St Peter's College, Auckland
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St Peter's College is a Catholic secondary school for boys in the Edmund Rice tradition, and dedicated to St Peter. It is located in the central Auckland area of Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. With a roll of over 1300, the school is one of the largest Catholic schools in New Zealand. St Peter's College was established in 1939 as a successor of Auckland's earliest school and of St Peter's School, founded in 1857. However, Auckland also had another Catholic secondary school dedicated to St Peter, Hato Petera College or St Peter's Māori College, which existed for 90 years from 1928 until 2018 in Northcote.
St Peter's College (Bro. O'Driscoll Building, 2009) (constructed 1939)
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St Peter's College cricket field (St Peter's Oval) and Outhwaite Park (2009)
Site of St Peter's College on right of Mountain Rd (Lion Brewery on left) before it was cleared for the school; taken from the site of the Outhwaite family house (Outhwaite Park) (1929)
Grafton, New Zealand
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Grafton is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. The suburb is named for the Duke of Grafton, a patron of the first Governor of New Zealand, William Hobson, and the grandfather of a subsequent Governor, Robert FitzRoy. Once known as 'Grafton Heights', denoting its history as a well-off suburb in Auckland's earliest decades.
Hum Salon operating at the Basley-Bush House / Rothesay at 123 Grafton Road, February 2015
One of the many historic houses in Grafton.
The Medical School of Auckland University and two large hospitals bound the north side.
Mt Eden from Outhwaite Park (2015)