SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 125, 29 May 1895, Page 2

SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the members of the above took place in the Schoolroom on Monday evening last when all the members were present Mr Purcoll presiding. Mr Williams proposed and Mr Fitzgerald seconded that the Committee support the candidature of Mr Henry Wilding for the position on the Education Board rendered vacant by the death of Mr W. P. Moat. This was carried unanimously. Miss Selby, assistant-teacher, wrote announcing * that she had received her certificate on passing Class E. examination and asked the Committee to apply to the Board for the increase in salary to which she was entitled. On the motion of Mr Robinson, seconded by Mr Williams, it was decided to forward Miss Selby's letter to the Board with a recommendation that the request be complied with. The head-teacher, Mr Webl>er, reported an increase in the attendance. The number now on the roll is 104 and the average attendance 60 - :5. Mr Goodwin who had inspected the school on May 10 iiad suggosted an increase? in the oral lessons in arithmetic and that Miss Sclbv give more lessons to the upper standards under the headmaster's supervision. Beyond this Mr Goodwin expressed himself as satisfied with the work. Mr Webber also referred to certain repairs that were necessary to the gate and approaches to the school, and others of a minor nature. He complained also of the defacement of desks and displacement of books which occurred on Sundays and suggested that more supervision should be exercised over the grown up children on that day. It. was resolved to call for tenders for altering the position and fixing flu- gates according to specifications prepared byMr Purcell, and that Mr McAuley be asked to attend to the other matters. The Treasurer reported that he had received 12s (id from the Presbyterian body for five weeks' rent of school for services, and it was decided that the Band of Hope have the use of both rooms for their meeting on June 5. Accounts amounting to £o 4s Gd were passed for payment. In the matter of absentees it was decided to ask the Board if Maor;es and half-castes could be compelled to attend. It was resolved to call for tenders for cleaning the school. Messrs Robinson and Neighbour were appointed a visiting committee for the next month. The meeting then adjourned.

! THE UREWERA TROUBLE. 1 Tidings from the Urew-era Country I have been meagre in the extreme, but i rumour with its hundred tongues has ' ! 1 een pretty active in circulating a variety 1 jof imaginary incidents interesting on ac- 1 ! count of the ingenuity displayed injlieir . ! concoction. I The detichment of the Permanent ; j Artillery under Lieut Hume joined li.- • spectorEmerson'sposse of police at the j camp on the Galatea plain at the entrance ' j«f the To "Wlmitl gorge, or about ten ] miles from the To Whaiti pa. On Thurs- ) ! day last another party of Artillery num- 1 I bering 20 men under Sergeant-MajcH i i Richardson and Bush arrived here and on . j Friday proceeded to the " front."Rich- » ] ardson. who hod accompanied the men , from Wellington, returning. This makes j the available force in the Drewera coun- £ try up to M men. The whole body then 1 I proceeded on to Te Whaiti, where they t I wait the arrival of the Hon. J. Carroll, f List night Mr Lawrence Cussen of the j j Surveyor-General's Department arrived . in Rotorua. and proceeded up country this ! morning with a view to ascert dn the ex- J ; act position of matters in relation to the ' I survey under Mr Phillips. Mr Cussen is J ' well versed in everything relating to tin i I Maori character having carried out the \ : first survey into the King can. *y ami in i \ naturally acquainted w'th the peculiarities ( ! of their disposition, and their supcrsensi- i ! tivenoss in many matters which other , less well versed in the idiosyncrasies oi I the race might consider as (he merest 3 trifle. There ij "very probability of M 0 Cussen being able to put a period to the l trouble and effect su-h an arrangement r with the natives as will permit the survey t being continued. Mr Cussen expects to „ ! meet Mr Carroll at Galatea. A meeting of natives is now being i held at Te Whaiti in regard to the trouble * j From a native source we learn that then; »' I was no intention to interfere with the i 1 survey. It was certainly decided at the a j native Parliament which sat. at Rotorua ] I last month that a policy of non-inter- :, j volition should bo maintained—that no- | thing would be done to prevent the sur ■ J vey but that no assistance should l>c given. Th .ugh the employment of ha- ". five guidos by Mr Phillips was regarded ■< with disfavor nothing was done to prevent :< it. until one of these was found outside jj his own country. Then as that particu- j lar hapu considered tin- nuinu of the tribe 3 was endangered they interfered. It in generally supposed that if the natives had . had (he position placed before them in it; - 1 true light viz., that the survey would be H proceeded with at all ha/.ards they would I i have made arrangements whereby guides 1 i would have been properly allotted. A j I little tact on the part of the surveyor ? ( I might have avoided a serious difficulty. A Te Whaiti native was in town yesterday and proceeded on his return journe . lin the afternoon. He earned with him r' I telegrams from Hone Hekc, M.H.R.. tu l I the. native chiefs assembled at Te Whaiti.