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BROKENBACK SCHOOL
LATER BRUNKERVILLE SCHOOL

Paint and Repair staff were assessed as costing £174.16.6 ($349.66).
Mr. L. Gill of Brunkerville was contracted to renew the fencing around
the school and residence at a total cost of £133.15.0 ($267.50).

The school was closed permanently at the end of the 1962
school year.

The school building and residence were returned to the
Government Properties Section on 15th September 1967. The property
was sold to J.T. Lomas in 1969.

Headmasters or teachers-in-charge at Brokenback School,
later Brunkerville Public School have been:-

Martin Steinbech 2nd January 1870

John Fletcher 10th January 1878

Vesey J. Hine 1st October 1880

John Hardcastle 18th April 1885

James Somerville 24th August 1893

Joseph Parkins 1st July 1901

Robert Stewart 30th January 1909

Charles Frape 31st January 1911

Archibald Campbell 10th January 1923

Gordon Smith 13th December 1933

Harold Smith 12th December 1940

Carl Bendeich 9th January 1947

Edwin Perry 30th January 1951

Cecil Bridge 31st January 1956

Joseph French 19th May 1959

(till the school closed in S.:::cember 1962)