Hawera & Normanby Star - 13 November 1903

Manaia state school
SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS
from NZETC ... The Manaia Public School was established in the year 1882, and stands on part of a section of ten acres. It is built of wood and iron, and contains three class rooms and two porches. There is a large playground of five acres, and a school residence. Accommodation is provided for 180 pupils; the names on the roll number 120, and there is an average attendance of 105. The staff consists of a headmaster, a mistress, and a pupil teacher.

The following pupils were successful at the examinations held recently:-

STANDARD VII
? Edythe Marian BARLEYMAN (1887-1977)
- Edythe Marian married her classmate, Sydney Victor Washer in 1917
? May HAIR
? Winnie LAW
- daughter of James Kinloch LAW & Christina STRACHAN. Her father was appointed Headmaster of the Manaia public school in the year 1890. He arrived in Wellington in 1882
? Sydney Victor WASHER (1889-1971)

STANDARD VI
? Maggie EXLEY
? Jessie FERGUSON
? Ellsie LAW
? Arthur LUXTON
? Leslie LUXTON
? Vida MILROY
? Gracie REID
? Lena SUTTON
? Mabel SUTTON

STANDARD V
? Cecil ANDERSON
? Colin CAMPBELL
? Elva GAMLIN
? Amy HALL
? Winnie KNIGHT
? Ada PHILLIPS

STANDARD IV
? John CAMPBELL
? Margaret CAMPBELL
? A. CREIG
? Maud CREIG
? Simon DICK
? Nelson Hector GANE (1891-1969)
- Nelson married Jane Hilda ANSTIS (1891-1988) in 1921
? Arthur GILMOUR
? Godfrey HANSEN
? Lorenz 'Wilfred' MEULI
- Wilfred served in WWI as Second Lieutenant 6/4577, with the NZEF, 11th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company. His parents were: Jacob and Katharina Meuli of Manaia, Taranaki. He was KILLED in ACTION on Somme, France 16 Sep 1916 aged 25. Memorial Caterpillar Valley
? Catherine SCOTT
? Malcolm STEWART
? Willie WINTERS

STANDARD III
? Elsie ATKINS
? Maud BELL
? Violet BELL
? Katie BRIDGE
? Maggie BRIGGS
? Edith BUTLER
? Dora CAMPBELL
? David CREIG
? Winnie CREIG
? Ewart GAMLIN
? Mabel GILMOUR
? Margery HUNT
? Frank KNIGHT
? Gladys LEE
? Andrew McLEOD
? George McLEOD
? Ada MUGGERIDGE
? Millie MUGGERIDGE
? Tom PAIRMAN
? Dorothy PATTERSON
? Eromel RAINE
? Harry RAINE
? Gladys REID
? Jean SCOTT
? Ray WINTERS

STANDARD II
? George BRYANT
? Charlie BRYANT
? Willie BUTLER
? Mary CAMPBELL
? Fred COLLINS
? Lizzie CREIG
? Margery CULLENS
? Lucy DICK
? Ronald FERGUSON
? Stelka HANSEN
? Willie HASTIE
? Laura HIRD
? Lionel KERKBY
? Norman LUXTON
? Robin McLEOD
? Hugh McCARTHY
? Bessie MITCHELL
? Stency PATTERSON
? Ethel PHILLIPS
? Emslie REID
? David STEWART

STANDARD I
? Willie BRIDGE
? Alice BUTLER
? David CREIG
? Daisy FERGUSON
? Sydney HIGHAM
? Betty HUNGER
? Charles MUGGERIDGE
? Frank MUGGERIDGE
? Percy RAINE
? Ronald STEWART
? Neville SHUTE


PHOTO
Lieutenalt Lorenz Wilfred Meuli
- from Papers Past 27 Oct 1916