Featherston School Committee.
The Featherston School Committee met on Saturday evening, and went tally into the report of the sub committee appointed to draft a prize scheme. Subscriptions were handed in amounting to £6 7s 6d in cash and £1 4s 6d in books. Messrs Banting and Bock were appointed to select prizes, and it was decided to present them on Friday next. The Committee were unanimous in the wish that as many of the parents and friends of the scholars who could make it convenient would attend at the distribution. It was decided to present prizes for the most regu> lar attendance, an allowance being made lor those living a distance and one each to the most popular boy and girl in the school, these latter to be alloted by the scholars, and also to present a card to each child in the infant classes.
The Autumn picnic was discussed, and the Secretary instructed to advertise in the Standard, inviting all those willing to assist, to meet at the school on Friday evsmng next at 8 o’clock.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2004, 13 December 1886, Page 2
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