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Teachers will feel it their daily duty to fit the boys to bear life's burdens with a spirit of nobility and to meet life's problems with unfaltering courage". At the conclusion of his speech, Bishop Liston said, "This is a very happy day for me indeed for I owe much more than I can say to the training I received at the hands of the Christian Brothers in Dunedin long years ago.

O'Driscoll Building and an incomplete two-storied residence the brother's residence. On Monday, 6 February , St Peter's College opened its doors [48] with a roll of pupils, [30] aged from 11 to 14 i. Kevin's College, Oamaru and the others had been in Sydney. The average size of the four classes in the first year of the college was thirty boys. But Form IV commenced with fourteen pupils.

These had come from ten different schools, and had studied different subjects. There had been no unity in the textbooks used in these schools but also the boys had studied different subjects. By the end of the first term it was evident to the Brothers that there was quite a teaching problem and it was decided to start the second term of Form IV with Theorem One in Geometry and Lesson One in French, Latin, Algebra, etc. Many of the fourteen pupils transferred down to Form III. For the senior class, play or recreation time was cut in half.

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School was conducted on Saturday mornings, when the week's theoretical study of Chemistry was tested by practical experiments. Brother O'Driscoll, a large man, vigorously thumped or pounded the blackboard to drive home important points. Several new blackboards had to be acquired. All four passed.

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The first Dux of the college was Des Rosser in His twin brother John was dux in The transformation of the grounds, the development of Reeves Road, the planting of lawns, garden plots and the erection of the front stone wall along Reeves Road continued over the next few years. The trees planted were mostly Syzygium smithii an Australian species — also known as Monkey Apple , along Reeves Rd, and, near the tennis courts, Puriri trees.

But the masterpiece of all the constructional work was the huge stone wall below the tennis courts [ and above the netball courts ]. The first pupils daily eagerly visited it as if it were some modern Great Wall of China , and watched in wonder as it took shape". After the end of the Second World War , significant developments were: the opening of the college chapel in see below ; the building of the first prefabricated classroom block; and the conversion of the old bungalow used as a shelter shed and of a classroom to a library in the s.

In , St Peter's had the largest roll of any Catholic school in New Zealand, [57] having pupils. More building projects became necessary. In the s, the Brothers' residence was extended and a new science block consisting of science laboratories, classrooms and a demonstration room was built. This building was upgraded in the s and is now called the Brother J. Lynch Science Laboratories. A large three-story set of classrooms now called the Brother B E Ryan Building plus assembly hall and squash courts were opened in the early s.

In , Archbishop [59] Liston purchased 2. Part of the land purchased had been used as tennis courts for the staff. The land became available because, from , New Zealand Breweries was concentrating its beer production at the Captain Cook Brewery further down Khyber Pass towards Newmarket. Students were involved in picking up stones and glass from the field, sometimes as a detention. Located on it is a sports' pavilion called the Brother P.

Ryan Sports Pavilion. It is named for Brother PC "Paddy" Ryan, the headmaster at the time, who managed the purchase and transformation of the site. The pavilion replaced an earlier pavilion opened in see below.

In the Cage was refurbished into an Astro turf field suitable for playing rugby and soccer in all weathers and conditions. Cooper was "particularly annoyed" that he failed to obtain the site as St Peter's got it for somewhat less than the price quoted to Grammar and which had been considered prohibitive by the Ministry of Works which would have had to purchase the land for Grammar, a State school. Henry Cooper used the episode in his argument for the transfer of the Mt Eden Prison quarries to Auckland Grammar for the creation of new sports fields for that school. He pointed out that the brewery site would have been very suitable for Grammar and that Grammar had been beaten to it by a "private school".

The context of this was that the new Auckland Southern Motorway development was projected to take the main Grammar rugby field which lay between the two schools. Auckland Grammar argued that the motorway was going to adversely affect "two great schools" and should either be abandoned or re-routed.

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However, one of Grammar's suggested alternative routes was to be "further down" Mountain Road, which would have taken the motorway either through St Peter's College or through the Catholic netball courts which were used by the college and are now part of it as the site of the sports complex. Either of these proposed alternative routes would also have taken out the newly acquired and developed rugby field.

Grammar lost its rugby field in , but was compensated by the Mt Eden Prison quarries. St Peter's lost a small section of land on its south west extremity for the motorway on-ramp at Khyber Pass Rd and in return was sold Reeves Road and some prison houses at a concessional price. Reeves Rd disappeared as a street and much of the subsequent expansion of the school has taken place on its site. Up to a third of the school's enrolment i.

From its opening in , the Christian Brothers had a small "but handsome" chapel upstairs in the Brothers' House. It was equipped by past pupils of the Christian Brothers, one of whom, Father J Mansfield, who sixty years previously had been a pupil of the Christian Brothers in Dublin , donated the altar. The chapel was furnished in oak. The altar was walnut and primavera wood, backed by a rich blue and gold hanging.

On 14 November a larger chapel was blessed and opened by Archbishop Liston. This was built mainly on the initiative of the chaplain of the school, Father Reginald Delargey. The chapel was rectangular. It had two aisles between which there were approximately ten pews which could accommodate a class or two for Mass or Benediction.

On the other side of each aisle were the Brothers' chairs and prie-dieus at which they recited their office each day, heard Mass and kept their own devotional books. The chapel was dominated by a crucifix and a large altar fixed against the south end wall in those pre-Vatican II days. A free-standing altar later replaced this so that Mass could be said facing the congregation. On the left was also a shrine to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour , a devotion much encouraged by the Christian Brothers.

On the South side of this icon was the door to a small sacristy which also served as a confessional for the school, where the school chaplain was available regularly. This sacristy issued onto a small cloister which connected the Brother's House with the school building. On the North side of the icon a door led from the chapel to the Brother's Common room and library in the Brothers' House. This also served as the general staff room for the college which was most useful to the lay teachers. There were folding doors along the northern or entrance end of the chapel. These doors could be opened so that extra congregants could be accommodated outside.

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From time to time Masses were celebrated al fresco there. Other events were also held there such as school prizegivings. At the prizegiving, Archbishop Liston "presided on a decorated balcony" in front of the chapel. Wilkes Technology Block which was opened in This was a temporary pre-fabricated building located near the northern end of the quadrangle of the college also known as the "Top Yard" until it was removed to allow the permanent school chapel to be constructed on the site and opened in It echoed the illuminated The school students performed a Haka Powhiri and then most students watched the rest of the opening ceremony via live-feed on a large screen in the adjacent school gymnasium.

The walls of the chapel were also anointed.

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The chapel is located adjacent to the school's top yard and it may be seen from Khyber Pass Road. The building was designed by Stevens Lawson Architects, the same firm that designed the inverted cross which casts a shadow that is right side up during the day at the college entrance. This inverted cross motif is also reproduced in the chapel. When sunlight pours through the chapel's skylight, an inverted cross shines through.