SOUTH CANTERBURY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8708, 2 February 1894, Page 6

SOUTH CANTERBURY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

At the meeting of the South Canterbury Board of Education yesterday the Chairman cordially welcomed the Rev. G. Barclay to the Board. The strict average for March last was for June 4210, for September 3766, for December 4234. The working average on which the Board expected to get capitation for the December quarter is 4284.

A letter from the Department- was read, in reply to an application for a more liberal capitation allowance for the September quarter, when the attendance was reduced SO aiuchby measles. The Department considered that the Board had been sufficiently v/ell -treated. The Rev. Mr Barclay urged that- pressure should-be put upon the Government - -for greater liberality towards- the, schools. The capitation had been reduced al a time when funds were low and the colony depressed. That excuse existed no : longer. They were asserting everywhere that there was to be a good surplus. It was decided to await communications understood to be coming from the Christchurch Board. A report'was read by the Inspector on a request by Mr McFarlane, of Hakateramea station, for a teacher for a school to beheld in a.'building.to be.erected'by him. There were sixteen children of school age who would attend and who were, except three, unable to reach any other school The Inspector recommended that the teacher be supplied for a few quarters, to see if the school could be maintained. The recommendation was adopted. The report on the annual examination for scholarships Was received. Eleven candidates entered for the senior and twentyeight for the junior scholarships. The amount available for the year, calculated on the average for 1895—4118 at ls 6d—was £308. Of this £213 was required for scholarships allocated last year, leaving £95 to be allotted now, and the Committee recommended that the following scholarships be granted:—Senior—Wilfred Simmons £34, Arthur Kaye £4. Junior—Emma Cooper £4. Alice Stanley £34, Richard Puttick £4, Fanny Livingstone £4,* W. -C. Cormack £4, J. Goldstone £4, Margaret Cotter £4. George Wilson (senior), Eleanor Bird, and T. Gilbert (juniors) elected to . accept Waimate scholarships. The recommendations of the Scholarship Committee were adopted. A letter was read from the Timaru High {School Board, offering free tuition to thirty pupils from the primary schools on condition of their obtaining half marks at the Junior scholarship examinations. Messrs (Talbot and Jackson moved—" That the thanks of the Board be accorded to the ffimaru High School Board for their 'j generous offer to give free education to thirty pupils who shall have competed in tie Boards scholarship examination, provided certain conditions had been complied with by the candidates." Mr TalboS, Rev. .'Mr Barclay, and Mr Jackson expressed 'great satisfaction at this offer being made, j '»■ affording a stimulus to the Board's schools and popularising the High School. Ahopa was expressed that the High School jßoard would see their way to extend the privilege to country children, and the ' vhairman said there was a notice of motion fcefore the High Sohool Board now with j that view.