PUBLIC MEETING OVER CLOSING A STATE SCHOOL
Hokitika, This day. A crowded public meeting was held in the Town Hall last evening to consider the action of the School Committee in closing tho State school. Mr Petrie, the Chairman of the Board of Education, addressed the meeting. He had a noisy and hostile reception. It was resolved (1) to enforce and approve the action of the school committee ; ("J) 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: (|j) to request Messrs Seddon and Fitzgerald, M.H.R.'s, to bring in a bill to separate tho Westland County from the Greymouth portion of the district: and (-1) to telegraph the foregoing resolutions to the Minister of Education. The resolutions were all unanimously carried. The Mayor presided.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3711, 7 June 1883, Page 3
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146PUBLIC MEETING OVER CLOSING A STATE SCHOOL Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3711, 7 June 1883, Page 3
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