FORBURY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6534, 23 January 1883, Page 2

FORBURY.

The meeting of householders in the Forbury district was well attended, about 80 persons being present. Mr A. Price was called to the chair, and the secretary (Mr Reid) read the report and balance-sheet, which were to the following effect: — , .

Attendance —The number of children on the roll at Ira nt is 027; the average altti.danco for tbe la-t quarter, 457. Keraiuo and expenditure. Receipts: Credit b Unco en Ist January, 1852, M.21 12s 5Jd ; total *ccoi,>ts, UGS 12.45J.1. Expend'ture: Cleaning school and outbuildings, £34 SsOd; fuel for school u.e.fiU U< lid ; repairs to. buildinca, &c, £23 lls 7d; furniture, :0s 0.1; pri ting, £2 ss: adveifcising, £2; prizes and px.cn«! of concerts, i' 37 13*; statiwery, £1 Is; bull, £7 (is 31; i-Kctiug sanw, £8 10s; handball and L'.miia-lic apparatus, £21 14s; framing cerliflcates, £i 7s (id ; bilance in hand, 13s 2Jd. The balance in hand i-> duo to the prize fund.

The ri [i jtt explained tint the decrease of the credit balance was due to t-.e {act of increased expenditure fora bell and the swings, &c. Fnm the proceed! r,f iwi concert:) the Committee had been able to .-istribute mo c piizea than previously, and in addition to the usual prizes, others had been given for good attendaai'o.

The report concluded as follows :—

Tho Committee regret that they have not succeeded in obtaining from the Education Board what thny consider the district is entitled to— vie, sufficient accommodation for the children in aitcndirC'i an this school. The Committee conbider the in-mfflctent school accommodation unfair to tho children, and to the teachers of the children, as interfering wlih their progress, and to the teachers in produoicg resulrs as airainsc others who have suftioie ie accommodation ; aud to this disadvantage the school has heen subjected for the la't three" years. The BC/oner that the pre-ent building can be sot replacml by another, meeting the requirement) of "the district, the better. Considering lint part of tho buiMing W becoming dilapidated, it has be.n kept in a fair stato of ie t >air, as well as tho fences and furniture. The Corn-nil Me have held 12 meetings, besides several ineo ings of sub-osmmittees. ~, ■

The report was unanimously adopted, on the motion of Mr Conn, seeouded by Mr Bhady. The Chairman then stated that nominations for the Committee for th 6 incoming year would bo received, and 14 names were proposed. A poll having been taken, the result was declared as follows: —Wardrop, 99; Vickery,'69; Mitchell, 58; M'Bride, 4G; Worthington, 40; Stenhouse, 39; Gore, 37. There was a tie for the seventh place, and the Chairman gave his casting vote for Mr Gore. A vote of thanks having been proposed to the outgoing Committee, a Mr Wilson moved; as an amendment, that the name of the Chairman (Mr Osmond) be omitted, on the ground that he had not onlyiguored the interests of the district, but had done his best to injure them. In his address the other night!,Mr Osmond had stated that he was aware privately of the intention of the Board to erect a school, but never intimated this to the Committee. He thought the meeting should pass a vote of censure on Mr Osmond..-*-: (Cries of "N0.," hisses, &c.) One Committeeman said .he thought Mr Wilson, as he had been appointed to a position under the Committee through,,Mr Osmond, by which he received a salary, should not speak in that manner. Mr Wilson replied that it was his wife who washed the school out and not himself, and he had no salary at al. After a few bantering remarks, "the amendment was put and lost, and the motion carried almost unanimously.

The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. . ■