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Left Column (top to bottom) - a) Mr Alexander Hogg Morgan, teacher, with bicycle outside school gate. {copy} Information in book – “Shannon School Centennial Souvenir 1989”, pages 12, 17 & 66 - 17 years service from 7 April 1920 to 16 December 1936, and served as acting principal on three occasions: 11 September 1924 to 2 March 1925, 1 March 1929 to 7 July 1930, 5 February 1934 to 1 March 1934.

b) Boy (unidentified) in mid-air over high jump, c.1960’s (?) {copy} Man (unidentified, left) keeping record, 4 parents ? in background.

c) Aerial view of school, 1959. {copy}

d) Mr Vic Cave kneeling on plank smoothing rough patches of newly laid concrete base of learner’s pool, 1962. {original} Learner’s pool built by school & community volunteers, commenced September 1962 and opened 17 December 1962.

Right Column (top to bottom) - e) ‘Shannon School. Girls. P.N., 1908’. {copy} Formal group photo of 66 girls in 5 rows with 2 women (teachers). (see also – Acc.#s2002.079.0010 original mounted photo)

f) ‘The Public School. Shannon. F.G.R. 2740’, 1905. {copy} Believed to have been taken after opening of 2 new classrooms in April 1905. 1889 classroom at left, 1892 classroom at centre and new 1905 classrooms behind. Used in booklet – “Shannon School Jubilee Souvenir 1949”, page 29, with caption - The School at the beginning of the century. Used in book – “Shannon School Centennial Souvenir 1989”, page 8, with caption - Shannon School in the early 1900’s. (see also – photo b, page 3 larger copy)

g) ‘Shannon School early playground photo’, girls at “whirly-gig”, c.1900. {copy} Used in book – “Shannon School Centennial Souvenir 1989”, page 10, with reminiscence from as caption - Elizabeth Conchie (nee Harris) remembers that: “The school used to have a big cartwheel on an axle standing on its end with ropes hanging down which we called the ‘Whirly-gig’ and my sisters and I were told not to go on it as it was too dangerous but like most children I took no notice and went on it. A girl called Emma Stern used to pull one of the ropes to get it going and we all used to fly way out sometimes nearly level with the wheel. Well, I came off and made an awful mess of my face with gravel rash (I told my Mother that I had fallen down the hill). I was very miserable. One girl Maisie Brown, broke her collar bone when she came off it and went over the fence.”

h) Large group of girls at Shannon School, c.1901. {copy} Semi-formal group photo of 51 girls in 3 rows. Used in book – “Shannon School Centennial Souvenir 1989”, page 51, with caption - A very early school group in the playground. 1901. (see also – Acc.#s2002.019.0012 original mounted photo) (see also – Acc.#s2002.079.0009 additional copy)

i) Flag raising ceremony at Shannon School, 18 July 1901. {copy} Horowhenua Mounted Rifles are lined up in background (left). Some band music instruments are sitting on ground (right). (see also – Acc.#s2001.020.0001 original mounted photo, dated c.1890) (see also – Acc.#s2002.079.0001 additional copy)

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