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MOUNT VIEW SCHOOL

they would attend an Adult Evening School and requesting such a class to be
established at the Mount View School. These persons were:-

NAME AGE OCCUPATION

John Fogarty 27 Farmer
Luke McGann 15 Farm Lad
John McGann 16 Farm Lad
Henry Locock 17 Farm Lad
Robert Dillon 20 Farm Lad
William Locock 17 Farm Lad
Thomas Fogarty 29 Farmer
John Dillon 22 Farmer
William King 27 Farmer
Samuel Stewart 19 Farm Lad
Francis S-.:.ewart 27 Farmer
Charles Stewart 21 Farmer
Edward Mitchell 27 Farmer
Benjamin King 21 Farmer

The application was approved and granted on 13th May 1889. The local School
teacher Mr. William H. Bates, was appointed to conduct the class. However,
the class was cancelled on 30th September 1889, due to poor attendance.

Thomas Farnham completed additions to the residence, plus improve-
ments and repairs to the school, on 28th November 1889. For this work he
was paid £56.0.0. ($112.00).

A change of the centre of population at Mount View had come at about
the end of 1890. Insp~ctor Thomas Dwyer from the Department of Public
Instruction held an inquir/ at Mount View on Tuesday 2nd April 1891, to obtain
the opinions of the parents of school children attending the Mount View School,
regarding a proposal to move the school about fifty 1501 chains back towards
the top of the ridge of Brokenback Mountain. In his report to his Department
Inspector Dwyer stated this:-