Yet Mr Whistler, president of the local Parents and Citizens' Association, and those who contributed to the collection, could see the good in Moose. They glimpsed his potential. So Master Adrian Skeggs was enrolled as a boarder at TAS, The Armidale School.

"I cried for four or five months," he said yesterday. "I had never cried before."

Now Adrian Skeggs is 28 years old, weighs 116 kilograms, is 1.9 metres tall, teaches physical education at the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, is on the fringe of playing rugby for Australia and goes home every summer to Lord Howe, where he plays Santa Claus and cares for kids.

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