EDUCATION BOARD. MONTHLY MEETING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 74, 27 March 1912, Page 4

EDUCATION BOARD. MONTHLY MEETING.

The following were present •at the monthly meeting of the Wellington Education Board], held" yesterday afternoon i> Me^sre. R, Lee (chairman), A. W. Hogg, H. Freeman, W. Allan, J.G. W. Aitkeiv X Kebbell, r A. .H. "Vile, and W. H. Field. March payments ainprmtod to £9592 0s 4d, l andj after' these were provided, there remained -a credit balance of £6 176, .as.'against a debit' of £2593 9b b"d on the 23rd of last month. . Keceipto from Ma.ryh amounted ft} £12j706 9s 4d. The total authorisation .(including sites, etc.}, were given as ,£2705 lelOd. The.following resignations were ro ceived and accepted: «Mr., A. Kerr (Akitio), Mr. D. C. Prfcpr (Mastertou), Miss ,C. F. Eagax (Shannon), Miss Noi?wood (Waimanu), arid jMiss.E. Duncan (Clyde-quay). .W.ORKS AND FINANCE COM- ■ - MITTEE: . Grants recommended, the Worba and Finance Committee and approved were as follow : Maranui,sPetone .District High School, Petone Wesji, Euketoi "(now chimney arid range for residence), *Kaiwarra* (fence on, eloping- -Bank),' Island Bay, Ohau (repairs, etcW' to residence), Manakau.-Kopuaranga, ftfahmui (asphalting ( newly-graded ground), Kopuaranga, Normal School (cupboard* and netting), Cross Creek, Pirinoa (residence),'Petone (increased- allowance for cleaning Technical .School). It was decided to grant a library subsidy of £1 10s tb Taita School. The school caretaker was appointed caret&ker of tho manual centre at South Wellington. . Tenders were accepted ks follow: Concrete work at Khandallah, H. Knight, £9 10s; new school at Piimmerton, L. Arcus and Son, £354 j metalling at Ngaio, J. Scott, £53 15s; picture ttamea (twenty-five), R. and E. fingcy, 10s 6d each; renovation of decks,' — M'lntyre; gas cookery and science rdoms, plus cost of stov* at Levin,'£23 6s. TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE. The following recommendations of fcbo Committee "of Advica of vthe Teachers' Training .College were adopted': That as the rural course cannot, owing to the small numbers entered, be this year carried on, Miss M'B-ao b,e engaged in j instructing the students in needlework ! and. cookery, and the'junior students in I physiology, and tho secondary and Standards V. and VI. girls in cookery; salary to be provided from the collego grant under regulation Gb and from capitation earnings. That the 'temporary arrangementa mado with ihe Tfohnioal School for instruction in art bo approved as a permanent arrangement, * the lechnical School to receive £120 for twelve hours a week, student, teachers, and probationer instruction. Details of plans, new building: That these be left in_ the hands of the chief inspector to confer wifch the principal and lnepectorgeneral. That the matter of student uniform ,bo left in the hands of the principal to arrange \yith the officer commanding tho Cadc-ts.