SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1541, 5 August 1886, Page 3

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

£ HILTON. ' The monthly meeting was hfld «a Monday evening, August fnd. Present —Messrs O. Gi ’Bradley (Chairman) Beattie/Qide, Skinner,-Jones, P. Leary, and Cochrane. Tha minatea of the previous meeting were read and’cohfirmed. .Mr Taylor’s monthly report was received, an ’ considered very satisfactory. J3o also np, iied for two register gtat<for the bouse, which was now alim-t uninhabitable through smoke.—lt resolved to ask the Board to supply them, and also to apply for a bell in place of the one returned. Two accounts were presented for payment : one from Messrs Holton and Co,, for £4 14s 7d, was passed for p*>uientj and Mr C. Leary’s, for firewo- •' i^imd.goree.-cntting, was held over un'i' Messrs Skinner and Beattie and thChairman bad passed the work. ' • It was resolved that the Chairman and Mr Leary sign all cheques, and that the Committee meet on the first .'Monday in each month. 1 The meeting then terminated. WAITOHI FLAT. A .meeting of this Committee wa« held in the schoolroom on Monday 'evening. Present Mesire Fraser (Chail'man), Cnnninghara, Andrews, Johnstone, Seaton, and T. Orr. - The minntes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. • Th* Chairman explained that be had ~ resolved Mr Joseph McClintock’s report ; re repairs' required to the Msstei’s . house, and alto an estimate of the pro . table cost of renewing the decayrd He alio stated that be bad -mlde in application to the Board to ;'bare thn repairs effected, or to grant i permiasion to the Committee to have .. them done ; the Board to defray am h .- part of the expanse as to them wi 1 j appear reasonable.—The Chairman’s «- ! tion was approved of. v Correspondence was received fn-m \ Mr Watson, asking fot a brush, a < supply.of coala, and the erection of a 1 porch at the backdoor of the house. ' , From T. Talbot, applying for the use ' ;of the schoolroom for Good Templar j meetings, one night weekly. < It was resolved that Mr Watson pro- < efire a brush ; the Chairman to order t 'coala from. Mr' Blyth ; the application 1 for. a porch cannot be entertained at J present, and that the G«od Templars, j ■may have the nee of the room for Lodge r purposes on payment of fid per week, - ! This being all the business, the meet- < ing terminate i. |