Other Schools in Dunedin and Suburbs.

A small private school for girls was kept by Miss Peterson for a short time at the lower end of Walker-street. The late Mr. Gebbie, of Saddle Hill, conducted a school in a fern-tree whare with a clay floor, erected on Church land in the North-East Valley, near the Town Belt, until 1854, when he married Miss Peterson, and by agreement with the Kirk Session and settlers of East Taieri, opened a school in the church that had been erected there for the Eev. Mr. Will. Mr. Grebbie remained in charge of the East Taieri School until November, 1856, when he was succeeded by Mr. John Hislop. Mr. Robert Short succeeded Mr. Grebbie as teacher of the North-East Valley School; and when that gentleman entered the Provincial Government service as an officer in the Land Department, Mr. Andrew Russell took charge of the School until the arrival and appointment of Mr. A. G. Allan in 1858. Shortly after the Provincial Government had been established, Mr. J. G. S. Grant arrived from Victoria, and for some time conducted a school which he named "The Dunedin Academy" About the same time, a school was taught in the page 141church building at Green Island Bush by the Rev. Alex. Bethune. He left in 1856 to join the band of pioneers who sailed from Dunedin in that year to occupy the recently surveyed district of Invercargill and neighbourhood.