Education Board.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 393, 19 December 1889, Page 2

Education Board.

MORE TRIUMPHS FOR THE GI3BOBNE SCHOOL.

HEDLEY THOMSQN DUX. (FROM OUB OWN COBRESPONDENT.) Nafieb, yesterday. At a meeting of the Education Board yesterday morning, a recommendation from the Gisborne committee of a bonus to Mr Morgan and to Mr M*pn, -for tbeir services in connection wjth the District High 'School, was adopted. £2O eacli being voted. The appointment of Miss Lily ty 1 tty and Miss Fanny Baker as pupil teachers was sp? proved. The recommendation pt Egbert Carswell, for the vacant scholarship in the High School, was approved of. A suggestion that the Congregational (jhgrch (Gisborne) ba hired, at the rate ot £4O per annum, poa’-pqned till next meeting. Mr Hili, the Dufirlqt School Inspector, presented his annual report oh scholarships. Tfie undeymantioned girls and boya have baen sggqgssfffi jn qh'.ainip.g scholarships in the Gisborne flht'Et • — Hadley Thomsen Edward MoAra Frederick Jeune George Evans Cyril Livingstone Frederick Muir Harry Do ll Nellie Brown Maggie Adair Minnie King (Te Arai)

With rega’d to the renewal of the achdlarship field by Robert Carswell the Inspector strongly supported the recommendation and it was approved by the Board. On the Committee’s letter painting out the necessity for increased accommodation, and suggesting the leasing of the Congregational Qhurqii, being read, considerable discussion ensued.—Mr Sidey remarked that if so many buildings were leased teachers’ salaries must be reduced.—Mr Baker did not think ic desirable that money which should be given in bonuses shnpld be spent in hiring a building.—Mr Tanner said if there were no funds to provide buildings they must be rented, —The Inspector said he understood the Committee proposed to pay rent out of High School funds. He had fi-’nrd that the Gisborne Catholic School would be closed at the end of the year, which would release 50 < hildren who would be sent to the public schools.—Eventually the matter was ordered to stand over pending the receipt of further information.

The Inspector, in his report, stated that on the whole better work had bben done than in the previous year, but he regretted that the Napier School had not maintained its honorable position, the best pupil of that school standing only fourteenth on the list, and pupils from six other schools taking precedence. The dux of the yar was Hedley Thomson, of Gisborne, and of the girls Minnie King, of Te Arai, headed the list.

The following is the list of scholarships, of £JO 4s each, the highest number of marks being 880 Hedley Thomson 834, Edward McAra 763, Frederick Jeune 757, George Evans 733, Minnie King (Te Arai) 708, Cyril Livingstone 701, Frederick Muir 701, Harry Dods 700, Nellie Brown 679, Maggie Adair 678. The newspapers here also give the names of Charles East, Annie Drum mond, and Miry Jones, but those names ce not included in the lilt sanctioned by tlso Board. Nearest to the three highest of the Gisborne School of Wftipitwti) with VflO,