SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 101, 30 April 1902, Page 2

SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

FRaNKLKY road. The following were elected a committee for Franhley-road :—Mews H. Okey I (chxiimaD), W. Ambuiy, A. Smith; 0.1 Billing, A. Monroe, N. Okey, add E.! S. Alien. j INGLEWOOD. There were elected Messrs H. Muse- j man, G. W. Bennett, R. Stevens, I'.' B. Curtis, 0. Oaitwrigh', S. Oaudish, J, P. Kennedy, J. Press, W, Hanwick. MlDHlsSf. The following are the new oommittee:—Messrs J. B, Lawrence (chairman), S. ViokerSj S, E. Baigent, H. Robertson, M. McWilliam', H. Richardson, and J. J. Allen. STRATFORD. Fourteen Candida'ei were riominated, the following nine being elected: '-•-■Ma.-sra 0. D. Sole, K. W. Sinclair, G. SiUig*tir, J.- D. Morrison, R. H. Kivel', A. Smart, R. Dinghy L. J.-Gil-bert, »nd W. Alexaod. r. PEMBROKE-ROAD. Th 6 following were elected:—Mwsrs I Fenkins, T. Price, H. Williamson, W. ! Rogers, R. Rogers, J. Rogers, and G. ! Jackson. ! , TOKO. The following were olfc-ed;—Messrs J. B. Hine (chairman), J. Taylor, A.: Mackay, W. Ww, W. McAsey, J. I Linn, and W. M. Gorclge. | vim punas association 1 ! Haweiu, April 29. i j At Norm.iuby List evening there j ) was a mating of housohold.ru to ekofc ] a school committee. The matter of thi ' resent diMniwil and reinstatement of 'the headmaster whs brought up by a{ jrefereocs in the xnoual r. part, which asserted that the de'ciswu of the Teach- , era' Court of Appeal was not satistacj tory to the Education Board, the committer, or the teacher. Later Mr I Olarkson whs required to pr< duce the Inspector's report for last year, but '. declined to do so as iastrueted. The j meeting passed a resolution condemn--1 ing the decision of the Court of Appeal jto reiustato Mr Claikson, and eudorsiug the action of the Education Biard, Auckland, April 28. The only mattfir of special general j interest was a resolution cairied by the j Pm-nell committee, urging the Government to take a plebiscite on the ques- ! tion of Bible reading in schools. Timaru, Apiil 28, The householders' meeting passed a resolution, to be sent to tjie Minister, the Baaid of Edncation, and the member for the district, that the advantages of fr«e secondary education possessed by children in towns where District High Schools exist be provided also for Tiuiaru, preferably in the same way, j A second resolution recommended the I committje to continue its efforts to 1 have the school made a Districi High | School. Dunedin, April 28. The school committee election meetings passed oil very quietly, :md iu most instances tamely. At two or three meetiugs references were made tr> the tendency to eentralisa affairs in j Wellington and to Wchaical tducation.