TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16204, 6 May 1918, Page 2

TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

n3 .!° f Christchurch. Technical College Board of Governors was held on Fri"ay nighty Mr Geo. Scott presiding. J-ho Finance Committee rocommended the oontmuinco of the payment of the war bonus to theofiico staff on the same basis n« to th© teaching etaff, involving an expenditure of about £37 a year. The treasurer's statement showed the receipts to have been £4323 9a lOd (including a balance from March 10th of £3339 19e 7d) SAiS™ v;O3 Btat€d to

J"* 0 chairmanrcporied that the deputation appointed by the Board to wait -upon tho Sahool Committees' Association had been recced-. The proposal of the Board that continuation education should be given for sis week during workb/ W l£d been favourably received, and tho Board liad boen pronueed support m any effort it might make to bring about its enactment by Act of Parliament. A suggestion had been made that a conference should ba called of all bodies concerned with the oontrol of educa-1 tiMi in .Christchurch to formulate steps to bo n U f u SScsted that the Canterbury College Board, as tho leading educa4tU y of , . tilo district, should be xi convene this conference. reports were adopted. mo7cd , that aembeis fLIAt, ' ? f€6Bls Aldxidge, Bo wring, and Goldsbury, who were about to be ailW ,m by ballot, be tho subjects of an appeal for exemption, on the ground that &£? education. ■tao motion was lost. .