CENTRAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8158, 17 July 1906, Page 2

CENTRAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

At a meeting of the Central School Committee on Monday night, there were present.—Messrs W. A. Collis j'hairinan), J. Grant, Rev. Osborne, G, if. Maunder, J. Frethey, T. White, A. G. Catran, and Jackson. It was decided to hand over to the sub-committee & sum of £4 ss, balance from a recent function, as a nue'eus for purchasing material for the forthcoming school bazaar. The Chairman reported that one of the dentists in the town was willing to make an examination of the children's teeth, The committee approved the principle, on the understanding that such examination must be entirely optional with parents.

Mr Maunder, for the visiting committee, reported that a couple of locks at Courtenay street school needed attention. Otherwise everything was satisfactory, These locks will be replaced. Aooounts were passed for payment. The matter of fires at the schools oame up, and the Chairman explaino 1 that there was wood, that instructions had been given to light the fires early, and that the headmaster was responsible for seeing that fires were lighted, The Education Board advised that £l7 Is 5d had been paid into the committee's account.

The Headmaster reported that the attendance for the past week, since the liolidays, was 1822, with a roll number of oil, Mr Mellroy had taken up his duties, and was giving satisfaction. " It would appear," he wrote, " from somo correspondence in the Press, as if I were ignoring the Committee in connection with the exhibition, etc. This is, as you know, farthest from my mind, as the extraots from the May and Juno reports will show." This matter was discussed, but ao action was taken.

The sub-Committee was given full authority to arrange its own bazaar programme