The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
Paikakariki Public School
Paikakariki Public School, which was opened on the first of April, 1886, with seven children, is a wooden building of a single room containing accommodation for sixty pupils. The number on the roll is thirty-three, with an average attendance of twenty-nine. The land attached to the school is an acre and a quarter in extent on a portion of which the schoolmaster's house is situated.