! SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS |

Otago Witness, Issue 2860, 6 January 1909, Page 9

! SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS |

The ordinary meprLng of the Otago School * Commissioners was held on Dec. 29. Present—Messrs W. Dallas (chairman), T. Mac Gibbon, D. Borrie, and E. H. Wilmot. | A special cesolurion was passed confirming a .'■pecial resolution of meeting h*Jd on October 20, 1903, accepting surrender of * T. and J. Hood's lease of section ' 7, block i 111, V\ endens.de. and agreeing to issue a ■ new lease to them for the balance of the original term at the same rent; ako con- } firming- special resolution of meeting held on November 'PA, 1903, remitting half-year's rent of sections 25. block V, and part 23 and 24, block V, Maungatua, to T.- Bryant and William Home respectively. A memo was leceived from the District Engineer for Railways stating that he could lot see his way to recommend payment of £50 for area of two roods on section 3, block V, Edendale, but that he would recommend that £25 be paid if the commissioners would accept that cum. — Agreed to accept £30. j The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Invercargill, forwarded an application from ["the secretary of the Presbyterian Church I Committee, Lumsden, asking for a refund ! of £8 for valuation of improvements en ! section 4, block IV, Lurnsden.— £B ,to be I remitted. j The Clerk, Southland County Council, I wrote asking for the following votes from goldfields revenue : Fewing3 lane, £20 (pound for pound) ; Company's lane, £15 (nound for pound,); Edtre'tj coal pit load, £40 (poun3 for pound). — Resolved to grant subsidy of pound for pound for Fewings and Company's lane. Consideration of other held over Mrs Jane Bell,, lessee of section 17, block 35, Township of HawksJbury, applied for reduction of rent. — Annual lease to be- ' granted at ss. j The Secretary reported that as Mr A. I Matheeon, lessee of section 2 of 16, block I, Maungatua, had settled -with the Taieri Drainage Board, the commissioners' objection to -classification had been| withdrawn. — Received. Mondy and Stephens wrote stating that in Reid's case the Magistrate had delivered judgment placing 20 acres in Class A, and the remaining 20 acres in Class C, and that he/had reseryed his decision regarding the , question of^posts. — Received. I The Commissioner of Crown Lands. Invercargill, forwarded an application' from I Mre Bla+ch, lessee of runs 301b and 301 c, Te Anau, asking to have the road through the runs, which was shown as a dotted track, laid off a3 a road. — Lessee recommended to apply to Wallace County Council for defined road. School Commissioners would endorse application. J A. D. Minn, lessee of section 2, block 11, ' Outram," wi*ote asking commissioners to accept surrender of iease. — Ranger to report. ! J. M'Lachlan, on behalf of Good Templars' Hall Committee, lessee of part section 2 of 23, block IV, N. H. and Blueskin district, wrote asking to be allowed to hand I the section over to the Otago Education j Board. — Consideration held over. : I The Chairman, Land Purchase Commis- '■ sioners, asked if the commissioners would accept surrender of lease of part section 18, block V, Kauroo district. — Resolved to accept surrender of lease. ! The Clerk. Taieri Drainage Board, wrote staling that the board was prepared to carry oixk tHe wort of laying a. drain through Mrs M'Lennan's leasehold, section • 2 of 120, block 11, Maungatua, and find a box, provided the commissioners supplied , the pipes or paid the cost of same. — Lessee ■ 1 to be informed that commissioners were j ' prepared to pay two-thirds cost of laying , the pipes. _ j i The Crown Lands Department, Dunedin, ' asked to have a road closed on .part section 18, block V, Kauroo. — Approved. A list of the tenants in arrears who had received notice of forfeiture of lease ' on account of breach of conditions of lease , was submitted. — Noted and dealt with, j W. G. Coster applied for consent to trans- j I fer lease of section 15, block VI, Winton . Hundred, from A. Ger-rard to Andrew j I Stevens. — Granted on usual conditions. ( J Hosking and Cook asked for conj sent to transfer ieaee of run 327 a and sections 1 and 2, block X, Waikaia, from Kain • Brothers to W. N. O. Bond.— Granted on ! j usual conditions. _ ] I In reference to the proposed protective works at Waikaia River, opposite blocks II and XIV, Wendon, a letter was received j from Mondy and Stephens advising as to proposed extension of leases to the tenants in connection with their agreeing to undertake protective works. — Consideration heJd , over. ' . I Mondy and Stephens wrote advising generally on the Public Bodies' Leases Act, , 1908. — Received. Committee of commissioners appointed to consider the matter , and report to next meeting. I Southland County Council applied for subsidy of £30 foy protective works at ; Cooper's farm. — Opinion to hand from j Messrs Mondy and Stephens as to commissioners' liability in the event of their subeidising the work.— Resolved to grant South- ! land County Council subsidy of £50. Solicitors' opinion received. . . I The Ranger reported on an application from Wallace County Council for land on section 27, block VI. Jacobs River Hundred.—The application was granted at So ( per acre. ' Accounts amounting to £111 8s 4d were passed for payment.

Eight cattle belonging to Mr 'Shiel, j J.Pfi Cotehill, near Drogheda. were tied , together by the tails, - and in their struggles to free themselves five of the j animals tore portions off their tails. j "The Chinese Ufive me very little trouble," said Mr Seed, inspector for the S.P.C.A. at Wellington, in reporting to the society the "case of a Chinese who ad- ' ! mitfced that his horse was overloaded. , " They are generally kind enough to their ! animals." Different was his story about the horse of another foreigner whs. when remonstrated with for cruelty, desired to know what sort of a country this was where a man could not do what he liked with his own animal. j Officials, dairy inspectors, experts, instructors, managers, dairy farmers, and medical men advocate the Ha-rtnett milking > machine. — Nimmo and Blair. ' '