HAWKE’S BAY EDUCATION BOARD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 167, 29 June 1912, Page 2

HAWKE’S BAY EDUCATION BOARD.

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE. At the meeting yesterday correspondence was dealt with as follows :—

Woodville School Committee, requesting grant of £lO for cleaning of technical school. —£0 granted. Miss Baldwin offering explanation for absence from Saturday classes. —Received.

Miss Bullard offering explanation re, absence from Saturday classes. - -Received. DIRECTOR’S REPORTS.

The Director submitted(a) Monthly general report.—Received ; (b) establishment of evening classes at Woodville and Hastings—adopted ; (c) results of examination of pupil teachers (Hastings class) in agriculture—received ; (d) provision for probable increase of Napier pupils in cookery and woodwork next year—deferred; (e) extension -if laboratory and additional apparatus for Waipawa—deferred for fuller information. , APPOINTMENTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS. Communications were received from :— Kaiti S.C., asking alteration in staff.--Female assistant to be transferred. Mis sE. Brewer. a=sis-ant, ‘Mata mau,' asking transfer.— r I o be kt pt

m view. Miss M. Bedingficld, Mansi end, asking full pay while on s : ck Eave. —Granted. Miss E. Ewart, assistant. Maipiro Bay, a'king transfer to Maerengaahika. —Declined. Headmaster, Gisborne, re absence cf Mies Black without leave. —Received. Te Hapara. complaint and legal opinion re appointment of removing teacher. Gisborne, asking appointment Mr. Rigby vice Miss Hogg, resigned.’— Agyeed to. Miss Hooper, asking permanent appointment Otoko. —Agreed to. OFFICIALS’ REPORTS. Fioni Inspector Ilill, ro application I for school at Ai dkecn.—Deferred. i From the same, re lor I school at Main Marb.- -Deferred. : F:oni Attendance Officer, monthly 'repoit.—Received. | From Foreman, re insufficient ac- | cutiiinodation, Te Arai. Resolved I application lie made to .the ckpaiiment for an addition. M’anstead.- -Erection of residence proceeding. Maraetuiai a.—Erection of residence proceeding. Twyford.—Eri,'gtion of new building proceeding. —Above reports Wore all received. FINANCE. COMMITTEE. IL J. Fawcett, office junior, asked increase cf salary. —Raised to £s'2. A Warburton requested travelling expenses.—Declined. ; Waikohu C.C. asked lease of school reseive.—Granted at £5 per annum. Purchase of Te Hawke scnool. — Resolved to apply to department for grant to purchase Te Hawke school and remove same tb Pukc-how. Gisborne, askihg reconsideration of refusal to altof : Regulation 56 re reduction for caretaker’s residence. —Declined. Te Hapaia asking purchase of adjoining acre at £3Bo.—Declined. Accounts amounting to £5216/16/7 w ere passed for payment, GENERAL. Raumati. —Grant for residence to be asked from department. Heretaunga. —Improvements to be effected. .' Piri Piri.—Application of settlers for school.—Agreed to ask department to build school. Rissington. —Resolved to ask department for grant to erect addition to residence. Rua Roa. —Permission to erect public hall on school site deferred. Rakauroa. —Foreman to report on addition to school. M’airoa. —£8 granted for library, etc., and Mr. McLeod to enquire re subsidy: for cycle shed. Ngatapa.—Subsidy of £lO/10/granted. Otoko. —Leasing of school left in hands of Mr. Morgan. Te Pohue. —New shelter shed refused. Tologa Bay.—Addition to school refused. Clive. —Foreman io report re erection of bathroom.Z Wimbledon. —Question of washhouse, and baths to be reported on by' foreman. Raumati East.—£3s grant for erec tion of temporary school was hold over.

Waitahora.—-Removal of porch agreed to.

Mahora, eppobing present system of issue, ui’ free books.--Received. I iuirctc, reporting insanitary outhouse . — Re c e i v e d.

Ota no. rcqi'.o,ui.g desk alterations.—Work to be carried out.

Napier Main School, asking that the gvnwasiuni site be levelled.---Foreman to report. Waipiro Bay.—Erection of copper and ,’ark agreed io. Te Karaka.-£-> grant cd for gravelling" purposes. Ormond. —Sudsidy ci 30/- granted planting a hedge. Petane, asking subsidy for improvements. —Report to be obtained. ('ENERAL C ORRESPONDENCE. O.C. cacLts reported on the teacher’s training camp at Hastings. —Resolved to prepare a report shewing names of Hawke’s Bay teachers who attended camp. Pcututu settlers, requesting grant fc” new school. —Deferred for miler information. Department, increasing grant for Kaitaratahi residence to £47o.—Received. MOTION RE ORDER PAPERS. The following resolution moved by M”. R. B. v-'.is < a -ried :-That in cede? that members may, when necessary, make inquiries into matters relative to schools in their districts <-.n i wl.wh arc to 1 .■ eoinidi r- 1 c-1 ’ey the board, a c<-y> of the order | paper of the meeting be forwarded I to members seven clays before the date of such meeting.

W A ERENG A 111 K A SCHOOL. In view of statements in circulation regarding alleged inefficient teaching at the above school, the board unanimously passed the following resolution :—That the chairman cf the M aerengahika School Committee be informed that acting on the advice of the chief inspector, the board considers the teaching at M’aerengahika school, under the circumstances, has been efficient. NEAV SCHOOL ON NAPIER HILLS. Mr. C. M. M'l ittington moved the following motion: —That in view of the inauguration of the tramway system in Napier and the consequent increased danger to children from the hills attending the present public schools, inquiries be made as to the advisability of establishing a now school on the hi!lt.—The resolution was carried unanimously.