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This website is under construction so this page is a trial page: Prior to the opening of Ōtaki District High School on 2 February 1959, secondary edu­cation was afforded to pupils of the lower Horowhenua by their travelling by rail or bus to Horowhenua College.

Throughout the 1950 decade, there was, in New Zealand as a whole, huge growth in the provision of new secondary schools to cope with the great increase in the number of children of secondary school age. In the same period, reference to the newspapers and to the primary school committee meeting minutes showed a growing unrest in the Ōtaki district concerning the educating problems that related to the pupils having to travel. This prompted the school committees of the district to seek a secondary education establishment in the area.

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