NEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL
OPENING CEREMONY AT CAMBRIDGE (PEESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) CAMBRIDGE. February 22. Before an assembly of about 800 persons, including visitors frcm all parts of the North Island, the Minister for Education (the Hon. Peter Fraser) officially opened St. Peter's Preparatory School for boys at Cambridge this afternoon. The school chapel was dedicated' by the Primate (Archbishop Averill), who also blessed the beauti-fully-designed school buildings. The founder is Mr A. F. B. Broadhurst, of England, who is Joint headmaster with the Rev. J. M. Beaufort, formerly headmaster of King's College, Auckland. The school roll numbers 37, representing the whole of the North Island and there is one pupil from Fiji. There is a teaching staff of nine, mostly New Zealanders. The buildings cost more than £ 70,000. 1 v •■ ■
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21715, 24 February 1936, Page 5
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