GISBORNE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4070, 26 October 1915, Page 6

GISBORNE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

LAST NIGHT’S MEETING. Tli© Gisborne School Committee held its monthly meeting in the school last evening. The Finance Committee recommended the payment of accounts amounting to £7 2s 6d. The headmaster reported on the prevalence of measles in the district and the resulting fall off in attendance. Over 150 children were known to bo absent yesterday through this epidemic. He referred . also to the concert on Friday last in aid of Heel Cross funds and' estimated that the Committee would bo able to pay over not less than £6O to the fund with the proceeds. He reported the receipt of a substantial donation from Mr 1 are Keilia to the band fund as an expression of his pleasuro at the progress lie boys had made. Two more old boys had sacrificed their lives in tho war during the month, James Bremncr had been kjlled al the Dardanellcs, and Edgar Noblo Jones in France. . The Committee instructed its secretary to convey to tho relatives or these two young men their sympathy in the loss' sustained . In response to a letter from Mr li. Ball, hon secretary of the Patriotic Fete and Carnival Committee, it was decided to..close the school on Friday afternoon, November 19th, tho >ndren’s Day at the Carnival. Votes of congratulation were passed to* the staff-.and performers on the success of the concert on Friday evenin glast, and Mr Friday and the hoys of tho drum and fife band were complimented on tlio progress made by the band in so short a. time. Tho secretary was instructed to write to Mr Pare Keilia thanking lnm for liis 1 donation to tho band funds. During the discussion on the report of the Finance Committee, attention was' drawn to the apparent laxity oi the Education Department in producing the necessary machinery to enable committees to claim subsidies, on voluntary contributions to school funds. . It was pointed out that by regulations gazetted in July for subsidies can only be made on frjrms provided by the Government, and that after three months the forms are not to be obtained. The Committee, decided to write to the Minister for Education, to Sir James Carroll, and to the Hon. W. D S. McDonald and urge them to. hasten the Department’s action in this matter.