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one hundred and eighty pupils.

The central portion had headmaster and assistant teacher’s rooms, storerooms, and a janitor’s room.

Between the classrooms were cloak rooms running from the veranda to the back of the building.

The veranda was eight feet wide along the whole of the front of the building. At the eastern and western ends of the school were shelter sheds, at the back of which were bicycle sheds. Concrete steps extended along the whole of the front of the building giving access to the veranda at any place from the concrete assembly area in front of the school.

The building was centrally heated and grill doors were provided at the entrance to the cloak rooms thus allowing for a free current of fresh air. Additional cupboards were placed under the blackboards in the front walls of the classrooms, easels were dispensed with and smaller byloplate boards fitted to the walls. The school was equipped with electric lighting, heating pipes that ran between the hat and coat racks to assist in the drying of the children’s clothing in wet weather, and the old desks were dispensed with so every child was provided with their own individual table and chair. Mr Hugh Brown, headmaster, shared his sentiments to those present: “The school’s aim was to teach the three arts; to build character so that pupils, on going out into the world, could take their proper place in the community.” Celebrations for the opening, were combined with the school’s Jubilee and occurred over three days. Photos of each decade of past students were taken in front of the new building. The celebration finished with a dinner, held under marquees on the school grounds where around 300 people attended.

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