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BOARD SCHOOL MEETING.- A meeting of this Board was held on Saturday, April 25, when there was present Messrs. E. Richardson (chairman), Geo. Rainbow, (vice-chairman), C. Whiting, O. Nichols and Thos. Osborne, clerk. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. In reply to the advertisement for a head master for this school, 24 applications were received. The committee of selection reduced the number to two. The choice was between Mr. H. H. Middleton St. Albans, and Mr. Jos. Curry, Forest-gate, London. Both these gentlemen were present at the meeting and were questioned by the Board, in the end Mr. C. Whiting proposed and Mr. Geo. Rainbow seconded, ‘That Mr. H. H. Middleton, St. Albans be appointed head master of the school, with wife as assistant mistress, at a salary of £80 fixed plus one third of government grant with house and garden.” The proposition was agreed to unanimously. The clerk was directed to pay railway expenses for meeting the Board. The clerk was also directed to draw up a testimonial for Mr. Brearley, headmaster who is leaving at the … May. Mr. E. Richardson proposed and Mr. Whiting seconded, a vote of condolence to the widow and family of the late Mr. Charles Jones, who was at the time of his death a member of this Board. He was also a member of the first School Board elected on December 6, 1888. Both the proposer and seconder spoke highly by the deceased as being a man who took a profound interest in the schools, and everything which tended to promote the welfare of the young people of the village. He was conscientious almost to a fault, unassuming in manner, and thoroughly consistent in principle. – Cheques were signed for the usual salaries and bills.
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