Centenary of a School
The Christchurch West High School Old Girls’ Association considers that the school’s centennial should be held in two years’ time; but the headmaster (Mr C. A. Noble) told the Board of Governors on Friday evening that the correct vear appeared to be 1974. Mr Noble said that according to a booklet on the occasion of the schools’ fiftieth anniversary, celebrated in 1924, the Methodist Church in 1858 built a school to provide secondary education for its members. The school was not a financial success, and when the 1874 Education Act, providing for free, compulsory and secular education, was passed, the Government bought the buildings and transferred them to the present site of the school, establishing a Government primary school there.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27986, 5 June 1956, Page 6
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124Centenary of a School Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27986, 5 June 1956, Page 6
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