School name: Bylong Tunnel Upper
Other name: * Wollar Gap until 6.1939
County name: Phillip
Transferred:
Location note:
URL for linking: https://nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au/schoolHistory?schoolId=1456
Operating dates:
Type of school Opening date Closing date
Public School Mar 1938 May 19431
1938
21 March 1938
New Building
During the past few days, under the supervision of Mr. C. Kurtz, Messrs. Rhodes and Gardiner have been busily engaged in the construction of a portable school for the railway construction camp at Wollar Gap. The wooden floor was made In two sections, with sides four feet high, all bolted together, with a canvas roof. The structure was taken apart and despatched per lorry to the first pitch, ready to open school to-day2 .
1
Secretary. ‘School History Database Search’. NSW Department of Education, 29 January 2020. https://education.nsw.gov.au/about-us/our-people-and-structure/history-of-government-schools/school-database-search.html.
2
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative. ‘PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES’. 21 March 1938. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162506396.