Hostel Story
I still have the dressing gown that hung by my bed in dorm 5, The pockets have holes in them where mice stole the food my mother sent me . I liked to have a snack in the night when no one could flog it off me,
There was a knack in getting changed into civillian clothes in the bus stop in Symonds street so you could visit the pub across the road to buy a flagon, I remember once being in the window queue and the guy in front stepped aside and said serve the boy first, Phew!
As chair of the gardening committee we grew massive kumara that won first prize at the A and P show at the showgrounds,
I still have my school uniform including a cao with a burn hole in side it,,,the result of stubbing out a smoke at short notice
In hindsight a great 5 years of character building comadiere sport academics life long learning
