St Christopher’s Secondary School

 We built a secondary school, which is still going today.  When I was in Australia in 1956 people generously gave enough to get the school started.  Jack Dobson was in charge of the building as well as the farming.  The school was built on a steep hillside and we had to excavate huge amounts of soil with just a Ferguson tractor.

Jack built St Christopher’s for 120 boys for something under £10,000.  The Paramount Chief came to the opening of the school in 1959.  We were very glad that he had marked the occasion by sending one of his sons as a student.  In my speech of welcome and thanks I said, “When I arrived, Nwgenyama (Lion), you asked me why the Church had done nothing with the land your grandfather gave us 70 years ago.  I replied, “It is easy to talk.  ‘The mouth can cross even a river in flood.’  If your people and we can work together, there may be something to see in a few years’ time.”