GREYMOUTH STATE SCHOOL.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 4784, 22 January 1884, Page 4

GREYMOUTH STATE SCHOOL.

A special meeting of the Greymouth State School was held last night. Present — Messrs Kerr (chair), A. R. Guinness, J. Petne, J. Barrowman, E. I. Lord, R. Holms, and Dr Morice. The minutes of the last monthly and adjourned meetings were read and confirmed. It was resolved on account of four teachers being absent, undergoing an educational examination at Kumara, that the usual season's holidays be extended to Monday, 28th inst. Resolved that the secretary write to Mr Bingham, of Christchurch, informing him that out of 52 applications for tlio head mastership of tke Greymouth School, his name was one of the last two reserved for consideration, and on a division Mr Thornton, of Rcefton, was elected. The following circular was read and received : — "Education Department, " Wellington, 10th January, 1884. "The Chairman of the School Committee, Greymouth. " Sin,— l am directed by the Minister of Education to inform you as follows : — " 1. In consequence of the failure of the late Education Board of Westland District to complete the election of the ! Education Boards of the proposed new districts of Westland and Grey, as required by ' The Westland Education District Subdivision Act, 1883,' it is impossible for the Government to take any further steps for the legal constitution of the proposed new Boards until the General Assembly shall have amended the said Act. "2. In order to provide for the maintenance in the meantime of the public schools in the Westland and Grey Districts, the Government have resolved to pay the teachers' salaries and any other current expenditure that may be found absolutely necessary until the General Assembly shall have removed existing difficulties. "3. An officer of the Government at Hokitika and another at Greymouth will be appointed to make the necessary payi ments on account of the public schools in the Districts of Westland and Grey respectively. "4. As the former Education Board of the Westland District must now be re garded as defunct, the provisions of ' The Education Act, 1877,' for fixing the times and places for holding the annual meetings of householders on the fourth Monday of

the present month for the election of school committees cannot legally be given effect to, and consequently the existing school committees will continue to hold office until their successors can be legally elected as provided by section 64 of ' The Education Act, 1877.' " 5. The Government invite the heaity co-operation of the several existing school committees and the teachers within the Districts of Westland and Grey in their efforts to maintain the public schools in the fullest .possible state of efficiency until Education Boards for the two districts "shall have been legally constituted. " I have honor to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, " John Hklop."