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St Patrick’s School, Charleston

St Patrick’s School, Charleston

St Patrick’s School, Charleston

The parochial school was the main institution for perpetuating Irish Catholic values into the next generation, and there was a fight, lasting almost a century from 1877, to win state support for them. This photograph shows St Patrick's School in Charleston, on the West Coast.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, D. Maloney Collection
Reference: 1/2-010400; F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.




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