Education Board Jottings.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1136, 17 March 1910, Page 2

Education Board Jottings.

Education Board last night. i Arrangements to be made for heat- j ing Taikorea side school. I Finance.—Bank overdraft, £217S;j accounts passed for payment, £1101. j .Application has been mado for tho j erection of teachers'" residences at Ohangai and liangitawa. Arrangements are to be made for the erection of a room for the teacher at lvatieka. Application for a District High I School at Manaia to b"c renewed, as 25 proficiency pupils tire available. : Five acres are to be taken from : the school reserve at Tiriraukawa -to j add to the school ground. Thanks were accorded to Messrs E. Short, G. C. Wheeler and J. Knight for selecting a second wool-class instructor. Appointments confirmed: Assistant, . College street, Aliss Squire; secondary assistant. Feilding, Mr F. A. i Bates. ' { It was decided not to establish a i school at Bennett's siding owing to t it.-, proximity to Taihape, and to pro- j secute parents whose children did not attend school. Bath to be supplied to Stanway re- j sidenoe, Air Purnell to report on j Ohakea residence, the Chairman on Hiwhvui residence. The Board's foreman is to.-report on the proposed expenditure on Hunterville school, and on Lougburn residence. Application is to be made for a teacher's residence at AVaituna West, and for rent for buildings at A r alley Bead and Pukepapa. Old residence at Foxton at present lot, could not be handed over to Committee. School, hours could bo made half-an-hour later on Fridays. The Chairman paid a tribute to Mr F. Purnell for the work he had carried out in connection with the visit of the cadets to AVelliiigton. Owing to the confusion in regard ; to the tools at the carpentry room at ! Palmerston, it was decided to apply for a set of tools for the primary pupils. As the Department offered to contribute half the cost (:G200) of an addition to the Sedge-brook school site, it was decided to ask the residents to raise the balance. It was decided to obtain a legal opinion, as to the correctness of the Department's contention that it was illegal to pay District High School fees to teachers. Eight tenders were received for additions to the Gonville School ranging from £26-5 (Wools-ton and He-wet-son, accepted) to £348. There were only £2 between the two lowest tondors. An offer 'from tbe Eltha-m Committee to pay £15 a year .towards the salary of a male secondary assistant if £30 a year was added to his pay was agreed to, the other £15 to come out of subsidy. Leave.—Miss M. D. Alexander, Queen's Park, was granted fifteen months' leave to visit the Old Country ; Aliss C. J. llashleigh, three ! months; Alias Al. Kuhtze, one month; Aliss C. Hanron, one month; Aliss AL ' AlcKenzie, Komako, one week; Miss 0. Tansey, Mangaweka., one month. The College street Committee protested that it was a farce to send testimonials and particulars with a proposal to appoint a teacher when only one name was sent, and it was decided to point out that the Board was ' only carrying out the law, and was - always prepared to consider representations from Committees. Resignations accepted: Mits C. Al. Crawford, p.t., Lougburn; Aliss Z. Wordsworth, Otakeho; Aliss A. Sparrow, headteacher, Ohangai; Aliss A. Woodman, p.t., Rongotea; Mr H. Henderson, p.t., Halcombe; Aliss A. AlcDonogh, Campbell street; Air S. Gascoigne, Mangarnahu; Aliss 13. Hansen, AVatershed Road. A protest against the Board's proposals to promote Aliss O'Donnell to second assistant at Terrace End (in- ■ fant teacher) and to transfer Aliss J. ; Coombe there as third assistant from , I the Terrace End Committee, but after carefully considering the claims of all the assistants in the service it was de- ' eided to adhere to the proposals. , The Department recently informed the Board that to justify the issue of free passes to teachers they must ; make eighty week-end attendances at : the classes in a year ! As there are ! onfy fifty-two week-ends in the year, the officials v:ere somewhat puzzled until a subsequent letter explained '_ that " 80 per cent." was meant. P.T. appointments: AVanganui . D.H.S., Aliss McHardy; St. John's, I Aliss AlcAlurray; Terrace End, Aliss Guy; A. Graham, Okaiawa; W. F. ' Gilligan, Waverley; K. AVilson, Teri race End; L. Jones, ltongotea ; . Sedgebrook, Aliss C. Finlayson; : Campbell street, Mr L. V. Corpe; ' Lougburn, Air AY. Carmody; Ohakune, Aliss Al. Aiilligan.

