OXFORD SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20647, 9 September 1932, Page 18

OXFORD SCHOOLS.

EARLY EDUCATIONAL ENDEAVOURS LATER CONSOLIDATION. Though the Oxford School is this month celebrating its. Diamond Jubilee, educational institutions were not lacking there during, the 20 years before 1872.' Mr G. A. White and the Eev. D. Dolamore are said to have had nigiit schools. In the very early sixties Mrs Solaire opened a little school. The room had an earth floor and the seats were pit-sawn planks laid on blocks of wood. A small table at which ODly three scholars could fit at a time served for a desk and writing lessons had to be taken in turn. A few years afterwards Mrs Milligan opened a private school for girla in Church street. Miss Steadman, afterwards Mrs Sale, opened a boarding school for young ladies about 1869. on Sladden's Hill. Mrs Foster, the wife of Captain Foster, had a boarding school. Messrs Eolfe and Briggs also had private schools. About ISO'S the Anglican Church started a day school on Main street, and Mr Tomlinson was the first master, follower! by Mr Wollstein. A School Applied For. In 1872 a public meeting of residents decided to appty to the Education Board for a school. Their request was granted, and school was first held ui the Baptist Church on September 16th, 1872, and the new school of one room