At that time it was called Wellington Girls' High School. Wellington Girls' College is a year 9 to 13 state secondary school, located in Thorndon in central Wellington. Seeing a need for higher education for girls the founding fathers of Wellington College leased a building in Abel Smith Street in and appointed Miss Martha Hamilton as the Lady Principal of the school. It opened on 2 February with 40 students.
However, by the end of its first year the roll increased to almost girls, and when the Premier, the Rt. Robert Stout visited the school in the building was overcrowded with students. As a result of his visit the school was moved to its current site in Pipitea Street. Before the school the Colonial Hospital, Wellington's first public hospital, was built on the site in In the Wellington East Girls' College was established to serve the southern and eastern suburbs.
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Wellington Girls' College. New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February Education Review Office. Retrieved 22 March OCLC Retrieved 11 July — via Papers Past. School Ties May November December Retrieved 3 December Archived from the original PDF on 10 April Retrieved 19 May Retrieved 2 August Retrieved 7 February Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
Retrieved 14 November Schools in the Wellington Region , New Zealand. Members of the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia.
