From Matangi Tonga Magazine, Vol. 16, no. 2, September 2001.

Exactly a year following a fire which destroyed their school the 1060 students of the Tonga High School moved into new temporary class rooms on October 1.

The construction of the 36 new class rooms located at Vaiola Motu‘a, was funded with a $1.2 million grant from the New Zealand, Australian and the French governments.

Preparing to cut the ribbon for the senior classes at the Campus, was the Acting Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Clive Edwards on his first official duty, after he was appointed the day before, and the representatives for New Zealand and Australia. He paid tribute to the teachers and students who had spent a year working in the damp, unhealthy conditions of the burnt-out building and in tents.