SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 150, 21 September 1881, Page 3

SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The committee met at 8.30 p.m. Present — Messrs. O'Brien, Glenn, Mitchell, Martyn, and Yorke. Mr* Yorke proposed, and Mr. Mitchell seconded, that Mr. Martyn be elected chairman.

Mr. Martyn asked that he might be excused. He hoped Mr. Yorke would consent to act in his stead. He (Mr. M.) would be absent from home for some considerable period during the next three months, and correspondence was likely to ,be neglected, and he mast ask to be allowed to decline.

; Mr. Yorke offered to act as honorary secretary to Mr. Martyn, if the latter had npt time to attend to tbe correspondence. Personally he was not likely to need the school, and, as a rule, men with families were better judges of what was needed than men without any. Besides, he had undertaken the chairmanship of the road board, which was sufficient responsibility in itself. In the event o£ Mr. Martyn continuing to decline, would any other member undertake to act ? He proposed Mr. Glenn.

Mr. Glenn declined, and thought Mr. Yorke might undertake it for a while, at any rate. When things were once put into train there would be very little further difficulty. Mr. Mitchell seconded the motion, and it was canied.

The meeting then proceeded to consider the rules and regulations of the Board. In accordance with the instructions contained therein, the chairman was requested to forward his name to the Education Board, and to request information respecting the funds which were likely to be available.

On the motion of Mr. Marty n, it was resolved that the school committee should meet on the third Wednesday in each month (excepting the current month), at 7.80 p.m. at Manaia ; the hour and date of the meeting not to be altered, except by the vote of a clear majority of the whole committee— viz., four members.

The question of the best site for a school was then discussed, all the members of the committee being of opinion that section 91, reserved as a hospital site, would be more suitable for a school than any of those kid off for the purpose. Several members agreed to meet and examine the . site the next day, bo as to satisiy themselves of the correctness of the statements advanced.

Mr. Mitchell thought it would be a pity to have the school on the lower side of the township, where all drainage must go. Besides, he was anxious that Manaia should be a good place; and if the school were placed on section 91, it would be within easy reach of all the small sections sold in block 111., at the last sale, and would tend to prevent the settlers up there asking for a separate school. The extra half-mile or more of distance would make all the difference.

Mr. Glenn was strongly in favor of the highest and driest section being chosen.

The Chairman recommended the committee to send the application for section 01 through the Commissioner of Crown Lands, to whom such questions would have to be referred, in ordinary course.

The chairman's suggestion was adopted, and he was requested to forward the application accordingly. All the members were agreed that, seeing the direction which settlement had taken, the large farms being nearly all to seaward of the township and the small on the inland side, there could be no doubt that the school would be better placed, and would be within reach of a greater number of children, if placed on section 91.

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