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Nelson Education Board, 1908

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 A. T. Maginnity at the opening of Nelson Central Girls' School.

The chair of the Nelson Education Board, A. T. Maginnity, was the guest of honour at the opening of Nelson Central Girls' School in 1908. In that year the board ran 113 schools, with over 5,000 pupils, in the Nelson and Buller districts.

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Mark Derby, Local and regional government – Local authorities multiply, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/35379/nelson-education-board-1908 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 28 March 2012, updated 1 February 2015.