REEFTON NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 July 1934, Page 5

REEFTON NOTES

[our own correspondent.]

REEFTON, July 13.

Mrs Blackmore, avlio has been visiting Christchurch, has returned. At the Reefton District High School Committee meeting there Avere present: —Messrs AV. B. Auld (Chairman), J. Patterson, J. Hawthorne, C. Dobson, C. Potter, C. Cleaver, H. Campbell (secretary), and W. S. Pratt (headmaster). An apology for absence Avas received from Mr D. Panckliurst.

The Headmaster’s report stated: — Secondary Department: Roll number, boys 29, girls 24. WithdraAvn, boys 1. Average attendance, boys 25.3, girls 21.6. Fourteen half-days Avere excepted during the period. Primary Department.—Roll number, boys 93, girls 74. Admitted, boys 1. Average attendance, boys 81, girls 62.9. Twenty half-days were excepted. During the month the school Avas visited by Mr A. H. Leaper, Miss Ironside, ActingInspector of Home Science, and Captain Sugden, N.Z.S.C. Miss Ironside made no official report but Avas intensely interested in the organisation of the school. Captain Sugden inspected the Cadet Unit with which lie Avas Avell impressed. Correspondence to hand notifies that a staff officer Avill visit the school monthly and that uniforms are to be issued, to the unit. The suoav bent dOAvn some guttering around the back of the building and the drippings are falling just over the exit door. Proposed by Mr Auld, seconded, by Mr HaAVthorne, “That the Nelson Board be informed as to the state of the^ spouting oAving to the effect of the snow and to the fact that the spouting has not yet been strapped Up as decided on.—Carried. It Avas resolved that a letter be sent to the Inangahua County Council asking that any spare refuse or surplus soil or gravel from streets be dumped in the hole in the school grounds left by the removal of old buildings.

The visiting committee for next month to be Messrs Auld and Campbell.