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Kōrero: South Canterbury places

Kākahu School

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/mi/photograph/11464/kakahu-school (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 17 August 2015.