From wartime magazine no 3
January 1942
Almost everyone seems to be busy collectinq something or other these days to help the war effort, and the members of the School have proved themselves no exception to the rule.
Apart from our efforts in the National Savings Scheme, of which details are given elsewhere, boys have made collections of various kinds to help towards victory and to improve in some measure the lot of those on whom the burden of the war falls heaviest. Books and magazines have been collected in large numbers for members of the forces and for those in hospitals.
We all realise that these men deserve all the comforts that we can provide for them, and we can confidently feel that not a few weary hours have been whiled away with periodicals and books collected by the School. Boys are asked to bring further magazines to Mr. Searson.
Our talent for collecting has found other directions too in which to expend itself ; tinfoil has been collected and sent to help the Red Cross.
A large quantity of scrap metal and tins was collected in boxes placed in the playground for the purpose. It has been quite a common sight to see boys of various Forms bringing their old tins to School, flattening them out and adding them to the ever growing pile of potential war material. Some two or three pounds’ worth of metal has heen collected in this way. To-day the city collections have taken the place of the school metal collections.
But our war-winning efforts have not been confined merely to collecting. Some twenty-five boys have taken allotments on the School field (avoiding however the sacred turf of ihe 1st XI pitch) and are busy digging for victory in their spare time. In spite of initial difficulties of hard ground and nettle roots the school allotments have produced some excellent crops.
So, with our various ways and means, we are doing our bit towards winning the war.