Wharenui School

Wharenui School

Wharenui School

Wharenui School

Wharenui School

Wharenui School

Wharenui School

Wharenui School

Wharenui School

School patrol at Wharenui School, Riccarton

29 July 1989

Ten-year old Kathleen Raroa using the newly installed swinging-arm school crossing system to help pupils across the road outside Wharenui School, Matipo Street, Riccarton.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: West / Riccarton

Source: Christchurch Star Archive

Reference ID: CCL-StarP-00577A

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Zhang Jun at Wharenui School

3 May 1990

Group of standard 4 students in the Rewi Alley library at Wharenui School with Zhang Jun of the Gansu Peoples' Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. Jun is holding a photograph album compiled by the students to send to their sister school in the Gansu province in China, part of the legacy left by former pupil Rewi Alley.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: West / Riccarton

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Pupils from Wharenui School setting off hot air balloons

5 August 1981

Group of primary school children from Wharenui School holding paper hot air balloons, made by the children, above their heads prior to their launch in Hagley Park.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: West / Hagley Park

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Wharenui School class photograph

About 1945

Class photograph taken at Wharenui School in Riccarton.

Area: West / Riccarton

Source: Entry in the 2013 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

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Wharenui School Roll of Honour Board

2016

Area: West / Riccarton

Source: Kete Christchurch

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Wharenui School Memorial Gates

1956

Photo showing memorial gates at their original site on the corner of Matipo and Elizabeth Streets. The wooden gates were removed when the stone pillars were relocated to their current location on Matipo Street.

Area: West / Riccarton

Source: Kete Christchurch

Reference ID: CCL-Kete-42661

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Wharenui School, 19 March 2015

19 March 2015

Area: West / Riccarton

Source: Kete Christchurch

Source: View in Canterbury Stories

Reference ID: CCL-Kete-17643

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Wharenui School Cadets 1909

1909

Taken in September 1909 just two and a half years after Wharenui School opened, these boys were mostly all Standard Fours. The orginal photo has been lost and in the case of many of the boys shown here it is the only known photo of them. Most of the boys in this photo would go on to serve in the First World War (their names are underlined). Back Row: Harold Eaton, Reginald Arthur William Calvert, Barclay Henry Dennis, Herbert Victor Tregoning, Thomas Harold Lane, Norman Henry Fraser, Philip Arthur Lummis, Francis Edward Eaton

2nd Row: William Thomas Overend, Ronald Garvin McCullough, Robert McIntyre, Rawhiti Eric Batten, Ralph Gordon Richardson, Thomas George Benjamin Candy, Hugh James Cassin, Ernest Frank Fine

Front Row: Leo Clyde Richardson, Oscar Collings, Rewi Alley, Frederick John Reynolds, William James Edginton, James Archibald, Reginald Cuthbert Vincent, Randolph Coates

Area: West / Riccarton

Source: Kete Christchurch

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Wharenui School Memorial Gates - 19 March 2015

19 March 2015

Area: West / Riccarton

Source: Kete Christchurch

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