South Featherston South Featherston National Archives 1898 456 square feet classroom built 1913 Added 528 Square Feet classroom 1923 Temporary 720 square feet Old Army Hut Used as a hall Land 5 acres 2nd November 1917 Board refused to add another 5 acres from education reserve next door. 1916 Tender for improvements to Septic Tank, water tower, windmill etc. at South Featherston and residence. William Tinney Contractor Application for Residence: Roll 1912 ,68 Teacher is paid house allowance of £20 Note : teacher cannot obtain accommodation locally Note from Wellington Education Board to Department Application for a grant of £442-10-0 in 1912 for residence a) This is a rising dairying area which will shortly be a two teacher school. The teacher has to travel 3 miles each way from Featherston as he can’t get a house. It will be noted that a fairly large sum is set for fencing but it is observed in reference to this that the winds blowing here are of such violence as to render absolutely necessary the erection of a fair amount of Board fencing Reply a grant of £450 be granted by Department b) Particulars included in application for enlargement of school showing pre-schoolers in the district in 1912 From School Land (acres) Description Names Age (years) Charles Cundy Farmer ¼ Mile 44 acres Leasehold Jean 3 My Father’s Cousins Eric 2 James Scott Farmer ½ mile 350 Sharemilker Kenneth 4 Zoe 2 George Burt Farmer ¾ 300 Freehold Allan Franc Burt Farmer ½ 8 Freehold Norman 3 Sley (Islay) 2 William Wakely Flax Miller ½ mile 15 Freehold Mira 2 Archie Benton Carpenter ¾ 8 Freehold Duglas 4 Avrill 2 Harold Gibbs Labourer ½ ¾ Freehold Stanley 1 Andrew Murphy Farmer 1 ½ ¾ Leasehold Andrew 3 William Brown Farmer 450 2 Tenant Leonard 4 Amelia 2 Thomas Teaseteale Gardener ½ Tenant Mary 2 (Teasdale?} Dan Riddiford Farmer 100 ½ Freehold Francis 1 Sidney Fleming Gardener ½ Tenant Monty 4 Horace 2 George Cox Farmer 80 ¼ Freehold Eileen 1 James Adamson Factory Manager ½ Tenant Percy 4 Ruby 1 Donald Yule Farmer 195 1 Freehold Dulcie 3 Fred Simmonds Farmer 18 2 ½ Freehold Avrill 1 Signed by Charles R Cundy No of children over 14 attending South Featherston: 3 Featherston Two miles away Roll 144 Tauherenikau 3 Miles away Roll 19 Kaiwaiwai 3 miles away Roll 53 Further in application a) All the children at South Featherston are attending their nearest school b) Increase is because increase of population especially towards the lake c) A portion of Longwood estate is to be cut into 5 acre sections d) A sheep farm is being subdivided into three dairy farms e) Roll 50 with average of 47 attendance f) The area for classroom does not allow for chimney or cupboards Length is 24’ x 19’ (7.31 X 5.79 Meters) 29th November 1912 Acknowledged by Department of letter and grant made of £ 376-15-0 Script in Times New Roman is from the School Log Script in Times New Roman with PP at the end comes from Papers Past Script in Times New Roman in Blue is School Committee Minutes Script in Tempus Sans 12 is from material at National Archives Wellington South Featherston: 1899-Present Aka Featherston South in the early years. Built close to the dairy factory, which my grandfather was Secretary of for quite a while. My Great Aunt, Nell Cundy was a first day pupil of Featherston South School. In 1972 I was appointed to South Featherston School as head teacher. We had an old school house built in 1913 still with an outside toilet and laundry. Two of the classrooms were the original school buildings with windows so high I was the only one who could look out the windows at 6 feet tall Fernside was the Cundy home where my Grandmother grew up The dairy factory was next to the Tauherenikau River on State Highway 52. The eels here were big and fat as the whey was flushed into the river. I 1896 can remember going with George Cuff (Married Dad’s cousin Jean) to th the factory with the milk and then filling up with cans of whey to feed the 26 February 1896 As regards the petition for a school at South pigs on the farm. Featherston, the Inspector reported he was unable to make any definite recommendation, as the children affected could be taken either to the Featherston or Tauherenikau schools if provision were made for conveying them there. The present buildings at Tauherenikau were unfit for habitation, and if a school was to be maintained there a new room was absolutely necessary, the present building, with a few alterations, being made to do duty as a teacher's first assistant at the Te Aro School, 17; head teacher at Dreyerton, residence PP 20 head teacher at Waihakeke, 10 head teacher at South Featherston, 19th September 1897 Inspector Lee