TOWN SCHOOLS COMMITTEE

Nelson Evening Mail, 5 April 1917, Page 5

TOWN SCHOOLS COMMITTEE

A special meeting of the Town Schools Committee was held '.last night; Present: Messrs E. E. Boyes. J. N. Easdale,, J. W. Treacher, W. McGonchio, and Mrs Biichanim. Mr Boyes was voted to the chair.. ' i The minutes of the previous meting were taken as read, as the minute ;boolc and other documents had been lost in the recent fire which destroyed Jackson and Co.'s building in Trafalgar-street, where the secretary (Mr T&. Gilbert) had his office. ■ ' ' '.''■

■• The secretary said the bank-book ,had been at the bank at the time of the fire, and therefore was saved. He- had ! obtained a copy of the balance-sheet ; from the Education Board. • The chaii'man said the meeting had been called in consequence _of the a'prroaching election of committee, which was to take place at a meting of householders on Monday, the 16th inst., nominations, in writing, to be made, with him riot later than Tuesday, the 10th. No nominations could be received at the householders' meeting. # . In a discussion as to the previotr6 elec. tion of committee, which was in error conducted with the local government "lections, Mrs Buchanan remarked that tdie committee seemed to be the, only persons who did not know the election was wrong. Probably everything the comittoo had done during the past two years was irregular. , ..'..•■ The chairman, in reply to Mrs Buchanan, said that the Education Board at H.q last meeting had simply asked the Pepartment how the board stood to the cost of carrying out the committee election. It was decided, after the reading of correspondence, that the committee had no jurisdiction in a matter between a teacher and a guardian of children. The draft annual report submitted by the secretary was approved, with an Addition mentioning tho loss by fire of the committee's records. It was resolved that a letter of sympathy be sent to Mr R. Irwin, of the Boys' Central Schftol teaching .staff, in the death of his eldest brother. --j The board intimated that Miss Queenie Bush had been appointed a pupil teacher at the Girls' School'. , Accounts amounting to £8 9s were passed for payment.- '•'•,■ It was resolved that the secretary be empowered to renew his equipment _of books, ete., and robbrt on the question of obtaining a small safe.