GREEN ISLAND SCHOOL RE-UNION

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3249, 20 January 1926, Page 4

GREEN ISLAND SCHOOL RE-UNION

70th. ANNIVERSARY. A very interesting gathering will lake place at Green Island, near Dunedin, on Friday, 12th. February next, on the occasion of the 70th. Anniversary of the opening of the school. A number of Otago pioneers settled In the Green Island Bush district, and built one\ of, if not the first school in the vicinity of Dunedin.

The Re-Union Committee trusts that all ex-teachers and ex-pupils from 1856 to 1926 will endeavour to be present, and thus make the gathering a huge success.

The celebrations commence on Friday, 12th. February and continue until Sunday the 14th.; cheap excursions to Dunedin' in connection with the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition are being- Issued on the railways (including ferry steamer). The Committee will be pleased to have the loan of old photographs or ,'nementos of the school, for exhibition at the Re-union.

The present addresses of many expuplls and ex-teachers are unknown to members of the Committee, henco circulars have not been posted to them, but they are invited and expected Just the same. His Worship the Mayor (Mr W. T. Smellie) is chairman, Mr A. M. Love, hon. secretary, and Miss Mary Mills, assistant secretary of the Re-:unlon committee. Donations towards expenses will be gratefully received by the treasurer, Mr J. L. Miller, Green Island. Dunedin,