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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]

Progress Junction

Progress Junction.

Progress Junction is about three miles from Reefton, at the foot of Globe Hill. It consists of a small township, inhabited principally by miners who work at the Globe mine of the Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand. There is a public school in the settlement, with a small side school conducted at the Globe mine. Exclusive of private residences, the township consists of an hotel, and of a store, at which the business of the post office and telephone bureau is conducted. Progress Junction is in the Crushington riding of the county of Inangahua, in the electorate of Buller, and in the provincial district of Nelson. No separate enumeration of the population of Progress Junction was recorded at the census of 1901; but there were then 162 persons at the Globe mine, twenty-seven at Progress Hill, and 132 at Progress road.

The Progress Junction School is a wood and iron building. It contains one class room and a porch, and has accommodation for about forty pupils. There is also a teacher's residence of four rooms. There are thirty-three scholars on the roll, and an average attendance of twenty- page 264 eight. A side school at the Globe mine has fifteen pupils, and is conducted by a pupil teacher, under the charge of the teacher at the Progress Junction school.

Miss Ada Josepha Dwyer , Teacher in charge of the Progress Junction and Globe schools, was born in Hokitika, and educated at the Hokitika High School. Miss Dwyer matriculated in the year 1897, and obtained her D certificate in 1901. She had charge, successively, of the schools at Awatuna, Upper Otira, and Jackson's, and was appointed, in 1905, to the Progress Junction school. Miss Dwyer has a D4 certificate.