The First, Now Arthur-Street, School.

Mr. Livingston continued in charge of the Dunedin School until 1862, when he was appointed to the office of Provincial Auditor, on the death of the late Mr. Charles Kettle. In view of the establishment in Dunedin of an institution in which the higher branches should be more exclusively taught, the Board now resolved that the original Dunedin School should rank in page 150future as an ordinary district school. Mr. Thomas Halliwell, who had recently arrived in Dunedin from Victoria, was appointed headmaster. The school continued to be held in the old church until it was removed to a brick building erected on a site at the junction of Dowling-street and York Place, where it was known as the Middle District School. Owing to the lowering of Dowling-street by the City Council, the structure was rendered so unsafe that it had to be taken down in 1878, and the school was transferred to a new building erected in Arthur-street, on a site adjoining the old Asylum grounds, where the Boys' High School now stands. Mr. Halliwell resigned the headmastership in 1878, and was succeeded by Mr. Abraham Barrett, formerly of Tasmania, who still holds the appointment.