| Napier Technical College, New Zealand | |
|---|---|
 Students and staff in front of the college, c. 1925 | |
| Location | |
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New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 39°29′35″S 176°54′50″E / 39.49306°S 176.91389°E |
| Information | |
| School type | Technical |
| Motto | Latin: Laborare est Orare (To work is to pray) |
| Established | 1909 |
| Closed | 1931 |
| Principal | Walter Fossey[1] |
| Principal | I. E. Newton (1917)[2] |
| Principal | Robert McLaren (1923/1924–1931)[3][4] |
| Gender | Coeducational |
Napier Technical College was a technical education college in Napier, New Zealand.[5] Established in 1909, it provided general secondary education during the day and trade skills in the evening. After the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake caused severe damage to the technical college's buildings and killed nine students, the school was disestablished and amalgamated into Napier Boys' High School and Napier Girls' High School.
Before the earthquake, the technical college suffered overcrowding due to increasing enrolments and a lack of space to erect new buildings. Consequently, development of a new site in Napier began in 1930, but due to the earthquake, the move there was never completed. Napier Intermediate School now occupies the site.
- ^ "H.B. County Council". Hawke's Bay Tribune. 12 March 1912. Retrieved 30 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
- ^ "Obituary". 2 October 1950. Retrieved 30 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
historicplacesaotearoawas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Schoolmaster Resigns". Hawke's Bay Tribune. 7 October 1936 – via PapersPast.
- ^ "A new school". Hawke's Bay Tribune. 18 August 1930. Retrieved 25 March 2024 – via PapersPast.