SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17281, 23 September 1916, Page 10

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

OPAWA. .. v ...-■-■•• At the monthly meeting ©SH/the Opwr* School Committee thero w«re present Mar ffiL H. Turner (chairman) and -Messrs W, ... Beanland, J. Schneider, J. TrisV W. Pyorott and J. T. M'Harg (honorary seorewy). '■ The head master's report stated that -the attendance for August had not been gPOd,. owing) to bad weather and to sickness. , Tho tough balance-sheet of the school concert in aid) of the picnic fund showed the receipts to be £l6 14s 6d. and.the expenditure £2. 185." '" leaving a credit balance of £l4 ls> 6d, which was very satisfactory. A reply v\*l receiv-i ed from tho Heathcote County*. Council, ■■■ agreeing to have wire netting jjtotection.. . placed on each side oi tht Opawa.;; Bridge; ', Tho secretary was requested to reMind tha .:■'; chairman that, although this letter apd beoa ■ \ sent to tho committee four weeks «teo,. tho' work the council had promised to v ßowa& • still undone. It Svas resolved) thai* por- •, tion of'tho shelter fences should bo'altered - as suggested by the Works Committed and. • that an estimate should be obtain<Eid for levelling that portion of the gro'uhioY from, which the school house had. been ioipoved. The secretary was requested to write.fcd tho Education Board for information as to jrhat. had been done by the board and ther'Bdu-j cation Department in reference to ItSiej board's rccornnientjatwu, made -at* last nfeet-1 , ing, to the effect that ; a new infant, school I should be erected for a start, this .to (bo, Vtho \ first stop • towards a sobfioli amounting to £8 Oa 104 tfere. rfmsged fgrptevS mcßt u ;