Adding to what has been said about the land history of Wagga High School -- I am fairly sure about the following points ---- // The establishment of Mitchelmore Street after the Second World War brought about the closure of the section of Garland Street to the east separating the school`s land acquired in 1945 and 1946 from the grounds existing in earlier times. The part of Garland Street closed after the war came to be informally treated by the school as its own domain. The situation was regularised in 1956 by a notice of dedication which appropriated the closed section of Garland Street to the school. It appears that the 1956 dedication brought the area of the part of the school`s grounds bounded by Mitchelmore, Coleman and Macleay streets and Grandview Avenue to a little over 10 acres.

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I have decided to venture some remarks to do with the land titles history of some Wagga educational establishments. I am fairly sure about the following details concerning Mount Erin, South Wagga Public School, Wagga High School and the Technical College -- // The Mount Erin convent and schools complex was developed on a holding of 40 acres provided by the pastoralist John Donnelly to trustees of the Catholic Church in 1874, the year of the arrival from Ireland of Mount Erin`s five founding sisters of the Presentation order. Part of the property was soon resumed for railway purposes. The Great Southern Railway line from Sydney reached Wagga in 1879 and pressed on for Albury. There was already a line from Melbourne to Wodonga. // In 1890 there was a resumption from the Mount Erin estate for the establishment of South Wagga Public School, which opened in 1892. // The homes now seen along the eastern side of Edmondson Street are on land which was part of the Mount Erin demesne until the 1920s. The Church authorities disposed of that area after the construction of the Best Street bridge and establishment of the thoroughfare now called Edmondson Street. // Wagga High School opened in Gurwood Street in 1912. The school moved in 1917 to an imposing building on a two-acre site "over the line" resumed as two adjoining parcels in 1913 from Lucien Grimwood and Bernard J. Hade. The school`s new site at the south-western point of the intersection of Coleman and Macleay streets was part of a 40-acre portion granted to the Reverend Samuel Fox in 1863. // The Technical College was established on land at the south-eastern point of the intersection of Coleman and Macleay streets within two portions of 40 acres each which had been granted in 1861 to the solicitor William Willans . Willans sold both portions in 1882 to the pastoralist and merchant David Copland, whose family sold them to the New South Wales government in 1929.

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