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SAWYERS GULLY SCHOOL

More extensive renovations to the school were completed on 21st
May 1956 by Departmental repair staff. Calculations for this project amounted
to £740.0.0 ($1 ,480.00). A repair and repaint programme on 5th May 1960 to
both the school and the residence by the Education Department's works section
was estimated to have cost £540.0 . 0 ($1 ,080.00).

Sawyers Gully School was closed in December 1965, when the school
enrolment numbers had dropped to an uneconomical level. The school house
was purchased for £3,000 . 0.0 ($6,000.00) by William Bowden of Frarne Drive,
Weston, early in 1967. He engaged Mc Kay Brothers, contractors of Wallsend
to shift the school building whole to his land on Frame Drive ·..1eston.
Subsequently, the Education Department revoked its title to the school site
on 12th May 1967. This land and the school residence were sold in November 1967
by auction (papers 1967/223). The successful purchaser was Mr. C.C.T. Bowden .

Headmas ::.ers or Teachers- i n-C i: arge at Sawyers Gully .Sc '.!ool have

bee!!:-

SE..."'.;'Jel fuller 2nd Februar:,: 1394
J=-..':les Mc Shane 5th August

Sawyers Gully became a '!-ialf-Time' school with Brown '.-Iuir School
from January 1898.

Ar:hibald Mc Innes 28th January i398

Sawyers Gully re-named 'Hedden School' on 20th March 1899.
Sawyers Gully became a 'Provisional' school on 28th rebruary 1900.

William J. Forrest 28th February noo
Ernest Conn 25th June
1901

Sawyers Gully became a 'Public' school on 1st Octobe!"' 1903.
'Heddcr.' School re-named 'Sawyers Gully' School on Is: December 1904

H2.:'0 ld Chapman 26ch May ~ ?i 3
12th January . ?32
Ne -1ille .Johns t on 11th December lj46
f!"':=.nc i s 1"1c Culloch 13th September
Rcnald Wilson 1948