ANNUAL ELECTIONS OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1181, 29 January 1880, Page 2

ANNUAL ELECTIONS OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

GAVE VALLEY. (from a correspondent. ) The meeting on Monday evening for the election of a School Committee was moderately well attended, The following gentlemen were duly elected.:—Messrs. R. Meek, D. George, R. Bain, R. Jackson, son. SHAG VALLEY. (FROM OUK. OWN correspondent. ) A meeting of householders in the Shag Valley was held in the Inch Valley Schoolhouse on Monday evening, for the purpose of electing a School Committee for the ensuing year. The weather was exceedingly inclement, and consequently there were only fifteen persons present-.; Mr. R.. S. Murray was voted to the chair, and after he had made a few preliminary remarks, the Secretary of the retiring Committee read the warrant ordering the meeting. He then read the report of his Committee, showing a balanoe of Lls odd. During tha j 7 oar the Committee had held eleven meetings, and state that they desire to record their sense of the courtesy with which the Education Board has treated them in all communications. They have erected a coal shed for the teacher's residence, and have also removed the' library from the old to the new school building. The Chairman read a list of the. householders in the district, after which the meeting elected the following gentlemen:—Messrs. G. Ross, W. L. Craig, D. Ross, T; Ward, J. > BaMel,. J, M'Addie, W. Scott. Considerable indignation and; surprise was' ovoked when the Chairman! ruled Messrss = MiTodd,- : H. M'Doiiald, and Mitchell ineligible, but it was; ■ found that by some mistake tho'boundaries 5 of' the district have been wrongly fixed, thus placing those gentlemen out-: side. After instructing the new Committee to hold their first meeting on Friday, 3Qth January, the meeting terminated. LIVINGSTONE, (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) ' To the heavy rain which fell on Monday night must be attributed the fact that very few householders attended the annual I meeting for the election of a Sohool Committee, The meeting consequently lapsed, | and another meeting will have to be called j to elect a Committee.