CARTERTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 97, 1 March 1879, Page 2

CARTERTON.

(From our own Correspondent.) ..' "Carterton, Feb. 28.

Your readers will recollect the resolution passed by the Council relative to the overweight of loads passing over the Black Bridge. I see the notices have been placed on the bridge as a caution to teamsters in addition to the notices appearing in tiie local papers, If all I have heard during the last three,days bo correct, the bridge is in a very precarious state, and its durability-not to be depended on. . A meeting of the Clareville (Taratahi) School Committee was held at the Schoolroom on Thursday evening, the 27th Feb., all the members boing present. The minutes of tho last meeting were read and confirmed. The Chairman read a letter from the. Secretary to the Education Board notifying the names of the gentlemen nominated for the Board, from whom the following were elected;— The Hon. C. J. Pharazyn, the Rev. James Paterson, and Wm. Hort Leyin, Esq. The Chairman reported that the croquet and cricked seta authorised to bo obtained jfqr $e

children fold been supplied,: The account. for same, amounting to £5 4s, Was directed: to be paid. The Chairman reported the receipt of the Capitation fee for the Dec. quarter. A lengthy discussion took place relative to works required in connection with tho school premises and teacher's 'residence, and it was ultimately resolved—"That the Chairman bring under the notice of the Education Board the- necessity of the undermentioned works, which are estimated to cost as follows:—A dividing fence to separate the boys from the girls, and tho erection of a small shed for the use of the girls in wet and inclement weather, £lO ; the gravelling of the pathway from the cemetery road to the schoolhouse, L 3; painting tho- paling fence in front of the schoolmaster's residence, L2 ; completion of fence round schoolmaster's residence, LI; total estimates of works required Ll6. The Committee then adjourned sine die.