BROOKLYN SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The monthly meeting of the Brooklyn School Committee was held last evening. Present : Messrs^ M. A. Robinson (chairman). A. J. WKite (secretary), E. Hendrikeen, W. Coventry, H. Vile, J. A. Short, and J. Burton ; the headmaster (Mr. J. B. Hopkirk) was also present. Apologies for absence were received from Messrs. Bates and Kennedy. Correspondence was read and accounts, amounting to £5 19s, passed for payment. Satisfactory reports on the condition of the school were received. Numerous new pupils have joined tho school, and the committee expects the library will be established at an cady date. The annual picnic, which lias become a red-letter day for Brooklyn, takes place at Day's Bay on the 18th February. Residents arc liberally responding with contributions, and everything indicates a, successful gathering. A liberal programme of sports is being provided for old and young scholars, with several adult events. The school champions last year were Arthur Dalton (boys) and Gladys Burton (girls). All the local storekeepers have decided to close (as in customary) on picnic day. The return tickets (Biooklyn to tho Bay) for adults will be Is 3d.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 29, 4 February 1914, Page 3
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