The following proposals for transfers have been referred to the Committees: Campbell street, Miss Kuhtze (for infant work), vice Miss McDonagh; Okaiawa, Miss AY. Griffiths; Ohangai, headtoachcr, Mr P. G. Lewis; Rongo-iti, Mr E. S. Baker; Mangamahau, Mr R. Armstrong; Taihape, Mr S. J. Poole, spocial assistant; Elf-ham,'Mr R. C. D. Lightbouruo; Pohouui, headteacher, E. Coddington; Feilding D.H.S., assistant, Miss Hunger; Turakina, Miss F. Piercy; Pohaugina, Miss H. Setter; St. John's, Miss Clemance; Castlecliff, Miss Gebbie; Stohey Creek, Mies K. AVilson (formerly of Sandon); Manutahi, Mr G. M. Bell; Hima-' tangi, Air J. Browning (relieving); Hawera; Mr AY. P. Williams, Meremere, headteacher, Mr AY. Olson; Otakeho, Mias A. Johnston; Okoia, Miss A. Manson.

For some time past there has been considerable agitation in Palmerston over the crowding of College street School, eyon the AV.C.T.U. making representations of the scandalous state of affaire there, where an average attendance of 138 infants .are crowded into a room built to accommodate 89. As a matter of fact there is floor space for 453 pupils in the school, and the average attendance is only 416. The Chairman of the Board pointed out that in two rooms built to accommodate 124, there were only 70 pupils in average attendance and 81 on tho roll. He suggested that if these pupils were transferred to the room occupied by Standard 11., built to accommodate 75, and those from' that room (60 average) transferred to one of the two rooms mentioned, that would leave a room built for 62 vacant, which would give accommodation for more than the surplus of infants. It was decided to point this but to the Committee.

The next meeting of tlie Board will I je held on Tuesday, April 6. ; The Chairman was instructed to report on the expulsion of a pupil from Valley lload School for insubordina- . >ion. The Board decided, in reply to requests from Maxwell and Kapum, that pupils must not be allowed to go before closing time to- -take musiclessons and have their attendance counted. If they did go, then prosecutions for non-attendance must follow. A story from tbe Kitchener cadet camp at AVelliiigton is worth repeating. The only cadet officer Lord Kitchener addressed was the, headmaster from M-angawoka. " A'our name, asked the Field Marshal " AV.il 11 am Adams, sir," was the reply. " Eh, what ! J " queried the lord. " AVilliani Adams, sir," was the reply a second time. And Lord Kitchener who/~hnd a very merry twinkle- iv his eye, said in low tones to a member of his staff, •'From the battle of AVaterloo, I expect."

l.n the course of his report to the Wanganui Education Board on the Kitchener cadet cam]), Air Purnell, a member' of the Board who accompanied the cadets to AVelliiigton,, recommends that Air W. Adams, of Mangaweka who acted as Major of No. 3 Battalion, be appointed permanently to the position. He says: The manner in which the officers looked after the welfare of the lads under their control, was beyond all praise. In most cases, in fact in all cases coming under my notice, more could not have been done by fathers towards their sous, aud I would ask the Board to place upon record its high appreciation of this fact and the thanks of the Board be conveyed to all officers through the Majors of Battalions.

Sixty years ago one Moses Itees made a will in the Old Country leaving his property, now valued at- about £700. to his relatives. He had two brothers in New Zealand, one of whom (George) left his property to the AVanganni Education Bonn! (£:$000) for secondary education purposes. Recently Messrs Gifford Aloore and Beale. solicitors, of Palmerston North, were instructed by the heirs of the other brother (Joseph) to endeavour to recover the value of the estate. They asked the Board to share half the costs, but the Board declined to embark in a

" fishing expedition," and subsequently consented to pay half the costs out of what property was recovered. It now turns out that owing to the peculiar law in force in England at the time bequests of real estate for charitable purposes are void, so Joseph Bees' heirs will sot the lot.