attendance at FEATHERSTON SCHOOL, Wairarapa 1886
Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 October 1886
The following are the names of the scholars who passed the various standards at the recent examinaiton by Mr Lee:-

STANDARD I
. Lillie BENTON
. Mary BEZAR
. Charles CUNDY
. Nita CUNDY
. Winnie GREEKS
. Lena JACKSON
. Minnie KITCHING
. Annie LAWRIE
. John LAWRY
. Gertrude MANNING
. Margaret McGILL
. Fred SMITH
. Kenneth SPACKMAN
. David TIDSWELL
. Harry TOODGOOD
. Thomas WILLIS
. Thomas WORSLEY

STANDARD II
. Wilmore ABBOT (Edwin Wilmore Abbott 1878-1912)
. Bertha BURT
. John CHISHOLM
. Louisa GAZELEY
. Sarah HANWICK
. Alfred HODDER
. Jep JANSEN
. Bertha KEYS
. William McSHANE
. Maria SHEEN
. Ernest O'NEALE
. George OSMAN
. Ernest ROBERTSON
. Maud WILKINSON
. Herbert WILMSHURST
. Langworth YELVERTON

STANDARD III
. Kate ABBOT
. William ABBOT
. James BURT
. Kenneth BURT
. Harriet COE
. Oswald DENTON
. Charles Edward BEZAR (Charles Edwin Bezar 1877-1959)
. William BUNNY
. George BURT
. Grace CUNDY
. James CURRIE
. Henry FURLONG (Henry O'Bernie Furlong 1874-1918)
. James GAZLEY (James Thomas Gazley 1874-1958)
. Mabel KEYS
. Joseph Thomas LAWRIE
. Sarah MANN
. Grace MONKTON
. Margaret MURPHY
. Stafford MURPHY
. Fred O'NEALE
. Mabel O'NEALE
? William OSMAN
? Lena RIDDICK
? Jessie ROBERTSON
? Thomas SAUNDERS
. Bertha SPACKMAN
. Mabel SPACKMAN
. Augustus TORSTONSON (+ Christina Margaret DALZIEL 1904)
. Gotfried TORSTONSEN
. Hector URQUHART
. Arthur VILES
. William WHITEMAN
. Walter WILKINSON
. Emily WORSLEY
. Mary WORSLEY
. George YULE

STANDARD IV
. Augustus ABBOTT (Augustus Oswald Abbott 1876-1944)
. Laura BUNNING
. James CRAIG
. Mabel CUNDY
. George FELLINGHAM
. Samuel GREATBATCH (Samuel Greatbatch 1874-1915)
. William HODDER
. Nora MacSHANE
. Daniel McGILL
. Annie MURPHY
. Henry MURPHY
. Mary O'NEALE
. Claude SPACKMAN (Claude Spackman 1873-1955)
. George TOOGOOD
. Susan TOOGOOD
. Albert VILES

STANDARD V
. Frederick BEZAR (Frederick William Cezar 1871-1955)
. Charles BURT
. Bessie DONALD
. Louis KEYS (Louis Thea Keys 1874-1956)
. Clara MacSHANE
. Charles READ
. Nellie RIDDICK
. Ellery TOOGOOD (Ellery William Channing Toogood 1871-1956)
. Walter VILES (Walter Franklyn Viles 1871-1963)
. Kate WILLIS
. Grace YULE

STANDARD VI
. Bertram BUNNY (Bertram Rutherford Bunny 1873-1928)
. Herbert KEYS (Herbert Edward Keys 1874-1954)
. Samuel McDOUGALL
. Donald ROBERTSON
. Edward SAUNDERS
. Wallace SMITH
. Robert YULE

Featherston School
written in 1957 to mark the centenary of Featherston
.. When Featherston was founded in 1857, the Provincial Government was responsible for education and it was under an act passed in 1855 that the first public school in Featherston was founded in 1863, with Mr J. G. Cox as teacher
.. In July, 1880 the original school building in Featherston was burnt down. It was on the site in Fox Street opposite the Town Hall, on part of the acre of Education Reserve set aside by the Provincial Government. The story is that the school cleaner was in the habit of using wooden box to hold the ashes from the fireplace. On this occasion she neglected to take the box outside so that, early in the evening, Featherston was called out to see its school totally destroyed. This is one of the earliest memories of some of the oldest inhabitants. Even a well in the school grounds did not enable the school to be saved
.. The board acted promptly and on August 25, the tender of Messrs. Riddick & Cadenhead, £772 10s was accepted and in January, 1881, the new school was opened - a well-built three-roomed building

PHOTO
FEATHERSTON SCHOOL in 1898
taken from the link above
includes a number of the names here