has been appointed Fisheries Official for central Natal,workingfrom Winterton. His work involves watching the breeding of fish in rivers and dams, studying their diseases, protecting them from poachers, and helping with the building of dams. D.V.Thompson(52-57)waselected unopposed to the Verulam Town Board. Dr.J.R.Tedder(53-56)hasjust returned to this country after two years of varied medical experience in England. He is hoping to share a private practice in Durban. K. B. Theunissen (34-37) has been appointed Headmaster of Hunt Road School,Durban. He is Chairman ofthe Northern Natal Girls'Hockey Selection Committee. The voice of Col.C.C.von Keyserlingk(27-30)was heard over the airashe opened the first Indian Police Station, at Chatsworth, Durban. It was a little disappointing, later, to learn that the speech was recorded by the S.A.B.C. beforehand in his own office!Heis a mostregular and welcome visitoratKearsney functions, not to mention other functions all over the Area. 124
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