| BACK HOME Netley Station Provisional School 1906-1911. 1917-1927. Tolarno Station until 1917. Tibooburra Outback School of the Air provisional 1885-1888; Public School 1888-Tibooburra until March 1991. Wilcannia Provisional School 1869-1871; Public School 1872-1967; Central school 1968. White Cliffs Provisional School 1895-December 1895; Public school 1896-1922. Provisional school January 1926-December 1926; public school 1927-1956; Provisional school April 1957-November 1957;Fowlers Gap house to house 1909-1910. Wanaaring Provisional school 1887-September 1887; Public School 1887-1922; Provisional school 1926-1927, 1931-1956; Public School 1956-Milparinka Provisional School 1883-1884; Public School 1884-1895; half time with Mt Browne 1895-1898; Public School 1899-1926. Mt Browne Provisional School 1889-1891; Public School 1891-1895; half time with Milparinka 1895-1898. Wentworth Public School 1860- 1940; Public School 1941-1943; Central School 1944-1974, Public School 1975 - Kinalung (siding) Provisional School 1937-1957; Public School 1957-1966. Kinalung siding until about 1940. Mootawingee no school. Box Tank During the early 1900's a wood cutters camp was established at Box Tank 80km South East of Broken Hill on the Menindee Road. At Box Tank there was a provisional school from 1918-1927. Some of the provisional schools were little more than corrugated iron sheds, with wooden floors that were all but corrugated also. The young men who staffed these schools sometimes lived in a part of the buildings, as did the teacher at Box Tank in the 1920's. Recollection of Box Tank by Mrs Berriman (nee Carnie, whose parents had the shop at Box Tank). "Box Tank was situated near the Broken Hill to Sydney railway line, approximately 30 kilometres from Menindee. There were sheep pens adjacent to the railway siding at Box Tank. My father used to cart wool bales from the stations. The stations I remember were Wirriilka station, Horse Lake station and Kars station. There were about eight homes at Box Tank. I remember the Harts, Staker, Nieman houses and ours, some of the homes had dugouts going into the ground. We had a small shop attached to the house. Made mainly of brush, wood and iron. We had goats for milk and my mother sold food etc. to the locals and people passing through. Mother also provided board for the teacher who lived in a room attached to the school. There were two teachers during my time at Box Tank. The first was Bill Heiney. When he left Cyril Job (pronounced Jobe) who had come from England, was the next teacher and he taught us all. There were a couple of dams in the area, one was named Box Tank. Jack Saunders (his parents had Wirryilka Station) was drowned there trying to rescue a sheep. My dad took his body to Broken Hill in his truck. Another family in the district was the Nielson family. They worked at Wirryilka station. My youngest sister was born at Box Tank on the 22-2-1926, a midwife came from Broken Hill to deliver her. That day there was a blinding dust storm, it poured rain and our WC was blown away. We had eight children in our family. we moved back to Broken Hill some time in October 1927 when I was nine-and a half years old, after living at Box Tank for three-and-a-years, " said Mrs Berriman. Private Schools of early days. St Faith's Primary School in Thomas Street was conducted by the Anglican Sisters of the Holy Cross. The school seems to have closed after a short period. Mrs Jean Shaw then reopened St Faith's in the Parish Hall at the rear of the Anglican Church in Lane Street. In July 1888 Miss E. S. Smith opened a private school next door to the church in Cobalt Street; a Miss Dobbyn was running a Grammar School at the Trades Hall. 1920 or thereabouts Miss Burkhill had a kindergarten in the parish hall behind the Anglican Church in Lane Street. The Anglican Private School was operating in 1897, and nineteen pupils were listed in the roll for that year END |
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