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High Street School : Records

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Reference NumberARC-0100CreatorHigh Street SchoolDescriptionThe collection contains admission, progress and withdrawal registers, pupil record books, examination registers, registers of progress and achievement, records of survey, attendance registers, summary of attendance registers, School Committee material, High Street School Association material, and 1924 and 1964 jubilee material, and photographs, one of which is of the builders of the Oamaru Railway Station 1900. There is also a cap and sash, and a motion picture film.
Only a small part of this collection is digitised and available through Digital Collections. Information about other items can be found on the Hākena catalogue, through the Library Catalogues link above.History / BiographyHigh Street School opened in 1864 as the southern school for the Dunedin district, known as Dunedin South School or the South Dunedin School, but more informally as Park's School (after its first headmaster, John Brown Park) or the William Street School. It became High Street School in 1886 and was decapitated to Kenmure Intermediate on 4 February 1974. The school closed in February 2011.

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Mrs J.B. Park

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'Young gymnasts', High Street School

Mrs J.B. Park

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