EDUCATION BOARD.

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 795, 22 June 1893, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARD.

The' Board met at Napier on Tuesday: 5 Present— Hon J. D. Grmond, M.L.C. (chairman), Eev D. Sidey, Captain Russell, M.H.R., and Messrs F..V7.. Williams, J. G. Qilberd, J. W. Carlyle^and P; Sutton. , Correspondence was .read— From D&herirke^recommending that the new teacher's residence should be built further from the school than the . old one, and that the, master receive bouse allowance whils the house was building.^Approved. ' „., 1( From Herataunga, claiming £12 10s ' for shelter shed.— To be paid ' on building being passed. From the late committee, Makotuku, Btating reasons why they re- ,., : ,Bigped,T-Received. ' ' From Manga-atua, the committee threatening to .- resign unless more accommodation was provided. -pThe Secretary reported that there was accommodation for 75 cbilden,'and only 60 attended. If two slight partitions were knocked down there would be ample accommodation. — No action taken. ' k ' - From-Maharahara, asking for £3 ... ,, . for alteration, of conveniences. - . Granted. From, the: late master, Takapau, askiQg.for grounds on which the corn-

imtteA recommended , his dismissal, and forwarding ap expression of con,l fidence in him, signed by parents of - c children.— Eequest could not be eni. tertained. Prom AVntnui, saying £12 10s was too little to erect a timber shed, timber there being very dear. The committee also asked for a swamp to be filled up. — The sum of £30 had been voted for the shed and filling in, and c the Board declined to increase the r grant. I From Weber, asking the Board to ■* ( call for fresh' tenders for a school 1 building, and suggesting that it '• should peincottagßstyle.— Thelowest r tender was more than £100 above " the amduit voted (£250), and the J Board had already decided to defer ■j building until the roads were in better * order. — The writer to be asked for 3 plans and specifications of the build- ' ing he* proposed. ') '' f From Woodville, stating that un- * less an increased -teaching staff was " provided the infant department must 3 be closed until a second master was r appointed. — Temporary assistance ? authorised. ' From the Wimbledon Road Board asking for half the cost of a fence. — 5 Board not liable. . . , From [the Education Department, 1 granting towards the re-erection | of the teacher's residence at Danevirke. * Tenders were opened for « teacher's 1 residence at Danevirke. The lowest, ' that of A. Milne, Woodville, at £ 240, ' was accepted. ' ; ; ; ' The following- resignations were 1 accepted;:— Mr- Popplewell, master, '. Miss Batt, mistress, and Miss Beayis, 1 pupil teacher, D'aneyirke ; and Miss 1 King', mistress, Norsewood. The fol- ] lowing appointments- were confirmed : ; — Miss Burton, mistress, Kumeroa ; Mr Jones; > master, Makotuku ; Mr ' Stevenson, headmaster, and Miss Lindsay, pupil teacher, Woodville. —Herald. ; .