By: Tracey Kearns19th Apr 2024 8:08AMThe following comments were left on our Heritage FB page in April 2024

Martin Hope
"I remember that hall so well ,with the music room off to the left?"
Michael McFadyen
"Mr Emelus was the music teacher in my time"
Martin Hope
"my time too, he turned a blind eye to us using the music equipment after hours, great teacher."
Michael McFadyen
"Funny but that assembly hall was surely twice the size it appears here!
Martin Hope
"yes it does, it looked huge to me playing music on the stage with the school band, that was yonks ago"
Michael McFadyen
"What do you remember of the “No Milk Today” incident? Pretty sure Grub was involved."
Martin Hope
"Ha yes ,Grub was nearly expelled for that! Were you there?
I wasn't actually there though. That lark will go down in the Schools history I reckon .."

Paul Foote
"I remember when a radio station broadcast live in that hall during a school disco/ dance one night. Would have been around 1971. 2ZM maybe."
Paul Foote
"oh yeah. Well you wouldn't have had far to walk to school then if you were at Heretaunga, lol. I went to Maidstone Intermediate too. Good school it was as I recall it. Yeah we would hang out a bit at that Dairy/Milk bar over the road from the Heretaunga College entrance. That was our "Happy days" go to cafe back in the day. It had a couple of booth table seats and a juke box."
Steve Cochrane
"we loved that milk bar ..we’d ride there play records and eat strawberry ice creams ..then there were the tennis matches and of course the pool hall"
Paul Foote
"Hey Steve do you remember that amusement arcade place that was upstairs above the Trentham shops premises ? They had pool tables and differant things up there for the restless youth."
Steve Cochrane
'yep , spent a lot of time up there'