DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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THE HIGH SCHOOL, DUNEDIN. 



Oamaru stone, and proclaiming to the stranger the devotion of the pioneers of settlement 

 to the "Auld Kirk." Turning to the harbour, the eyes rove over Rattray Street Wharf and 

 its companion piers to the evidences of continuing enterprise in the reclamation of land 



from the sea, and of 

 plodding energy in 

 the deepening of the 

 channel for the im- 

 provement of mari- 

 time facilities. Up 

 to the end of June, 

 1886, no less a sum 

 than five hundred 

 and ninety-seven 

 thousand pounds had 

 been expended on 

 harbour improve- 

 ments, and vessels 

 with a draught of 

 sixteen feet may now 

 be brought right up 



to the wharves, which, as Dunedin is the head-quarters of the powerful Union Steamship 

 Company, are always flanked by one or more vessels of the familiar red-funneled fleet. 

 The Gaelic name of Edinburgh has not been inaptly bestowed upon this very pre- 

 possessing New Zealand city. In the first place it resembles its Old World prototype 

 in its hilly situation. But a stronger resemblance still to the modern Athens is the 

 high regard in which learning and culture are held. Splendid provision has been made 

 for higher education, while the City School Committee controls seven State primary 

 schools with an aggregate average 

 attendance of three thousand 

 eight hundred and sixty-three. 

 The chief seat of secondary educa- 

 tion is the handsome building 

 known as the Boys' High School, 

 which was completed in February, 

 1885. It has a curiously castel- 

 lated appearance, a square and 

 massive tower rising from the 

 centre of the facade to a height 

 of sixty-eight feet, and its corners 

 being finished off with steeples. 

 It is one of the finest buildings 

 in the city, and no other secondary 



school or college in the colony can boast such palatial or commodious quarters. 

 Another " lion " of the place is the Museum a plain three-storey building at the 



THE INTERIOR OK THE MUSEUM, DUNEDIN. 



