MEETING AT CAMPELLTOWN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 70, 27 April 1880, Page 3

MEETING AT CAMPELLTOWN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) On Saturday April 17, in the Square at Campbelltown, at 2 p.m., a meeting of householders was held in accordance with the direction of the Education Board, Wanganui, for the purpose of accepting the school district boundaries as amended by the Board, and electing a School Committee. Notice of the meeting was by mistake published in the Palmerston paper instead of the Manawatu Herald, which is the only paper circulating here, but posters conspicuously placed had the effect of bringing together some two dozen settlers. By invitation of the settlers, Mr Sanson kindly attended the meeting, and gave at considerable length the needful information required for carrying on the business of the school. The following persons were proposed to form the School Committee, and elected, viz. : — Messrs Mayer, Newman, Beckman, Staff, Gray, Hunt, and Reid. Immediately afterwards the new Committee held their first meeting when Mr Hunt was elected Chairman, and Mr J. Reid Secretary and Treasurer. It was resolved, after paying a visit to the school reserve, to apply to the Education Board for a sum not to exceed £8, to log up and burn the timber now lying on the school reserve, and sow grass seed. The Committee expressed its determination to push on the building of the schoo without delay. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Sanson for attending th meeting, and in reply he thanked th Committee and said that it gave hin great pleasure to attend a meeting o such importance to Campbelltown He hoped the Committee would pus on the matter of their application t the Education Board, and he hope to see the school finished in 12 months This closed the meeting.