MOA FLAT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 4 July 1868, Page 3

MOA FLAT.

(From our own Correspondent).

It is very gratifying to see that public attention is beginning to be directed towards the very desirable object of establishing a public school at Moa-Flat. The School Committee held a meeting at the Camp Hotel on Monday evening, the 22nd inst., for the purpose of selecting a site for the school and teacher's residence. Mr. R. Patrick took the chair. He said that he was very glad to see that an exertion waa being made on their part to secure for the children in this district the means of education. Looking at the large number of children in the district placed, he might safely •tate, beyond the salutary influences of moral instruction. He hoped the Education Board would sympathise with them, and take tho matter into their favorable consideration.

Mr. Nicholson stated the result of his interview with His Honor the Superintendent and Mr. Hislop, the Secretary to the Education Board, with reference to the proposed school. He was very glad to state that both these gentlemen viewed the application for a school at Moa Flat, In a very favorable spirit. Mr. James Kitto put a motion to the meeting, to the effect — " That a school building adequate to the requirements of the district, together with teacher's residence, be erected as soon as possible," which motion was unanimously carried.

The following gentlemen were duly elected in addition to the original School Committee : — viz., Messrs. Marsden, Delany, Charles, Steele, Kitto, John Rentoul, Pringle, Captain Harrison, and MoLay. Mr. James Kitto as Treasurer, and James Thomson, Esq., of Oven Hill Station, to be President of the Committee. Messrs. Delany, Nicholson, M'Leod, Charles, and Kitto, were appointed to select a central site for school and teacher's residence. The petition adfi£ied. by the meeting to be presented K7^the Education Board, is as follows :—: — '• Unto the Otago Education Board the memorial of the undersigned inhabitants of Moa Flat and vicinity : " Respectfully showeth — That there •re now resident in Moa Flat and vicinity not fewer than (34) thirty-four children between four and fourteen years of age, and not fewer than (22) twenty two children under four years. That your memorialists are anxious to procure for the educable children of this locality the means of a public school education, and that they are willing to pay the usual expenses of a publiq school. May it therefore please your honorable Board to take the premises into your favorable consideration, and to cause the necessary steps to be taken for supplying the means of •ducation.in this district."