After seeing the school successfully opened, our headmaster, Mr. G. C. Davies, went on leave to England. On the evening of Friday, June 14th, there was an enthusiastic crowd of friends to bid him au revoir. We hear he has now arrived at his destination.

We are glad to hear that many of our old boys have become famous footballers. Kwok Ah Keng, once our famous goalie, Yap Choon Lin, Selangor's best forward, and Yeow Chiang Seng, one of Malaya's best full backs, are all State players now. They played for the Malayan Chinese Football Club against the Hong Kong Chinese who toured the Peninsula in May.

The playing field is now covered with a rich carpet of green, and soon it will be suitable for all games. We expect to see a mammoth attendance on the field next Sports Day. Week in, week out, the school flag is to be seen flying on the top of the pavilion.

We were interested in the fitting up of the school clock, and on the sunny afternoon of the 27th of May, the clock was set working. It seems to impress us with the fact that time passes away very quickly. So we should make the best of our happy times at the school.

Since July 4th, the Government Dental Surgeon, Mr. F. C. Mummery, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Edin), has been very busy at the school. His chair has been very well occupied since he began his good work - a work which many boys will appreciate in the years to come.

A large and distinguished gathering was present at the new V.I. Hall on Saturday evening, April 13th, when a banquet was given by the Old Boys in honour of Mr Bennet Eyre Shaw, M.A. (Oxon), headmaster of the Institution from 1894 to 1922. This took the form of a farewell to Mr Shaw who is returning to England after attending the opening ceremony of the new Victoria Institution.

The Annual Prize-giving and Concert was held in April towards the end of the first term. The science laboratory, the art room (with a display of photographs for the first time) and the scout room were open for inspection.

A change has taken place in the management of the tuck shop. It is no longer run by the prefects, but is leased out to separate stall-holders. And the prefects, of course, now have a lot of time in which to eat.

David Tan (the future Tan Sri Dr Tan Chee Khoon) has been awarded a Medical College Scholarship in addition to a Victoria Scholarship. This is a rare honour. He almost failed to win the Medical Scholarship because of his poor eye-sight.

Abdul Aziz bin Md. Ali and Shamsuddin bin H.M. Sidin (who is an Old Boy of the school) have been selected Probationers for the Malay Administrative Service. They have joined the Malay College, Kuala Kangsar, for a year's training before being sent to Raffles College.

Hera Singh, our Cricket captain, has joined the Medical College. He, like Abdul Aziz, who was vice-captain, continues to whack away in fine style.

On June 1st, Mr A.C. J. Towers, "in the sixty-fourth year of his youth", as he says, paid a visit to the school and presented a new mace to the Drum Major of the V.I.C.C., which he founded forty years ago.

This year three boys are sitting for the F.M.S. Queen's Scholarship Examination. They are Rodney Lam, Harry Lau, and S. Sivanason. R. Lam is the only candidate offering mathematics.

Yap Pow Meng, F.M.S. Queen's Scholar for 1939 sailed for Great Britain at the end of July to study medicine at Edinburgh (instead of Cambridge, as it was originally intended).

January 1949: The registration of bicycles, carried out by the prefects, was completed today. Total number of bicycles is 592, with an estimated value of $21,340.

About 40 boys from Std. 5 and the school prefects converted the Tuckshop into a civics hall. A radio and loudspeakers were installed for broadcast lessons.

Fluorescent lighting tubes were installed in the tuckshop by the Literary Society. Society meetings are to be held in the Tuckshop in future.

Febuary 1949: The Tuckshop has been renamed the Refectory in view of the fact that it is now being used for society meetings, broadcast lessons and other lessons for combined classes. At the Literary Society meeting this evening, Miss J. Foss, a very good friend of the school, declared open the new Refectory.

The headmaster and school captain are the only two people in the V.I. who are privileged to call an assembly of the school. For the first time in the history of the school, the School captain, R.S. McCoy, called an assembly and spoke to the boys. The Headmaster and Staff were not present.

The first annual football match between VI and the Malay College, Kuala Kangsar, for the Laxamana Cup ended in a one-all draw.

March 1949: Mr Anthony Eden, deputy leader of the Conservative Party, officially opened the new Library and unveiled the school's War Memorial. The school formed a huge human "V.I." monogram in 100 yard letters facing east across the school padang to say farewell to Mr Eden who flew by on his way to Singapore. As his plane circled the school, the boys waved handkerchiefs to say "Selamat Jalan".

April 1949: A magnificent water carnival was staged in the V.I. pool this afternoon - the first of its kind. All credit goes to the swimming captain, Lim Hock Han.

May 1949: At a special assembly at noon, Mr F. Daniel said farewell to the VI after having served the school from 1930, first as Senior Science Master and OC, VICC, and finally as Headmaster. On behalf of the boys, the School Captain, J.D. Davies, presented Mr Daniel with a painting of the school and an inscribed album of photographs depicting many phases of school life.

August 1949: A portrait of Mr Bennett E. Shaw, the first headmaster of the VI, was presented to the School by Dr. Ng Bow Huah, a faithful Old Boy of the School. The portrait now hangs in the Hall.

A new society, the Economics Society, was formed on 12th February. The Chairman was Mohana Krishnan and the Hon. Secretary, M. Pathmanathan.

Two one-act plays, "Tutankhamon, Son of Ra" and "Aurularia" were staged by the Society of Drama from 5th to 7th March.

The staff challenged the boys to a friendly cricket match which ended in a draw.

V.I. challenged Indonesian swimmers in a meet at the Chin Woo Stadium.

From 1st to 4th June, campaigns by various "political parties" were in full swing for the Mock Elections. The chief aim was to teach Victorians proper election procedures. "Polling Day" was on 5th June. Zawiah bt Laidin of the Radicals won the West Ward, while the Central Ward and East Ward were won by Foo Yeow Khean (T-Party) and Seto Kuan Mun (T-Party) respectively.

We mourn the untimely death on 14th June of Mr S. Sabaratnam, a member of the staff.

On 4th June, a lecture was given by the Ambassador of the United Arab Republic, the Hon. Mr. Mohamed Rashad Danish, on "The United Arab Republic - a modern history".

The all-V.I. Talentime was held on 26th June. The first prize was won by Miss Chung Chin Fah with the second taken by V.I.'s "Everley Bothers", Lee Kor Voon and Stanley Loh Hing Tai. Hamzah won the third prize.

On 4th July the school lost to the FMC by 218 points to 203 points in the annual athletic meet between the two schools.

The Malayan Film Unit filmed the entire school singing Negara-Ku in the school padang on 10th July.

The Staff beat the students in a debate organised by the Senior Literary and Debating Society. Khoo Choong Keow won the best debator of the year award.

The school won the Dr Arasu Trophy for Economics and Current affairs by beating the St. Johns' Institution by 40-29.

The Malay Mail editor, Mr S. H. Tan, gave a talk on "Press freedom."

On 20th October all pupils underwent eye tests.

V.I. drew with MBS in the finals of the inter-school hockey competition for the Tun Razak Trophy at the Merdeka Stadium.