ANNUAL STATUTORY EDUCATION MEETING, NASEBY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 359, 21 January 1876, Page 3

ANNUAL STATUTORY EDUCATION MEETING, NASEBY.

Tho usual annual meeting of householders and other persons duly qualified to eject a Committee and to supervise all educational matters affecting tue District School took pluce in the schoolroom on Monday evening, the 10th inst, at half past seven p.m. Mr. J. S. M'lntosh was called to the, Chair, ■who, before proceeding to the business of the evening, expressed his regret at the small attendance upon an occasion of so much importance. The Secretary was called upon to read the report of the outgoing Committee, which was as follows : THE ItKPOBT OF THE MOUNT IDA DISTRICT SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOB THE YEAR ENDING 1870. Your Committee have much pleasure on the occasion of the expiration of their term of office in reporting that their labors for the past years have been carried on satisfactorily and harmoniously, and with results which cannot be but conducive to the best interests of Education. On thoir assumption of office the Committee found that contracts had been let by the late Committee for fencing school reserve at a cost of £SO, which sum, by the exertions of the late Committee, had been obtained from tho Government. This work during the term of office of your Committee has been completed, and the school ground is now enclosed with a good and substantial fence. The Committee, assisted by Mr. Hislop, the Education Board, having obtained a supply of trees, shrubs, caused a portion of the reserve to be planted therewith. In' July last your Committee were informed by the teacher that the attendance of the pupils had been irregular, as disclosed by the register, and your Committee caused a notification to that effect to be published in the local paper with a view of calling attention of parents to the subject, as it was manifest that if such irregularity continued the pupils must be placed at evident disadvantage when the day of examination should arrive. The school register discloses the attendance for tho past year to have been as follows : New scholars entered—boys, 22, girls, 26; total, 48. Left—boys, 21; girls, 22; total, 43. Tho largest number of scholars attending during any period —boys, 69; girla, 69. Averago daily attendance—boys, 44; girls, 28. In conclusion, your Committee would refer to the examination of the pupils, which took place on tho 23rd of December last—a report of which was published in the ' Mount Ida Chronicle' of tue 25th—as evidence of the fact that in all branches of education good and laudable progress was made by tbe pupils, and that both Mr. Menzies and Mrs. Clarke have used their best endeavors in tho performance of their respective duties. Your Committee would further mention that the duties of Secretary have, during this as during the preceding year, been performod gratuitously—a practice which lends in some degree to add to the not very remunerative salary of the teachers.

The report as read was adopted, and a vote of thanks paused to the outgoing Committoo, as also to Mr. Field for his gratuitous services as Secretary for the past year. A resolution that the Committee for the current yoar consist of nine members was unanimously adopted. Eleven gentlemen were then nominated, out of whom the following nine were elected:—J. S. M'lntosh, JR. E. Field, Wilson, E. Glenn, H. Gillespie, J. E. M'Grregor, JaR. Stewart, D. Stewart, and Jas. Hon?. A vnfn tlic