THE EDUCATION BOARD.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 108, 31 January 1879, Page 5

THE EDUCATION BOARD.

* The monthly meeting of the Education Board was held yesterday ; present :— Messrs D, Rid (in the Chair), Fulton, Clark, Begg, Fraer, Green, Elder. INCH CLUTHA. A deputation of landowners and settlers at ißch Clutha, consisbing of Messrs W. Barron, Byers, M'Donald, and Bell, waibed on the Board to ask a reconsideration ef its determi- > afcion to remove the school from Inch Clnbha. The deputation had been app^iut d by a public meeting held on the 24 -h mat. It was seated that the difference between the sum required by Mr M'Kissoch for his site and the sum offered by the Board for it would be made up by bhe settlers, and that therefore there could be no object in taking away a school thab had been in existence fcr over twenty- one years. Messrs G. Inglis and A. Petrie presented a counter petifciou from ivs, dents at Stirling asking that the B^ard remove the school there a> determined. There were now no less than ninety- two children within a radius of two miles, or a much lirger number thau at Inch Clutha. Mr Anderson bal also offered an ex cellent site free of charge to the Board. Mr Birrou said Inch Clutha did not object to a school at Stirling, bub they did object to their own old established school being takeu away. Mr Eeid remarked that two members of the Board had reported in favour of Inch Clutha, bub this wan rather owing to a feeling of sympathy with bhe settlers' -misfortunes o.siug to the late floods. His own opinion was that Stirling was the besb place for the school, it being a rising districb, and the population increasing rapidly. This would not, however, prevent Inch Clubha having a school of its own when there were tufticient children and the Board had money enough to justify the establishment of one. The Board unanimously decided to remove the school to Stirling. KUKI BCSH. A deputation from the school committee at Kuri Bush asked a grant of money to assist in erecting a teacher's residence. | The Board granted £20. finance"committee. The report of the Finance Committee was read, recommending as follows : — North Taieri.-- -That the sum of £8 2s for completion of alterations to school be paid. Nevis. — That the inspector, on his visit to the district, be asked to report as to the most suitable place for the erection of a residence, and that in the meantime the Committee be paid the usual allowance of £20 per annum in lieu of residence. Circle Hill. — That new buildings be provided in this districb. Waikoikoi (Seuth Glenkenich). — That new buildings be gone on with as soon as convenient: Inch Valley. — That the present buildings and site be sold, and that a new school and residence be erected in the locality recommended by Mr Inspector Taylor and approved of by the Education Board in March last. Blue Spur. — That the application for a new residence be declined. Crookston. —That Mr M'Kellar's offer of a school site of two acres be accepted with thanks. That the Committee be asked to make arrange-

ments for the leasing of temporary school buildings Waipahi. — That immediate application be made to tbe Government to fence or slope the dangerous quarry in front of the school. Your Committee recommend that application be made to the Government for a large map of the education district. BALCLUTHA. Messra R Moir and Potter, aa a deputation of settlers on the north side of the Clutha, opposite the town of Balclutha, ar>ked that they be assisted by the Board in arranging for a temporary school to be held at the Government township in a seven-roomed house, which had been offered at a rental of 20s per week, half of which the settlers were willing to pay themselves. The building would do for a teacher's residence also, lt had been understood that children from the north side of the river should be taken across the river free and in a safe manner to attend the Balclutha school, but this was not done. — The Board agreed' to grant the request. NASEBY. An application by the Naseby Committee to have its school declared a District High School was postponed until the Board's Inspector had furnished a report. OUTRAM, A letter was received from the Education department intimating that the Government would agree to j.ay the sum of £695 for the erection of school buildings at Outram.— The board resolved that the contracts be let as soon as possible. THB INSPECTOR OF BTTILDINGS. One month's leave of absence, ou the score of ill-health, war* granted to Mr Somerville. BALCLUTHA SCHOOL COMMITTEE. The chairman of the meeting of house-holders held at Balclutha to elect a school committee for the distriob wrote that nine gentlemen had been elected thereat, but that it had since been discovered that no more than seven should have been appointed. The writer asked what was to be done uuder the circumstances. — The Board decided that there must be a new election, to be held on the 24th prox. NEW RESIDENCES. It was agreed that new residences be erected at Sandymonnt and Highcliffe ; that £35 be expended in the completion of the residence at Otakia. ACCOUNTS. Accounts amounting to £3,774, 19s Id were passed for payment....' Star.'