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Kākahu School

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Kākahu School

The important poet and leading suffragist Jessie Mackay taught at the (now closed) Kākahu School from 1887 to 1890.

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John Wilson, South Canterbury places – Geraldine, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11464/kakahu-school (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009, updated 17 August 2015.