1. Star, 25/1/92; Farmer, Sept. 1893, p. 337, Feb, 1895, p. 226.

2. J.S. Tullett, The Industrious Heart: A History of New Plymouth, New Plymouth, 1981, p. 235.

3. Star, 1/3/98, 25/11/98, 13/4/99.

4. See e.g. Star, 26/5/97, 5/6/97; Egmont Star, 24/7/97.

5. Star, 25/10/99.

6. Star, 19/6/94, 26/4/95.

7. See e.g. Star, 11/12/09.

8. Star, 2/10/94.

9. Star, 6/5/92, 26/5/92, 30/6/92, 20/7/92, 14/10/92.

10. Star, 7/7/93, 20/4/94.

11. Star, 15/10/96 seems to be the last report of it.

12. Star, 14/6/95, 15/6/98, 8/7/98.

13. Star, 3/9/99.

14. John C. Hosie, Centennial History of Manaia and Manaia School, 1882–1982, Manaia, 1982, p. 49.

15. William Morley, The History of Methodism in New Zealand, Wellington, 1990, p. 302; Star, 14/10/91, 7/4/94.

16. See Rollo Arnold, ‘The Patterns of Denominationalism in Later Victorian New Zealand’, in C. Nichol and J. Veitch, eds, Religion in New Zealand, Wellington, 1980, pp. 76–110.

17. O.M. Stent, Memories of Kaponga, Wellington, [1916], p. 10.

18. Patrick S. Crowley, St Patrick's Convent Jubilee 1921–1971: Early History of the Church in Kaponga, [Eltham, 1972].

19. Star, 19/1/99.

20. Star, 17/3/99, 5/4/99, 9/8/99, 23/8/00.

21. Rosemary K. Goodyear, ‘Black Boots and Pinafores: Childhood in Otago 1900–1920’, MA thesis, University of Otago, 1992.

22. Wanganui Education Board, School Rolls 1892, ABDV/W3571, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.

23. Star, 23/11/94.

24. Inspector's report, Kaponga School, 22/11/94, Wanganui Education Board, Minute Book 1894, ABDV/W3571, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.

25. Wanganui Education Board, School Rolls 1894; Star, 15/11/94, 8/4/95, 16/9/96, 3/11/96, 31/3/97, 24/6/97.

26. New Zealand Schoolmaster, January 1896, p. 82 (Wanganui correspondent).

27. AJHR, 1890, E-1B, p. 5; AJHR, 1891, E-1B, p. 6.

28. Y, 13/11/97, p. 7.

29. Wanganui Education Board, Minute Book, 1898, ABDV/W3571/99, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.

30. AJHR, 1898, E-1B, p. 18.

31. Wanganui Education Board, School Rolls 1898.

32. Colin McGeorge, ‘School Attendance and Child Labour 1890–1914’, Historical News, No. 46, May 1983, p. 18.

33. Lionel Rose, The Erosion of Childhood, London, 1991, p. 147.