SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETING.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 85, 17 January 1885, Page 2

SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETING.

The usual monthly mooting of the To Aioha {School Committee was held on Thursday afternoon las»t in Waiorongomai. Present — Messrs Cuff (chairman), Ahiev (sec), Lawless, Frazer, and Ilott. The minutes of the last meeting having been road and confirmed, the co re&pondence was rend, and included a letter from the Board of Education, notifying the granting of the petition for separation, whereby the school district hitherto known as the Te Aroha Goldiielu ;6chool District is now divided, nud constituted two se .00l district's under the title of "To Te Aroha GoldfieM School District and " Tue Waiorongomai School Di.-i.rict." The division to take fffoot ns from the Ist inst. Also stu: ug tntit Jannury 2Gtii is the date fixel for tlu> hoidiug of meetings of householders to elect, new scnool committees, and to consider the boundaries for «'!ic:i district Tue Inspector's (Mr John fi. Goodwin) Reports on therweni oxaminatious of. Wiiiorongomui and Tv Arona hchools for SStunlards aw follows: — \V aiorougomai School : No. on roll at time of examination, 82. No. examine!, 81 ; anscnt, 18. No. p-vssed, 21. No. failed, ib. Tno li.sipect<»r adds : " There is a great improvement in this school, but the result in the higher standards are scarcely satisfae- ! tory." Te Aroha School : No. on roll at ftime of examination, JliJ. No. examined, .5; absent, 20. \No. passe i,

45/ Failed, 0. Tm^ Lnspeetor adds : '* There is a decided improvement in the work of this school. VVrifinyj, Grammar., and P iy.i"cal GMosfraphv should reci'ivo rmro * attention. Those ' below, ►Standard I form a hir«?e proportion of Ihe number on the roll, mwy of those are under eight years of aga, their wor.< is satisfactory." • Drppt of the annual report to be submitted at the mwtino' for election of new committee was read Mr Adams, it wa<* stated, on beins: requested to provide 80s toward* liquidating the debt of the School Committee, declined to do so. (It' will be remembered that at the previous meeting it was unanimously agreed by the six members present, thai- they should collect by subscription, or as best they could, the; >urn of 30s ench by next meeting, and ' ;is there are sevwn members this 'would raise £i 0 10-!, amount, of indobtelness. This being the cu«e, and Mr Biown, one of the Wuioroiuomai members, 'leing absent fiom the district, Mr Lawless nprreed that the amount due for cleaning Wnioronjjomai Sc'io-^l (soim. £-1 10s) be held over and be made a liability for the incoming Waiorongomai School Committee to pay off.