LOCAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Kumara Times, Issue 808, 3 May 1879, Page 2

LOCAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the Local School mittee was held at the Town Hall last evening. Present J R. J» Seddon, Esq. (in the chair), Messrs Bain, Drummoud, Campbell, Wylde, Birch, and Munyaid. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

The Outward correspondence was read and approved of, and the inward read and received.

A petition from a mitnttev of residents at Westbi'ooke praying that the school established there mi tit be brought under the 88th clause of the Education Act, as there were nearly 30 children attending it, and the parents subscriptions were inadequate renumeration for the te when servfces, was read, receiveil, and favourably recommended to the consideration of the Central Board.

Th«! following applications were then opened for the two temporary appointmentH called for by advertisement, for assistant male teacher://Messrs W. S. S. Stanton, and R. Cilh For assistant femtle teacher for infant classe«: Mis*e* M'Mahon, Howt, Galland, West, and O'Biian.

After a slight di-cussidu the. names of the first two female applicants were struck out, and, on the motion of the chairman, th« remaining five applications for the two appoiiitnunts whiw balloted for conjointly, with the following result: Miss West, 6 ; Mhw Galland t; Mr Gili, 2 j Miss O'Brian, I ; Mr Stanton, 1. Minscs West and Galland were consequently appointed to teuipoiarily fill the two vacancies snbj -et io the an- , proval of the CetrtiuT B--arc L... .^,;.j It was unanimously revived? \4hat Miss J. Cornfoot, one of the. pupil teachers, should receive the difference of the remuneration between the., assisistant male and female teasers' ' salaries advertised viz £\ per week,. in consideration of the efficient manner „. in whic!) she performed the extra duty devolving on her through the late changes in the statf. The meeting then adjourned.