TARANAKI SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8181, 14 August 1906, Page 3

TARANAKI SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

'At tin' ordinary meeting of tin' Tai\.iimUi School Commissioners there was a full attendance, Air James 'Wade pro-Bidin-tf. A special resolution passed on 13th July, granting a new lease to J'j. Gilshnan, for a term of 21 years, was continued. Ol'her resolutions granting renewals to -Alary ivlizubulh Davison and J. W. lioon were also continued. It was decided, on llic motion of Mr Jennings, l!at a report .showing the number of small sections administered by the Commissioners similar to the one now leased to Mr lviohard Price, be prepared and submitted to next meeting. A sub-ooiiiir.'itteo consisting of Messrs Fault, Jennings, and Wade was appointed to go through the ranger's report, and were empowcrol to tu';o all necessary steps in regard to eradication of noxious weeds.

Mr Richard Price, lessee of section 59, Hun. und V uiwakuiho, wrote that he was prepared to pay .C 7 10/ per aero for the freehold of the 2-1 acres subject to the repayment to him. of £IOO us representing his Improvements; in the alternative ho would lease the land for 21 years at £3 per annum, subject to present conditions of lease. —lt was decided not to entertain Mr Price's proposals, and that the Board's solicitor notify him that the Commissioners now rely upon the covenants of the lease. Tho Wanganui Education Board asked the Commissioners to purchase, for £250, one acre of land as an addition to "the present Eltham School site. —Algrocd to. The following renewals of leases were granted:—Frantz Schwartfeger, sec 39, bl. 2, Ngairc, rental £39 10/ per annum, and 5 per cent, per annum on £195 the value of the Board's improvements' on the . laud; N. C Young, see 516, Patea, rental £2B per annum and 5 per cent, on £52; Jeremiah Kerrisk, subsec a, Kakaramea town belt, rental £33 per annum and 5 per cent, on £B4; M. J. Large, sub-sec c, Kakaramea town belt, rental £l2 per annum and 5 per cent, on £3O. For the purpose of providing an addition to the school site on tho Kent Road, a surrender of one 'acre as accepted from the adjoining lessee, Mr Barker, the sum of £lO being tho amount of compensation.

The Board accepted the surrender ol a lease held by Alfred Honey, subsees 1 to IS, sec. 40, Patea suburban, Thn , Commissioner of Crown Lands wrote that it had been arranged to give to the Board see. 1, bl. 11, jJlahoe, 11G acres, in exchange for sec. 2, bl 10, Upper AY ui turn, which 'had been found unfit for settlement.

The Treasurer reported a balance o! £SI2 2s 6d.

Transfers were granted as follows : William Sheffield to Lewis Frost, sec. 507, New Plymouth ; West Coast Farmers' Association to Catherine Death, pec. IS, W. 15, Iluiroa (providivl the Chairman is satisfied of the bona fides). Several mortgages were agreed toAccounts amounting to £2l 13s !>d were passed for payment.