SOUTH OTAGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21431, 4 September 1931, Page 12

SOUTH OTAGO

BALCLUTHA DISTRICT NEWS

(From;: Our Own ’ Correspondent. ) BALCLUTHA, September 3. i Mr GormacL presided over a fair at-, tendance of. members at the monthly meet-, ing- of the Balclutha School Committee last night. The headmaster (Mr W'.; O’Connor) reported that the average attendance for August was 333 out of a roll number of 357, and the average attendance for the term was 331. The school would reopen on September 8. The Education Board notified that the committee, had not claimed a subsidy. on the full coal expenditure last year, and the board; would, therefore, allow the balance over' of the £24 (i.e., £2l 7s 3d) to be carried: forward to this year’s subsidy claim,which would allow a subsidy of £3O 16s’ 3d to be claimed. The board., could not r'ecommeßd'th'e-grbutidw improvement cl aim for subsidy. -On the 'subject bf another: claim- the board stated that it .‘was holding over consideration until it was known; whether the department was-', making a supplementary 'grant of £3OO for Otago, this year. —Received, .t.---, - ■; ••' personal. ' V;. v ■ Mr John IScott, who is well-known as-< a stock huvet-foriiSims,- Cooper.,. Ltd., left; Balclutha last night for Victoria, where; he will be engaged up country m, fat lamb, buying for his firm for some months-, before returning to New Zealand.