School Commissioners.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7899, 15 August 1905, Page 2

School Commissioners.

Hie monthly meeting of the Board oi hchool Commissioners was held on I'riday, when there wero present' Messrs .). Wade, 11. Faull, and F Simpson.

Mi J. c. George,, representative of the Western p ar k Board, ;waited upon the Commissioners and explained t:tat Ins ,'ioard was desirous of effecting an exchange of sections with the ob.net of straightening boundurivs and making improvements.

I ha Commissioners were desirous of meditating the wishes of the Board, provided their interests were safer guarded, apd passed sopiu resolutions to give effect to the request. Mr Corkill submitted his valuation of reserve '•%" Plymouth Town Hell, which the Government proposes to acquire f or scenery preservation purposes,

I'ho ,valuation 18 to bo forwarded to the Commissioner of Crown Lands with the ro'iiuesti thjii the expense of the valuation be paid. The Taran.iki 'Education Board asked the Commissioners to puVchns!. section 22. Mock 4, Mimi, 12 acres, for a school site.'

Steps will be taken to aqqulre the freehold.

The Hoard's ranger reported on Wr Ihithaway's proposal to buy n small area of 1 aero 1 rood severed from .vclion 30, Bock 10', Huiroa, bv the deviation of the Makara Rkwd. " Tho (Jovernment in to be recommended to cause pjii'l,of >this sectioj, and the wh 0 )c pf sectiop 53, containing it rpodii 117 pciws (closed road) tjo lie sold, as being n|:> Jonglor suitable to retain as education'*'" re? sHirvcs.

The 'following transfer 1 was provisionally approved :<-Excculorß In tUe estate of the late Michiel Rogtidskl to .I;-ilm Dravitzki. lease of sew tion oP), block <!. Huiroa,

Several mortgage' mallei's we'.e submitted and npproved. T. .J. Walsh, whose lease of section o, block 7, Xjpiirp, has two years to run, asked for an assurance of renewal for 2t years.

The Hoard's reply was that it did not anticipate any ground for not renewing tho lease n]. the end of tht current term.

A lengthy report from the ranger was received and dealt with.

The treasurer reported a credit balance of £li()1 15s B<l, and accounts amounting to £l3 were passed for payment,