PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1316, 20 December 1911, Page 6

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

(By Tolcgraph.--Si>ocial. Correspondents Palmerston, December 13. The ltieh Sellout' Board ul' Governors hold its "monUily meeting last evening, Mr \V. 11. Collingwuod iij-phuliiib- 11m rector reported that the average attendance foV the year was 180,. this tans. « record tor'the school. 'Hie financial statement showed that there were still a number of liabilities, including amounts owing on the Technical School and 1.1 lga School furnishing accounts, hut it 'was honed that after tin pageant fair, which th'" -Mayoress was organising in aid ol the funds, these -debts-would be wiped out. The resignation of Mr. Dobbie, assistant master, was accepted .with regret, and it was reported-that Miss h. U, tlaseldcn and Messrs. Penluigtou w Milward had been appointed to nil vacancies on the staff. The chairman and Messrs. M'Xab and Vernon were apvainted to represent the Uigh School at (he conference of-school committees in reference to the erection ■ of swimming baths at (lie Campbell Street School. Ihe Ground Committee reported. Hint J lie "rounds were in first-class order, and thai i'l luiil been decided to have all Ihe ■ iths tarred and sanded, and to have the work done'during (lie .holidays, lhe Hamilton-High.'School Board wrote inquiring 'if Hie school here was opened with Scriptural lessons. The secretary reported that he hud replied that the school was opened with the Lord's Prayer Court Manawntu, A.O.K, held its annual summoned meeting last night, Uni. M.Kosanowski being in,the chair. Over one hundred members were present. Seasonable' greetings' were received from n number of eoiirts. Th.'. following officers were elected'for the ensuing term :--('.K., Bro. Levy: S.C.K.. Ui'p. Uahl;' treasurer. Bro. Aitchison; secretary. Bro. Yorlt; S.W., Hro. Lane; J.W., Bro. Gilchrist; S.D., Bro. I'riee;. J.D.. Bro. GeVlsen; auditor. Bro. Young; M.S., Bro. Kolfe. The delegate to the annual district meetin <! at Wellington' was instructed to vole for Dominion' consolidation nf the sick and funeral fund. The woodwards re- . ported that there was a number of mem--1 bers on the sick list. '■,-,', At. the meeting of the High School Board of Governors last evening Sir. W. Park tendered his resignation as a member of the board owing to pressure of bu.-incss, and it was accepted'with' regret, Mr. Park having been for a great, .number of years one of the hardestworking members of tlie board,.more particularly in the direction' of improving Hie grounds, where his great cJcporiouec had proved of the utmost' advantage. ' The new rooms of the Manawatu Philosophical Society were officially ppeued by the' Mayor (Mr. J.'A. Nash) last evening. The president (Mr. It. Gardner) occupied Hie chair, and referred to the progress which the society was making, the membership having iii'M-eas"' 1 and Hi- " '■"- l-?ing in a healthy slate. In declaring the rooms open. Hie .Mayor 1 sam i;,;,, ..,■ regretted that the Borough Council could net provide the society with even better accommodation, but the ratepayers had ' refused to sanction a loan for new library buildings, in whicb'il had hsen proposed (o provide accommodation Jin- the museum. The present building, however, was a groat improvement bn the old rooms, and ho trusted'that in the near \ future they would be .nrovidod. with ( something lx>tler. Complimentary refer- i once was made to the work done by Hie ' secretary. Mr. Kenneth Wilson, and the curator. Mr. Hiftzcl. Kofrcshmcnts were provided by the Misses' Wilson. '