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KAIKORAI SCHOOL JUBILEE

For several years after the establishment of the School, the Committee arranged for regular religious instruction, and at least one head-teacher was censured for non-compliance with their wishes and plans concerning this work. At a later period the Revs. R. R. -Al. Sutherland and Kirkham carried on the work, of religious instruction very acceptably, and for the last twenty years Mr. Duncan Wright has carried on the good work successfully. The excellent work done by Committees to advance the interests of the School furnishes strong evidence that it will be retrograde legislation that attempts to do without such valuable local school agencies.

FIRST TEACHERS.
The firs teacher in charge of the School was Mr. McAlister, whose salary was £100 per annum, his wife being sewing mistress at E25 per annum. These teachers resigned, and Mr. Macklin was appointed head-teacher, and he was succeeded by Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland. On their resignations Mr. D. McLauchlan, who was head-teacher of the Wakari School, assumed the headmastership, and after fifteen years of devoted service he resigned in favour of Mr. John Allardice, who did excellent service for five years, when death overtook him in 1893. Mr. Allnutt, who had been first assistant for seven years, wa,-, appointed his successor, and for over twenty-six years he has very successfully extended the efficiency and popularity of the School.

The following classification of Kaikorai School teachers should prove interesting:—

Head Teachers—Mr. McAlister, 1½, years; Mr. Machlin, 2 years; Mr. Sutherland, ½ vear- Mr. McLauchlan, 15 years; Mr. Allardice. 5 years; Mr. Allnutt, 26 years.

Assistants.—Messrs. Anderson, Ritchie, Phillips, Turpin, Stott, Allnutt, Palmer, McNickle, Fisher, Stables, Murphy, Garrow. Fitzgerald. Robertson, Hall, Gibb, Mrs. McAlister and Mrs. Sutherland; Misses Miller, Stuart, Kippinberger, Christie, Quinlin, Turnbull, Russell, Moir, Wilson, Bennett, Kelly, Black, McKewen, Alexander, Campbell, Darling. Callender, and over 60 pupil-teachers.
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