PUKERIMU’S HISTORY

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3418, 11 February 1936, Page 4

PUKERIMU’S HISTORY

SCHOOL DIAMOND JUBILEE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21. Arrangements are being made to fittingly celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Pukerimu-Kaipaki School on Friday, February 21. Sixty years ago the school was commenced and special interest attaches to the jubilee in that many of the scholars who attended on the opening day are still alive. They include Mr A. Gane and Mrs Gane (formerly Miss F. Clark); Mr W. Clark and Mrs Clark (formerly Miss Mary Gane), of Hamilton; Mr H. 11. Clark, of Hamilton; Mr F. Gane, of Wliatawhata; Mr J. M. Scott, Maungatautari; Mrs F. Vercoe (formerly Miss J. Scott) of Hamilton; Mrs A. Wallace (formerly Miss B. Scott), of Te Awamutu; Mrs Rhodes (formerly Miss J. Fisher), of Paterangi; Mrs T. Robinson (formerly Miss M. Fisher), of Roto-o-rangi; MrsW. T. Wallace, Waiterimu; Mrs J. Bryant (formerly Miss Maggie Wallace) of Papatoetoe; Mrs G. Runciman (formerly Miss May Wallace), of Papatoetoe; Mrs J. Hodgson (formerly Miss Mary Parr); Sir James Parr, London; Mr Alfred Caley, Otahuhu; Mr T. Caley, Mt. Eden; Mrs W. Dixon (formerly Miss C. Gane), of Takapuna, and Mrs Alan Gane, of Takapuna. The celebrations will take the form of a picnic at the Kaipaki School, to which all surviving original scholars are being invited. A dance will be held in the Kaipaki Hall in the evening., The present chairman of the School Committee is Mr Alan Fisher and the secretary, Mr T. McCarthy.