Ernest Kemp- First Poverty Bay boy to go to Huntley

In 1900 Ernest Kemp (aged eleven) took four days to get to Huntley.

 He rode on horseback from Ruatoria to Tolaga Bay and travelled the next day to Gisborne. That night he caught the boat to Napier where next morning he was met by an aunt who took him to a clothes factory to buy his Huntley uniform.  They then caught a train to Te Aute.

 The following day, alone he boarded the train to Woodville, and then another to Palmerston North. After changing trains again he finally boarded the Main Trunk Line train.

At nine o’clock that night he got off the train at the Marton Junction, walked in to Marton and then up Wanganui Road to Marton Preparatory School (Huntley).

 Oswald Williams 1900-1902 Ruatoria, James Busby 1900-1905 and Billy Busby 1900-1905  Tokomaru Bay also started at Huntley in 1900.

 

 

 

Hugh Barton (1949-52)

Hugh Barton attended Huntley School from 1949 to 1952 then Wanganui

Collegiate School from 1953 to 1957.

 

He played for the Huntley XI in 1951 and 1952. The XI bowled St Georges out for 4 in 1952. The then Headmaster, Mr Sherriff, excused the team of prep that night and Hugh thought that was great!!!

 

Played for the WCS XI in 1955 to 1957, the XV 1957, Athletic Colours 1957.

Representative Cricket:

Wanganui, Poverty Bay, Waiararapa, Northern Districts first class side in

1957/58

Coaching

Poverty Bay Rep side and the Gisborne High School XI 1992/97

St Bede's School England 2003/ 06

Scotch College South Australia 2002

Wanganui Collegiate School 2006/07

Northern Districts under 19 1997 2000

Northern Districts under 17 2000

St Paul's Collegiate School 1997/ 2003

St Paul's Collegiate School 2008 and I am still at St Paul's coaching

 

Hugh has also been involved with committees such as Gisborne Civil

Defence from 1966 to 1997 and was alternate controller during Bola in 1988. He was presented a Honorary Vice President blazer from the NZ Golf Association in 1996

1996 ( Director of the NZ Amateur Tournament 1992 and the Tower Tournament

1996

ROBERT TRIPE (1985-1986)

Dux 1986

Robert attended Huntley in 1985 and 1986 before going on to Whanganui Collegiate, and then Victoria University, where he gained a BA in Modern Languages. After two years working and travelling in Japan and the Pacific, he spent three years in the Acting Programme at Toi Whakaari: The New Zealand Drama School, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in 1999.

 

After sometime overseas in France and elsewhere, he returned to New Zealand and a succession of roles on stage, mainly in Wellington. He was nominated as ‘Supporting Actor of the Year’ at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for two years running: in 2005 for his role in The Cherry Orchard, then again for Death of a Salesman in 2006. For the past two years, Robert has been living in Auckland, where he has been able to gain better access into the screen industry, as well as continuing to perform on stage, with an emphasis on singing.

Huntley memory

“Occasionally on Saturday mornings, sport would be cancelled because of bad weather, and JA (James Allan, Dep. Headmaster) would organise an impromptu entertainment/concert for the whole school. I was inevitably a part of every one of these shows, which were thrown together in a matter of hours, if that. They were always a pressure cooker of excitement and spontaneity, and remain one of my strongest memories of Huntley.”

Guy Melville (1980-81)

Following Huntley, Guy went to Wanganui Collegiate School (1982-86).  Whilst at Collegiate Guy began rowing and was part of the winning crews of the Maadi Cup in 1985-86, making the NZ juniors in rowing and played 1^st XV rugby.  Upon leaving school he spent the next couple of years following rowing coaches to Tauranga, Auckland and Christchurch then attending 2 World Champs and successfully making the Olympic Team to Barcelona in 1992 in the coxed four.

Guy then followed his calling back to the family farm.  He completed his commercial helicopter pilot licence in 2000.  He further expanded his farming operation with lease blocks in the Manawatu building to 9000 stock units.  In 2005 married Jennie Callesen of the Manawatu and in 2010 moved to Pukeokahu, east of Taihape, where Guy is the Equity Manager for 24,000 stock units in Sheep and Beef for Kaiangaroa Pastoral Ltd.  He has 3 girls, Isabel (6 ½), Victoria (5), and Pippa (3).