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The school is always keen to hear from Old Boys who have some news for their peers, or a photograph to share.   These can be published on the school website or included in an Old Boys' Newsletter which we try to distribute by email once or twice a year – all depends on the news received.

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Old Boy - Rhys Knauf - HBHS offers congratulations for significant win in the 2011 Innovate Manawatu Awards

Supreme Award of $20,000.00 to Rhys Knauf, Michelle Power and Julian Maggin who are final year Engineering Students at Massey with a focus on Product Development. The trio only entered their invention half an hour before entries closed. Rhys, Michelle and Julian have spent at least five hours a day only a fortnight before the competition to develop an innovative calf feeder that reduces the risk of injury to calves whilst improving the efficiency of the calf feeding process. Their product is mounted on a front-end loaded tractor via pellet forks for feeding calves over fences. Rhys has been using the product on his father‟s dairy farm in Hawke‟s Bay and while finding it useful, did not consider it a business idea until he heard about the competition. Once he and his team „looked at the numbers‟ they realized they had a good idea which could be profitable.

The team plans to manufacture the product entirely in the Manawatu and will use the prize money to secure further investment and intellectual property rights. With significant growth in dairy herd numbers needed to meet global demand for milk products, the judges saw this innovation as having a very bright future

   

 

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

Rhys Knauf (centre)

 

 

Old Boy - Josh Stevenson

Josh Stevenson attended Hastings Boys‟ High School from 2002 to 2006 and was quickly identified as a very talented football player. In 2006 Josh captained our very successful 1st XI who finished 10th in New Zealand in the Lotto Premier Tournament.

At the age of 16 he was offered a scholarship in the USA to play football but did not follow this up for personal reasons. Instead he joined the Police Force in New Zealand while playing for Napier City Rovers – a club he joined while still a student at H.B.H.S. Trying to balance the shift work of a Police Officer with training and playing is a difficult proposition, but one that Josh has managed very well.

Born in Rotorua, Josh came to Hastings via the USA at the age of 8 and started playing for Hastings Rovers before being “spotted” and asked to join the Napier City Rovers Development Squad.

Now a fixture at N.C.R. Josh is looking forward to a possible “double” Central League title and Chatham Cup.

  

 

 

 Josh Stevenson (on right of photo)

Thank you to Hawke's Bay Today for the photo

 

  

  

Obituary:

After a fall at his home on June 5th, 2010, former NZ Defence Chief Vice-Admiral Sir Neil Anderson died in Wellington hospital, aged 83.  He was born and educated in Hastings where he attended HBHS from, 6 February to 26 October 1944 and left to attend Naval College in England.   Sir Neil was Defence Chief from 1980 to 1983.  Sir Neil was also Chief of Naval Staff from 1978 to 1980, his promotion coming after a distinguished career in the Royal New Zealand Navy, which he joined as a cadet in 1944.

 
He served in Korea aboard the HMNZS Rotoiti in 1950-51 and was later a navigation specialist before becoming commanding officer of navy ships, such as the Taranaki, Philomel and Waikato.
He was made a Companion of the Order of Bth (CBG) in 1982 and a Knight commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) two years later.  (Source:  NZPA)