SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Shannon News, 8 October 1926, Page 3

SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

. MONTHLY MEETING. fhe above meeting was held in the Schoolroom on Wednesday evening. Present: Messrs R. L. Tippler (chairman), Blackwood, Cronquest, Butt, Brown 5 ; Lankshear. Apologies for absence were received from Messrs Rob- * erts aiul Watkins. CORRESPONDENCE. Mr G. Watkins tendered his resignation as a member of the conjmittee owing to he having accepted d position in the Wairarapa.—Received with regret and a letter to be forwarded to him thanking him for his past services. From the Secretary, Wellington Education Board, re the committee’s rcquest that the Board have the School . disinfected, which request was based on the assumption that some pupils affected with scarlet fever 1 had attended the school. The report from Palmerston North' shows that, there had not ’been a case of scarlet fever of any pupil attending the school. It is considered, therefore, that disinfection is Unnecessary. The point of real importance in the minds of the medical authorities is that the school should be thoroughly cleansed. No disinfection would really be a substitute for this. Received. In reply to the Committee’s request for conveyance of children to and from Mangaore, the Board wrote, regretting that' they,are unable to accede to the request, without further authorities.' Under the regulations children are required to walk without allowance up to two miles, if .under ten years of age, pud up to three miles if over ten. The Board can only pay according to legal sanction and it has not received any sanction so far for additional expenditure. In many districts similar to that • at Mangaore all the Department pays is Gd per day'•per child and the parents have to make their own'arrangements for the conveyance. The letter stated there were thousands in New Zealand walking. The • Board could only pay according to legal sanction and it had not received sanction so far, for additiqnal expenditure. —It was # suggested by Mr Blackwood that Mangaore residents subsidise Mr Baird, which lie said would be about 3d per week per cliild. VISITING COMMITTEE. )

Last month’s visiting committee, Messrs Tippler and Blackwood, reporting pii their inspection recommended that the trees planted on Arbor Day should be dug around and- cleared, after which the children could attend to them. The drain betiveen the schoolmaster’s residence and the school required clearing and a culvert Avas also needed. The boulder edging should be completed. They" found the incinera-

tor avas doing its Avork Avell and Avas an ■ acquisition after the old tanlc. They suggested that see-saA\’s should be erected at the base of the whirli-gig. - It Was decided that the Avork be gone on Avith as recommended and that four see-saAvs be erected, lavo for the infants and two for the older pupils. Messrs White, BlackAvriod, Butt and Brown Ajere appointed a committee to attend to this Avork and any repairs' necessary to the playing apparatus. GENERAL.

The chairman stated that . nothing had boon done by the Boar'd 'in connection with the./septic tank, tar-seal-ing,, shelter sheds and the fence around the school residence. It appeared to him that these matters were being allowed to drift. He recommended that letters be sent to the Department asking what steps they have taken with ' these promises.'—Agreed to. It was resolved that the summer ' school uniform for girls be a grey pinafore frock with white blouse, and for boys a grey shirt in preference to jersey. / ed by Mr G./ Watkins’ resignation as a member of the committee', it was resolved that the next person on the last election list be written to asking if he will fill the vacancy. - The headmaster reported that during a period of fourteen weeks 12# cups of cocoa were issued to the ' children, an average of 89 per week. The at- , tendance for the past three 'weeks w'as 33c, 335, and 334, the average for the; quarter being 320. The roll number is 3(32. During the period 26 were admitted and 19 withdrawn. , Mr and-. Mrs White were accorded a hvLjty vote of thanks for attending to the supply of cocoa to the children , earing the winter.