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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 964, 8 June 1883, Page 4

At the South Canterbury Board of Education meeting yesterday the annual report was read, showing the number of children attending school at -the end of the year to be 3853. It regretted that the compulsory clauses: were not more generally enforced.,. The receipts for the year were L12,306’T1s 2d, and the expenditure Llo,®Kfjlsa lid. At the close of tjie jrear SS teachers and 11 sewing mistresses were employed by the Board.

• of. the. Geraldine County Council yesterday a resolution was moved “ That instead of adding to the present over-burdened and system of local government, it be considered more advisable fbi l the Council to abdicate in favor. o# .Btoad:Boa^da:” 1 After a long d||^BfiQp /; was lost. ; There is a Btrqng.jfewpg' ia tha jaiinds of some merpWW.aqq not* a ’few ’ratepayers of .the 'that tile*' Council '* Government should be-abolished in Geraldine as being quite unnecessary. •: -^0

Considerable comment is occasioned., by All four liidensing Committees for the City of'DUnedin in regard to the hours of ''licensing.' 1 In the Central district Ppjfie qf ,tjhe hqnsea in tho main thoroughfare i yt|»re ..restricted to,, eleven •’clock, whilst: rin. thq, Leith diatricfc the Hijiijte*.' at l ,lhe/,oprople£e‘’outskirts of the t&Wfi^e’re'granted fill twqlye o’clock. Two members of the Committee, Messrs Elliott arid Street/ writy to the Star in,-regard to their action in a particular case, and add -r-“ Jn our opinion the provision of the Licensing Act with regard to elective Obiptnitteeß is a mistake, and the sooner the old system of nominated Benches is resorted to the better it v. ill be for the public and the publicans.” A crowded public meeting was held in the Hekitiki Town Hall on Wednesday evening to consider the action of the local School Committee in closing, the State, school. I© Petrie, Chairman of the Board of Education, addfefcied the meeting, which re him a noisy and hostile reception, was resolved—First, to endorse and approve the action of the local Committee; aeotflilly, to prepare a’ monster petition to the Minister of Education, praying for the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the management of. the Education Board during" the past three years; thirdly, to request Messrs Seddon and FitaGerfeld/lit Hiß.’s, to bring in a Bill fourthly, to.telegraph the foregoing resolutions to the* Minister of Education. The