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New Zealand Tablet, 16 January 1913, Page 47

Our readers will have noted in the ’ advertising columns the announcement that a very useful work is about to be commenced in our midst, that of a boarding school for boys of tender age, to be known as St. Thomas of Aquin’s Academy. It is located in Oamaru, in the fine up-to-date building in Reed street, North Oamaru, hitherto used as a boarding school for girls, the latter institution having been transferred to the beautiful Teschemaker estate. All intelligent parents and educators understand the importance and advantage of shielding boys by select association and individual care during the impressionable age from 5 to 10 years, when the awakening mind expands under special formation and training in a way that tells most beneficially, in after life. The academy at Oamaru is not the first of its kind. The Dominican Order carries on similar work in America and Ireland, as for instance, in Cabra, near Dublin, where at present 150 boys pass through their elementary course under the skilled care and guidance of Dominican Nuns. At the Oamaru Academy the boys will be put through the primary course laid down in the standards of the Government syllabus, with elementary .Latin, French, and music if desired. It is hardly necessary to say that the health of the boys will be maternally cared for. The bracing seaside climate of Oamaru is a special advantage in the situation of the academy, to which we wish every success....