EDUCATION BOARD.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10954, 2 May 1901, Page 6

EDUCATION BOARD.

The question of providing a school for tha children of the Ash-lev" Gorge settlement wm brought before" tho Education Board at its meeting yesterday, when Mr K. Mer.dith, M.H.R., attended Mid stated that tbfre were sixteen children of school age. j and that the distance from the nearest j school, that, at Ea., t Oxford, precluded ; them obtaining education. "On, that's I •humbug," remarked Mr Hardy, with re- j •spi.ct to the latter .«tu*. rm-nt; '"you should ! come to P.okaia. and you will -Ye children who go reven or eight miles to school." If* cli.-urman (.Mr T. S. Weston) thought Mr Hardy had express-, himself rather strongiy. Mr Budrto remarked that the. Ash.cy district would be well served if, like the L-ikaii district, it had s-chooLs at distances of four miles apart. Mr Adams con-sd.-red. in view of the statu* of the Board's fj.'wri'.es. that the Department should be ;.*-k"d to give assistance. Mr Budd. i punted out that t.lere tras sufficient ac- I . ortimodntion at Ea.vt Oxford for the A .i!«y i;.'ive children if the- Board would suppiv •t conveyance to take them to the school. I It this were don* for two vtar* the Board! would bo m a position to" .rw-t a school. I whirh would ferve Iwith districts. 'J'iie 1 I'l.'Kttcr was ultimately referred to the! buddings Committee: an application also! to be made to the Department for a>>ii-- | ta».*e. j Amongst the recommendations of the Appointments Committee, a-jre-ed to by tee ' Beard, were that the resl**r..at;ons of Mr ' S. P. Ouiney and Mi.<w E. Yerran, master! and mistress at Biwksid?, and of M:«. f Barlow, rrtistre-s of Woodstock, be ac- > cept-ed; that the avirnge attendance at i St. Albans side .chord having reached 101. the '-mpioyimnt of a pupil teacher be ,-uithnrinwl: that whilst the Board is desiroin of helping tlut Cnmmittcv-, it could not break the regulation requiring the averag« attendance to Ik- ninetv-on. before appointing a pupil teacher;" that. the pupil teacher vaeancv nt Sydr.n)«am be filled , that Miss F. Ortnandy be appointed pupil teacher at Chri:-*u-hurVh East; that" the aj-po.ntm.rt of Miss M. A. Turr-bull ni mi-tress at Ru-seli's Fiat be agreed to, b.it the committee to 1* informed that tinlers an average of not- le.xs than thirteen i* maintained the- teacher would cither b> ' withdrawn or tho reri dents called u;>on t*> ' guarantee a salary of not less than £65 per annum, and "that the Board forward j similar notice to all district committer's ' whewe -schools had tin average of lt?ss than thirteen ; that at the request of the Brocn- ' . Icy Committee a mistress be advertised for. the present mistress to receive tli. usual ' notice. | < The recommend irions of the Building": Commit-too included the following, wlveh wore, with others, agreed to: —That the school ground-i at Addington b-*s filled up; tb-'f. the clerk of works report on the application of the East Oxford Committee for better provision for warm In? one of the i>oir«. the committee being unable to carry out the, work, owing to extreme want of funds: that the chairman of the Burnham Committee be informed that it is proposal to I'-f t!i» .'..hooLhou*. ; that, provided the Mackenzie Committee spent up to £1 of the money already at their disposal, tite Board make a grant of equal amount for t.i» draining, j/iwiing, and shingling of the ■.'rounds: that the tender of Mr G. A. M.'i7.:.'y, of £135, for painting, repairing, and improving the school buildings at Waiau and Mothrrham be accepted. An application from the Ashburton "M.tii" end ■■Gur.rdian" for a share of the Beard's nd'Tiii..!-.*;; was referred to the Appointniti:t*i CommiCec. A resolution from tb? Hornby School Committee, to the effect that school books and should be Supplied by th. Government at cost price, was referred to the Buildings Committee. It wits decided to acknowledge, with tlifttik.*. tbrs receipt of the last report of the Neii' Zealand Educational Institute. Tha Board agreed to defray the expenses of two candidates for examination in cookery •nt the City and Guilds of London Institute examinations. Seven Allenton residents petitioned that the side-school there, should be made a district school. The Board could not see its way to accede to the request. It was decided to declare the School Committee election at Ilororat*. void, owing to a householder being elected wlio had only re--id.tW'n tho district since tlie beginning ol April. It was also decided to rule that the election of the chairman of the Rnkaia South Committee was not in order, and to ask the Committee to appoint a chairman. The consideration ol the disputed elections at Bushside and Waikari was held over. After agreeing to the supplementary report of the Appointments Committee, and of the Secretary's report on his visit to the Clarkviile School, both of which were cm- ' sidered in Committee, the Board adjourned. '