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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

[Fairview]

Fairview was originally known as Seaview. It is a pleasant farming district with undulating country, about five miles from Timaru, on the Pareora road, and lies between Pareora and Claremont. The population of the settlement is set down at forty-nine, while Fairview road has an additional population of 104. Fairview has a post office and there is a public school in the district. The nearest telegraph office is in Timaru.

The Fairview Public School was established in the eighties. It has a glebe of four acres of land, on which there are some well grown shelter trees. The school building is of wood and iron, and contains a classroom and a porch, with accommodation for sixty children. There are thirty-six names on the roll, and the average attendance is thirty. The globe has a number of lower-beds which are kept by the children. There is a six-roomed house for the teacher in charge of the school.

Mrs Christian Ritchie, Teacher in charge at Fairview, was born in Aberdeen. Scotland, and was educated and trained as a teacher in Edinburgh. In 1885 she arrived at Dunedin by the ship “Chili,” and held a position in the Dunedin Girls' High School. Mrs Ritchie was afterwards in charge at Upper page 1033 Otaio for eight years and a half, before being appointed to Fairview in 1894.