HAWERA DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 13 April 1910, Page 6

HAWERA DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL

MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The monthly meeting of the Hawera District High School Committee was held on Tuesday evening. There were present: — Messrs R. W. Sargent (chairman), L. A. Bone (secretary), JA. Turton. HEADMASTER'S REPORT. Reporting to the committee on March 8 (which meeting lapsed for the want of a quorum) the headmaster stated that the roll-number then was 520, the attendance 472. The roll-number in the secondary department of the school was 47. Of that number 27 are Ist year pupils, 15 are second year pupils and 5 are third year pupils. Twenty-nine of the pupils in secondary classes are from the school and 18 are from other schools. The headmaster referred to the transfer of Mr Bates to Feilding and stated he had established a record in the number of proficiency certificates gained in VI. Standard and the secondary classes had consequently ' gained in numbers. In connection with the new courses of instruction at the High School, .namely, commercial, agri- ' culture and domestic, Mr Hawson visited the school every week for bookkeeping and commercial correspondence. Special instructors also took household economy, laws of health, agriculture, dairying, etc, and a special instructor would shortly take laundry or dressmaking. ENCROACHMENT OF HEDGE. The Hawera County Council notified ■ the committee that the hedge and trees 'in front of the headmaster's residence were encroaching upon the footpath to the inconvenience of foot passengers. — To be referred to Mr Strack. TECHNICAL SCHOOL REPRESENTATION. The Hawera Technical School Committee intimated that the Hawera School Committee was entitled to representation on the former committee. — j To be referred to the new committee. 'CURTAILMENT OF GOVERNMENT GRANT. The Secretary of the Education Board intimated that owing to the maintenance gransfc being reduced by one-third by the Government the Board had been compelled to rigidly economise by cutting down the expenditure for the current year. In addition to the reduction of the maintenance grant the Government had struck out the 1 grant of 9d per pupil made for school committees for several years past. | The committee, at a previous meeting, protested against the curtailment of the grant. A circular was received from the Wanganui and West Coast School Committees' Association asking the committee to sign a petition, to be presented to the Minister, protesting against the reduction in the building maintenance grants paid to the Education Board and in the special capitation grant to school 1 committees of 9d per head, and requesting that both these grants be reinstated , to at least their original amounts. It was decided to leave the matter to the new school committee to deal with. . HOUSEHOLDERS' MEETING. The date of the annual meeting ot householders has been fixed for Monday, April 25, at 8' p.m. It was decided that similar arrangements be made in, the Science Room for voting as existed last year.