Collection: Queens Park School [see also Waihopai]

Dates

1914 - 1922

Queens Park School

Queens Park school was officially opened July 1914 on the Collegiate Reserve site at the North End of Queens Park. It was the product of the union of Invercargill Park School and Gladstone (Waihopai School).

The name only lasted one year before it was changed to Waihopai in 1915 because there was already in existence a Queens Park School in the North Island.

The reserve site chosen for this new school was previously a dairy farm owned by Mr James Jamieson. The farm buildings stood where the school was to be built.

Note: for information on the continuation of this school see Waihopai School

See Bibliography for References

Extent

1 box(es) (Box 1)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Bibliography

'The first 100 years : being a brief history of the Park and Waihopai Schools, Invercargill, from 1879-1979' by E.E. Pankhurst.
REF: LC 372 PAN
'Jubilee memoir 1939 : Invercargill Park School, at first named Invercargill District School, then North Public School (founded 1874), and Waihopai (Gladstone) School (founded 1879), united in 1914 and forming the present Waihopai School (Main, Side and Dryburgh Schools)'.
REF: LC 370.9 INV