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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

The Ladies' Classical School

The Ladies' Classical School, Turakina. Principal, Reverend John Ross, assisted by Mrs. Ross and Miss Christie and Miss Mary Ross. The Ladies' Classical School is beautifully situated on the North Western Road, Turakina. It is a large building, and occupies a charming situation, nestling among the trees. The building has been from time to time enlarged, so as to afford ample accommodation for fourteen or fifteen young ladies, in addition to the principal, his family, and his staff. Every necessary accommodation in the shape of large and airy bedrooms, comfortable school-rooms, parlors, sitting-rooms, bath, and every convenience required in a large establishment is available. The course of instruction inculdes English, Latin, Greek, German, French, mathematics, music, drawing, singing, painting, calisthenics, and plain and fancy needle-work. The principal aim is to impart a thorough sound education, whilst the general and physical training of the pupils is carefully attended to, and every effort is made to make the school-life as homelike as possible. The Ladies' Classical School has been established about
Turakina Ladies' Classical School.

Turakina Ladies' Classical School.

page 1337 seventeen or eighteen years, and during this time a large number of pupils have passed through the college, many of whom are now occupying important offices as teachers, and in many other positions of trust and responsibility. The success which has been attained by pupils who have gone up for the university examinations has been considerable, and all previous successes have been crowned by the results of the 1894 examinations, when a young lady from the college (Miss Flora D. Ross) obtained a junior university scholarship, being the fifth on the list for the whole of the Colony, and the first for the North Island, and the first girl in New Zealand to distinguish herself in this way in that year. The engraving above affords a capital view of of this excellent college. The reverend principal is assisted in his important duties by Mrs. Ross, whose motherly care is daily exercised to promote the wellbeing of the pupils. In Miss Christie, Mr. Ross has an efficient and accomplished assistant in his scholastic duties, while Miss Mary Ross who is an undergraduate of the New Zealand University takes her share in imparting instruction.