TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2184, 8 July 1886, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORR ESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Wednesday.

I Thy monthly meeting ( f the District School Committee u,b licld ye>teiday evening, ii v o i if tho memb >rs being present. The nun .to of tho previous meeting were i (.'ad .uui coiihimed. Communications ft on i the Board of Education were read, als i the head teachei's report <»n vanou* matters connected with the school. In the tep.irt lefrencs was made to the continued u regularity of the attendance of some of the childieu. The number of pupil-? on the :01l was IJD, but the average attendance during the month liad only been 07"2. This falling off v,\b paitly due to the receut ;>irt\alance of whooping cough, but the complaint had now al-no>t di^appe ired, and the ittt nd nice ought certainly to be better than it was at present. The following resolutions were passed :— "That the secret.uy be itHtiuctud to send written noticesto parents of | npils meg ilar in their attendance, re^ue-ting them to send their children; to school, and th it m future legal action be tik'-n by the coinrnttee when necessary to enforce attendance."' " That the chairmm be requested to wiite to the Board of Education asking them to supply crates and othei necessities for the heating of the school room." -'That the visiting committee be authorised to in ike arrangements for the cleaning of the .school. 1 ' "That tho suggestion contained in a circular from the Board of Education ro foiestry and an aibor day be approved of, and that the committee agree to observe any day that the board may bet apart for the rmrpo&e." " That the committee \ote for Mr Richard Udy as candidate on the Board of Education." "That Messrs Ahier and Lavery ba the visiting committee for the current month." '] he rest of the busine&s was of aformal nature. A meeting of the inhabitants of theWaioiongomai township is to be held tomoriow evening to consider the advisability of adopting s.nne foim of local g<»\eminent, and to decide whether the township shall constitute paitot the proposed boiough of TeAioh.i or be formed into aseparate town district. The residents thoro me no less alne than the people of Te Aroha to the ivc-sMtv for getting tho management of their atrairs into their own (muds, Hid a ii'solutton adopting one or othei of the alternatives will in all probability be passed. A numerously sinned petition wa« sent. from lieie a- tew weeks .igo to the Houne of Ki>pi piaying that a sum of money might be gc.inted for the construction of a (iiay toad to the Tin cieek mines. Inclination has been received through Mr Wat den Kemick, that if the petition is suppoited by the Ohinemuri County Council it will receive favourable consideration. In a matter of so ranch importance to the mining industry m the locality named, it in iv be expected that the council will u add v render all the assistance it can in oider th.it the grant may be procured. Mr Maclean, who succeeds Mr Xottleship as teacl er of the half time schools at Waitoaand IV Aroha West entered upon his duties on Monday. He has the reputatio i of being a good teacher, and under his care the pupils will doubtless make satisfactory progress.