SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 58, 6 August 1874, Page 3

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

EAST CHRISTCHURCH

A meeting of the committee was held on Tuesday af ternooo,/at> St. John’s .schoolroom; Present—Mr Pratt (in the chair), Revs C. M. Watson, W. J.- Rabens, and Mi Anderson. The raintites of the' previous meeting were read and confirmed. . , Leave of absence was granted to Messrs Thomas and Cuff. •*, Mf. fF&rr, architect,' attended to confer with the committee as to the fencing required for-:the Bingsland school, and it was resolved to seek the sanction of the Board of Education; for the erection of the fence as reconiinendedby Mr Parr. j 1 Mr,l£arr stated, that the Bingsland school woul& he* computed, 'and the contractor prepared to hand it over, in a day or two. bi.thC deputy-chairman in procuring a supply of black boards, was ap£JK!<^d.(r//n A letter was read from the Board of Educa-tion-fiaqetjoning the (action of ■committee rd the' teachingstafr. ' The deputy-qhairman reported that he had had an w'itH thC 1 chairman' of the Board of Education with refpreppe to the employment of '<a drawing -m aster, and that gentleman had stated that as it was a branch inclined to sanction any expenditure thereon , y^itßout,;cstjja icßajgO to,'the; cßildrew,; but r had asked the chairman to confer with the chairmen of the neighboring district corn-; mittees. P uraue t hQ course recomApplications from , Mrs, Jfendqrspn, Miss 'iSlarmerabn, and Mr 'Piew : fdr’ ’employment were received and ordered to be recorded. > The Rev W. J. Habenh reported on behalf of the sub-committee of St John’s school that; they had appointed another pupil teacher, and the action of the committee was confirmed, and the, sanction of tRe Board asked to the appointment. J It was reported ; R[,jJ.. McClure, one of the pujfil teacheih' at'fhe 'Music Hall, had again absented himself from his duties without leave, and 'the Rev W. J. Habens was requested, to. see th.gt. the vacancy, was W'fifled^s-sdciiida'poteiblfe,’ , ' l '* ■- ,J ' Ll ‘ '; ;; After passing several accounts the meeting adjourned,v/outf! 7 //"