SCHOOLS of the AREA
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Building
Teachers
Students
Commemorative Plaque
School History (taken from "Vision and Realisation")
Opened 6th of April 1880, S S 2236 was established in a one-room weatherboard building sited on the Yarrawonga Rd, 12 miles S/E of Numurkah township to serve the families of selectors in the area. Initial enrolment was 60 pupils under John West with his wife acting as S M (sewing mistress), the West family residing in a log cabin nearby. Closer settlement, irrigation and motor transport combined to close the school in 1957, the pupils being transported to Katandra West . See also Katandra West No 4401. |
Teachers (pre 1955)
Some
of the Teachers and Sewing Mistresses were.
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Nunn Miss
Gerrard Miss Shaw Mr Graham Miss (temp) Langton Miss (temp) West John McCloud Mr McPhee Mr Needham Mrs Williams Mr Strawhorn Mr Breen Mr McBrair Mr Johns Mr O'Neil Mr Webster Mr Leigh Mr Treagus Mr Godden Mr Cecil Mr Cunningham Mr Malcolm Mr Doubleday Mr Reilly Mrs Chappell Miss Mackie Mr Lannon? Mrs (Langton) Goodwin Mr Baker Mr Fahey Miss Smiith Mr Parker Mr Joyce Brian Beck Ern Langley Mr McPhillamy Jack |
Kerr Mrs Elva
Shaw Mrs Laura Kerr Miss? Jessie Green Miss Harriet Green Elly West Mrs Lee Mrs Cottam Mrs Salter Downie Curtain Mrs Cecil Mrs Ford B Miss |
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A commemorative plaque was unveiled at the site of the
former Invergordon South School on October 17 2004.
Ken Gervasoni introduced a former pupil, Mr Peter Tomlinson, to give a
brief history of the School and township. The unveiling was performed by
two former students Mrs May Wallden (Ford) and Mrs Ella Close (Ford).
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