WANGANUI GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 827, 6 February 1868, Page 2

WANGANUI GRAMMAR SCHOOL

The annual general meeting of the ratepayers of the Wanganui School district was held yesterday evening. There was only a limited attendance. Mr Thomas Kells was unanimously elected chairman. The chairman having read the advertisement calling the meeting, Mr Hutchison, as chairman of Committee read the following report for 1867 : “Your Committee have much pleasure in reporting that both departments of tlie school during the past year have been eminently successful, —a result largely owing to the painstaking and ability of the respective teachers. “It requii’es but few more years of such patient, steady work to render the Institution both strong and permanent, so that the public could have the satisfaction of knowing that the means of education had been firmly established, and would grow with the growing development of the district. It was therefore with much regret that the --O— al/ 6liC UIUStJ of the last session left without the services of Miss Dewar, who has seen it her duty to resign.

“A difference of opinion has arisen between the teachers and the Committee, with the exception of the Chairman, as to the terms of agreement with the former, in so far as salary is concerned. It will be for the Committee to be now appointed to settle the point in dispute. “The debt resting on the school at the beginning of last year, has only been partially liquidated. The Committee hope that this meeting may resolve upon some plan for having it paid off, more especially as the school buildings require considerable repairs, for which, in the absence of an educational rate, a subscription is necessary. William Hutchison, Chairman. A good deal of discussion arose on the third paragraph of the report, but ultimately it was unanimously approved of. We must hold over the discussion until our next. The following gentlemen were elected on a committee for 18G8 (we are not in a position just now to give a complete list) : Messrs Caiman, Ballance, G. F. Allen, J. Armstrong, James Anderson, Hutchison, and Watt (treasurer).