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The New Zealand Herald - 31st October 1933
SCHOOL JUBILEE
Ngaruawahia Celebration Functions Next Month

Arrangements for the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of the Ngaruawahia School,

to be held from November 24 to November 26, were finalised at a meeting of the
jubilee committee on Saturday evening.

The celebrations will commence with a ball in the Town Hall on Friday, November 24.
On the Saturday morning old pupils will be motored to places of interest in the district.
In the afternoon there will be a procession of past and present pupils from the post
office to the school, where speeches of welcome will be made, and singing and
dancing items will be
given by the pupils. The roll of old pupils from 1873 to 1905 will be called and badges
presented. An adjournment will then be made to the Town Hall, where there will be a

reunion of badge-holders and escorts, who will be entertained at afternoon tea.

On the Sunday afternoon a combined service will be held in the Town Hall.

The Northern Advocate - 30th October, 1933

SCHOOL JUBILEE

Historic Ngaruawahia Ceremonies Begin Today - Early Times in Township

Celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of
the Ngaruawahia School will commence In 1870 a considerable civil population
today and will be continued over the had settled in the Ngaruawahia district for
weekend. The earliest records available at land that was made available for soldiers.
Ngaruawahia placed the beginning of the Sometime in 1870 a school was
school in the year 1873, and the jubilee established in the disused military
was thus fixed for this year. Recently a hospital, under the provisions of the

report of the first inspector of schools in Common Schools Act, 1869. It was
the Auckland district was discovered, and known as the Newcastle School, after the
this showed a school to exist at name of the survey district. The Auckland
Ngaruawahia in 1870. It was decided, Provincial Council and its Education
however, to continue with the celebration Board were the governing authorities, and
arrangements. a report by the inspector, dated 1871,
relates that 11 pupils, four of whom were

This evening there will be a ball in the girls, attended the school, which was
Ngaruawahia Town Hall. Tomorrow taught by a mistress. The inspector found
morning old pupils will be motored to that the pupils had "some comprehension
places of interest in the district. In the of the meaning of words" but that their
afternoon there will be a procession of knowledge of geography, arithmetic and
past and present pupils, the roll of old history was poor. Facilities for teaching
pupils will be called and afternoon tea will were poor also, and the pupils had to bring
be served. On Sunday there will be a a shilling each on Monday mornings to
church parade and service. help to pay the teacher's salary.