SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3794, 25 April 1891, Page 2

SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Annual Roport ! The following report, drawn up by , the sub-committee appointed, will be presented to the Master ton School - Committee for adoption at a special meeting to be held this afternoon : ( Your Committee in submitting their Annual Report do so with a certain amount of satisfaction, taking into ' consideration the serious drawbacks i they have had to oontend with during 1 the past year. The year's transaction | commenced with a considerable ; balance to debit, but by judicious and i careful management together with i satisfactory responses from the ' Education Board in assisting them, 1 the difficulties are somewhat over- ' come. The Town Lands Trustees were repeatedly applied to for assis- , tance without any apparent result, , until within the last month, an was given that if an applicatioia was made for a specific purpose, it would receive favorable consideiation. Your committee thereupon applied for £SB 4s far cleaning purposes and the Trustees so far acceded to their request by granting a sum of £4O, but this amount your Committee deem inadequate for their Requirements, and consider the | Trustees are not meeting the cause of Education in such a liberal spirit as che wording of the Act sets forth thus necessitating your Committee to take steps to collect subscriptions from parents, a position your committee considers ought not to have been forced upon them, seeing a fund is in existence which should be utilized tcj meet the requirements of the sohools, During the past yeftithere has not much to chroniclo with regard to the disturbance of the teaching staff of the schools. The same teachers are in nearly every respect identical with previous report, the head master of the Main school, Mr W". H. Jackson, together with his efficient staff of assistants, continue to give entire satisfaction, and the result of their labor i 3 a credit to the School. The examination report is as usual of a jfery high order, showing the teaching staff to be thoroughly up in work. The Infant Schocf under the charge of Miss Keeling still maintains its efficiency, and it is to be hoped uiat before another election M«sterton will be passessad qf $ second Sohool at the North end, so long looked for and advocated. During the past year several changes in your Committee have taken place. Altogether 21 uisetings were held, Of those, the attendances of the originally elected i

members have been as follows : HE Eton 20, W M Easthope 19, W PraDgnell 19, C) E Daniell 19, E McEwen resigned in December and up to that date had attended 14, Tlios. Mackay resigned in July after attending 4, Z M Hoar xeplacing him and is credited with 15 attendances, E Feist, who resigned in September last, replaced E McEwen has r „7 attendances, R M Galloway 6. The number of children on the rolls are, Main School 589, Infants 118, total 707. The average attendances at the two Schools are 462 and 98 respectively. Your Committee consider the new mode of election, though at present defective in its workings, is vastly superior to the previous cumu-' lative voting system. The balancesheet herewith attached gives the result of the year's transactions, an d your Committee are of opinion may be deemed fairly satisfactory. They, however, hope that during the coming year the Town Lands Trustees will treat the Committees with more liberality. As you have been already notified 15 nominations have been received for election to the School Committee, and your committee trusts that the result of the ballot will show that the votes of householders have been recorded in favor of the various candidates from a due appreciation of their merits, and that no party feeling exists. Edwin Feist, Acting Chairman.