SOUTH RAKAIA SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1857, 5 February 1880, Page 2

SOUTH RAKAIA SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The usual monthly meeting of the above committee was held in the schoolroom on Tuesday evening. Present —Messrs Tucker (chairman), Hartnell, Cox,'and Shellock. The chairman said that he had looked through the accounts of the late committee, and found it impossible to make anything of them. He had some knowledge of balancing accounts, but these accounts beat him. There were cheques drawn by the late committee which had been dishonored, and there were some amounts said to have been paid for which he could find no vouchers. Altogether, the late secretary had left the books in a most unsatisfactory state. He was sorry Mr Makeig, the late chairman, was not present to throw a little light on some of the matters which at present were somewhat obscure. A letter was read from the schoolmaster, giving sundry matters of information as to increase of numbers, and asking to have a curtain hung across the school to divide the classes, and asking for some repairs to the house, also stating that the cheques for salaries for December had not been honored. The chairman stated that he had written to the Board of Education showing how the present committee is situated as regards funds, and forwarding to the Board a copy of the former committee’s balancesheet. It was resolved that the low place in front of the school door be filled in with gravel. It was also resolved “ That the chairman write to the Board of Education urging upon them the necessity far increased school accommodation, as the number of children in the district is so rapidly increasing.” Mr Hartnell was authorised to sign cheques in conjunction with the chairman. The committee then adjourned.