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DAIRY ARM SCHOOL

on 10th August 1920, it accepted £3.0.0 ($6.00) from J. Smith of Dairy
Arm for the demolition and removal of the old school materials.

The Education Department revoked its title to Portion No.
135 Parish of Hay (the old Dairy Arm school site). The area was sold
by the Lands Department on 10th December 1970.

Teachers-in-Charge at Dairy Arm School have been:-

Sarah Lynch 1st February 1870
William Kent October 1873

(NOTE: Half-Time status with Wattagan Creek).

Dairy Arm School closed June 1875

Dairy Arm School re-opened 28th May 1885

Margaret Kenny 28th May 1885

(NOTE: Half-Time status with Mount Finch).
(NOTE: Provisional School status from 25th June 1889)

Katie Dixon 23rd August 1889
John Cameron 3rd September 1889
Alexander Lochrin 19th February 1890

(NOTE: Half-Time status as from this date again with
Mount Finch) .

(NOTE: Half-Time status with Murrays Run from
8th March 1893).

(NOTE: Half-Time status with Wattag~n as from
1st October 1894).

Albert Stitt 5th February 1905
David Prentice 10th March 1905

(NOTE: Again made 'Provisional School Status' as
from 15th October 1910).

Ernest Byrnes 15th October 1910
Richard Hunt 5th September 1912