Ovens & Murray Advertiser 26th October 1972 Hillsborough School 889 An application for a vested Common School at Hilllsborough was first made by John Brown on 23rd March 1867. District Inspector Geary visited on 3rd August 1867 and recommended that a school should be granted. This was done by a board order on 3rd October 1867. The local committee after approval had been granted by the Board of Education bought from Ellen Kennedy a building previously a hotel for 110 pounds ($220). It was constructed partly of weatherboard and partly of vertical slabs and had a roof of shingles and a 53'6" long verandah. There were five rooms - the schoolroom 30ft x 20 ft, and four attached dwelling rooms. The site of two roods, lot 34, allotment 1, section 1, township of Hillsborough was bought for 12 twelve pounds. Approximately half the cost of establishing the school was subsidised by local residents. School No. 889 opened on 1st March 1868 the headteacher being John Besley 1868-1869, assisted Mr. Frank Vale. Early members of the local committee ! were Messrs. McGill, Morris, Michaelis, Smart, Rodgers, Dudley, McGill, Adams, Brown, Mitchell, Armstrong (William & Alex). In October 1882 the school bell from the closed S.S. No. 907 Sutton (Bruarong) was removed and re-erected at Hillsborough. District Inspector Rix in 1891 advised against the erection of a new building or removal to another site. Children enrolled were: STONE, James & Henry, CLINGIN, Wilfred, Percy & Walter, MITCHELL Henry & Mary, WATERSON, Mary, Martha, Violet & Agnes, CRAWFORD, William, Alfred, RALPH, William, Richard, Amelia, Wollesly, Gordon and Stanley