MATAMAU.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2500, 2 September 1890, Page 3

MATAMAU.

(OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.) A fairly attended public meeting was held at Mr Sohaare’s store, Matamau, on Saturday evening, Mr J. MaDn in the chair. The Chairman said this meeting was called, first, to equire into the charges made against the teacher and forwarded to the Education Board by the Matamau School Committee. Secondly, to demand the production of all correspondence between the Board and Committee on the matter and to have it laid on the table Thirdly, to decide finally whether the teacher or the Committee should be called upon to resign. The Chairman of the Committee was not present to produce the copies of all correspondence, and therefore no business could be done, but the Chairman read a resolution as follows : This meeting considers the charges brought against the teacher by the Chairman of the School Committee are libellous and undeserved by the teacher, who haa done his duty to the best of his ability. This found favor with the meeting, bat was not put at the meeting. Mr Box moved that the meeting ad journ to next Saturday, and that the Chairman be called upon then to produce all correspondence between the Board and Committee on the matter of the master’s removal; seconded by Mr Hall and carried.

Mr Beard has received an order for 20 cords of firewood for the railway department ; the strikes seem to have done some good in the bush ; “ it is an ill wind that blows no man good.” One effect of the alteration of the train service is, we are informed, that Mr Potts knocked off nearly all his bushmen on Monday. The strike is comiog home to us in a rather unpleasant way. The Makotukn children—or at least some of them—have taken up a new kind of recreation, out of school hours. They get on some slabs of wood, Buch aB are split off totara logs when only the heart

. . 'lj.ll is deeded, and paddle abou£ in ad; unsavory water-hole on an education reserve. We are informed this is in the charge of the Waipawa County, and has been used as a gravel-pit. The sooner it is fenoed the better, or an inquest may be needed. The recent sale of timber at Kaikora was such a success that a firm in the Bush has decided to hold a similar one about the end of the present month, which Mr B. B. Johnson will be employed to carry out. The advertisement will appear in a future issue.