EDUCATION BOARD

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13719, 28 April 1910, Page 4

EDUCATION BOARD

MONTHLY MEETING

The monthly meeting of the Board of Education tor the North Canterbury District was held yesterday, there being present:—Messrs T. W. Adams (chairman). C. A. C. Hardy, M.P.. W. R. Smith, J. Jamieson. M. Dalziel, H. Boyd. C. H. A. T. Opie. H. W. Peryman and H. Longford. APPOINTME.YTS COMMITTEE. The report of the Appointments Committee slated that the proposal made by the Christchurch East Committee, that the grade of teacher rather than the salary should be in- ! serted in the Board's advertisements, was considered. The .ecretary submitted a number of cases in which the salaries of teachers appointed to other positions had been maintained at the rates paid in the positions vacated. The committee were of opinion that the better plan would be to have both grade and salary mentioned. The several matters recently brought under review by the Headmasters' Association were further considered, the following resolutions being passed:— (1) That where in the opinion of the Board it is desirable the appointment of an assistant in place of two pupil teachers is allowed. (2) That in the opinion of the Board the time is not yet opportune to appoint an assistant in the plare of a pupil teacher. ''31 That the Board at -present sees no reason to alter its regulation in regard to requiring teachers to undertake two years' rural service. (4) That the chairman of the Board be requested to embody in the annual report a paragraph confirming the Board's /previous-ly-expressed opinion, that the grant for free books would be better expended in supplyintr the children with essential requisites. (o) No action «as taken in regard to the recommendation that better provision should be made for supplying locum tenens in the event of pupil teachers being absent owing to illness. The report was adopted. BUILDING.S COMMITTEE. The report of the Buildings Committee stated that advice had been received from the Department to the effect that grants of £250 and £400 had been authorised for the erection of a schoolhouse at Hapuku, and an additional room at Philli,ps-t©wn, 10----spectively. A deputation from Opawa waited on the committee in further reference to the proposal to purchase a block of land opposite' the school. Plans, approved by the inspectors, were submitted for tho proposed additions to Linwood North school, making provision for two roomto each seat sixty pupils, and for a master's room and the necessary corridors. It was agreed to forward the plans and estimate of cost to the Department, and to make application for the necessary grant. On the motion of Mr Jamieson. the ,p_r«graph regarding Opawa was referred baok to the committee, with a view of considering whether a quarter of an acre could not be purchased for the purposes of a garden. TRAINING COLLEGE. The Normal .School and Technical Committee reported that with reference to the letter from Canterbury College, in effect stating that Training College students who could not attend lectures at Canterbury College in the morning and the afternoon could not be granted the status of "exempted" students, the following resolution was carried:- —"That this committee regret to receive a reply in the negative to the Board's enquiry as to whether certain Training College students could be granted the? status of 'exempted' students, and desire to point out that under tho alfcared conditions obtaining at the Training College the students canI not attend during the daytime, and that therefore the Board of Governors of Canterbury* College may reasonably be expected to meet the Board in this ! matter by placing the -students under the more favourable conditions that obtain in .jther centres as regards the times at which the College lectures are held."

Mr Opie made an explanation of the position, ami expressed the «.pinion that tbe di/lieulty would' soon bo overcome.

Mr Hardy remarked that Canterbury College was the only one in New Zealand which was not trying in any «-_. v to suit the students. Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin Colleges took tho students at times when they could attend tho lectures without leaving their rir.cti-al work at the Training ColK'JiO. Other members expressed the hope that the difficulty would soon be satisfactori'y settled with the Professorial Board and the Board of Governors of Canterbury College.