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Photo used by David Harris in StreetWise article "Southern mix, standout men" - on the origins of Levin street names - published in the Weekend Chronicle on 5 March 2001.

The original caption read:

"The first of Taitoko School's foundation pupils to arrive at the school gates this morning were these three members of the Welby family; Dennis, six years, Ronnie, eight years, and Lynette, 10 years".

the article includes: "Today [2001] Dennis is a sheetmetal worker here [Levin] and his brother Ronnie is a nurse at Kimberley, while sister Lynette is a curtainmaker in Palmerston North.

The name of the school was originally to be Highlands. However the name Taitoko was chosen as this is what the Muaupoko tribe requested the town to be named when they sold the land."

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1969

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