EDUCATIONAL MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5467, 27 January 1885, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL MEETING.

ParnelL ■""■llß m TiiK annual meeting of hou3elioj||ii the election of the district Sehwdfi mittoe was held last evening in Uraß building. Mr Ireland, Chairmsimi retiring Committee, briefly Blitjiffiij object of the meeting, and railed rmfife Robinson (Secretary) to read thoaeotol preliminary papers, viz., the ad\artjj^dS and report; The report set foruMH gratulating the public of the dUtrittstjl increased attendance at the «&ty|p!l numbers on the roll were as folliial Boys, 279 ; girls, 253: total, 532. MSM Attendance, 227 males, 203 ;:JaWli total, 430. At 'the recent -. mfmi tion of candidates for Btandarijpjj were presented, and 203 paa^ii night; school had been L.-tablL^tfSrti Mr Moore, and three donations of toanjyjl .been received from the ScriptMflßJ Association. The financial showed, for the year ending Decemffl^B 1884, a balance in bank of £13;lmHH receipts were : Balance Ist Janaarffll £14 8s 5d ; receipts from Btfiiß special grant for fixing bell, £1 -'fijjjjfijj £95 11s sd. The principal c-\iwnditnnn for cleaning schools, £67 19s lld/^p and gap, £G 10s. Tho balance waglfflj of small amounts, which, with tliolS in hand, £13 9s 3d, made the totali§§ lls 3d. A vote of thanks was pase™! retiring Committee, on the mottoi'lff Caleb Wood. Captain D. H.iMfl| (Mayor) was then called to tho ch«jr,'ii the election of Cominitttcmen -i^u| cceded wjth. Twenty-one warn toM| but only eleven were wiilioe^flHl Messrs Cunninghuro, ' <i\ mfe;l^ Warner were appointed scratM At the close of the poll, tho ; Uiij ing were declared duly tloetifJ). H. McKenzie, 66 ; John -Scsdffi John Thorburn, 54 ; Caleb rtroou,:.i!>ii Taylor, 50 ; W. Kinsey, 43 ; J., Rail !!9 A mesting of the newly-ejecjt^l mittee was then held, v/hen CftpnHi McKenzie was elected Chairman, p| Caleb Wood Secretary. Pokeno Valley School CemmKUt1' The following are the newly eleuuid I bers of tho School Committee i&M John Dean, TV. Dean, D. Mam I Jackson, E. C. Lyons, D. Chan|| Graham. Mr John Dean wu&ljSg chairman, and Mr D. Maxwell sec«jS|

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