TE KOPURU.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 227, 8 December 1893, Page 7

TE KOPURU.

The ordinary monthly- meeting of the Te Kopuru School Committee was held in the Library on Tuesday, December otti. There were present Messrs M. Cobbald (chairman), J. Brockliss (secretary). J. Molloy, 11. Vincent N. McLeod and T. Webb. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The receipt of £4 4s 6d from the Board was reported, being half cost of science apparatus. The following bills were passed Mrs Foreman £3, for cleaning Kopuru School for three months. Clarissa Hntton £‘2, for cleaning Redhill School for a year. Mr Phillips os, for fixing window cords. The- Inspector reported that Kopuru school would be examined Monday-, December 11th, Redhill, Wednesday 13th, Tatarariki Thursday 14th. Mr Campbell of Tatarariki school applied for permission to leave on Friday Bth, owing to the steamer. Agreed to, Mr Rice of Red hill school to take his place during the examination. Cleaning Redhill school. —Clarissa Hutton offered to sweep the school every- day, and scrub it once a month, for £2 a year. Accepted. Mr McLeod reported that the school roll at Redhill showed twenty-nine, with an average attendance of twenty-five, which is very satisfactory. The chairman reported that according to instructions of Committee he had warned Mr Ringrose to send his |children to school as two of them were not attending the

regular time. The parent said ho had sent amending the Tatarariki Mchnol. The chairman reported that ho had rent for £7 worth of toys for the children’s treat, lends coming in well ; one young lady, Miss Mitchell, has had £6 promised her. and another young lady has been promised £3. There will be a Christmas tree in the bail on Boxing night. Every- child in the school district can get a ticket for tbe tree. The treat will te. held the day after in Mr Cobbald ’s paddock. It is ronertod that a man named Panne field has had to be sent to the Hospital through injuries received in a drunken row on the Thursday after the election, at Tatarariki. Otherwise our elections have passed off' very quietly-, though both sides at Kopuru supplied beer in plenty, and there was a trifling scrummage iu the evening.