Hato Petera College, Auckland

Hato Petera College
Location
103 College Road, Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand
Information
Type	Integrated secondary (year 9-13) Co-Ed
Established	1928
Ministry of Education Institution no.	33
Principal	Br. David McDonald
School roll	139 (2011)
Socio-economic decile	2
Website	www.hatopetera.school.nz

Hato Petera College is an integrated, boarding and day co-educational college in Northcote Central, Auckland, New Zealand for students in Year 9 to Year 13. The school has a strong Catholic and Māori character. It is located on part of the land originally given by Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand to Bishop Pompallier, first Bishop of Auckland in 1841 for education purposes.^[1]

Hato Petera College (then called Saint Peter's Catechist School) was founded by the Mill Hill Fathers. It opened with 13 students on Sunday 3 June 1928. The first Rector was Father Bruning. From 1933 to 1960, the Rector was Dean Alink who himself physically constructed some of the buildings of the college. The Marist Brothers provided staff for the school from 1946 when it was registered as a secondary school. The College changed its name from "St Peter's Māori College" to "Hato Petera College" in 1972.

In 1982 the proprietor of the college (the Catholic Bishop of Auckland) signed an integration Agreement with the Minister of Education and the college entered the State education system. Originally a boys' school, the college has been co-educational since 1993. (?)

Notable alumni

Peter Douglas (Ngāti Maniapoto) - chief executive of Te Ohu Kaimoana^[2]
Ralph Hotere, (Te Aupōuri iwi) - artist
Walter Kenneth Little - All Black 1989-1998^[3]
Paratene Matchitt, (Whanau-a-Apanui, Te Whakatōhea and Ngati Porou) - sculptor and painter.
Father Wiremu Te Awhitu (1914–1994), (Ngāti Hauaroa and Ngāti Maniapoto) - first Māori Catholic priest.
Ranginui Walker (Ranginui Joseph Isaac), DCNZM, (Te Whakatōhea) - Māori academic and writer.

References

^ Hato Petera College (St Peter’s Maori College): golden jubilee, 1928-1978, pp. 11 and 12: The land was purchased by the Governor from " ... Ngāti Paoa and their related tribes of Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Tamatera, and Ngāti Whānaunga, Te Kawerau and Ngāti Whātua. Patuone, the Ngāpuhi chief was also concerned in the sale because his wife at that time was Riria, a member of the Hauraki tribes." (cf. Ballara, Angela. "Patuone, Eruera Maihi". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1p12. Retrieved 4 April 2011. )
^ Te Ohu Kaimoana website
^ Walter Little, All Black (All Blacks website)

Sources

Pat Gallager, The Marist Brothers in New Zealand Fiji & Samoa 1876-1976, New Zealand Marist Brothers' Trust Board, Tuakau, 1976.
Hato Petera College (St Peter’s Maori College): golden jubilee, 1928-1978, Hato Petera College], Auckland, 1978.
E.R. Simmons, A Brief History of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, Catholic Publication Centre, Auckland, 1978 and In Cruce Salus, A History of the Diocese of Auckland 1848 - 1980, Catholic Publication Centre, Auckland 1982.
Michael King, God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland 1997.
W. Tuerlings M.H.M, Mill Hill and Māori Mission, Mills Hill Fathers (?), Auckland (?), 2003.
Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006.