LITTLE AKALOA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 682, 26 January 1883, Page 3

LITTLE AKALOA.

A correspondent writes:—The residents in this district were supposed to meet on Monday evening last, in accordance with th« departmental advertisement which appeared in your columns. From 7.30 p.ra, to 9.15 p.m. only six persons entitled to vote were present, bo that ultimately, in order to secure the neceseary quorum, a deputation from thoae present had to wait noon a. coiii}>nrative-outeider, m oTder tnat ..-.vjipft ' V ro forma should be elected. i:,'^" l .-.V:V: : '.V-"v > Ti3said aSiout the election of '""'.".":.'. ~■.)'■],r.::,,H z iei. but no much mystery '"' l Z':\yZ- <Dd" ibe matter, that your

correspondent is quite unable to state unable to state when the school in this district will re-open. It would appear that the accounts have been audited by Home one, but it is scarcely fair to expect that a School Committee who have already, by laxity of attendance to their duty, I saved between £30 and £40 o£ the de-: , partmental grant in one quarter, should be rery enthusiastic about the appointment oi ,B new master to the school. As to whether or when our sGhool is to be re-opened, your correspondent is unable to give any certain information, nor does he think the late or new Committee are in a much better position, as far as information is concerned. Meantime, is it not a pity that our children should be debarred from all the benefits secured to them by the present Education Act ? If so, the sooner School Committees are abolished, and a Commissioner appointed for this school, the better for the rising generation. [We should much like to hear what the Committee have to say. If they would only cpuse their chairman or secretary to write a report of the election, and give the names of members elected, &c, it might save much dissatisfaction. School Committees, like other public bodies, should perform their duties as openly as possible.— Ed. Mail.]