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

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2251, 11 December 1886, Page 3

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

The monthly meeting of the school committee was held on Wednesday evening, wheu there were present Messrs Vau^e, Wilson, Lavery, Dobson, Ahier and Mackie. Mr Lavery acted as chairman pro tern. The head teacher's report was read, and showed the number of pupils on the roll to be 130, and the average attendance during last month 102. Mention was made of the great falling off in the attendance since the recent examination, the number of pupilt> for the week ending November 2(i being 32 less than in the previous week. Thib certainly shows a great lack of interest on the part of some parent* in the education of their children. A circular was received from the Board of Education re election of members in place of those retiring by rotation from the board, and a letter from Mr W. J. Barlow, drill instructs in the Thames schools, off ei ing his services in a like capacity for Te Aroha school, which proposal was left over for consideration by the next committee. It was resolved that the usual picnic for the children should take place during the Christinas Holidays, and that there should be a union of the day and Sunday school in the matter. Messrs Wilson and Vause were appointed a sub-committee to confer and make arrangements with the representatives of the Sunday schools as to the carrying out of the feast. Accounts amounting to £3 Is were passed for payment, and the meeting closed. Messrs Bradley and Co. have got the contract for conveying the mails between the Post-office and the railway station for two years at £20 per annum. The same firm are the successful tenderers for the mail service between Paeroa and the Thames. Mr E. Gallagher has got the Te Aroha-Paeroa contract, but arrangements are likely to be made for an exchange, whereby Mi Gallagher will wo?k the service between the Post-office and station and Bradley and Co. run the other in connection with the Paeroa-Thames contract. Mining matters are still very quiet, but the New Find returns for the current month are likely to show an improvement on the yield for the past month or two. The owners of the Success Mine are having another parcel of stuff treated at the Waiorongomai battery, and thw return is expected to equal that of their last crushing, which gave at the rate of one and a half ounces of gold to the ton. Constable Berriman, who has been quartered here for two or three months past, has received orders to exchange place 3 with Constable Addison, of Te Kuiti. He leaves here to-day for his new station.

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