WAIKARI.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9428, 1 June 1891, Page 6

WAIKARI.

[from our own correspondent.]

The usual ' monthly meeting of the School Committee was held in the schoolroom at Waikari on the evening of May 6; present —Messrs G. W. Sellars (chairman), T. Armstrong, J. Knight, E. M. Pemberton, F. Scott, John Finlayson and J. G. S. Tonkin. Accounts to the amount of J 232 Os 5d were passed for payment. It was decided that Messrs Pemberton and Knight should inspect the school and premises and report at the next meeting what repairs are necessary; that a supply of fuel be obtained, also four enamelled iron cups for the children to drink .out of; that Mr J. M’Lean’s offer for the old pump, recently removed, be accepted. Tuesday, May 26, was quite a gala day in our usually somnolent little township. All the townspeople and many of the neighbouring settlers were enfSte in honour of the marriage of Mr Arthur Truman, who has been in the employ of the Eailway Department as porter and guard at Waikari for about four years, and Miss M'Lean, who has lived in Waikari since her father commenced business here twenty - three years ago, when his smithy was the only building here.