SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12424, 13 February 1901, Page 6

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

The Papanui School Committee met on Monday, when the, mseting'v.-as adjourned, '.owing to the -Email attendanca of members. ■The annual school picnic is to-be held-at -Sumner on Thursday, Feb. '2,1. '■.;■ The ordinary meeting .of the Kaiapoi .Borough School Committee was held on .Monday evening ; prssent—Messrs Moor© .{(chairman), ; Feklwick, Clark, Parnham, jDralceley and -Ellen: Leave of absence was to. ■ Messrs Young, Ctrnp and iDoubleday. A letter was read from the ■'Education Board, '-sanctioning the appointIment of-Miss'lrene Moore as pupil-teacher. 'The head-master's repnrt stated that tho 'number: on "the roll was 483. 'and the 'average attendance 439:7, wliich was 90 iper cent of ths roll. The committee unanijmously'expressed its approval of the way !ini whieb the Board had treated the school ■'lbuildings in the matter of, imp-rovements, ■'and considered that: when the ventilators

•tiffi 1 *^ e premises had been, attended' '*:.' ti> tko pchool as a whole would be in first-'.'-■'<jlass condition. Tlie question' of small re-. ..'-; ; pairs ro certain p;irts of tli2 asphalting .■was referred' to the Visit big Committee, to report'on at next meeting.. ■■ The ques- ' 'Hon of an excursion, for the children .-was not considered, as the committee did -not think a day could be spared for it, con•sklering that the school had been closed so long. Accounts to the amount of £4 19s 2d were passed for payment. Mr Feldwick explained that, owing to the non-ccmple-'tion of the school improvements at the time fixed for the' opening, the committee had extended tho holidays by two fextra days,'"and its action was approved. 'A vote of ; L thaink3 was passed to the Beard ' far its generous action with respect to the