SCHOOL COMMITTEES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10615, 23 April 1912, Page 5

SCHOOL COMMITTEES

THE ANNUAL ELECTIONS.

MASTERTON.

I The annual meeting of householders for the elecftion. of a tSohool Comimittce for the Masterton District High (School was -held in. the Drill Hall last evening. There was a large attendance, over eighty persons being Mr Richard'Jkown. .was dotted .to the chair. ' | The Secretary (Mr .W. M. Eastbope)fread the annual report, , which has already Ibeen jpublMied in the Age, together with, a statement of accounts . which showed tthe .toia'l Teceipts to •have been £416 5s 3d, a.nd the expenditure £387 19s 6d, leaving a cred- . it balance at date of £2B 5s 9d,,)., j The chaiiiEain, in moving the.adoption jf the repoiits, commented upon ! ; ; I«mditicn ; - ; jot.rthe, ' .khool,:;<the absence-:; opening of the museum, and the projvision of an assembly ,haM. ■ Mr H. (G'Leary seco'ndea tie-ifeslbiii tion, wlhieh was carried unamimous- >'•'""-'■■■ '■'•. j The election of a School Committee then took place, there being fourteen candidates .for the nine seats'. ' Messrs 41. Kraliagen and D. Simitli , acted as scrutineers. The voting was. | as follows: ■ . . i

R. Brown 56 '.W..L. J. SHadkleW 49 W. Kemp 48 D. Thrc-adwell 47 W. Gourfay 44 A. W. Chapman 36 Hyde 33.; ■"* ■" E; Pragnelf ........ ....... 32 A. Hendry 27 iW. C. Pewy ......:..... 24, J. L. Hughes ............ 23 E. H. Waddington ...... '23 ;T. J. Thompson .........; 22 r Jhe first'nine candidates were decinrcd elected. OhJy four.of tthe retiring mem/bers werevamong tliose elected. A number cf jflio elected and defeated candidates returned ithanks, and votes cf thanks were passed to the Retiring Committee, the school «taffj and the iserutineeiis. 4t a t snbcequen.t meeting of .the new Committee, Mr R-. Was I'e-elected Cltajrinan. ■■',.