SCHOOL COMMITTEES REPORTS.

Evening Star, Issue 14038, 20 April 1909, Page 8

SCHOOL COMMITTEES REPORTS.

MACANDREW ROAD. The following is the report of the outgoing Committee : At the last annual meeting", of householders the following gentlemen were nominated as member’s of committee :—Messrs A. T. Smith, S. Smith, H. M. Henderson, A. Dray, J. D. Cameron, J. L. Thompson, R. Gillespie, D. Smyth, S. Bore ham, and G. C. Baker. Previously to a ballot being taken, however, Mr D. Smyth retired from the contest, which left just the required number (nine) of names remaining on nomination, renderin’' a ballot unnecessary-, and the remaining nine became .accordingly your Committee, Messrs A. T. Smith, S." Smith, and G. C. Baker bemg re-elected chairman, treasurer and secretary respectively. During the latter portion of the term the Committee lest •= the services of Messrs A. T. Smith and S. Smith, ostensibly through their being about or having left the school district. On the resignation of the chairman being received Mr S. Boreham was elected to the vacancy, and continued to act as chairman for the remainder of the term.

Seventeen meetings were held during the. year, Mr Boreham attending 15, Mr Henderson 15, Mr Gillespie 14, Mr Thompson 12, and Messrs Cameron, A. T. Smith, and S. Smith 10 each. The secretary attended all meetings, with one exception. Under the able management of Mr G. W. C. (Macdonald, who succeeded the late (Mr Wm. (Bennett as head master, the school has fully kept up its average, both in attendance and results, the hand master s report for last month, on a roll of 420, giving an average attendance for the quarter of 395, or 25 more than the corresponding quarter of last year. Mr Smeaton is, we are pleased to say, still with ns as first assistant. Miss Forsyth still remains as matron. In Mr Cushen we are fortunate in securing a- teacher for the fourth standard of undoubted "ability : Miss Faulks, (Miss Walker, and Miss Campbell retain their former positions, the latter, we are sorry to say, being at present absent through illness, her place being ably filled meanwhile by Miss Noale. Mr Menzies still remains as pupil teacher’ Miss Matters being probationer, so that the staff individually and collectively is very efficient indeed, and will • still bmore efficient _ when we are allowed the I'li 1 f x^Ta af6l 'stants to which we are entitled under the new scale of staffing schools, shortly, we hope, .coming into opera Lion.

Members of Committee have in turn during the year visited the school, and the reports made by them on the methods teac! iing and the conduct, and discipln® the classes are vcrv satisfactory. ine chief prize, consisting of a gold medal presented by the chairman (Mr S. Bore iron) to the dux of school, was' awaiuc-d to Miss Isabella Watkins. Mr Drays presentation of a medal to the mos. popular girl m the school (decided by the voting of the school children themselves) also fell to Miss .Watkins, Mr -U. Henderson presented two special pnzes for composition to be competed for b\ both girls and boys, which were won b> Miss .Man- Brown and Master Charles Matthews respectively. The special prizes tor rifle shooting and gymnastics (presentsd by Mr J. R Cameron) were won •' Masters George Railton, Alfred Smith and Lmdsay Dugmd. Mr Braithwaite’s mE nze for cx>ok “S fell „to Miss Mabel Thompson, the Athenamm prize for general knowledge to Albert Douglas the Mabel B~r S I>r, Ti t 0 Ire . ne M ‘ lvw and lhe special medal preto tba by TR ' . Jones fan old ex-scholar) to the pupil gaming the highest aggregate * 0 T' ke , durin e the y™ ™ won by Albert Douglas, and the prize given Vr for drawing went to Miss Hilda Marsh. All there prizes were in addition to_those provided bv the Committe, comprising some sixty volumes they carrying out this year the strong rot~o boT 0f Srtificato^ eu of bald ? lvea to the most At adders m each stordard. At the suggestion of the head master all ters office has been almost enfelv c' S y '. and thanks are due to Sr 1’ fi‘ o eiim for ß6 " 610 ' 817 Ve th * necessary 3nd padlocked into position directly. j£r t srJ“*!> by il» Bo"J „tlft, " ec ‘ ed PM by lb. terf m.S,i SILT. n made, the Committee induced rhp j: i \ i UC it keen successfully accomplished by the Drainage Board in the face fj meeTln S difficulties. New and up-to-date concrete lavatories have been erected and will shortly be finished f/|f r ,' vnich ( hf necessary improvements in atohMtmf 'f l th 6 6ha?>e of Celling, asphalting, and fencing will be taken in tbJhlshnd l^^ 0 d' y;tS . held at Quarann aL ’ setiolars uhitin.r to make it a successful gatherum-. Prizes rhe%S r f ° r ,T I!etit:ion in^the sP<>rte, tfte younger scholars participating. .iteb ssu s t~r s?us eventually brhm n wf ■ , at m ay TI„ -t. ” “ about the desired result. T , nnett memorials have been completed and paid for. Re erne «r< br'itiblss s: f ™“b!^b=iitf Se ntad masters grave, the total cost (£4O) being defrayed by voluntary contribution! the deTeastl 3rS) t<?achere ' and f ™nds of

Ihe Committee, at the suggestion of the late chairman Mr A. T. Smite, have been m correspondence with Aberdeen the mrtbplace of the late Mr James Macan drew, Superintendent of the IteovincL of Otago with the object of an exchange of hags between this school and the public school in Aberdeen attended by Mr Macandrerv, a favorable replv being received rom Mr John M-Kenzic/head master 5 the Ashley Road Public School, Aberdeen hope to see the incoming Committee carry the exchange into effect. Vif £a y ,! p account is availe4 of by the. scholars to a very creditable extent Ihe at the present time exceeding the withdrawals by £45. The net sum of £3O 9s lid was raised during the year towards the prize and pic mc fund and the other expenses outside the authorised expenditure from the Education Board grant. This, together with the money contributed for the Bennett memorial, _ makes a net sum of nearly £7O raised in connection with the school bv voluntary contribution during the year Die net result from bazaar and art 'union would have been larger had O not been for an unexpected stand taken by the authorities after the Committee had token