WAIMATE DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

North Otago Times, 9 December 1910, Page 1

WAIMATE DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The usual meeting was held on December 6th. Present: Meusrs Cochrane (chairman), Inkster, Jacksou, .Shack'leton, Grant, Lee, and Oolville. Mr.Pitcaithley, the headmaster, informed the Board that there is a subsidy dii e by the Education Board towards school bathing, £5 for WfM, and £5 for the present year. Report on the school for the past month: Roll number 492., average attendance 445 in the primary school, 58 and 50 in the High Schooltotal roll 542, & nd average 405, The infant school is still overcrowded, but will fee Umporarily relieved at the of the-year when the npper ,aiass will be promoted to Standard I. room. It is hoped that the efforts of your committee to secure further accommodation Will be successful. The. examinations of scholars of Qlie. kind or another h&vg tyen. going on in the school for- the last three) weeks, the first about the 20th November for the civil service and senior scholarship, Tfcis_ was followed by the National and junior an( j „ow the matriculation ia proceeding. On Thursday next' the' proficiency examination will commence, and this. Will finish up the outside examina-

He* for the present year, It .will be K, ••oar committee, to arrange about the ■pipliase and distribution of Prfas, aa wsll as for the summer vacation, The- organisers of the Student's Christian Union gathering would 'be pleased to get into the school as early as possible. The sum o[ .£2o,' "including £lO from, the Waimate High School Board, was allocate for prizes for the primary •and', secondary school, tjhe. prizes to be selected by. the chairman,-;-'. Mr Grant, Mr Lec.'atid the headmaster j. -'flic, infant school prize's, to be- presented at 2.30 p.m. on-December-Mb, in the school, Mrs-Yf,. M, Hamilton to, be .fo distribute the prizca to .the infant elapses.

It -ma resolved that Lady Steward te asked .to: distribute the Pn'«s to the primary and secondary scholars on the 14th instant at 7 p.m, Resolv«d-Tfet'tjte. Mayor a nd the members of the Waimate High School Board, be invited to he present, .Rejolved-Tliat thft'committee appointed arrange for the distribution of prizes by the Ministers' Association, the distribution of prizes to be held in the Oddfellows' Hall, ■ Resolved-That the school re-open after; the Christmas, holidays o:. Monday, January/31st, 1311. The chairman had reoeived a number of letters off the matter,.of increasing space accommodation for the 'infant classes; at the school, The matter is not,y-k''settled,, hut .the chairman, is in.hopjs that the. improvement of the. school for the infant classes will be acceded to. • A letter was ,; received ; from Mr Lindsay informing the Board that the application for increased accommodation for-the-'infant, school was informal.—Received.

Several letters -pi . a , formal nhaTacter were repoived, '. v -. Resplved'-fhat' arrangements be made with the Railway Department for an-excursion train for Waimate District School scholars to'Timarb for some day about -tbo middle of February, 1911, ; .-' • The\visitor reported on the Btate of the school king- satisfactory, ■ Resoived-That the Board- oe applied to'for ■&• grant for sanitary imprpvements. ■'.,'■-..■'' ■ . 'Accounts..'' amounting ,t Q £ts 5s were passed for, payment*. :