SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1914, 26 April 1888, Page 2

SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

OPUNAKE.

About 25 householders were present. The chairman pro tern of the retiring committee, Mr. J. Pennington, was in the chair. He presented to the meeting a statement of accounts, as follows, for the year ended 31« if Dec, 1887 : — Receipts : [Balance at lsfc^an., 1887. £5 4s 10a" ; capitation from board, £20 13s Id ; 'Wesleyan Church, towards cleaning, £1 15b; total, £27 12s lid. Expenditure : Clean1 ing, £12 10s 2d ; fuel, 18s ; sundries and repairs, .£l4 Os 8d ; balance in hands of secretary and bank, 4s Id ; total, £27 12s lid. Since 31st Dec, 1887, capitation amounting to £3 193 6d had been received, and payments had been made amounting to ;£3 10s, leaving a credit balance of 13s 7d ; debts of £'3 9s 6d, and capitation due of about £4: 63 Gd, leaving a balance of £1 10 a7d of assets over liabilities. The meeting then proceeded to elect the committee, when the undermentioned householders were proposed: — Messrs. Afflick, Cross, McHardy, Dabinett, Dcs Forges, McSweeney, Dudley, Pepperill, and Pennington, necessitating a poll being taken, with tbe result as follows : C. McHardy, 30; J. Dabinett, 27; D. McSweeney,"24; A. Gross, 20; R. Afflick, 18; J. Pennington, 15; R. Pepperill, 13; F. DesForges, 13; E. J. Dudley, 8. There being a tie, the chairman decided to settle the matter by vote of the meeting, which decided by 15 to 5 in favor of F. DesForges. This being the whole of the business, the meeting dispersed. At the meeting of the committee held immediately afterwards, Mr. Pennington was elected chairman by 5 to 2. April 23.