NEW BRIGHTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14984, 3 June 1914, Page 12

NEW BRIGHTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The monthly meeting of the New Brighton School Committee w_s held last night. Present—Messrs C. H. Wrnny (chairman), C. 7_T_ebK_, A. W. Owles, H. Goodland. A. P. Hopkins E. Eastwood, and F. Ward (secretary). Correspondenco was received from the Board of Education, notifying that it had ar--_nged for Miss L Best to act -_a wlie-ritu. assistant mistress. Tlie ih-pector's halfyearly report wm received and adopted, it being considered very satisfactory. The headmaster reported that the - roll number was 424, and tbe avexage attendance 3SI. The Visiting Committee*- report, tocoui- l mending various improvements, was adopted. I It was decided to graat tho use of the echoo! piano to the' Library Concert Committee. *_. view of tho ____U_._ct.ry light given by j

the gas as installed in tho school; it was decided to write to the Gaa Company drawing attention to the matter. Messrs H. Hawker and A. P.-Hopkins were re-olccted a Visiting: Committee. PI-ESB-ITERIAN MISSIONARY UNION. In- connexion, with the -"seebyferian Woanas Missionary Union, a meeting w_a held m St. Paula-Schoolroom last night. Thero waa a good attendance, the Moderator, the Rev. D D. Rodgers, pxeeiding. Tha chairman welcomed Miss Maogxegor, of the United.Freo Church Mie-ion at Madras, and the Key. G. H. M-Neur, of tho Canton VUlaga Mission. Miss Maegregor gavo a short address, outlining the work of hex mission station at Madras-, which for over twenty years had been engaged in the education of girls, in addition to its many other activities. The Rer. Mr McNear, who was thi tirst missionary cent to China by the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, spoke interestingly on the New China, and dealt with several aspects of the revolution and its aftermath. Tho revolution waa planned he said, by a small body of men, mostly Can-tor-eac, and their sucoes- was due to their strategic work. Tne Manchti Government was organising on army B nd a navy on raor. or .kes modern lines, but tho revolutionary agents got into tho naval and military college- and won over tho students to tn_ movement, with tbo result that both services • became honeycombed with revolutionary societies. .Chinese st_d___s educated in America, and *Japano3«, also preached revolutionary ideas. Tho Rer. Mr MoNeur said that tho work of tho revolutionary leaders was a great lesson in methods to the missionaries who wore working 'to train Chinese loaders to take up educational, medical, and -vangelistio work amongst their fellow-countrymen.