WAINUI.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 161, 1 February 1878, Page 2

WAINUI.

The first meeting of householders in the Wainui District, under the new Education Act, was held at the time and place appointed. Mr A. Hunter was voted to the chair. Mr Bell, the Chairman of Committee for the past year, then read his report, which shewed that the receipts during the year had been £223 Us, and the expenditure £221 5s 10d, leaving a balance of £2 5s 2d, and that the total number of scholars who had attended at all during the year was nine, the number on the books for the Dec-ember quarter was eight, with nn average attendance of 6-5. lie was worry that the attendance was so extremely small in proportion to the number of children in the district, but laid the responsibility for this state of things entirely with those parents who persist in keeping their children away from school. Mr, I\night said the report just read shewed k most lamentable condition of affairs when tho expenditure was contrasted with the attendance. The Government were spending large sums in providing the means of education, and yet many of the people of the district were not availing themselves of it; he thought, now that education was entirely free, that the public who provided the funds for it should see that the children were being educated, and he hoped the committee -for the ensuing year would enforce the compulsory clauses of the new Education Ordinance. The following persons were then nominated to serve as a committee for the coining year :—Messrs Eeid, Bell, McKay, Hunter, J. Wright, Kennedy, and Ft. Wright. There being no others nominated, these were declared duly elected. A vote of thanks to the Returning Officer closed the proceedings. At a meeting' of committee held immediately afterwards, Mr Bell was appointed chairman, and it was resolved to nominate Messrs Inglis anil Montgomery as members of the Board of Education of North Canterbury.