WETHERSTONES ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETING.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 101, 15 January 1870, Page 5

WETHERSTONES ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETING.

The statutory annual meeting for the election of a School Committe, &c, for the Wetherstones School, was held in the Schoolhouse on Monday evening. Mr. M'Swiney was voted to the chair. There was a large attendance present, and all seemed to take a lively interest in the business under consideration. The President read the following report and an audited statement of accounts for the past year : — REPORT. As the Educational Ordinance confers on school committees the honour of taxing the inhabitants of the district, it also gives a controlling power over the Committee to the inhabitants, and in accordance with this intention you are present this evening to hear the yearly report and yearly account read. We are glad to be able to inform you that the School has continued to prosper, and that its affairs generally are in a satisfactory state ; we have every reason to be thankful to Mr. Johnstone for his zeal and the, success that has attended his efforts ; also to Mrs. Marriott, the sewing mistress, from whom we are confident the female pupils will derive much benefit. The Committee held eighteen meetings. The attendance was as follows : — Messrs. M'Swiney, 13; Firth, 18; Carr, 17; Mackney, 12 ; Coverlid, 9 ; Mooney, 13 ; Abrim, 16; Milliard, 17; Herd, 15. Number of scholars— lß6B, 65 ; 1869, 70 ; with an average attendance last quarter of 53. [The financial statement showed a sum of £98 due in Government subsidy, and £7 odd unpaid School fees, which, together with cash in hand, presented the large sum of £112 15s. to the credit of the school.] We now resign our trust into your hands, hoping you will elect, as our successors, persons likely to have at heart the interests of the School. And we think it-right to recommend two objects as specially worthy of their early and earnest attention, viz., the providing of a suitable residence for the teacher ; also getting up a well-selected library for the use of the pupils and residents generally. We may mention that the Committee have voted a sum of money for the library, which they trust will be carried out. To those ladies and gentlemen who have so kindly rendered their services in dramatic and other entertainments in aid of the funds, your Committee on your behalf, tender their heartiest thanks.. The report and financial statement of accounts were received and adopted. A vote of thanks to the retiring Committee was carried. It was then moved that the same Committee be elected, with the exception of one gentleman who had left Wetherstones. Carried with acclamation. Mr. Cox was elected in the room of Mr. Coverlid.