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MU L B R I NG S C H 0 0 L

Sugarloaf School.

An application was made on 3rd August 1881, for the establishment
of a Provisional School at Mulbring Creek, midway between Sugarloaf and
Quorrobolong. Four families had signed the petition - they were:-

Jane Collins
Susanah Foster
John Noble
Reece Lewis

Inspector J.C. Maynard made an investigation and he recommended against the
establishment of a school on Mulbring Creek on the grounds that the area was
well served by the established schools of Sugarloaf (later Mulbringl, Brokenback
(later Brunkerville) and Quorrobolong.

A further effort in 1882, by the Sugarloaf residents for the
construction of a new school building won the favourable support of Inspector
T. Dwyer. After his investigation and in his report dated 28th September
1882, Inspector Dwyer states in part:-

"The school at Sugarloaf is a slab building, thirty
(30) feet by sixteen (16) feet and has a shingle
roof. It was erected about twenty five (25) years
ago. Because of growth at Sugarloaf, I now
recorrunend the construction of a new school, forty
(40) feet by twenty four (24) feet. The structure
to be of sawn hardwood and to have a shingle roof.
An underground water storage tank should be provided".

Inspector Dwyer thought that the new school accommodation should
handle one hundred (100) pupils. His Chief Inspector, J.C. Maynard considered
a more realistic figure would be fifty (50) pupil:; accommodation.

_ The Government Architect, Miss E. Kempe, in some correspondence to