SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10482, 21 October 1899, Page 4

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

At the monthly meeting of the Templeton ' School Committee the usual report was received from the Master showing the .number on the roll to be 87; average for the month - - 72; highest attendance, 86; average for the-, J quarter, 67. Arrangements were made for - the annual school concert. The Greenpark School Committee has received notice from the Board of Education of the appointment of Miss Newton as mistress. * The Fernside School Comn_itteei met on Monday evening. Present—Messrs Palmer {<—___—ia_i),-Nicl_ol, Arnott, aa_d Milne, The_i»pect(_r_B report.on the recent e_a_-na-tion was oonodered" v^" 6ahahictdry. 'A . vote q. thaa-cs was passed to the teaching jtaj? congratalatin'g them on ihe success of the school. It was arraiiged' that there .<- ---should be "an opening day" of the swimming \ •jath during the first or second week in November. iTbe newly formed flute band * •twenty-two members) were granted the free ■ - use of the schoolroom for practice.- • The Richmond School.Committee met ou Wednesday evening. The acting ■ headmaster's report showed the average' attendance for the past month to be 450.5, the number on the roll being's2s.- The average - for the past quarter was 458. Permission was granted Messrs Schneider and Gray to , « attend the University and' Canterbury, Col- / lege examinations. _,'.__. The Sprihgston South School Committee, • met on the 9th inst. Present all the mem- . hers. The examination report was considered satisfactory, and the Committee passed .a resolution thanking the teachers, Mr «. A. Malcolm and Miss H. Kirne f /for the careful and thorough manner in which they had taught the children during the year. A sum of £4 was voted from the private fund as a contribution to the fund for the p-nckf 8 * ox an organ for use in the school. it was arranged to have an excursion to Sumner ax the Christinas holidays. At the monthly meeting of the East Christchurch School committee, the headmaster's report stated that the attendance was improving. He also reported what ban been done with reference to the cadet corps.