TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1196, 26 February 1880, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU.

The adjourned meeting of the householders of the Te Awamutu educational di&trict was lield in the Public Hall on Saturday evening lasst, Mr J. Winstone in the chair. The meeting, on the motion of Mr Sloane, seconded by Mr Avenel, carried a resolution by a majority of 17 against 7 who were for the appointment ot a school committee, that no committee be formed, but that the two gentlemen selected at their first meeting last month, viz., Messrs Winstone and Walton, be recommended to the Board as school commissioners for the current year. The reason given by Mr Sloane, in speaking to his resolution for his departure from the ordinary mode of administering school matters by committee, was that under the management of their late commissioner, Mr M. M. Taylor, things worked well and harmoniously, but that the school committee which preceded the commissioner were frequently mixed up in squabbles and broils, and thus retarded rather than advanced education in the district. There is a feeling gaining ground here re school committees amongst thinking people, and that is that one or two educated men who would assist and co-operate with the teacher in furthering the interests of the school and the advancement of the pupils, are better than seven taken indiscriminately, who perhaps could not spare the time, even had they the qualification to take upon themselves the grave responsibility of supervising the education of youth,