THE PUBLIC SCHOOL, DENNISTON.1904.

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DescriptionTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL, DENNISTON.

Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19040512-11-03
Later moved to Karamea.
PhotographerAuckland Weekly NewsDate of Photo1904-05-12Map^[1]External LinkAUCKLAND LIBRARYContributorHeather Newby

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Location (city or town)DennistonLandmark (Place)PUBLIC SCHOOL, DENNISTONOrganisation (eg business)PUBLIC SCHOOL, DENNISTONEventTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL, DENNISTON.1904.

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Category TagCoal MiningSchool

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Date Created26th August 2025CommentsAndrew Lineham
After it closed in the late 60s my father was one of a team who dismantled and relocating to Karamea a became our school hall, cheers

Lana Cochrane-Searle
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Andrew Lineham i bet that was a mission for them all!

Andrew Lineham
Lana Cochrane-Searle pulled it apart in sections

Colleen Yee
Lovely to hear what became of this building. ?

Heather Newby
Andrew Lineham interesting

Bid Johnson
Andrew Lineham wow Andrew my mother lived up there when she was a young girl my grandfather worked in the mine

Colleen Yee
WOW I'm astonished at the size of this school building. I had never realized thatit was such a large school.? I wonder how many children attended each year?

Jan Blackburn
Can't believe they had such a big building up at Denniston.

Helen Foster
Yes they did i went school there and have the photo of the very last class photo,before it closed down ,Helen saunders,

Pete Lusk
It would’ve come up on the Incline, bit by bit…..no road in those days.

Albie Rose
My mum walked from Burnets Face to that school ,

Marcy Robertson
Gosh they had quite a big attendance back then.

Helen Foster
Yes they did i went school there and have the photo of the very last class photo,before it closed down ,Helen saunders,

Kingsley Hannah
Love the skill they had to build wooden structures to intentionally create the illusion of being stone, Scott Holland

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