PAPAKURA SCHOOL
JUBILEE CELEBRATION To commemorate the jubilee of the Papakura School, which is still carried on in rooms added to the original budding, the school committee held a special meeting, and the teaching stuff attended by request. It was decided to hold a carnival to celebrate the school jubilee and that the final functions be held not later than December 10. It was also agreed to promote a queen carnlva I and divide the district into four areas; to secure the cooperation of nil old scholars; to invite former residents to revisit the town during the carnival; to invite the various athletic and sport-controlling bodies to keep a free date on Saturday. December 10, and to enlist the services of all willing to assist on a sub-committee. In 187? the Auckland Education Board established the school in a new building, for which £175 was voted, the balance of £75 to be found by the residents, thus providing £250. _ The tenders ranged from £370 to £295, and the building costs exceeded the latter amount. The school attendance was then about 70—the district extending bej ond Drury, where a school was carried on in a church.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 160, 27 September 1927, Page 14
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