EDUCATION BOARD

Evening Star, Issue 16194, 16 August 1916, Page 6

EDUCATION BOARD

-MR FLEMING RE-ELECTED CT-Ulli-MAN. SCHOOL GRANT, £15,144. The first meeting of the newly-const! tuted Education Board of Otago was held this morning, and attended by Messrs D. Borne, G. Livingstone, W. R. Brugh, J. Wallace, J. Smith, .1. Horn, D. T. Fleming, .). H. Wilkinson. P. M’Kin3ay, and R. H. Todd. The Education Department intimated that the ordinary grant for school buildings would be £13,144. an advance over last year of £517. Mr D. T. Fleming, who for five months was chairman of ilie old hoard, was reelected for the term of two years. —Works.— The architect recommended, in reference fo Hie application from Nugget Point for the erection of a porch at the school, tha,t the Marino Department’s offer to convey material by the Hinemoa bo accepted, and that tlio work l*s carried out at- the first opportunity-—Agreed to. The architect asked authority for additional expenditure in connection with repairs to Mount Cargill School i£10). — Agreed to. The architect recommended in reference to Kaikorai School that a retiring room be provided at the school; that improvements be made to the ventilation of the gymnasium; that the interior of the teacher’s residence be renovated ; that the fencing l*o repaired.—Agreed to. The total involved was £75.

High Street Committee applied for tho asphalting of portion of the school round. —Held over.

Moray Place Committee applied for improvements to the lighting of two class rooms. This was agreed to. Musselburgh Committee were granted a properly-equipped eiiciosuro for storage of ash pa ns. It was resolved that the hoard visit the Five Forks and Marua.koa districts to decide upon the site for school, about which rival deputations have been waiting on 1 1 ■■ Imrd for some months. Mr 0. M, Luke, assistant at the Normal School, notified that ho had been, accepted for military service,— Leave was granted ou the usual terms. • —Scholarship Percentages.— The department intimated that the percentage ot‘ marks to qualify for senior scholarships would be 65 per cent. ; for junior sholarships (candidates from schools with one tcadieiL 521 per rent. ; for junior scholar hip : (•nbT schools), 62j percent. —Grading Scheme.— The Otago District Institute of the New Zealand Lducational Institute forwarded th* resolution* (iJrwuiy publiih*d), in which th« institute and teaching hedias proUited against the incoiuistsacias of the grading scheme; also a resolution' protesting against the action of the department in withdrawing from the inspectors the power of recommending r.uitaH'e pupils tor senior free places with mi x 'nation. — These matters were !h ;.( ...v. for consideration at to-morrov, hj imc hug.