World Premiere of Historic Play

'Sapper Moore-Jones', a 45 minute play penned by HBHS Old Boy Campbell Smith about our school's first art teacher and WWI veteran Horace Moore-Jones, was performed for the first time ever on Saturday afternoon.  As part of the Centennial celebrations, drama teacher Colin Leach directed Blake Wong, Galileo Finlayson-Ble and Andrew Eastwick in a dramatisation of Moore-Jones' life.

Mr Moore-Jones saw active service in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. His painting 'Simpson and his Donkey' is regarded as an iconic record of the stoicism of the ANZACs and the pathos of their situation.  On returning to New Zealand Moore-Jones became the first HBHS art teacher, and died after saving the lives of a number of people in the 1922 Hamilton Hotel fire.  His brief but extra-ordinary life provided Smith with the framework of a engaging one act play.

The performance was both well attended, and well recieved.