LINCOLN SCHOOL CENTENARY
Celebration Plans Arranged The Lincoln Primary School will celebrate its centenary on the weekend of December 9 to 11. Already 700 registrations have been received and more are still coming in. The first school classes at Lincoln were held in the home of Mrs W. Tod, one of the earliest white women in Riccarton in the 1840 s. She moved to Lincoln in 1858. The school in her home was started soon afterwards.
In 1862, a building was erected for the Presbyterian Church (used until two years ago as a Sunday school) and the day school was transferred there in 1863.
A Mr Bowie was brought out from England as teacher by the Rev. Charles Fraser, the minister of St. Andrew’s parish, Christchurch, of which Lincoln was then a part. The public school was opened in 1866. This building still stands and is used for manual training. District high school services were provided from 1903 to 1919 and again from 1945 until 1958, when the separate Lincoln High School of full secondary status was established. To celebrate the centenary a banquet will be held on Friday, December 9, a reunion on the Saturday afternoon and a cocktail party and ball in the evening. On Sunday afternoon there will be a thanksgiving service and school sports on the Monday.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31226, 25 November 1966, Page 21
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