Westland High School, Hokitika
Westland High School, previously Hokitika High School or Hokitika District High School, is a secondary school in Hokitika, New Zealand.
History
The first application to have a high school in Hokitika was made in 1879. In the following year, the Royal Commissioners on Universities and Secondary Schools supported this move in their report.[1] The Hokitika High School Act 1883 was a piece of legislation championed by Gerard George Fitzgerald, member of parliament for the Hokitika electorate. The legislation, passed in September 1883, allowed for the establishment of a high school in Hokitika, formulated how the school board was to be determined, and gave the mechanism of dealing with land endowment.[2] The school board, which first met in February 1884, came together at regular interval but found that it would have insufficient funds to pay for a headmaster.[3][4] The impasse was broken by The Hokitika High School Act 1883 Amendment Act, 1890, which was sponsored by the local MP Joseph Grimmond.[5][6][7] This enabled the high school to be established through a merger with the Hokitika State School, and Hokitika High School opened on Monday, 19 January 1891.[8]
The school's name was changed in 1963 to Westland High School; this was accommodated through the Westland High School Amendment Act 1963.[9]
The school war memorial is an obelisk that lists those pupils and teachers who served in WWI, and those who were killed in the Second Boer War and in WWII.[10]
Today
Westland High School is coeducational and caters for years 7 to 13. It has a decile rating of 6 and a roll of 373. The school's address is 140 Hampden Street, Hokitika.[11]
Notable pupils
- Ronald King (1909–1988), New Zealand rugby union player[12]
- Stephen Lowe (born 1962), third Catholic Bishop of Hamilton, New Zealand[13]
- Frederick Schramm (1886–1962), Labour MP for the Auckland East electorate[14]
Notable staff
- Peter Hooper (1919–1991) was a New Zealand teacher, writer, bookseller and conservationist[15]
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