Ik, accordanceswith: the 64th- section of the Education Act, 1877, and after due, notice had been given by the Secretary pfcofEp Education Board, a meeting of l hotts§hold6rs was—or should have been —he|<|..in Naseby on Monday la,st, that bdingfthe day prescribed by the Act for terminating the educational year. -The object cif _the ; meeting,- which is .general throughout the Colony, is to . enable th'e" existing Committee to - present a report for the past, and the house!- holders to elect a .new Committee for the current year. It is with the greatest regret we have tci announce that only a bare quorum of the existing Committee attended the; meeting, while the householders were hardly represented at all. The meeting* therefore lapsed, but little business| being transacted ; and, before another; can take place, a fresh notice must be! issued by the Board, and another day', appointed; To us it seems an extra-1 ordinary thing that-in such afdistrict as ; this the electors, and especially the parents, should display so much apathy in a matter of such vital importance. Amid the many public meetings that take place in Naseby in the course of a year, not one is ever called that can be said to deal with matters involving such high interests, and which is, therefore, so worthy of special atten tion. Admitting that the parents were careless of the Committee's report, knowing that they would ultimately see it in print, surely the election of a new Committee was a matter of suffi cient concern to merit the sacrifice of an hour's time in the evening. -With the Committee rests the entire management of educational matters within the district over which it presides, and if it were only tore-elect the Committee as it is at present con stituted it should have been done.,,,As Yve'HaTe~already said," another meeting must be called; and, f ''if that should fall through_.for_ lack of attendance, it will then be left to. the. Education Board : to appoint a-paid Commissiokek to transact our local school business for us. We can only trust that such meeting will have another tale to tell, and that proof will be given that }the Naseby 'school district is in no real sense behind its neighbors in anything which concerns the educational welfare of the children within its bounds.
