world war, Air Travel was nationalised and became part of NAC. Education A school was described as "recently opened" in Hokitika in 1875, and had nearly 350 students. The Hokitika District High School provided both primary and secondary education for the area for many years. Its name was changed in 1963 to Westland High School, which caters for years 7 to 13 and has a roll of . Hokitika School is a contributing primary (years 1–6) school with a roll of . St Mary's School is a full primary (years 1–8) school with a roll of . It is a state integrated Catholic school and is connected with St Mary's Catholic Church. All these schools are coeducational. Rolls are as of Notable people Agnes Addison (c.1842–1903), Scottish draper who was one of Hokitika's early businesswomen. Margaret Andrews Alcorn (1868–1967) and her sister Mary Alcorn (1866–1928) were interior designers and business owners Charles Button (1838–1920), mayor of Hokitika, solicitor, judge, and MP John Urquhart Cropp (1927–2016), Olympic yachtsman Edward St John Daniel (1837–1868), Victoria Cross recipient, died and is buried in Hokitika Charlie Douglas (1840–1916), explorer and surveyor Alice Eyton (1874–1929), journalist, screenwriter, playwright, and novelist in Hollywood Stanley Graham (1900–1941), a farmer who killed seven people and was the target of New Zealand's biggest manhunt Bess Hudson (1875–1961), early nurse, for Dr Teichelmann Al Hunter (born 1950), musician, singer-songwriter John Lazar (1840–1916), actor, town clerk, mason Sharlotte Lucas (born 1991), road cyclist Fayne Robinson (born 1964), Māori carver Holly Robinson (born 1994), athlete born in Hokitika John Rutherford Ryley (1837–1884), who introduced antiseptic technique to New Zealand, was surgeon at Hokitika Hospital at the time Richard Seddon (1845–1906), New Zealand politician and Premier Ebenezer Teichelmann (1859–1938), surgeon, mountaineer, photographer and conservationist Notable buildings Hokitika Customhouse, built 1897, a Category I historic place The Hokitika Clock Tower, built 1902/3, the most prominent landmark in Hokitika Hokitika Museum, housed in the former Carnegie Library, built 1908 Seaview Asylum, founded 1872 and once the town's biggest employer All Saints' Church, a prominent landmark and early unfaced concrete church St Andrew's United Church, built in 1935, a good example of a small Gothic parish church Renton Hardware building (also known as the Okitiki building), completed in 1908, a Category 2 historic place Government Buildings (also known as Seddon House), completed in 1913, a Category 1 historic place St Mary's Catholic Church, a Category 1