RICHMOND SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17808, 6 July 1923, Page 3

RICHMOND SCHOOL COMMITTEE

0 The monthly meeting of the Richmond School Committee was held last Tuesday. Present-Messrs Talbot (in the chair), B.own, Clauoen, Pentecost, Beaby, Stuart and Saunders. . The headmaster's report showed the roll number to' be 612. Tho Board's inspectors, Mesßra W. Brock and G. Raymond, would begin the annual examination of the school on July Uth. The members of the school footbaj.. 'team had collected , £8 towards the cost of jerseys. The gramophone record of the King's address to the chiidren of tho Empire was heard by the scholars of Standards VI. and V. during the week. The Education Board wrote thanking the committee for their contribution of £4O towards the erection of the fences qn the new site. The resignation of Mr J. W. McGregor, headmaster, was accepted with regret. Mr McGregor, in his letter, expressed his appreciation of the cordial relationship he had always experienced with the various oommittees' during hia 15i years' stay at Richmond. It was decided to place on record' the best, thanks of the district to Mt McGregor for his valued services to the school. It was resolved to recommend Miss Eva Chillingworth for the vacant position of assistant mistress. The chairman reported that the sum of £4B, subsidy on money spent for Improvements to the new site, had been received from the Department. The new site committee reported that the fences authorised by the Board had been completed. A vote of thanks waa accorded Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., for his continued efforts in connexion with the rebuilding of the school. The question of the closing of the school owing to the influenza epidemic was left in the hands of the chairman and secretary.