SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 29, 22 December 1883, Page 2

SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

A RPEcrAL meeting o£ Lho above was held vested iv morning at 10 o'clock at (Jolt-man's Hotel. Present : Me-ifiiN J. Lavory (cluiinniu), J. Tlott (st'crotary), J. F Cocks, J). J. Fr.izor, R. Mickie and T. Lawless. Tho meeting only occupied about a quarter of. an lioiu, <nd was convened ior the purpose of dealing with some c miinutiic.ilioni from tlu 1 Bo ird of Education reacting iVe-h teach i rs for Te Aroha and W liorongom li schools. Tho Board propose, to appoint Air W. Mar.sden, now employed as toaolur in charge of the Pir.iwai school, Thames, as .successor to Mr Matlieson. Both Mr and Mrs Marsden aie successful an r i clfijient tjiichcr.-.. lie formerly taught in Mount Kdon school, Auckland, and the public school, Whano-nroi. The Board propose to appoint as teacher at W.iio-rong-omai school ; Mr Edmund G. Purdie now employed as teacher of the half time schools at Uikurangi and Utonga, new Whan»ar.'i. The committee unanimously resolved to leave both sippointmonts entirely in the hands of the Board, without ofLu-ing' any suggestions. We would add th.it W-iioron^t/inai must certainly consider its interests well attended to, when the Board propose to send them so high a class teacher as Mr Purdie, who is classified by examination for a certificate of class D. lie was trained in the Auckland Training Uollege, and is styled " a very efficient teacher " by the Board. Mr W. T. Murray, who is now in c large of Waiorongoniai school, will however ha much rogreitcd, having won golden opinions aim > he camo, and under his mana» »mcnt the altondance has hfrgely increisjd, an 1 the chi! Iren made exuv.l lent progr • „. Thi* annual meeting of huuseholdti > for tie election of a school commiLtc- will tike place at the Te Aroha -i nooPious'-> ,it 7 p.m. Monda\ , January 2Sth, IJBI