Hastings Boys' High School

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{{Infobox school

| name = Hastings Boys' High School

| seal_image =

File:Hastings_Boys'_High_School_logo.jpg

| motto = "Young men united by respect"

| type = State single-sex boys, Secondary (Year 9–13)

| established = 1904

| address = 800 South Karamu Road, Hastings, New Zealand

| coordinates = {{coord|-39.6501|176.8357|region:NZ-HKB_type:edu|display=inline,title}}

| headmaster =

| roll = {{NZ school roll data|227|y||y}} ({{NZ school roll data|||y}})

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| MOE = 227

| homepage = [http://www.hastingsboys.school.nz/ hastingsboys.school.nz]

}}

Hastings Boys' High School is a boys' secondary school in Hastings, New Zealand. The school is part of the Super 8. The school was founded in 1904 as Hastings High School. In 1922, it became Hastings Technical School under the leadership of William Penlington, who remained headmaster until 1949.{{cite web |title=History |url= http://www.hastingsboys.school.nz/about/history/index.htm |publisher=Hastings Boys' High School |access-date=26 June 2014}}{{DNZB|last=Boyd|first=Mary|id=4p7|title=William Arthur Greener Penlington|accessdate=23 April 2017}}

In the mid-1950s, the school split into Hastings Girls' High School and Hastings Boys' School. It has four Houses, Te Mata (red), Heretaunga (blue), Te Kahu (grey) and Manu Huia (black). These houses compete in many sporting events with each other throughout the year.

Students at Hastings Boys' High School organised a conference in 1999 to consider cloning the Huia, their school emblem.[http://nzsm.webcentre.co.nz/article2371.htm Boys Cloning Birds] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612131328/http://nzsm.webcentre.co.nz/article2371.htm |date=12 June 2008 }}, New Zealand Science Monthly, September 2000. Retrieved on 15 December 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9907/20/cloning.enn/|title=CNN – Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved|work=CNN website |access-date=3 December 2008 |publisher=CNN news |date=20 July 1999}} The Māori tribe Ngāti Huia agreed, in principle, to support the endeavour, which would be carried out at the University of Otago, and a California-based Internet start-up volunteered $100,000 of funding.{{Cite journal

| last = Dorey

| first = Emma

| title = Huia cloned back to life?

| journal = Nature Biotechnology

| volume = 17

| pages = 736

| year = 1999

| doi = 10.1038/11628

| pmid = 10429272

| issue = 8| doi-access= free

}} The cloning did not ultimately take place.