LANSDOWNE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 17 January 1911, Page 5

LANSDOWNE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

MONTHLY MEETING. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Lansdowne School Committee was held last evening-, there being present Messrs E. Hale (chairman), P. M. Compton, F. P. Welch, E; Welch, H. E. Gosnell, and A. >H. Pickering. Accounts amounting to £8 3s 9d were submitted and passed for payment. It was. decided to hold a .picnic on. February 10th, at Willow Park, Opaki, the use or the grounds being kindly granted by Messrs Welch Bros.' A 'balance of £8 from the rcceir L i concert is to be devoted to a r.crtl 1 library and a miniature rifle range. £5 being for the former and £3 for the latter object. In this connection the treasurer was authorised to draw a cheque to be forwarded, to the Wellington Education Board for the purpose of obtaining a subsidy. ,- ■*■ ! In answer to a letter regarding the cooking classes, the secretary of'J the Wellington Education Board wrote s.tnting that, if possible,- MissTalbot would endeavour tbSmake arrangements to take the classes during' 1911. A letter was received from the Wellington Education Board, stating that a summer school for -teachers, for instruction." in elementary agriculture and nature study, was *o be held at Greytov/n. . . On the motion of the chairman, a vote of thanks was aceorcled all who assisted in bringing the recent concert to a successful issue, a special i word of praise, being due to the headmaster, Mr R. C. Drummond, and his staff.