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Nga Tawa school, around 1920

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Nga Tawa school, around 1920

Nga Tawa school was started in Marton in 1891, and became the Wellington Diocesan School for Girls in 1912. For many years it has educated the daughters of well-off farming, business and professional families from the lower North Island.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, T. E. Nops Collection

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Diana Beaglehole, Whanganui places – Lower Rangitīkei, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18989/nga-tawa-school-around-1920 (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Diana Beaglehole, published 3 March 2009, updated 15 June 2015.