Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

The Rev. Dr. H. T. Postle, whose resignation as principal of the Presbyterian Girls' College, Glen Osmond, has been accepted by the college council, will leave at the end of the year to take up educational work at Launceston (Tasmania). He has purchased the Broadland House School, the oldest-established girls' college in Tasmania, and with Mrs. Postle, who was formerly at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, and subsequently trained as a nurse, as joint-principal, will carry it on as a private school. Dr.Postle, who is a native of Victoria, came from that State to South Australia four years ago to organize the local Prebyterian Girls.' College, and since then the toll has reached a total of 200, including 70 boarders. He is a graduate in arts, and laws of the Melbourne University. After concluding his theological course at Ormond College, Melbourne, he served pastorates in Western Australia and Tasmania, and was Moderator of the Presbyte in Assembly in the latter State in 1903. Later he specialized in the educational side of the church work, and after doing, the practical training obtained, the diploma of education of the Melbourne University. Subsequently he was a senior member of the staff of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, East Melbourne, and for a period acting principal of that institution . He served overseas in the Great War as a chaplain during 1916 and 1917.​