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Whataroa school has been around for 129 years. The school has been extended and moved many times. The office was the dental clinic many years ago. Whataroa school was built because there was not enough room in other schools on the West Coast.
Whataroa school has been around for 129 years. The school has been extended and moved many times. The office was the dental clinic many years ago. Whataroa school was built because there was not enough room in other schools on the West Coast.
There is now a population of 405 people in Whataroa. There is a lot of people in our community that have been to our school. It is a very well known school on the West Coast and through the generations. The school has added a new bathroom/first aide facility in the first term of 2008. There are 44 students and 27 families currently at Whataroa School at the moment. There are 25 students in the senior class and 19 students in the junior class.
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ReplyDeleteA great website. I arrived on the website through researching old history and genealogy. However, that this school is called Whataroa when I was searching for Wataroa School is confusing and can only assume this is another place name the New Zealand Geographic Board has changed by having an ‘h’ added after the ‘W’.
ReplyDeleteIf this is the same school with a changed place name spelling perhaps that could be noted in the schools history script along with a time frame and reason for change
May be of interest is an historic Wataroa article dated March 1, 1929; on website: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Gov03_11Rail-t1-body-d8-d1.html - relating to cost of transport to Wataroa and written by J. Gunn, Std. V., Wataroa School, South Westland.