EDUCATION BOARD.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13596, 3 December 1909, Page 8

EDUCATION BOARD.

t ——— The North Canterbury Education ik Board met on Wednesday, when than were present—Messrs M. Dalziel (inti* '" '■ chair), C. H. A. T. Opie, H. Langford, -'- T. Smith, J. Jamieson, H. E. Perymaa ' '" and J. Boyd. ,** The Principal of the Training ColIq» ' recommended that an application should be made for funds for an enlargement of the school building. r J_. ~ view of the need for further accoauao.dation, it was agreed to have plant pr*. - pared of the additions suggested by the Principal, estimate of cost to be. uq submitted. The Committee felt titt when the small amount expended by the Department on the Christchnrch Training College was taken intocomoder. a tion in comparison with that expended on tbe buildings in " Dune-din, an application for special grant would be roasonable. A report was received from the mfc. committee appointed to confer with Br. Finch, to the effect that it had hfim arranged to obtain in respect of the children in Standards IV., v., asj Vj, at the Gloucester street main Bchool titnecessary information preliminary- to medical examination, it having, btcq agreed on behalf of the Board to supply a sufficient number of cards, and to become responsible for any expeoditare that might be incurred on the poKhaae or hire of apparatus for weighing and taking the height of the children. The Buildings Committee reported it had been agreed to inform head teachers of the grant made by tbe Depart. - i ment for the supply of free text books to children attending Standard JBL also of the conditions attached to the grant, and to require head t6«-ttt* to expend the amounts within a reaaonable -. i time, so as to prevent a recurrenoe of <' the delay that had taken place b aonta ,5 : cases in regard to last year* grant.'' ; * % The Department had notified a grant of/ ~*i £350 for the erection of a new ached, .&t with 600 square feet floor space at Ttaa-^H- '. hiwi, to replace the building £ destroyed by fire. The clerk of - was instructed to call for tenders. reference to their application for extend ~s| sion of boundaries, the Linwood North Committee had submitted letters fre*£M' the Woolston, Bromley, and Committees agreeing to the boundarkt" 1 proposed. A letter was received the Christchurch East Committee pio-"t"* testing against any encroachment htmg*P? made upon their district. The propoWt-sT to include in North Linwood loc*a_tjit^' ; at present forming parts of the BronZf'""*' ley and Burwood district* wag appro?.'"?' '• cd. It was considered that the of the readjustment of the between North Linwood and Woohrtoaf sS{' and Christchurch East' should in abeyance, pending the ther consideration of the for the Phillipstown school to be a main school. It was pointed it was not proposed to take of the present Richmond. School »•»:-■ trict. /. "''-." The reports were adopted. "*1; : - ? ->