SCHOOLS of the AREA
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| (Taken from "Vision and Realisation")
A private school conducted in a "spacious cottage" by Miss Inglis preceded the establishment of a S S. It was not in a central position and David Webster in January 1876 and R. E. Prideaux in February 1877 expressed the needs of the land selectors for a school. A 2 acre site in the township of Marungi* (Katandra) was gazetted in August 1877, a portable erected by Bain and Co. of Benalla for £191, and S S 1965 opened on 7th of November 1877 with Florence Wilson as HT. D Mclean became HT in 1880, soon married, and remained at the school until 1908. The building had been set on the ground by the contractor, was attacked by rot, and had to be raised, weather-boarded externally and lined internally, and a new floor was eventually needed in 1892. Peak enrolment in 1883 reached 53: by the time McLean left it had fallen to 26, and as the area moved to larger scale farming, declined still further to 11 in 1921. The building was now unsafe. Proposals to move 2192 Katandra North, then Drumanure to Katandra fell through when these closed schools were reopened. Eventually, the building of 3200 Mywee was removed and re-erected on the site, the school reopening on 14th April 1924. Minor improvements, including a shelter shed, renewal of flooring (1929), painting, the supply of electricity (1959),septic sewerage (1963), have been made in the recent period, and the school continues to serve the farming district**. An ex-student, Hubert Jenkins, won a military Medal and bar during the first World War. |
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Miss Florence Wilson Mr Donald M McLean Ethel Barclay
D Ford (Dorothy)
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Nov 1877 Mar 1878 Nov 1882 Dec-1908 Jun-1909 Jan-1910 Jun-1910 Sep-1912 Jun-1913 Jan-1914 Jan-1916 Apr-1916 Aug-1917 Oct-1917 Mar-1919 Sep-1921 Feb-1922 Apr-1923 Mar-1924 Apr-1925 May-1925 Jan-1928 Feb-1932 Sep-1934 Jan-1935 Jan-1939 Feb-1940 Sep-1946
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Students (1906-1945)
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