EDUCATION BOARD.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1909, Page 4

EDUCATION BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Wellington. Education Board was held yesterday. The following were present: — Mr. R. Lee (chairman), Hon. A. W. Hogg, M.P., and) M«gstp. A. 11. Vile, T. W. M'Donald, J. G. W. Aitken, W. Allan, and J. Kobbell. The meeting decided to ask Mr. W. Noirell, the chairman, o£ tho local school committee, to represent it on the Pahiatua Technical School board of management for the year. CORRESPONDENCE. The department forwarded. a notification that, an additional £671 would be added to the board's building grant, and also the annual grant of £275 for instruction of teachers in. manual and technical subjects. The clerk of works was askedi to furnish a reporti to the department concerning .additions at Muritai, andi the application for temporary accommodation. Another petition, setting forth the requirements of Eastern Hutt, after the board's consideration of them, was ordered to be re-submittedl to the department. In reply to the board's application for a grant of £2997 10s for the erection of a two-storied brick building at the Brooklyn School, the department intimated that any grant made would only be based on immediate needs. A proposal for a classi-oom designed! to bo attached to the main building would be entertained. The proposal to use present rooms of the. school for woodWork and cookery classes could not be entertained, as the department considered that the school could nevei? form a manual training centre. An application for increased' accommodation at Wadestown School was referred to the board's advisers for report. < Adjustment of the accommodation at the Ma-ranui School wa& left in the hands of the chairman and' inspectors. WORKS AND FINANCE. The Works and Finance Committee recommended, that grants to the following places be authorised : — Brooklyn, Otaki, Carterton. Tokomaru, Lansdowne, Levin, Clareville, Waikanae, Hastwell, Mount Cook Girls', Mount Cook Boys', Mount Cook Infants', Manakau, Maranui, Matarawa, and Newman. In regard to the Training College, recommendations were as follow : — That the board agree to grant the use of the gymnasium for the pupils attending the Girls' College, two hours per week at £10 per annum, any damage done to the apparatus to be made good : but that its use for private classes be declined. That applications be invited for the position of instructress in needlework at the college ; thirty lessons of two hours, £20 per annum. That furniture be provided for lady teachers' room up to £10, and that a grant of £2 14s 6d for music for students be approved. That new desks, as approved by the inspector, be procured for Waikanae and Martinborough. That Mr. Pilkington, headteacher, Porirua, be granted extended leave for six months on full pa>. That the depai|ti menfc be asked to sanction thesale of tho Karori side school site and building. That the proposal of the committee at BclvedWe, re water supply be approved. That jLhe South Wellingon Land Company be thanked for offer of site, and that the offer be accepted, the board undertaking that, when a school is required for Vogeltown and a grant is provided, the school will be erected on the site now presented. That the board, in regard to capitation, consider regulation 8, staffs and salaries, recently gazettedj ynder which the amount of capitation received in steadily growing districts will be considerably less than under the old mode of determining capitation. (Had. this basis of computation been in force in 1908, it would have reduced the receipts of the board by £375.) That the following tenders be accepted : — Printing, W. J. Lankshear ; Te Aro, roof repairs, etc., T. A. Wells ; Mangatamoka, plumbing, C. E. , Clifton ; section 61, block 1, Makuri, M. Alpass ; section 16, block 5, Puketoi, C. B. Cox. That the Finance Committee visit and report on the school at South Wellington. The board approved all the above. The tender of E. Morgan for section 17, block 5, Puketoi, and the application for court expenses, etc., £6 12s, at Levin, were refused.