BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 225, 20 September 1905, Page 2

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

j . , ; The Board of Education met this mornling. Present: Messrs S- Luke (chairman). H. J. Greensiade, A. B. Harris, Edgeeumhe, Stallworthy, McKen^k'. i finance.—The Finance- Committw re ported as follows:—Your committee recommend payment of tho following accounts, which have been duly examined aud initialled: Administration account. Iti voucnlers, £Sr>4o 13/S: manual and technical in- | strnction account. 1 vouchers, £120 11/0: building fund account, 35 Touchers, £71$ •Jl/7. Your committee have examined the treasurer's statement of accounts for the inontJi of August. Your committee bave dealt with correspondence submitted by the troant officer in regard to school attendance at IMriaka and Te Mata. Your committee sribmit correspondence with the ! Commissioner of Crown Lands regarding i the sale of timber on the girls' high school 'endowment property, and recommend that Ino further action be taken iv the matter. In connection with tbeir finances, the i chairman said he had communicated with ] the Minister on the qnestiou of the train- ! ins college, and had been assured that ; £1000 had been put on the Public Works ■ Estimates fop this purpose. A eontribuI tion of £2 for £1 had also been promised for the technical school. With regard to their overdraft; although it was fioniewhat heavy at present, about £7uou. it '.should be remembered that in other places the schools were built before the present : Education Act came in, whereas they had to build their schools. Concerning ihe district high school, he thought it best to leave the matter entirely in the hands? of Mr Hogrben, who would shortly be up from j Wellington to attend to the matter. Resignation.—The resignation of Mies 1 Violet Short, assistant at Karangahake jsc'iiool. was accepted. ! Education Board's Conference.—Hearty . votrs of thauks wore accorded to the ! chairman nnrl Mr P.airnall for tho Rood ' wurk done by them at the Wellington Conference. Special votes of thanks were also accorded to Mr Petri*, Mr .George, and :Mr Rice. With regard to the election of education boards it was resolved, on tbe -motion of Mr Parr, t'nat The Board, as the.result of a perusal of the new Education Bill, expressed its strong objection to the introdduction of the word system." The opinion Af tho Board was that tbe parent's of a. ci*rrict ppuwally slioudl elect the meojkicis to the I',.■aril. , , 1 S.-hoi.ls. -In a letter the Chief Inspector. Mr l'etrie. advised that one ;irtvnmed high school would be more valuable than two district hijrb schools, and he suggested that the Board should consider the I question before the coming visit of the Inspector-General.—Mr Parr said if only • one high school was established there wonid I be mariv children who would have to travel over four miles. He much preferj-ed the ' old proposal for a district high school at ' Ponsonbv and .-mother at Newmarket, with the Grammar School in the centre of the city.—Mr Raenall thought a good secondary ' school would be preferable to district bijrh : schools because higher-paid teachers could Ibe eiisafred. The disrrict hifih school al- : lowanc>> of £('. a head was inadequate, as the expense r»n up to £I'~> or £14. — A i-on'mittee was appoiuted to consider the matter :ind report, coiissistind of the chairman the Chief Inspector. Mr Tibhs, Mr Basnall. anl Mr Parr. Appointments. — The Teachers' Selection Committee recommended the following api pciutnients:—Mr Farquhar J. McKay to be teacher of Piopiotea school: Miss Annie Keaney. teacher Manpaiti; Miss Adelaide M. Smith, temporary charge Mangawfeara; Mr \ N Evans, teacher Tiroa school. That ' vhool committees should be consulted in ri-jrnd to proposed appointments as follows: I Waihopo (headmaster). Messrs G. H. Smith, 1 W F. Collis, and W. Masson; Hukatere (sole chnree). Mr l>. 8. A. Meiklejobn: and that applications shonld be invited by advertisement f«r the following appointments: - Bnckland (mistress), salary £80; I'uhoi (mistress* salary £S0: Ponsouby (assistant), silarv male £10n, female £Sn. The committee recommended that the Waharou School Committee should be informed that the colonial scale of staff did not admit of nil assistant teacher being appointed at I Technical Education.—The diwctr.r. Mr . Georpe George, reported that exceedingly 1 satisfactory progress was lieing made in the local efforts at W:iikati> u> rais* a fund fur the establishment, with the aid of n Government grant, of a manual training school.—On the motion of Mr Greeneladf it was resolved that so soon as £200 had been raised application should be made for : a grant as wn.s done :it Thames.