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NGHS NOBBYS MAGAZINES
Published in The Newcastle Sun Wednesday 17th December 1930
NEWCASTLE GIRLS PUBLISH SCHOOL MAGAZINE
‘NOBBYS’ IS ITS NAME
“BRIGHTLY HUMOROUS AND CLEVER“
The Newcastle High School girls have something to be very proud about just now — their school magazine, ‘Nobbys’, which has just been published, and which certainly must rank with the very best school publications in New South Wales.
The establishment of the Girls’ High School was an historical event for Newcastle and the publication of such a successful magazine is of equal importance to the school.
The girls, of course, are proud of their work. Many of them are enthusiastically claiming that, although this Is the first issue of Nobbys, there is no school magazine ln the State better than it, probably few as good.
Certainly, their contributions are worthy of praise.
There are poems, stories, travel sketches, decorations, and cartoons, all of pleasingly good quality, contributed by the girls themselves. It is evident that girls at the High School have a fine pictorial fancy, a mine of information, are observant, and also clever. They have, too, an admirable sense of humour and plenty of common sense.
Sense of Humour
It is only necessary to read some of the verse, or sketches to be convinced of this. The magazine is free of the usual woeful attempts, which young boys and girls often make to be sad and profound — attempts which generally end in unconscious banalities. The poems are full of fresh young beauty, and represent honest attempts at self-expression, and the humour in the sketches and some of the verse is conscious and wholly enjoyable.
What could be more humorously described for instance, than the indignation of the United Kingdom of blue flies, blowflies, small flies, etc?
‘The blowflies and blue flies ‘blued’, the small flies ‘whizzed’, the big flies ‘buzzed’, and the etceteras ‘etcetered’.
This is only one of dozens of bright touches.
Gay and Dignified
All told, the magazine has a gay, yet dignified and artistic appearance.
The poems, stories and articles are arranged with taste, and are allowed to speak for themselves. The most frequent fault of school magazines is careless classification and the grouping of dissimilar stories together under one heading, or dissimilar verse or dissimilar sketches or dissimilar essays. This has been avoided in Nobbys.
A striking feature of the magazine is the printing of the school song —not only the words but also the music. There are many interesting photographs of the girls at play, an interesting foreword by the principal (Miss Brewster), and editorials on the necessity for a school magazine, and why the magazine is called Nobbys.
Regarding the name Nobbys. It Is stated that it is a symbol Newcastle girls can easily understand. Like the school motto, it is English and, just as there is a lighthouse on Nobbys guiding mariners, so we hope there will be the light of youth and hope and gay young wisdom always burning brightly in ‘Nobbys’.
The Magazine of the Newcastle Girls’ High School with photos, reports and articles published each year.
The Newcastle Boys’ High School equivalent is their Novocastrian.
1940s
1946 / 1947 / 1948 / 1949 /
1950s
1976
Newcastle High School Nobby’s Magazine 1976 and 1977
are for some ladies who started in Newcastle Girls’ High School
and finished in the new Newcastle High School.
1977
NOBBYS
Newcastle Library Collection
A small collection at the Newcastle Library