TEMUKA SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1095, 19 April 1883, Page 3

TEMUKA SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The usual monthly meeting of the Temuka School Committee was held on Tuesday, the 17'h April. 1883. Present —Messrs D. M. Mackay (Chairman), Gray and K : rk. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed.

Correspondence was read ts follows : Outward : To Head Master, one letter; to Board of Education, two letters ; to Mrs Rowe, one letter. Inward ; From Rev Hamilton, Rev Gordon and Mrs Rowe, one letter each.

The Head Master’s report for the past month was as follows :—Number en roll : Boys, 218 ; girls, 199 ; total, 417. Strict average attendance : Boys, 157 ; girls, 124 ; total, 281. Working attendance : Boys, 159; girls, 127.6; total, 286.6. H’ghest attendance (March 21st) : Boys, 172 ; girls, 145 ; total, 317- He reported that a parent had complained about the slow progress his child had been making at school, and stated that that child had only been present forty days in six months, and naked what progress could be expected ? He enclosed £1 lls 9d, money received for school requisites ; also irregular attendance list, and requisition for stationery.

Proposed by Mr Kirk, seconded by Mr Gray and carried—“ That the Cha : rraan write to the Head Muster, and ask the name of the parent who complained that his child was not getting on, and also to inform the Chairman what reply he made to the said parent.”

Proposed by Mr Kirk, seconded by Mr Gray and carried—“ That the Sergeant of Police be asked to serve notice on the parents or guardians of the children mentioned in the following list John McLean, James Kyne, Daniel Bryan, Arthur Lai.gridge, Nora McAuliffe, Edith Woodley. Ellen Pratley, L : zzie Dunford, Mary McCaskill, Edith Lynch, Jane Dyson, Samuel Taylor, Harry Davis, Hubert Greaves, Evs Greaves, Mary Clarke, Robert Marshall, Lily King, Clara Popp'ewell, Emily Davis, Mary Norton, Mercy Hart and Samuel Douglas; and that the Head Master bo requested to foform the Committee if there is any improvement in the attendance of those children, and if not. that the Compulsory Clause of the Act be then put in force as regards them.” Proposed by Mr Kirk, seconded by Mr Gray and carried—“ That the clergymen applying for the use of the school be informed that it is not convenient to allow its use in the morning on account of that period being devoted to instructing the pupil teachers and for other reasons, but that the Committee have no objection to a low clergymen of all denominations to have the use of the school after school hours on days to be arranged suitable to each applicant.” It was decided that the Chairman write to Mr Johnson, Chairman of the Rangiora School Committee, to enquire regarding what religious instruction is given at Bangiora and the hours of same. Accounts to the amount of £23 6s JOc) were passed for payment. The meeting then closed.