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Early in the new century the school changed its name to Albury Grammar school. In 1902, Smith was killed in a buggy accident, and Wilson assumed full ownership of the school. In 1909 Wilson moved the school to its present campus, where it remained co-educational until in 1928 he sold it to the
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