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Waikino School

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Waikino School
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On 19 October 1923 a man armed with a revolver, a pig knife and sticks of gelignite entered the school in the small mining settlement of Waikino. Robert Reid, the headmaster, tried to reason with the man, John Higgins, a local firewood dealer from Waitawheta, but he was shot by Higgins. Higgins then, after declaring that he was there “for reve...

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Archives New Zealand / Archives / New Zealand / New Zealand History / Waikato / North Island / Waikino / Waikino School / 1923 / NZ / NZ History / Shooting

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