HOKITIKA.
Yesterday.
A crowded public meeting was held in the Town Hall last evening to consider the action of the local school committee in closing the public school.—Mr Petrie, Chairman of the BoarJ of Education, addressed the meeting, which gave him a noisy and hostile reception. It was resolveH, first, to enforce and approve the action of the local committee ; second, to prepare a monster petition to the Minister of Education, praying for the appointment of a Commission to enquire into the management of the Education Board during the past three years ; third,,to request Messrs Seddon and Fitzgerald, M.H.fJ.'s, to bring in a Bill to separate Westland County from the Greymouth portion of the district; and fourth to telegraph the foregoing resolutions to the Minister of Education. The resolutions were all unanimously carried. The Mayor presided.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4501, 8 June 1883, Page 2
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136HOKITIKA. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4501, 8 June 1883, Page 2
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