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JUBILEE MESSAGES.
Teachers, ex-teachers, pupils and ex-pupils of Kaikorai School: For the work attempted and accomplished; for the characters formed; for the high ideals set before us; for the love of country, and the public spirit generated in your School during these past fifty years, we thank you; and for a continuance of all this glorious work and the promotion of all the attributes of good citizenship we look to you.
J. WALLACE,
Chairman Otago Education Board.
Wakari School sends greeting's to Kaikorai School on the occasion of the celebration of its Jubilee. It congratulates, the Staff and Committee upon past successes, and hopes that the School may continue. as in the past, to send forth a continuous stream of boys and girls mentally, physically and morally well equipped for the various duties of highest citizenship.
JAMES MOIR., Head-master Wakari School.
I have much pleasure in congratulating the head-master, staff, Committee, and pupils of the Kaikorai Shoal on the attainment of the Jubilee of the School.
A period of fifty years is a long time to look back on, but no doubt there are in the district some old pupils who attended the opening of the old Linden School; and the School has reason to be proud of its old pupils, many of whom have made their mark in the world.
I look back with pleasure on the years I spent as first assistant at Kaikorai pleasant years they were, and, I hope, profitable. I succeeded Mr. Garrow (now Professor Garrow), one of Otago's products, and a most successful teacher; and my fellow-assistants on the male side were Messrs. H. P. Kelk. H. Fisher, and the late R. H. Stables, these gentlemen having a great influence for good on their pupils. I was associated with Mr. Stables in the Cadet work of the School, and great enthusiasm he showed in it. His memory will ever be green in the minds of his pupils.
My wish is that the Kaikorai School may continue to prosper, and do its share in the education of "Young New Zealand" as nobly in the future as it has in the past.
JOHN A. FITZGERALD,
Head-master Maori Hill School, Dunedin.
Head-master Maori Hill School, Dunedin.