SCHOOL COMMITTEES ASSOCIATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4890, 30 November 1894, Page 2

SCHOOL COMMITTEES ASSOCIATION.

■ The fiiflt'.general-meeting of, tho iWelliiigtoh-'bchft'ol Committees Association,, JiqldL is,, tho Education. Board Buildings on Wddi'lesdiy evening, was, attended by upwards of thirty delegates. ! Tlie CKiiirmah'(Mrlt,.B/.Vihcout) thought that the formation of tlio, 'Association >yns a .matter for congratulation; and that the cause of Educ'atidn' would benefit by it.,Tlie'ro' was an impression that.the-Associa-tion was fohued:in' a; spirit antagonistic totliO Board, : , This was not; so.' Their desire.whs.to- assist;. and. not to harass, tho .Board, , Ho regretted that ,tho Board -liai'j|fi. scen its way to recognise the AsJwrtion,: Ho then moved—"That tlio Education Board of this district bo respect* iroiii'candidate,i for appqiritnicnii 'Ml 1 jteachers to the committee of tho 'school district interested • jffior; to; ■!any, selection ;b'eing 'niado by the ilMtti; and to make regulations whereby committees, will be to communicate relative tp, tho qualifications of the respective candidates." It was only right that i committees should the choice of their teachers.

'Mr'J. • Hnteliirisoii (Kilbirnio) moved the cxcisibiiof the latter part of the resolutioiii'i.'Matiiig" mittees consulting 'with Inspectors as to the qualifications of tlio candidates fpneacherehips,' : , 'it iv'ould be unworkable, and Voilld not Wmbve tho' Boat's,,power, of vetoing -th& recommendations of committees.

■ i A longidis'cussioii' ensued,manyof the speakers maintaining tbatcominiltees ought to receive moro consideration from' the Bcardlhan they do' at present.' The amendment was, finally caiiW.- : >!( i.if l iThe. following !were,i elected ,an Executive Committee,'to hold office 'up k a|code^of Prowso (To'Ai'oJjSliiiia 1 (Newtown), White (Clyde-quay),Vincent(Mount Cook) I ,' Koch (Thorndon), iTeflhiigs, (Voßeltown),., ,and. the., Bey.,. Mr .foi'tttigiltftifl Oil ■ ' ' ,iismW .K .11 t r.ssnaK<}hfek^.