KATIKATI.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5494, 4 May 1910, Page 2

KATIKATI.

(From Our Correspondent). The annual statutory meeting of Householders was foelri on 'Monday, Mr : John. Wilson havlLng : $>een elected to preside. There wus an unusually largo attendance and the elect-ion of the new committee resulted as follows : Messrs 0-. V. Stewart (chairman). E. H. Gledstancs (hon. sec), .1. Killen, F. Smith,. S. S. Norria, il. Hunter ami A. IWgj^leimiinn. The chairman's ai.nual report was unanimously adopted, and in the course of his remarks in- moving its adoption, in reference to Bible reading in schools, he admitted that the State could not afford thi expense of maintaining. denomuVati'on i al schools. They asked not for th« teaching of catechisms or rituals, but simply the Bible, tW pure Bible, and notching but the< Bible,, and trusted that a referendum would be granted to test .iJtjj feel.ings of th« people on this subject, expressing the pleasure all interested in thj movement must 'fool at the result ol the poll jn Victoria (Austrailva), where the supporters of rcligicoi are ±o far; leadinig ij>y n large majority. ANNUAL HBPORT KATTKAT] NORTH SCHOOL DISTRICT. "Another year* having now expired I have the honour to report as follows : — V •No. 1 School, "This school has been under th< iharge of Miss Atderscn, who con tinues to give the fullest satisfaction to the parents of : th.3 chiWrer and •to the committee. "The attendance for Iho past yeai does not show any material altera tion, but an improvement may reas onaibly be expected during the emu ing year from the natural growth o population nml the incrcauo of set t lenient in the districtNo. 2 School. "This school, under j the nl)l( charge of Mr Bosjwell, ns!'hoad tench or, and ,Viss Wilson, as assistant, continues its 'onward course of progress, as proved by the highly satisfactory reports by Inspector Car-rard^an-Kalao (by the fact ih&t thU small school has, during- the past year, secured for its pupils three certificates of proficiency, one junior national scholarship, and added to Its long previous record an additional pupil teacher to ths service of the Board. "Purinj the year the school 'was supplied with a full milk-testing plant and the elder children have all learned tha process of milk-testing under a scientific and pnacticail (method, j "I regret, however, that owing to the closing oi Messrs Qashmorq Bros.' sawmills, the attendance during the past year shows a slight ■d.Clinc, the roll having fallen from] 56 to 42, but I am happy in being able to state, that mainly -due to tho increase of s^ttlemont, rthe attendance since Christmas has incroase'd to 47, a.fc whii M tha roll now stands. "The committee Wesire to express their deep regret 'BJid sincere feelings of sympathy with Miss Wilson, on her serious and prolonged ittness, accompanied with the earnest hope that she may soon be restored to her former good 'hfqallthj in (the discharge of those duties whicih she has for so many years performed to the most complete satisfaction of'the Board and of the committee. "The annual school picnic wfesfceld in the Uretara Domain, and, due to the energy of the teachers, the kind and liberal support of tke general pulilic, aided by the hearty co-op-eration of the parents, the event turned out a great success, not orrly providing a happy social gathering, but also ns being the means of distributing over 50 valuable books as prizes to the children. "During the past year, the mutual i trillions «x»stin^ betwecii the committee, the Board, the parents, and the children, have been of the most satisfactory nature, anti the committee" desire to express their high appreciation of the evident desire by the Board toy nieet all reasonable re-' quests, "The committee have to express their regret tfeat the movement for Bible readimr in schools phouia continue to ho officially blocked, tbat Ood's Book— even as a standard classical book— should still be excluded from our State schools ; but it "is needless to«stato that the local ministers of religion, representing the Church of England and the Prestoyterian Church, will receive every possible facility for imparting religious instruction to the children to the fullest extent of the limits permitted by the provisions of the Act. "The foNowing is the abstract ofthe- accounts for the past year— which I havq certified as correct; — "1909.— Ba|inoe in Bank March 31 £0 16s Id, sundry grants as submitted In jdefca.il £31 17s.— Total X4l 13s Id. "1910. — Kxpenditura. — . Digbursements pj suinnitted in detail £3ft Us 7*l. balance in Btokt't Okfareh ai £.3 Is 6d.— Totdl £41 13s Id. "This, I have the honour to submit as my report J-41E.0. VFJSEY STEWART, Chairman." April 25, 1910. Fop Chroklc Cbest CompJaintsWoods' Great Peppermint Cure Is 6d, 2s 6d.