New Zealand - Huntly - The public school at Huntly - Circa 1910s Huntly - Originally settled by Māori - European migrants arrived in the area sometime in the 1850s - The Huntly name was adopted in the 1870s when the postmaster named it after Huntly, Aberdeenshire in Scotland. - The railway from Auckland reached Huntly in 1877 - There are a number of marae in and around Huntly - Huntly is home to Rakaumanga Kura which became one of the first bilingual schools (Māori/English) in New Zealand in 1984. - Rakaumanga became a kura kaupapa (total immersion, Māori as its first language) in 1994 and is now known by the name Te Whare Kura o Rakaumangamanga. - The school was first established as a native school in 1896. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntly,_New_Zealand) -------------------- Image source: The public school at Huntly, ca 1910s. Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-001750-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/23044306 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_public_school_at_Huntly,_ca_1910s_(21271113562).jpg