SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 6

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

CARDIFF. The annual meeting of householders was held here on Monday evening. About 15 householders were present. The balance-sheet was road, showing a credit of £ls IGs sd. ’The following were elected as a committee:—Messrs W. Richards, Belcher, Stewart, Rogers, Jones, Dymond, and Wisneski. Mr. Rogers was elected chairman for the ensuing year. if A HOE. The householders’ meeting was held in the school, Mahoo, ten or eleven householders being present. Mr. Astbury was voted to the chair, and read the outgoing committee’s report and abstract of the school accounts. These showed a credit balance of £5 2s Bd, but bad been augmented by concert proceeds since 31st March, the balance at date being over £2O. The report stated the committee, in conjunction with head teacher and children, had completed the improvements outlined in last year’s annual report, a dibit of thanks being due to Mr. Cumberworth for initiating and largely assisting to lining the work to completion. 'Hie report al&o urged the removal of boys’ shod in line with girls’, to living about uniformity in the buildings, and reported a steady improvement in the tone, discipline, and morale of the school.

Tue Mayoral elecioii is proceeding quietly to-day, tue polling in the moi uing being rather slow. At 2 p.m. about two hundred burgesses bad voted . We learn that Mr. J. H. Thompson has resigned iris pos tion ns to the Stratford Electrical Supply t n., Ltd., a position held by him since 1003. Mr. Thompson’s land agency dcparuileut has grown to stub an extent that he finds it necessary to devote the whole of his time in further developHU'iifc of tins valuoMe adjunct to hio business. , , . . ~ About twenty lads belonging to the Senior Cadets presented themselves last night for parade. They waited for some time, but as nobody tin ned up to drill them they dispersed. Seen on rlie matter tins morning, Captain Lumpen stated that the Senior vmdets have two officers—Limits. Bird and Schofield—that these officers would have automatically taken charge oi proceedings, and that if they were unable to do so they should have inhumed the Adjutant." Seen on the matter tins morning, Liont. Bin! said no did not attend because the weatner was so rough that he expected nobody to turn up. He also stated that lie would not have liked to have drilled the lads in the parade room, (lust rising very soon after drill is started. Lieut. Schofield stated that two days previously he had notified the Adjutant of his inability to attend. The death occurred at his home, Dawson Street, New Plymouth, yestcrdav evening, of Mr. Francis Simpson, late Commissioner of Crown Lands for Taranaki. Mr. Simpson was well known throughout the Dominion. He had been in ill-health for some time, and his death was not entirely unexpected. A widow and a family of eleven—seven sons and four daughters-—all grown up, survive him. He was horn in the year 1810, in Lancaster, England, and at the age of seven arrived in Auckland with his parents, being educated j at Wesley College and at the Church of England Grammar School there. As a young man he saw service in the Waikato war. holding a commission in the 2nd Waikato'Regiment. After serving under the Auckland Provincial Council, he joined the Survey Department in 1875, at Gisborne, as a district surveyor, which appointment ho held until 1802, when lie was promoted to be chief draughtsman at Napier, later on being transferred to New Plymouth, in 1001 he became Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for Taranaki, an appointment, which lie occupied until his retirement on superannuation twelve months ago, being prevented by illhealth from presiding at the April meeting of the Crown Lands Board, which was to have been his last meeting.