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BISHOP HALE'S SCHOOL.
The History of Its Founding.
'Bishop Hale and Secondary Education
in Western Australia" was the subject, of
a paper read at a meeting of the West
Australian Historical Society, at the Kar-
rakatta Club; Hall, last night, by JVlrs. U.
D. Cowan. "The task undertaken by Bishop
Hale- helping to evolve and foster the ideals
of Christianity in the schools of the State
and of founding its first secondary school
for boys was 'not a light one", said the
speaker.
Mrs. Cowan said that Bishop Hale (then
Archdeacon Hale) arrived in Western Aus
tralia in 1856. He had previously visited
the colony in 1848. In that year at Bus
selton, he married Miss Sabina Molloy,
eldest daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Molloy.
Bishop Hale took an interest in the wel
fare of the aborigines and inculcated in the
minds of the pioneers a higher sense of
responsibility as to the education and train-
ing of the natives. In March, 1857, he was
consecrated Bishop of W.estern Australia.
The Ceremony took place in England. Be-
fore returning to his diocese he engaged
five clergy for service in the colony and
also a headmaster for the secondary de
nominational; school for boys that he was
even then planning to establish. He chose
the Rev. G.H. Sweeting, M.A., of Oxford,
a learned, and cultured man. for the posi-
tion. His salary was guaranteed by the
Bishop. The t school which was called
Bishop's College, was opened on June 28,
1858, by the Rey. Mr. Lynch, who acted as
headmaster until the arrival of Mr. Sweet-
ing on November 28, 1858. There, were 23
pupils.
Extracts from letters read by Mrs. Cowan
disclosed that on September 7, 1865 Bishop
Hale's school became the Church: of Eng-
land Collegiate School. In 1875 Bishop
Inle resigned his episcopate and went to
Brisbane. The following year the Church
of England Collegiate School was closed
for want of support. In that year the High
School Act was passed. No reference was
made in that Act to Bishop Hale's School
or the Church' of England Collegiate School.
A private school was established and con-
tinued to March 1, 1878; when the High
School was opened by the Government.
The Act governing Bishop Hale's school
provided that the headmaster must be a
clerk in Holy Orders. The Church of Eng-
land Collegiate School Act was in force
for some times after the High School I started
and parts of it were still in force. This
supported the contention that the officials
of the present- Hale School (late 'High
School), had no right to claim that their
school was founded in 1858 or that the old
Hale School boys should be called High
School boys. In the High School Act of
1876 it was provided that' the school should
be exclusively secular and its headmaster a
University graduate (not a minister of re-
ligion).
Mrs. Cowan read a- number of extracts
from -letters written to relatives, by Bishop
Hale. .
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