Cambridge.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1959, 27 January 1885, Page 2

Cambridge.

Ibt rhi.KOHvpii.— u\\>; ufvohtkr.] CAMKKiix.h, Monday. The meeting of householders to-night at the Public Hall to elect a school committee, ke, was well attended. The Key. H. R. Dewsbuiy was hi the chair. Mr Sargent, chaiiui.ui of the outgoing committee, lead the annual report, which has already been published. Mr Wells refened at length to the progic<s winch the school had nude during the year under the management of the committee, and piirticul.ii ly under the pei&onal supervision of the head master, MrStowait. As an instance of the growing piosperity of the school, ho quoted the fact that that n.oming no less than "JO new pupiN had l>een enrolled, four of which entered the High School. The report as read was adopted. Mr Wells then proposed the following committee :— Mes«rs S.ugent, Houghton, Hosking, Dickinson, Webber, Hewitt and Oillett. In doing so he made a few lenurks on the qualification of the candidates and the growing linpoitance of the high school. He spoke of the \ aluable sei v ices of the late chairman, to whom he attiibuted a great miMMiit' of the success that had attended the woiking of the school for the past twehe months, and trusted they would now return him at the head of the poll. He made rrfeience to the proposal of the Hmald to establish a central High School in Hamilton, which he ridiculed as s-.tnething too good to be entcitained by the settlers in this pait of the country. The Hamilton High School was on its last legs, and the proposil rrfened to was a spasmodic effort to leainmate it into a new existence. He compaied this with the flourishing condition of the Cambridge High School, under Mr Stewart. Large ccnties of population were now springing up in Mio siciuityof Lichfield, Oxford, etc., for which Cambridge was the contre. No other candidates being proposed, thufC named weio doclaied elected. Mi Nirgonfc was re appointed chairman at a subsequent meeting of committee.