EOOL COMMITTEE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 9548, 18 November 1881, Page 3

E OO L COMMITTEE.

r y monthly meeting of the School Committee was held litcrnoon. Present — Messrs jj'the chair), Carson, Shaw, Willis.

;__Tlie minutes of the pre\o Avere read and confirmed. J\Sr Carson, on behalf of jon appointed to confer with *from the board in reference jtions to the Infant School, -net the chairman and Mr |j bad the three plans subs&s agreed that plans should i&nd tenders called for the to the building. The cost something like £400. Mr I that be had spoken to Mr /and he understood that aid at once be called for and ijtbtf board.

53 Committee. — It was re- ! the various wards be canijjlows, for subscriptions for sent of the school grounds : »ard, Messrs Carson and a'sWard, Messrs Shaw and .John's Ward, Messrs Laird

LrcouNT. — It was resolved,

bDrew, Laird, and Willis, fie banker with reference to Eount.

5,-Hr Willis said a number isd bpen unable to attend iitions on account of the | measles. Many of the 1 worked very hard, and it reat hardship to them that lave to wait a whole year : could go into a higher Ee would like to know if lb] not ] tower to put them intc the standard which live passed but for illness. 3 such power, parents might children from school for a lad then send them as new the teachers would place > which their fitted them for. He had ;dm| in reference to the teachers. —Mr Currie insse of one lioy wbo, having ol,\rent to another. The ice asked him for his ccrwt him into work tor the »istho system which was '.«!.— Mr Carson said he by a teiu.'her should, under stances fis Mr Willis had sp p. pupil working in the K:h he could have passed k lie thought the pupil Hi?e his education in this ■teujher should put him in ■the next standard, though ■Emulation he might have ■Mr standard. — The nhairB>i n iottiT from Mr James ■ stated thnt his daughter ■ school at Wellington and Mac? passing the second W till the morning of the K she was led to believe Kto f:n up for tbo exBrtlieihinl standard, but H ; i into tiic playground as »'i'l. ITe wished to know Be conformity with the Act, H' to jurist: of the pupil's B'tliat attention might be ■'ijects in which she was B-'f Shaw moved, That a H^u to the head teachers, Brav.es of all scholars who, H^i in accordance with the ■frn sent up for examinaHtoasou why they had not Hp< Seconded by Mr Cur-

E r.ETi-RNs.— Girls' High iince (luring month, 248 ; attendance. 203 ; number jj&ool wiis opened during i Infant School : attend K'luh, 144 boys, 169 girls. << boys. IS girls ; school lays. '