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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. John Tweedie Kelly

Mr. John Tweedie Kelly , Headmaster of the Kurow School, was born at page 575 Carluke. Lanarkshire, Scotland. His greatuncle was was the Rev. Dr. Tweedie, of St. Giles Church, Edinburgh, one of the Disruption band. Mr. Kelly arrived in Melbourne near the close of 1879, by the ship “Loch Tay,” and shortly afterwards came to New Zealand. In 1880 he was appointed to Otatara school, where for three years he studied and obtained an E certificate. On leaving there he attended the Normal Training College, Dunedin, for a year, taking a D certificate at the close, and subsequently attended one year at the University. Early in 1893 he was promoted to Division I for “increased efficiency,” In 1866 Mr. Kelly was appointed to Kurow and Wharekuri half-time schools, and, with an absence of two years, has been there ever since. Mr. Kelly married, in 1886, a daughter of Mr. G. P. Bell, for twenty-five years master of the North East Harbour school, and has two sons and one daughter.