SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 37, 24 May 1910, Page 7

SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

Xk« Taranaki Board of School Commissioners met on Saturday, there being a full attendance of the board. Mr. Jennings gave notice of his intention to move: "That after taking into full consideration the suitability of lands that are thrown open by the commissioners, no holder of a lease that exceeds in land area the limitation imposed by the Land Act snail be allowed to take up further land." The board's solicitor forwarded his opinion that the board could compel a lessee to drain, under the covenant for good husbandry, if it could be shown that in the same neighborhood, and under similar conditious, approved habits of industry included drainage.

The board's solicitor also reported that the legislation of the last session of Parliament had not effected any alteration in the commissioners' leasing powers. j

The Ohura County Council wrote respecting the proposed formation of a special rating district, to include certain unleased reserves, the loan, being £ISOO, and the rate lM>d in the ,£. The board decided to offer no objection to the inclusion of the reserves in the rating area. | Mr. G. C. Stevenson, of Ohura, on behalf of settlers in the Mangakara Valley, wrote, asking that the commissioners would put up for leasing two sections in block 5, Ohura S.D. The secretary was instructed to reply that the sections in question are not yet vested in the hoard.

The following transfers of leases were approved: —Chas. Weston to Thomas M. Higgie, sections 817, etc., New Plymouth; and M. F. E. Riley to Sidney Webster section 8, Hua Village.

The treasurer reported a. balance of £BB7 2s sd.

Accounts amounting to £4l 8s fld were passed for payment.