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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

[Spotswood]

Spotswood, in the Waiau riding of the county of Cheviot, is about eight miles from McKenzie, and is centrally situated in the district of East Waiau. There is a post office, which is conducted at one of the local homesteads, and a blacksmith's shop. The population of the Waiau riding was 200 at the census of 1901.

The Spotswood Post Office was established in 1896, and is conducted at the residence of Mr. John Gills, Parnassus Road. Two mails are received and despatched from the office weekly.

The Spotswood Public School was opened in July, 1895, and contains a class room and porch. It has accommodation for forty-one pupils; there were fifty-three names on the roll in 1902, and the average attendance was forty-one. There are two acres of land attached to the school premises; and there is a residence of five rooms for the teacher.

Mr. George Frederick Allen, Headmaster of Spotswood School, was born in Christchurch, in 1875. He served five years as a pupil-teacher at St. Albans Main School, studied for a year at the Normal College, Christchurch, and was appointed to his present position in 1898. He was married, in 1899, to a daughter of Mr. C. Pickering, of Palmerston North, and has two sons and one daughter.