WAVERLEY.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 400, 15 February 1879, Page 2

WAVERLEY.

(From our own Correspondent.) The first meeting of the new School Committee was held on the 7th inst. Present: Messrs Milne (in the chiar), Mathieson, Bridge, Thurston, McDonald, Dickie, and Mason. Proposed by Mr Bridge, seconded by Mr McDonald, and carried, “ That Mr Mason be Chairman for the ensuing year.” Proposed by Mr Mathieson, seconded by Mr Milne, and carried, “Thatthe Chairman act as Secretary and Treasurer.” Resolved that the Chairman apply to the Colonial Secretary for seven copies of the Education Act, and to the Education Board for forms of good attendance certificates. An account from Messrs Morton and Lupton, for £1 16s, was passed for payment. . , ■ Leave of absence was, granted to Miss Hall for one week. * It was resolved, on the motion of Mr Milne, seconded by Mr Mathieson, “ That the compulsory clauses of tlic Act be brought into operation by the Committee.” Proposed by Mr Milne, seconded by Mr Thurston, and carried, “That the Chairman

procure the school requisites required by the master;” Proposed by Mr Bridge, seconded by Mr Milne, and carried, “ That the Committee approve of the fee charged by the schoolmaster for the evening school, viz., £1 per quarter, three evenings a week.” Resolved, That the next ordinary meeting be held on the third Wednesday in March,

The Town Hall scheme is now.fairly afoot. A meeting of - the promoters was held on the 7tb instant, when the preliminary steps were taken for the formation of the company. A largo provisionary directory was formed, who took up between them three or four hundred shares. It is proposed to float the company with 1,000 shares at £1 a share—Boo shares to he issued. At a meeting on the 10th instant, Mr Mason was appointed Manager. It was decided that the selection of a site for the proposed building should he left, to be brought before a general meeting of shareholders. There was some discussion about the mode of advertising the scheme; it was decided that the prospectus be advertised in the Patea. Mail, and that copies of the same he printed for distribution through the district. This is generally looked upon as a good district for hotel accommodation, but from .what I hear it is losing its good name in this respect. lam informed by a gentleman who lately travelled from .Waverley to Wanganui, that at two hotels on the road he had the greatest difficulty in obtaining a meal, in one case the excuse given being that the coach had not yet arrived ; in the other that the dinner hour was passed. Travellers can scarcely be expected to calculate their time to suit the publicans, and considering tiro advanced state of civilization and the numerous hotels on the road, publicans will have to learn that civility to travellers is their best policy. A theft, or rather what I suppose to have been a bit of larrikinigm, was perpetrated on Tuesday night. A windlass and ro23e was purloined from a paddock belonging to Mr Hogg. The matter, I understand, has been placed in the hands of the police, and it is to he hoped that the culprits will have reason to know for the future that neither dishonesty or larrikinism is popular in Waverley. .