The Committee Back row.- Messrs Collins, Mr R. Williams (Master), Mt Tunner. Front row.- Messrs. Gallagher, W. Chamberlain (Chairman), T. Blay.
Caption: The Committee Back row.- Messrs Collins, Mr R. Williams (Master), Mt Tunner. Front row.- Messrs. Gallagher, W. Chamberlain (Chairman), T. Blay.
Description: The event is the opening of the Ellesmere District School on December 31st 1898. The locality of Ellesmere, after which the school took its name, is situated south west of Springston. Mr W. Chamberlain, chairman of the school committee, gave one acre for the purpose of a school and an additional half acre for a teacher's residence. He had made repeated applications to the Board of Education before the school was granted.
Related information: See also p. 43 in same issue.
31 Dec. 1898 W. H. Yates (photographer)
Source: The weekly press, 25 Jan. 1899, p. 8
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