;':*Tlie t-jii'lor \va« -aowjit^ii. •' ,T.vn nppMcMioiis were recvi visl for the -.] AssiStsut Mistress-ship at t!.o Uenwick i SoHb'il, anil ilireetail to ho forwarded to | tha Committee. _ ' A mass «f correspondence was received I from a Mr Plowilen. The Seer' tiry wai instructed to write, • ami acknowledge receipt of the let'er. The Cliairmia of the Pelorus School Committee wr.'t-). nsking that the Kiruma i .-iohonl-house utionld-beappninte.l, fur the ;onvcniouce of tno householders, the place for the annual meet rig for the elec tion ot a School Committee, instead of at •HavelpohV" «■-"-■ -■■■■■ The Secretary of the 15 iucation Depart ment wrote stntinEj that it was not the in tention of the Go/ernnient to repair the old Court Honso at Deap Creak, but to bnild-a?ne~v onov THu Board would be at liberty to occupy the old building for school purposes, and, if on Government land, the Board might feel warranted m undertak ing the DoeeßSaiy rerjafra. ■ ■ TW Secretary stated that he had re ceived a njmber of forms of claim for par ticipation m the libraries grant of last session, and that libraries wishing to obtain their tehaie of/ the grant could obtain forms from him. An application was received from the Blenheim School Committee for Venetian blinds for the ipfirat school. The application was granted. Messrs G. A. Smith and Co. petitioned for compensation to the extent of £52 9s 3d for loss alleged by them to have been sustained by them in' electing the new : school at bicton by being thrown into win terweather by the Board's delay m pur chasing the school site. Mr Sinclair said ho thought the firm had a claim for compensation, and moved that it be left to Mv D-oaslin to report on its reasonableness. ;■•-.. ■■ ; ■\ : ~• n / ■; ' ' ' Captain' Bailliu' seconded the 'motion, which was cavriedi '•' ■ '■■' " : Mr Smith, of Kekeraugu, wrote forward ing the. following resolutions passed at the last meeting of the Kek'eiangii Commit tee:—That the Committee having been infoririad>by;the Secretary to the Edubafion. Boavd'that the Boavd would- pa Mease of the school- gvoiind, being, handed to,.t)ieni. 