MEETING AT CAMPELLTOWN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 70, 27 April 1880, Page 3

MEETING AT CAMPELLTOWN.

(FROM Orß OWN COUUESI'ONDEXT) On Faturday April 17, in the Square at Campbelltown, at 2 p.m., a meeting ot householders was held in accordance with the direction of the Education Hoard, Wanganui, for the purpose of accepting the school district boundaries as amended by the Board, and electing a School Committee. Notice of the meeting was J|y mistake published in the Palmerston paper ins cad of the Manawattt Herald, which is the only papev circulating here, but posters conspicuously placed had the effect of bringing together some two dozen settlers. By invitation of the settlers, Mr Sanson kindly attended the meeting, and gave at considerable length the needful information required for carrying on the bu.-iness of the school. The following persons weie proposed to form the School Committee, and elected, viz. : — Messrs Mayer, Newman, Beckman, Stafl, Gray, Hunt^ and Reid. Immediately afterwards the new Committee held their first meeting, when Mr Hunt was elected Chairman, and Mr J leid Secretary and Treasurer. It was resolved, after paying a visit to the school reserve, to apply to the Education Board for a sum not to exceed £8, to log up and burn the timber now lying on the school reserve, and sow grass seed. The Committee expressed its determination tc push on the building of the school withbub delay-. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Sanson for attending the meeting 1 , and in reply he thanked the Committee and said that it gave him great pleasure to attend a meeting oi > such importance to Campbelltown, He hoped the Committee would pusli on the matter of their application tc the Education Board, and he hopet to see the sphool finished in 12 months This clo£N|4Jt .the meeting,