OTAKI SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 100, 10 August 1880, Page 2

OTAKI SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

♦ . A meeting of the Otaki School Committee w!\B held in the schoolroom at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 2nd. Present — Mea9rS Curkeok (Chairman), Death, Contes, Bright, Jenkins, and Rev. J. M' William. The following correspondence was read. [From the Chairman to the Secretary of the Board.] Fib,— l hare the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your memo, of July Ist, which I placed before the Committee, when, after reading the whole of the teacher's correspondence, the following resolution wna pawed f v ' 2 -> "'l'hat in the opinion of thi* Committee the toucher's letters to the Board are in no sense disrespectful, and that (ho Board's action in passing a resolution on June 30th to the effect that three months' notice to leave be given to the teacher .in the. event of his returns not being sent in by July sth, was premature and uncalled for." In reference to- your statement '• that the Board, after some discussion, and a strong expression of opinion that the school should not have been closed in violation of the instructions received from this Office," &c, allow vie to point out to yon that if a resolution to that effect was passed by the Board it was your duty to forward me a copy of such resolution, and not to quote to me the mere opinion' of member*, expressed .during a discussion. ' As I have already informed you, the instructions received by me were contrary to the rules and regulations of the Wanganui Education Board, being simply based upon the assertions of aD officer of the Board, whose authority to make rules and regular ions for the Board, or to amend the Education Act, T decline to xdmit. Enclosed I return the account for black board*, &c, certified correct ; also Cobb Sr I Co'» account for •arriage of same. I have >

the hoil%b&o.tfPP' Cailkebk,. Chairman O.S.OFVF\« i? - v [From TeaoHer to- jfcairman.] SiR-^Sixtyfourcbildr£^were present today, while there is nttinjb>|jifom. for only forty-eight. ' * • . I resigned to-day b; telegram. ' Atlix. S. Boss. ', [Memo, from Seoretary of Board to • ": » Chairman.] i The Boafd havinfg received Ms Ross' resignation as master of the OH»f WSkool, I am dirncted to recommend to' your Conemittee the appointment of Mr C. M. 'Lee, the present master of Wangaehu Sotfool. Proposed by Rev. J. M 1 William, seconded by Mr Bright, and carried — " That the Committee approves of the appointment of Sir C. M, Lee as teacher to the Otaki [ Sohool."