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Albany-Street School.

The increasing demand for school accommodation in North Dunedin necessitated the establishment of a school at Pelichet Bay in 1875, on a site in Albany-street, near the Railway Station The first headmaster was Mr. Alex. Montgomery, formerly of Mount Cargill School; and on the appointment of that gentleman, in the following year, to the mastership of the Normal School Practising Department, he was succeeded by the present headmaster, Mr. John L. Ferguson, promoted from the first assistant-ship in the Middle District School.