MASTERTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1585, 17 January 1884, Page 2

MASTERTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The. ordinary monthly meeting of the Committee'was .'held last evening. man), Hogg, Galloway, Rapp, and Payton. ;,. ";. .:'-, .■• '' :

The balance-sheet for the- past year was read and adopted; "Tho Secretary to requested to inform the Board that it was inconvonient to • forward all Committee books to Wellington for audit; aB they ran the risk of being lost and mislaid, and that -if the Iroard/cottld, not. send an auditor to the Wairaripa, •- conijp were' obtainable in this district. A letter,.was read from the ; board asking for nominations to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of Messrs Bunny,':|uchanan'.'and'Hutchison. The. committee.decided' .to nominate Messrsßunny and Buchanan. The Chairman roported that the boundaries ;or\; the ..Masterton School District bad been redefined, and Mr Rapp called attention to the fact that the Board j while publishing the boundary fo;,;Wellragfoa had ; ignored the Wairarapa papers.'"' ''•'.'.. report ofrthVpro'p'o'sal'to establish a. side School was then read, It opposed .iS'otfthe groimd:tliat it would not solve the dpculty of accommodation in. the mak building, also, becausaa side school at a distance from tho mnla building could not be

supervised by. thelheadmaister,

sa|d ,tho question was one Of public convenience.;,:, If lie thought if wojild Interfere ;with the efficiency of the presenV'Sbliobl he would not bring it forward.' Side schools existed in places like Palmerston North. He questioned whether ■ the ■ Hasterton Soliool had not reached a point when a further increase in its numbers would not be beneficial. Ho that before many years there'-Wotddjbe two or three side'"schools in the t&wii. '■*''

.., a good-one. Mi\Rapp considered it premature, and Mr Paytoii suggested-tKab in view. ;of the annual" meeting«it ; ;was'tade-; simple to determine it then. ,' Mr Hogg agreed'to postponing the. Question to tho annual meeting... . _