HANNATON.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 49, 29 April 1899, Page 2

HANNATON.

Thcie was considerable excitement ovei the annual School Committee election. The annual lopoit of the outcome; committee was oL a \eiy satisfactoiy name. Arao'ij,' othei matteis meic'Tce was made to the excellent lepoit ot the mspcctoi, and t"> the harmonious le'atious af\va\3 existing bet \een committee and staff, who co-opeiateil in evoiy way and tiiecl to keep clown expense as much as possible. A vote of thanks was passed to/ Mi Walsh, foi allowing the use of his harmonium ioi the past thiee veais to the school, and to ieb»ious bodies using the school on hs unda*. s. The lepoit gave a lcsuiiie of the woik done bv the committee dining the \ear. The balance sheet show el a ciedit of £7 12s (5 1. The ehauman ot the outgoing committee, Mi Ivonlv, lefened to his turn of olhce. and s<nd th.it he had expected that the woik of chairman would be a diidcuifc one, bat the po.iiiat leiations existing a.noni; me'iibcis of the committee had mide his woik lightsome and piea-vint. The lpsnlt ot poll was: — Dminai i(), Maindonald -10 Oat»s M\, Hayman 30, Mcitoii 00, Peck 2S, K»oi;h 28, Ljph 28, Campbell 2i, Dufrfjan 21, Low 18, Ileilly 11 As Keo«h, I'i'clv. and Leea had polled the same numoei ot vote&, the ehauman, Mr Oates, ga\e hi& casting vote in favour of Peck and Lcen.