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The Technology Department of the Primary School - 1919 to 2019.

487 Students from 15 schools
• Ngaruawahia Primary
• Taupiri
• Saint Paul’s
• Waipa
• Horsham Downs
• Rhode Street
• Horotiu
• Whitiora
• Glen Massey
• Te Akau
• Crawshaw School
• Bernard Fergusson
• Gordonton
• Puketaha
• Waingaro

Time Line
• 1919 Cooking and Workshops established.
• 1996 Hard Materials - Soft Materials/Sewing &
Cooking/Food Technology (6 months each).
• 1998 Eric Harrison took over the Department and
established Electronics.
• Cooking teachers Mrs Wells in the 1960s and Mrs Jilly
in the 1980s.
• 1998 Jill McCavender with Food Technology
• 2000 Johnny Regnier established Biotechnology.
• 1998 - 2019 Pratima Achari taught Food Technology
& Soft Materials. Also Senior Teacher and Assistant
Principal.

Electronics & Control Teachers
• Eric Harrison
• Rajendra Prasad
• David Hogg
• Owen
• Chris Sands
• Tavoi Irving
• Scott Callis (present teacher)

Woodwork & Hard Materials Teachers
• Tom Bickerstaff (1964-1965) Shoe boxes and
magazine racks
• Poutapu, assistant whakairo advisor
• Tony Warren
• Michael Wenham
• Peter Grobler
• Gajan John
• Derrick Liddicoat
• Peter Grobler
• Keith Swift
• David Ting • Murray Gibbs
• Laurie Crystall • Geoff Irving (present teacher)