RAES JUNCTION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1158, 1 July 1885, Page 5

RAES JUNCTION.

f — 7- .' (Fvam our own "Correspondent .) The njonthly meeting of the School 1 Committee was /held' in the schoolhouse i on Saturday evening- last. Present— < Messrs Bjeighton (in the chair), Stewart, < Mackay, $arr, and Richardson. After the < minutes of^the last meeting had been read I and conf^med,- a letter was readfrom the ~\ Education Board, stating that that body 1 was goingNjo/ call for tenders for the new 1 school for^the. July meeting. It was i agreed to^recommend the present site as 1 the most' suitable\on,e for this district. ( After soriie^minor' matters had' been at-, 1 tended to, -a^ofeof'tfianKs to the Chair- j man closed thelneeting. te "**- Otir school was closed on Friday last for ] a fortnight for the midwinter holidays, to ] allow theteSches*,t4,attena;thg,teacherß'< f. conference to Be'heltHin Dunedin. * •' l * •* I am given tq, understand that the' new 1 school v will 1:3, a decent-looking building) 1 as well as comfortable, 'and will be capable ' of holding forty children. Mr Fraer is \ working hard for the up-country distrilsts^ < with ours among the rest.^ tt j^aCjbe^a' j< great blessing when the new^^cnboXis~up^ ['. for both, teacher .aiuLchihlren, as Veil as t thedi&t.' -A '■ s v^^ ■"' ' t The Rev. R. Telford preached a very- 1 good sermon in the schoolroom on Sunday ] morning last, but on account of it being a i wet morning 'theie were not so many 1 present as there, ( would have been other- 1 wise. The rev. gentleman is going to '. preach in the morning again in four ] weeks' time, as the nights are so long at '] present. . vp r j The farmers are very busy destroying '; the] rabbits ju3t now. It is a pity the [ skips are bringing so little at present, j Mr. HicksonYlJMnectorY^s packing up^.the ■ efforts oLtne sellJOT|,|l6.y i^g got men on} 1 the] res£Btei,(apflftieWenM to be in earnest i in the matter. „„Ft„ F » t .*, , „«, « ,i We have had a long spell ofdry weather * ; here, but on Sunday ..morning a change ; set! in, as it then' 'commenced to rain.' i tSome of (the/faitoffifSl arfe ibusy pldughirig. . ' i Alfihough^ ppces^giy^n; for .grain are ;i ve^y low, still flour kgeps t UR. , f ,, , „. „, 1