More Info →"Another Primary School Opened" Awapuni School

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 November 1958: "The Minister of Education (Mr. Skoglund) officially opened the new Awapuni School on Saturday afternoon. The official party (from left) are: Mr. A.G.E. Stirling, headmaster; Mr. K. McArtney, the secretary of the Wanganui Education Board; Mr. W.B. Tennant, M.P., Mayor of Palmerston North; Mr. Skoglund (standing); Mr. H. Watford, the chairman of the Awapuni School Committee ; Mr. W.H. Brown, the chairman of the Education Board; and Mrs. Tennant and Mrs. Brown."