recommended in regard to an 18; head teacher at Ponatahi, 6; PP application for a school at South Featherston that a school be placed 2nf February 1899 Miss Townsend, at present at Shannon, will go to a mile from Tauherenikau. The Chairman decided to visit the South Featherston PP district. PP 25th October 1899 150 ACRES OF FIRST-CLASS LAND, with an 22nd October 1897 FEATHERSTON NOTES. eight-roomed house, dairy, barn, and stables, situate at South (From Our Own Correspondent). Friday. Messrs Blair and Dorset, Featherston, and two miles from the Featherston Railway Station. the Chairman and Secretary of the Education Board und Mr Cheese Factory adjoining the property. For full particulars, apply to McDougall, the Board's carpenter came up here yesterday and Mr. M. J. H. JACKSON, South Featherston; PP visited Tauherenikau and South Featherston relative to providing th school accommodation for these two places. Touching Tauherenikau 29 November 1900 It was decided not to complete the purchase of School, Mr Blair has promised not to decide anything until after a piece of land for a new school at Tocker's Corner (Commonly next Board meeting, as to South Featherston, Mr Blair has not called Church Corner at the turnoff to Lake Ferry), near the decided on a site yet. Messrs Blair, Dorset and McDougall returned Kaiwaiwai and the South Featherston schools PP to town this morning. PP 7th October 1901 The South Featherston School Committee has rd 23 February 1898 it was left to the Chairman to deal with the endorsed the action of the four members of the Education Board transfer of the school building from Vogeltown to Brooklyn, to who voted for. the retirement of Inspector Lee on the ground of consult with M. Jackson concerning a school site at South retrenchment.PP Featherston PP 3rd May 1902 (By Telegraph —Special to Daily Times). th 30 June 1898 The Education Board has decided to include in their Featherston, This Day. The South Featherston School Committee application for building grant this year provision for new school at election, held on Monday evening, resulted as follows :—Messrs I. South Featherston PP N. Burt (chairman), M. J. H. Jackson, J. Henderson, W. Parker and th 4 January 1899 South Featherston School. Salary .£9O PP J. Logan PP th 16 January 1899 Head teacher, South Featherston School (salary 30th May 1902 Mrs John Tocker, of South Featherston, died early on £90) Miss Frances Townsend PP Thursday morning, at the age of 89 years, as the result of injuries th 14 January 1899 That appointments under the Wellington sustained through falling into the kitchen fire on Tuesday evening Education Board are widely sought after is proved by the number of last. The deceased lady was a very old identity. candidates for the vacancies about to be filled For the position of Dr Hanratty was on Thursday morning sentenced to three months' to Miss Oswin, who is severing her connection with the school to imprisonment at the local S.M. Court for vagrancy. A medical man, take up a position in the South Featherston School, in the Michael Hanratty was charged by the police at, Wellington -this Wellington district. The address read as follows week with vagrancy. He said he had been practising in the We, on behalf of the pupils of the District High School beg to Wairarapa district for 13 or 14 years. One of the Justices expressed present you with the accompanying present as a token of our the opinion that it was a case for an inebriates' home rather than for affection of your work on our behalf. We trust that it may serve as a gaol. Hanratty was discharged, with a recommendation for his pleasant memento of the time you have spent with us in this school. admission to one of the local homes. The annual examination of the In conclusion we desire to express the hope that every happiness South Featherston School took place with most satisfactory results, and prosperity may attend you in your new sphere of work. all the pupils passing in their respective standards. Hokitika District High School, September 26, 1902. 31st July 1902 Resignation Miss Ethel Townsend, sewing (?) teacher The teaching staff of the school presented her with beautifully bound at Featherston South volumes of Shakespeare's and Tennyson's works, and her class with 9th January 1902 A fire occurred at Toomath's flaxmill, South a handsome album and photograph of the school, while the pupils of Featherston, yesterday, about 12 o'clock, the scutch-house and six or the District High School presented her with a silver mounted eight tons of flax being destroyed inkstand. 16th August 1902 A very successful concert was given by the pupils The Rector (H.