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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

[Ashton]

Ashton is a school district about two miles from Ashburton on the coach road between Tinwald and Longbeach, and close to the sea coast. The land is light and well adapted for sheep, though it also grows good crops, forty bushels of wheat and fifty of oats to the acre being not uncommon. The school has an average attendance of thirty scholars. Mails leave daily for Ashburton by coach.

The Public School Ashton, is situated in the centre of the Ashton district, at the junction of the Longbeach and Graham's Roads.

Mr. Thomas Mitchell, Master of the Ashton School, was born in Perthshire, Scotland, and educated at St. Andrew's and also at Edinburgh. He arrived at Port Chalmers by the ship “Velore” in 1861. For a number of years he was on a station, and then taught for two years and a half at a school at Waikerikikeri, on Banks' Peninsula, until he became master of the Ashton public school in 1887.