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"We had a
blackboard, not
the white board
as you have in
your classrooms
today", explains
Eva. Standing are
Margaret Beach,
Eva Beach, Bobbie
Thompson, brother
Frank Beach,
Pat Heath.
Students costumed
for a play. From
left Eva Beach,
Maggie Heath, Joan
Heath, Peggy Beach,
Bubbie Thompson,
and Pat Heath.
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There were forty students. “We wrote in exercise books, not on blackboard
slates. We had a small library, although mostly we read from journals”,
recalls Eva.
Mrs Hazelden taught sewing lessons out on the school porch. “I can
remember my friend Valerie Petley being cheeky to me so I cut her dress.
My teacher was not happy with me – she kept me in till I mended
the dress”.
“We all walked to school”, she remembers. “The children from the Marae
walked home from school with my brothers and sisters and often helped
us milk our cows on the way”.
“Everyone loved the fire drills – lots of fun and giggling. We had to put up a
small ladder on the inside of the classroom and a ladder on the outside to
escape via the windows”.
“My second teacher, Mr Phelan, would send the older children to the
wharf to pick up kauri slabs as fuel for our fire”, which was a black cylinder
fire place. Mr Phelan, Eva noted, was the first person in Tairua to have a
wireless. “He would place it on the porch and all of Tairua would gather
round to listen”.
“I left school when I was 12 to help my mother in our shop because my
dad was very sick and could no longer work”. Her father Charles Beach
was injured in WWI. “I had permission to leave school, but others who left
early received letters of truant”. It was while working for her parents that
Eva met her future husband, Bill Darrah.
Contest photo and those of students from Tairua School in the mid-1920s,
are from the Beach family collection. Eva and Bill Darrah now live in
Thames. Many thanks to Eva’s daughter in Tairua, Jan Collier, for helping
us assemble Eva’s story, photos and additional history. Eva’s slideshow is
available to view or download from
