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Mr John Vernon was Rector of Palmerston North High School (now Palmerston North Boys' High School) from 1902 until his death in 1918, during the great Influenza epidemic. In 1908, he founded the College House boarding establishment, which is still a feature of the school.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Scs 2
Date
circa 1910
Digitisation ID
2014N_Scs2_007967
Held In
Coolstore

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Place
Palmerston North

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Taxonomy

Tags
book,
glasses,
moustache,
people,
photographs,
pnbhs,
reading,
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