Educational.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6135, 29 April 1891, Page 3

Educational.

As a result of the meeting held last night, winter classes are to be established in connection with the Athenaeum, and there is no doubt but that the project will meet with public support. Mr H. Hill presided last night, when the following recommendations were made by the sub-committee: —

1. That the classes be held from the middle of May to tho end of September or thereabouts.

2. That the Philosophical Society be asked to lend their room for the purpose.

3. That tho following should be the subjects of the classes and tho teachers : — Free, geometrical, and mechanical drawing, Mr Pereival; architectural drawing, Mr Frame ; shorthand, Mr Pinckney ; German, Mr Sandtmann; book-keeping, Mr J. Roberts ; arithmetic, Mr A. B Thompson ; Maori, Mr Prentice; mathematics, Mr Robinson; French, Mons. Bourgeois ; physiology, Dr de Lisle : Latin, Mr Pinckney; geology, Mr Hill; chemistry, aud physics, Mr F. D. Ferguson ; building construction, Mr S. Gardiner ; English, Mr DinwWdie; cookery and dressmaking, not yet decided.

4. That the fees be 10s Gd in advance for each course except in special cases, whwre a higher fee may be fixed upon. 5. That an examination and prize scheme be arranged in connection with tho classes and that the Education Department be approached with a view to conducting the examinations.

6. That the following be the officers :— President, the Bishop of Waiapu; vicepresidents, Hon. J. D. Ormond, M.L.C, G. H. Swan, M.H.R., Dr. Spencer, and Messrs R. D. D. M Lean, H. Hill, and P. S. M'Lean ; secretary, Mr W. Dinwiddie ; committee, the Rev. J. G. Paterson, Dr. de Lisle, and Messrs Coleman, Pinckney, Craig, Large, White, Carr, Lessong, Edwards, M'Carthy, F. W. Williams, S. F. Whitcombe, Taylor, Galloway, Adams, Wood, Thomson, T. Sidey, Wolstenholmo, E. H. Williams, Bourgeois, Ferguson, Frame, Roberts, Sandtmann, and Pereival; Mesdames Spencer, Brown, Hill, Richardson, Heath, Hindmarsh, Weber, and Pinckney; and the Missos Hewitt, Fulton, and Niederhausen.

7. That the teachers arrange the syllabus as soon as possible, and that a icgister be opened at once for intending pupils.

Ihe recommendations were agreed to by the meeting, and it was decided that the teachers and the committee should meet on, Saturday evening next to arrange tho syllabus and time-table. All who. d>esire to attend the classes may send in their names to Mrs Weber, at the Athemeum, a register having been opened for that purpose.