GOBS SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 329, 8 February 1884, Page 2

GOBS SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

A meeting of this Committee was" held at the Eailway HoteL on Wednesday evening, Messrs Beattie (chairman), A. Pletcher (secretary), Eldred, Grardner^ and Polamore being present. l ••■■•• 4- circular from" flic secretary to the Bd&cdxif EdUcatfon read, ' calling >ftfr increased care; and yigijance in the matter' of fires in 'school buijdings, and en-; fining the prohibitiqn of 'smoking o'ntlie. premißes.'^-lleoeivea/ and di^ot^d to ; be' transmitted to the teacher, It was ex-l plained that the Committee did not meetin the school, and the caution about smoking was looked upon, as unneces- ■ The Committee agreed fq ypte igv, tfye foUpwinggetiilemen' as ' members of fhd Eaiica'tidn^oard-:— Siessrs GK MfLebd/ J,l, f^l)oi^id ;:^4J f S. Shanes, ;

A letter was received from Headmaster Neill, pointing out that no repairs to the schoplhouse had been executed sine© its erection eight years ago ; that it was in need of such, and of some extension to make it a 1 school residence suitable for so important a place as Gore had grown to be. — It was agreed to transmit the letter to.the Board, endorsing the reasonableness o£Mr JTeill's request. An account from IMr Esther — 10s 6d for a prize book — was authorised to be paid, in respect the committee had. received funds from the outside for the The Ghairman.and Mr Dolaporp were appointed a subcommittee to mrike f arrangements .. regarding- sanitary^jnattei* in connection with the : ; school buildings, and Messrs Gardner and Eldred were appointed a visiting committee of the school for the |ensuing three months. In connection, with this appointment the matter of drill cropped up, and after some^disr eussionjdiiririg^wWch ii-rras a^pa^ejife^^^ the matter was' assuming "a" '^busii^e^s^ like' form, the Visiting committee* 4 were* enjoined to bring up a report on the subject next meeting. : •'--' ' ' ? The regular meetings of the committee I were fixed dot Jthe 'first Wedneisdky \i% each month, at the Railway Hotels a% 7.30 p.m. „ „..,. : The quarterly 'grant from the Education Board — amount, L 5 13s Id — was passed to the treasurer with authority to collect through the Bank. .The subscription list opened atftihe meltj ing of householders was directed to lie at the office of the , Mji.Tjt.VßA.; Eksion, Mr Dolamore having consented that it should do so, in order that alLparties desirous of showing their real interestjin the children should laaxe) an pppprtunity^of} sqbjeriba; ing, however little. "* There was no other business, and the committee adjourned.