JWPS celebrates 90th anniversary

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The entrance to Jasper Williams Primary School in Lautoka. Picture: SITERI SAUVAKACOLO/FILE

WOMEN from all walks of life tied to Jasper Williams Primary School gathered at the Churchill Park Stadium in Lautoka yesterday to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the oldest all-girls school in the Western Division.

Current and former students were joined by family, friends and well-wishers to mark the special occasion which began with a march through Lautoka City.

Dressed in their best sulu jaba’s, the women remembered the origins of the school which began in 1929 by Wesleyan missionaries to provide education for Indian girls. Chief guest, University of Fiji lecturer Professor Salome Rokuta said the occasion was one to reflect on the journey that the school and its students have gone through over the last 90 years.

“We are thankful for Mr Jasper Williams who bought the hotel up on a hill which became an orphanage and then later Jasper Primary School,” she said.

More in today’s edition of The Fiji Times.

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