Setting up Tinui School

Setting up Tinui School: news reports

1872 

18th December 1872 

Mr Andrew (Wellington Education Board member and owner of Ica Station) was requested to ascertain the cost of a schoolhouse, residence, and 10 to 20 acres land at Tinui with a view to the establishment of a weekly boarding and day school for the Castle Point district. Papers Past

1875

9 June 1875. 

The Building Committee elected in connection with the proposed school near Tenui, as I predicted would be the case as soon as the settlement of the matter was left in the hands of the settlers themselves, have not taken long to secure a piece of land. 

The day after their appointment they agreed with Mr John Groves, sen., of Flag creek, for 10 acres at £5 per acre. This selection adjoins Mr Nicholls’ property, and is the most central and suitable spot procurable, being better adapted for the purpose than that offered by the Hon John Johnston, as it dispenses with the necessity for erecting a bridge, and this is always a consideration, as both the scarcity of timber and the impossibility of procuring it from Taueru, combine, under existing circumstances, to enforce an absolute prohibition. 

Mr Hanson, C.E., has kindly consented to survey the ground, so that the preliminary steps for the erection of a school may now be said to have been initiated, but we have been so long accustomed to the procrastinating policy of the Education Board that we will not be surprised if the land in question is permitted for an indefinite period to continue to educate bullocks for their future position in life—the yoke or the shambles.