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

Improvements were made by this Education Department section in April
1924 and the costs were assessed at £78.0.0 ($156.00). Further renovations
were made to the Brown Muir School and completed on 26th July 1937.
The project was carried out by the Education Department's staff and
is said to have cost £104.0.0 ($208.00).

The start of the 1938 school year showed a sharp drop in
school enrolments with only fifteen (15) pupils; The trend continued
and the Department of Education found it necessary in December 1940,
to again close Brown Muir School.

Teachers-in-Charge at Brown Muir School have been:-

William Griffiths 24th May 1882
Sarah Morton 9th April 1886
Esther W. Thompson 23rd December 1889
Edith Harris 13th January 1893
John 0 'Brien 14th January 1895
Alf red Carroll Jrd July 1895
Clothilda Purcell 2nd February 1897

Brown Muir became a 'Half-Time' school, sharing with
Sawyers Gully as from 10th February 1898.

Jas. J. Mc Shane 10th February 1898
Archibald Mc Innes 21st March 1898

Until the school closed on 1st March 1900.

A private school re-opened during 1921

Violet Mc Fadden 1921
Amy Lee
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