13. The Violet Wood Dining Hall 

The Refectory included a spacious dining hall, which could accommodate 150 pupils, a kitchen, and domestic quarters to the rear.  In 1925, the dining room was reported in the Auckland Star to be “a fine room, with panelled walls, dark-stained floor, and a big open fireplace.”.  In 1991 alterations were made to the Dining Hall and it reopened as the Violet Wood Dining Hall, in memory of Principal Miss Violet Wood, 1949-1968. 

In the dining room, you will find the 1895 Bews Piano which was presented to the college by the Bews Family in 1979. It is captured below decorated for the Staff Farewells and Christmas Lunch in 2025.