Feilding School Committee.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 164, 14 January 1896, Page 2

Feilding School Committee.

■ ■ ■ -0 — A meeting of the above Committee was held last evening. Present— Messrs i H. Worsfold (chairman), A. W. barker (secretary), W. G. Haybittle, J. Taylor, C. Bray fjunr.), and W. G. Shearer. The minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed. Correspondence was received from Secretary of Wanganui Education Board, stating that Mr H. C. Stewart bas been appointed at Feilding School. Also, thai nominations to fill tiie vacancies in the Board caused by the retirement of Messrs Bridge, Beckett, and Pirani, would be received np to February lst, and tbat each committee sbould nominate two persons. Accounts in connection with the recent concert were passed for payment. Mrs W. B. Barker wrote complaining tbat Miss Haynes had, on December 20tb, given ber girl four severe cuts on the hand without sufficient cause having been given by the child. Resolved, That the complaint against Miss Haynes be beld over until next meeting. Proposed by Mr C. Bray (junr.), secon* ded by Mr Haybittle, Tbat this Commit* tee nominate Messrs F. Pirani and F. Y. Lethbridge to fill the vacancies on the Wanganui Education Board.— Carried. In discussing this motion the committee were strongly of opinion that, in the interests of all country schools, some change was necessary as the majority of present members had been so long on the Board that they had become fossilised. Mr Bray said the proceedings were a disgrace to that body, who could not find sufficient funds to give tbe necessary accommodation in the country districts, but could find £600 for a building in Wanganui. The travelling expenses of members was £500 per annum, £320 was spent on a drill instructor, and tbey had a chief clerk and a boy in the office. It was high time they had something spent in the country : districts. The Committee then adjourned.