BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5480, 11 February 1885, Page 4

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

A special mooting of tho Board of Education was hold yesterday afternoon, Mr Luko in tho chair, Prosont:—Messrs Carr, Cooper, Goldio, Moat, Mosh, and Professor Tucker. The objoct of tho mooting was to consider an cstimato of tho Building Fund, and applications for buildings, otc, which had been doforred from time to timo. Mr Rico, tho Socrotary, submitted tho following estimate of tho Building Fund :—Asset: Grant for school buildings, £9,G82. Liabilities : Bank overdraft (February 6th, 1885), £4,091 7s 2d; grants authorised to date (February 10th), £259 14s 4d; unpaid accounts, £30; balance, £4,800 18s 6d. Against this has to be reckoned the permanent charges on Building Fund for furniture and apparatus, repairs, and expenses incidental to surveys of sites, Expenditure for 1884, on furniture and sites, £1,727 5s lid ; say for 1885, £800 18s 6d. Balance available for appropriation, £4,000. Total requirements as per schedule, £32,075 3s. Mr Alwri^ht's report was also brought up and received. I'ho various applications wero considered, also other incidental suggestions, such as tho GovenimontofTortoconvoy children living neartherailway.to schools at a distance from their homes by train. Mr Goldio was desirous of affording every facility to teachers for dwollings, but recommended fairness to all as far as their funds would go. Ho moved, " That all school dwollings should be struck out of the list of requirements at present." The estimate for the required buildings amounted to about £12,000. The motion was carried. The erection of the following new schools was authorised, Mr Alwright to prepare plans and specifications for tho Bamo :— Miranda (new school), £150 ; Taotaoroa (now school), £400 ; Rangiriri (now school), £280; Mahurangi Heads (now school), £200; Otaeka (near Whangaroi), £24 granted for lining present ' building; Okua (new school), £290; 1 Waimate (new school), £250, and two acres to be purchased for pite at a cost of £20 ; Puhoi (new school), £300; Hautapu—the removal of the present school to nearer Cambridge was authorised at a cost of £120 ; Babylon (near Helensville), new school the Education department had promised for native children (estimated to cast £240), £C 0 granted ; Komokoroki (school at present held in a barn), new school, estimated at £250—£50 was authorised ; Mourit Roskill (enlargement), £220 ; Parua Bay (now school, old one burned down), £75. A number of applications were deferred for future consideration.